Deutsche Bank freezes plans for North Carolina jobs over transgender law

By: ARNO SCHUETZE AND COLLEEN JENKINS The headquarters of Germany’s Deutsche Bank is photographed early evening in Frankfurt, Germany, January 26, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) is freezing plans to create 250 new jobs in North Carolina after the state enacted a law last month that opponents say discriminates against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…

Iowa Community Mourns Death of Gender-Fluid Teen

By: Cleis Abeni Katrina Johnson moved her family from Chicago to Burlington, Iowa, to escape rising violence in the big city, reports the Des Moines Register. She settled in the small city of around 50,000 residents in a culturally diverse, low-income neighborhood called South Hills. Her family thrived. Then the unthinkable happened. On March 2, Burlington police discovered the…

Trans woman attacked by 20 men, destroys her FFS

By: Eduarda Alice Santos A Brazilan woman’s recent facial feminization surgery (FFS), not fully healed was torn apart in the attack. Melissa Hudson is a young events promoter and makeup artist. She is 22 years old. She is also transgender. Last Sunday (13), about 4,30 am, she was walking with some friends when suddenly a…