Real News from the Real Transgender World |
Edition Date: November 28th, 2024 |
BBC News | July 14th, 2015 The US military is considering a plan that would allow transgender people to serve openly in the armed forces. “The Defence Department’s current regulations regarding transgender service members are outdated and are causing uncertainty,” US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Monday. Transgender people now serve in the military,…
Submitted by editor2 | Sunday June 30th, 2015 09:55am A Thai military court sent an anti-junta transgender student activist to a male prison before releasing her, despite an LGBT group’s concerns over sexual harassment that she might face. According to Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (TLHR), at noon on Monday, 29 June 2015, the military prosecutor…
‘Girl Scouts is for every girl,’ says a troop leader, who’s looking for new donations to recoup the lost funds. By: Mitch Kellaway | June 30th, 2015 The Girl Scouts of Western Washington were overjoyed last month when they learned they’d received a $100,000 donation that could send 500 girls to camp. But the celebratory…
Same-sex marriage is a huge victory, but LGBT Americans still face high rates of violence, discrimination and poverty BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA June 29, 2015 Two months after hearing oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in favor of marriage equality Friday morning, enshrining into law the “fundamental right to…
By: Becca Benz | June 25th, 2015 I never knew Jess Shipps, or Ash Haffner, or Leelah Alcorn, or Kyler Prescott, or Amaya Blanco. And I wish I had never heard of them, because that would mean they would still be alive and not among the never-ending list of transgender people who have taken their…