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Texas Mulls Repealing Transgender Marriage Rights [VIDEO]
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Texas May Strip Away Transgender Marriage Rights
By not in system - AOL NewsAUSTIN, Texas -- Two years after Texas become one of the last states to allow transgendered people to use proof of their sex change to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll back the clock. Advocates for the transgendered say a proposal to bar transgendered people from getting married smacks of discrimination and would put their legally-granted marriages in danger of being nullified if challenged in court. One of the Republican sponsors of the legislation said he's simply trying to clean up the 2009 law in a state that bans same-sex marriage under the ...
New Jersey Transgender Man Says Firing Was Discriminatory
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsEl'Jai Devoureau wants to be treated just like any other man. The 39-year-old New Jersey resident was born into a woman's body but says he's known from the very beginning that he is male. Apparently, though, Devoureau wasn't man enough for his former employer: The drug treatment center where he worked watching men urinate fired him from after finding out that he was transgendered. The center only hires men to monitor other men taking their drug tests. Now, Devoureau, who had sex-change surgery five years ago, is suing the center for discrimination, a suit some legal experts say is the first ...
Transgender New Yorkers Sue City Over Birth Certificates [VIDEO]
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Was Transgender Female's Slaying a Hate Crime?
By David Lohr - AOL NewsState and federal officials are investigating the slaying of a transgender female in Arkansas who was shot and dragged several hundred feet by a vehicle earlier this week. "We are trying to determine if the individual's federal civil rights were violated," Special Agent Steve Frazier from Little Rock's FBI office told AOL News. "Part of the civil rights statutes does include hate crimes, and we will be looking at that as a possibility, but right now it is open as a federal civil rights investigation." The 25-year-old was born a man named Marcal Camero Tye but had been living as a woman for ...
Victoria Kolakowski: 5 Facts About America's First Transgender Superior Court Judge
By David Knowles - AOL NewsIn another milestone for gay, lesbian and transgender rights, Victoria Kolakowski was sworn in as the nation's first transgender trial judge Tuesday. Having served as a lawyer 21 years, and an administrative law judge for the past four, Kolakowski brings an impressive resume to the bench, but the topic of her gender status has never been something she has shied away from discussing. "To me, the real news of my being here tonight is not that a transgender person was elected as a judge, but it was never an issue in my campaign," Kolakowski said in remarks delivered after being sworn in, ...
It Gets Better: Fighting to Save Gay Teens, One Video at a Time
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyHope. Obama ran on it. Harvey Milk advocated for it. And for many, it's the one thing they can't grasp at all. Thursday, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality issued the disturbing results of a survey: More than half of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender kids who have been bullied have attempted suicide. "From our experience working with transgender people, we had prepared ourselves for high rates of suicide attempts, but we didn't expect anything like this," Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender ...
Transgender Teen Becomes Facebook Superstar After Homecoming Snub
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(Sept. 30) -- Teens in Michigan couldn't get a transgender student elected homecoming king by playing by the books -- so they turned to Facebook. After school officials at Mona Shores High School in Muskegon barred transgendered student Oak Reed from becoming homecoming king because he was born Oakleigh Marie Reed, a girl, students used social media to generate a swell of news coverage resulting in stories on the station Wood 8, front-page articles on CNN.com and now, of course, AOL News. A large factor in the local story becoming a global sensation has been the "Oak Is My King" Facebook ...
Crazy Costumes Come Out of the Closet for Gay Pride
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(June 28) -- Forget the holiday season; June is the time of year when people don their gayest apparel. Cities around the world celebrated gay pride parades last weekend, allowing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer communities to come together, often in costume. Revelers marched through New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Mexico City, Berlin and Guatemala City, among other locations, dressed in elaborate get-ups in all shades of the rainbow. ...
Shall Boys Live with Girls? Gender-Neutral Housing and the Evolution of Dorm Living
By Willy Hameline - Politics DailyI often hate my roommates. They're loud when I want there to be quiet. They're in the shower when I want to use it. They own ukuleles. They forget their keys and need to be let in. They say that, no, it's not OK for me to buy a ukulele because three is a perfect number of stringed Hawaiian instruments for one dorm room but four is too many and if I was so into ukuleles in the first place why do I always complain about their playing them? In short, my roommates exist, and while that often means we often find ourselves caught in the irritating but inevitable snags of communal living, we are ...
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