The Boston Globe is reporting that Mass Equality is debating whether or not to disband the organization, after winning marriage equality in Massachusetts.
The debate is creating tensions among onetime allies. Some gay leaders believe MassEquality should broaden its mission to include issues such as transgender rights and HIV/AIDS, while others disagree and say expanding [...]
October 29, 2007 | Posted in
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According to UM Action:
Washington, DC—The Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church is deliberating this week over a series of controversial issues, among them the recent re-appointment of a transsexual to be pastor of a church in Baltimore. The Judicial Council is meeting in San Francisco to consider 19 different docket items, several dealing with [...]
October 25, 2007 | Posted in
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I’ve been keeping tabs on the trial in Milwaukee of a transgender prisoner who is challenging the law that forbids the state to give hormone treatments to prisoners with gender identity disorder. The state’s legal team put medical expert, psychologist Daniel Claiborn, on the stand. He denied that gender identity disorder was a mental disorder. [...]
October 25, 2007 | Posted in
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Just yesterday John Aravosis said:
Time for some crow.
I wrote a few weeks back about how odd it was that George Bush’s White House was being so quiet about its views on ENDA, and that it was odd that neither Bush nor his staff were even hinting at a veto. Some raised the point that formal [...]
October 23, 2007 | Posted in
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The non-inclusive ENDA (3685) does exclude transgender people, but it also kicks many gay and lesbian people to the curb as well. Tammy Baldwin will offer an amendment to the non-inclusive bill that defines gender identity this way:
GENDER IDENTITY.—The term ”gender identity” means the gender-related identity, appearance, or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of an [...]
October 22, 2007 | Posted in
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“You’re living in your own Private Idaho …
Underground like a Wild Potato …
It leads you straight,
Right through the gate.” — Private Idaho, the B-52’s
It was painful to watch the Matt Lauer interview with Sen. Larry Craig on ABC’s Tuesday Night interview. Why they would allow a show to watch a man struggle mightily [...]
October 21, 2007 | Posted in
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Things in this debate I’m tired of:
1. The press writing that “transgender people” have been written out of the bill. Everyone has a gender identity, and it’s that which is most likely to get any GLBT person fired.
2. The “rights for some, but not all” crap spread around the media. THIS BILL HAS NO CHANCE [...]
October 20, 2007 | Posted in
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“I’m up on the Tight Rope … one side’s Fate and one is Hope,It’s a Circus Game for You and Me.I’m up on the High Wire … one side’s Life and one is Fire,But the Top Hat on my Head is all you see.” — Tight Rope, Leon Russell
Indeed there is a very fine [...]
October 20, 2007 | Posted in
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This guest post comes to us from Lincoln Rose. Lincoln is a seminary student and transgender activist at Seattle University. He has agitated in the SGL/LGBT community since the age of 19, and wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s worked on a lot of really cool projects over the years, but is at his [...]
October 15, 2007 | Posted in
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This guest post is cross posted from Polar Bear Speaks blog.
This battle is over and lost, and the war is not going well for T inclusion and passage of ENDA. Before the war begins again, the autopsy must be conducted. So let’s take a look at how transgender people, THE most discriminated-against interest group in [...]
October 14, 2007 | Posted in
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