All posts tagged "transgender"
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D.C. Marks Transgender Day of Remembrance
More than a hundred District activists, members of the LGBT community and others rallied at the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington, D.C., Wednesday night, Nov....
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Angela Peoples, Supporting Slate Win at Stein
Angela Peoples, the current vice president for political and legislative affairs for the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, the city's main LGBT political organization, won her...
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Transgender Day of Remembrance's Double Duty
As Washington's LGBT community puts the final touches on a ceremony marking the Transgender Day of Remembrance, Nov. 20, the mood of this year's D.C....
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Activists Applaud DOC
The D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC) has amended its policy to permit transgender female inmates to shave, even when other inmates may not be permitted...
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Guilty Plea in Stanton Road Stabbing
Michael McBride, defendant in the case of a non-fatal attack on transgender woman who suffered 35 to 40 stab wounds, pleaded guilty earlier this month...
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Mental Health Delay for Suspect in Deoni Jones Homicide
Gary Niles Montgomery, the Northeast D.C. man accused of killing transgender woman Deoni Jones in February 2012, is now undergoing a 30-day mental observation following...
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CDC urged to stop denying cancer screenings to transgender women
Two national LGBT-rights organizations are calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to re-evaluate a discriminatory policy that denies cancer screenings to...
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Phallocentric Fallacy
Earlier this month, The Washington Times printed some commentary by Matt Philbin of the Reston, Va.-based Media Research Center. Essentially, he's disturbed by transgender self-identification,...
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Pat Robertson compares transgender people to his castrated horse
“We talk about transgender, I have a former stallion which is now a gelding, because stallions get very aggressive. He wasn’t trying to be a...
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Generating Support for Gender Identity
A study released earlier this month by a nationally recognized think specializing in research related to the LGBT community found that amending Maryland's civil-rights law...
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British couple make history in first double trans wedding
“This is the first day of the life I always wanted to lead – as the right sex with the right person by my side.”...
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Montgomery Co. Police Searching for Trans Teen
Montgomery County Police are asking the public to be on alert for a missing transgender teen, asking for any information related to the teen's disappearance....
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D.C. Transgender Assault Gets Trial Date
Michael McBride, the man accused of stabbing a transgender woman anywhere from 35 to 40 times in June in the District's Fort Stanton neighborhood, appeared...
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DCTC Urges Gray to Sign ''Living Wage'' Bill
As Mayor Vincent Gray (D) considers vetoing a bill that would force employers to pay a higher minimum wage to workers amid threats from Walmart...
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Transgender teen murdered by mob in Jamaica
“Judging by comments made on social media, most Jamaicans think Dwayne Jones brought his death on himself for wearing a dress and dancing in a...
