The New York Times ' Stumbling, Problematic Transgender Coverage

The New York Times' Stumbling, Problematic Transgender Coverage

Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall?

NY Times: Who Threw the First Brick at Stonewall? http://ift.tt/1Jwblez

I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon. This Is My Story

Workplace HR Problem: "I Had A Baby And Cancer When I Worked At Amazon"

Military transgender ban set to end next May

Military transgender ban to end next May

Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame to induct 11 people, 1 group - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News -...

Congrats to Gail Morse of Jenner & Block on her induction into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. Gail's support of the Trans Law Symposium was key to making it happen.

Victim Number 18: Another Trans Woman Murdered in Kansas City

Police in Kansas City, Mo., tell The Advocate that a 32-year-old trans woman known as Jasmine Collins was murdered earlier this summer, almost two months before the most recent killing of a trans woman — also in Kansas City. Her death brings to 18 the total number of transgender women killed in the U.S. in 2015.

Rights of transgender youth, adults at heart of cutting-edge legal cases

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Rights of Transgender Youth, Adults, At Heart of Cutting-Edge Legal Cases

Transgender woman asked to leave bar blasts Tempe ruling on discrimination complaint

Arizona Justice: Trans Woman = Prostitute?

The Bar swears she was evicted because she was mistaken for another person, a prostitute, not because she's trans. (See page 8, par. 6).

The City Diversity Office rules she was evicted because she was a customer of the nearby adult bookstore within the past year, not because she's trans. 

The complainant is appealing.

Why Laverne Cox Declared A ‘State Of Emergency’ In The Transgender Community

Laverne Cox has declared a state of emergency in the trans community.

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Planet Fitness is asking for the dismissal of a lawsuit involving the company's transgender-friendly locker room policy, calling the suit "woefully deficient" and claiming it promotes discrimination against transgender people. Motions filed on July 31 in Midland County Circuit Courtney Pollack by lawyers for the corporate gym chain and an individual Midland Planet Fitness franchise claim a lawsuit filed by a Sanford woman is not legally sufficient to continue. Yvette Cormier, 48, filed the lawsuit against both the chain and the local franchise in March after Planet Fitness canceled her membership. The cancellation came after Cormier saw a transgender woman in the Midland gym's locker room and refused to stop "warning" other gym members about the locker room policy. Cormier's lawsuit claims invasion of privacy, multiple violations of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional distress, exemplary damages and a violation of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act. Read the article in Michigan Live: http://ift.tt/1JobRQ7 Read the motion to dismiss:

Trans Deaths, White Privilege

NY Times: Trans Deaths, White Privilege, by Jennifer Finney Boylan http://ift.tt/1PpOW6Z

Transgender Murders Increase Despite Growing Acceptance

NY Times: Transgender Murders Increase Despite Growing Acceptance

Kansas City woman's death is 17th reported transgender murder this year

Kansas City woman's death is 17th reported tran murder this year. http://ift.tt/1Ni2zrp

We Mourn Kandis Capri, Elisha Walker &15 Other Trans People Lost To Transmisogynistic Violence

It's too glib to attribute these losses to individual bad actors. Understand that the system of marginalization that drives our society makes this accumulation of violence inevitable. 

http://www.autostraddle.com/we-mourn-kandis-capri-elisha-walker-15-other-dmab-trans-people-lost-to-transmisogynistic-violence-303045/

Bedford Weaving Sued for Genetic Information and Disability Discrimination

From Commissioner Chai Feldblum: "EEOC sues Bedford Weaving for genetic information and disability discrimination. The most basic thing an employer can learn at an ADA seminar: do NOT ask medical questions on your applications. Not rocket science."

http://ow.ly/QSVH5

BREAKING: Black Trans Woman Found Dead in Dallas is 13th Trans Person Murdered in 2015 | Lone...

http://www.lonestarq.com/breaking-black-trans-woman-found-dead-in-dallas-is-13th-trans-person-murdered-in-2015/#.VcsnnNi1uCA.twitter

The transgender teddy bear teaching children about friendship and identity

The transgender teddy bear teaching children about friendship and identity. This is so sweet!

http://gu.com/p/4be3e/sfb

Puerto Rico governor bans anti-trans discrimination

https://shar.es/1texQU

Victory! Apple Health (medicaid) Announces Final Trans Health Coverage – furthest state so far!

http://www.genderjusticeleague.org/victory-apple-health-medicaid-announces-final-trans-health-coverage-furthest-state-so-far/

From EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum: Next steps for the LGBT community post-Baldwin

http://ow.ly/QGplb