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Transgender people tend to be viewed as less attractive -- regardless of their actual appearance
People who are labeled as transgender are viewed as less attractive dating partners, according to new research published in Social Psychological and Personality Science. The new study, which was conducted with heterosexual college students, indicates that gender identity affects perceptions of attractiveness.
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Puerto Rico: Transgenders Win Right To Alter Birth Certificates
A U.S. federal judge has ruled it unconstitutional to prohibit transgenders in Puerto Rico from modifying their birth certificates according to their gender identities. The LGBTI community won the longstanding legal battle July 16 after U.S. District Judge Carmen Consuelo Cerezo overruled a policy from the government of Puerto Rico.
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Virgenes de la Puerta
The work of collaborative artists Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek, rooted in LGBT themes including gay and transgender rights and equality in Latin America and worldwide. Currently focused on the LGBTQ communities of Peru, their work features photography, sculpture, film and mixed-media installation.
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Transgender people should not have right to use women-only spaces, government says
Transgender people will not be legally entitled to use single-sex spaces such as toilets and changing rooms, the government has said. Ministers said they had “no intention” of changing laws that allow female- and male-only areas, which some campaigners have said discriminate against trans people. Pressure has grown for a change in the law after a series of incidents in which people self-defining as a gender that is different to their biological sex have been turned away from single-sex spaces.
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DC restaurant expels transgender woman who used women’s restroom
A D.C. restaurant asked a transgender woman for ID when she tried to use the women’s restroom and kicked her out when she refused. Charlotte Clymer, an activist who works with the Human Rights Campaign, was celebrating a bachelorette party on Friday with friends at Cuba Libre Restaurant and Rum Bar in Northwest D.C. when she was stopped by a staff member as she tried to use the women’s restroom.
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Cuba set to launch constitutional rewrite to reflect reforms
Cuba's national assembly is set on Saturday to begin the long-awaited reform of its constitution to give legal backing to the Communist-run island's economic and social opening while upholding the "irrevocable nature of socialism".
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Trump Wants Trans Troops Kicked Out Of The Military (Or Back Into The Closet)
We’ve seen this movie before. By Robyn Pennacchia.
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Support for LGBTQ people suffers 'alarming erosion,' report finds
Support for LGBTQ people across the country has fallen, according to a national survey indexing attitudes toward the community. It is the first time in the survey's four-year history to register a decline. The Harris Poll, which has been tracking public opinion and social sentiment since 1963, was commissioned by LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD four years ago to annually survey attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. This year's online survey included 2,160 adult participants, 1,897 of which identified as "non-LGBTQ."
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Beginning today, transgender individuals can join the US military
Beginning on Monday, transgender individuals will be allowed to join the U.S. military, after the Pentagon was forced to comply with a federal court ruling issued last month. In December, the Pentagon began preparing how to let transgender individuals join the military, using court-ordered guidelines issued by former Defense Secretary Ash Carter in 2016 when he lifted the ban on transgender service members in the military.
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Court of Appeals rules a transgender man's discrimination lawsuit against Starbucks can proceed
The Minnesota Court of Appeals reinstated a transgender man's discrimination lawsuit Tuesday alleging that employees at Starbucks coffee shops in Eden Prairie and Edina refused to serve him. Earlier this year, Hennepin County District Court threw out the complaint because the plaintiff, Paul Bray, 43, didn't prove the discrimination was based on his transgender status. The district court also ruled that Bray's right to sue over allegations from July 2013 had expired under the one-year statute of limitations established by the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA).
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Child dumped by her parents because trans woman donated blood to her
A child in India was abandoned by its parents after they discovered that her blood donor was a transgender woman. Rekha (not her real name) saved the anaemic baby’s life with a blood transfusion, but later found the baby outside her house with a handwritten note attached. The parents had deserted the child as they were worried she would become “one of them” – meaning a trans person – because a trans woman’s blood was running through her veins.
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Japan Forces Sterilization on Transgender People
The Japanese government has taken some positive steps to improve the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. But the country’s legal gender recognition procedure – the law that allows transgender people to be recognized according to their gender identity – remains a stain on Japan’s record.
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Roy Moore Just Blamed His Sexual Misconduct Allegations On Lesbians, Gays, And Socialists
Speaking from a church pulpit in Alabama, the Republican Senate candidate said the "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...socialists" are behind the "malicious" allegations against him.
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Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner
How a transgender Australian found her niche cleaning up after murders, suicides, and unimaginable filth of endless variation. By Sarah Krasnostein.
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Swedish government orders study into mental health conditions of transgender people
The Swedish government has ordered the Public Health Authority to carry out an in depth study into the living conditions and mental health of transgender people.
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Transgender teen stabbed to death and burned but police say it is not a hate crime
Police have said the case of a murdered transgender teenager was not a hate crime, despite the fact she was stabbed in the genitals and had her body burned. Ally Lee Steinfeld, 17, was allegedly attacked by her girlfriend and two teenagers in an assault in Cabool, Texas Country, Missouri which left her with her eyes gouged out, court records said.
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A Patient Gets the New Transgender Surgery She Helped Invent
Hayley Anthony recently became one of the first people in the world to have tissue incised from the cavity of her abdomen and turned into a vagina.
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Mattis freezes transgender policy; allows troops to continue serving, pending study
Defense Secretary establishes panel to review controversial issue
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The Head Of The Coast Guard Says He Will Not Turn His Back On Transgender Service Members
"We have made an investment in you, and you have made an investment in the Coast Guard, and I will not break faith."
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Moving Targets
As distasteful as it will be to argue for military inclusion, the cost for not doing so is to legitimize a clear attempt to paint a target on all trans people’s backs. By Katherine Cross.
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