“If you recognize that this project is incomplete, and yet still has much to offer, then we trust you will find what we did: an awe inspiring collection of one hundred amazing people doing important work. Not the only hundred. Not the hundred you agree with. But one hundred that reveal a cross section of trans people active in ... [Read]

"[I]t's called a women's act, but then they have men dressed up as women, they count that. Change-gender, or whatever. How is that -- how is that a woman?" -- Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) airs his complaints about the expansion of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to included protections for transgender people. (Think Progress) Follow @metroweekly Join our mailing ... [Read]

This past weekend, outspoken comedian Rosanne Barr found herself a target of derision from some in the transgender community. Roseanne, a very active user of Twitter, posted a series of messages regarding transgender women, Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein, and the case of a transgender woman using a sauna. Roseanne, who says she's running for President, complained that Jill Stein ... [Read]

Melissa Harris Perry presented a panel on MSNBC today to discuss transgender issues. Perry said she had decided to be a "better cis ally for the work of trans communities" after watching a hate crime online that involved "a group of African-American teens savagely beating a trans woman in a fast-food restaurant." She was joined today by Mara Keisling, Kate ... [Read]

"Realistically, we just looked at it as a necessity. Our executive V.P. said, 'It's the right thing to do, it's something we support and we have employees who have this need.'" Frantz Tiffeau, senior manager at Florida-based Office Depot, on the chain's decision to cover gender-reassignment surgery in their health insurance policies. The Human Rights Campaign reported in its annual ... [Read]

''He's been doing this since he was about 2 years old. He's loved girl stuff, so we just let him dress how he wants, as long as he's happy.... I said, 'Well, what's the big deal?' She said 'It doesn't matter how he looks, he has boy parts, he can't be in Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts don't allow that ... [Read]

''Our organization and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force conducted a survey of 6,500 transgender people in 2008, and we found that the experience of harrassment or discrimination on the job was near universal. A quarter of transgender people, like Vandy Beth Glenn, had lost their job because they're transgender.... It's legal to discriminate against transgender people in ... [Read]

''[We] determined he was a hermaphrodite dog. So, he had both genetalia, a little bit of each.... Extremely rare. I think there's only a few cases in the United States.'' Sharon Blechinger, director of of Help Every Animal League, who is relaying the journey of Red, an orphan Pomeranian. Blechinger reportedly paid $1,165 for gender-reassignment surgery to ''prevent infection ... [Read]

''The ridiculous thing about something like Prop 8 is that it will be overturned. They put something like $40 million into that campaign, and they might as well have just bet all that money on the Red Sox.... Every civil-rights conflict—black people, women—comes to an end in the right way....'' ''[The unhappy reaction to our transgender character] surprised me. ... [Read]

''It is not necessary. I really didn't want to go through that process, so I decided to have the operation... before the law is enforce.... I don't like this part of me because I don't use it. I don't know why I have it. If I had a vagina, I would use it.'' Punlop Tongchai, 27, and a newly post-operative ... [Read]

''He was one of the most talented writers I've ever worked with.... He was a gentle man, a kind man. It's just a tragedy.'' LA Times Sports editor Mike James about sportswriter Mike Penner who began the transition from male to female just two years ago, and announced in his writing that he would go on vacation for a ... [Read]