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Transgender Inmate Loses Lawsuit

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A transgender prison inmate who said she was raped by her cellmate has lost her lawsuit against prison officials.

A Superior Court jury on Thursday ruled in favor of six Folsom State Prison workers whom Alexis Giraldo accused of failing to protect her from being raped. The jury deadlocked on a seventh prison worker.

Giraldo, 30, was born a man but takes hormones to feminize her... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1429 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:37:40 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1430/t/Community-Protests-Human-Rights-Violations-against-Transpeop.html by Transgender and Intersex Justice Project
Join the silent protest at the courthouse, make calls to Attorney General Jerry Brown and Federal Receiver Robert Sillen to support a transgender woman rape survivor.

When: 8:00am - 9:30am Monday July 30th, 2007.

Where: Civic Center Courthouse, 400 McAllister Street @ Polk St, San Francisco.

Clothing: Wear RED, as Alexis has chosen the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1430 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:45:17 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1431/t/Transgender-Singer-Makes-Statement.html
Monday, July 09, 2007
By REBECCA LOUIE, For The Associated Press

NEW YORK —
Lucas Silveira wears his heart on his tattoo sleeve.

The frontman of Toronto rock band The Cliks bares a turbulent tapestry on his arm: a dragon leaping through flames and waves, two guns bearing wide wings, and the word "Survivor."

"This is all to commemorate what I went through," says Silveira, who is transgender. He notes... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1431 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:34:23 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1432/t/TG-prisoner-sues-corrections-dept-.html by Heather Cassell
Bay Area Reporter

A lawsuit filed against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for its failure to protect a transgender prisoner from sexual assault could alter policies and procedures pertaining to housing and treatment of incarcerated transgender individuals.

The trial is scheduled to begin July 2 in San Francisco Superior Court. Gregory Walston, the attorney for Alexis Giraldo, initially sued... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1432 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:33:53 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1433/t/Clinton-told-John-Kerry-to-throw-gays-under-bus-in-2004-elec.html
www.americablog.com/2007/...kerry.html

by John Aravosis (DC) · 6/07/2007 01:25:00 PM ET

The Kerry Edwards 2004 campaign says Bill Clinton tried to throw gays under the bus. Bill... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Danielegrl) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1433 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:59:53 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1434/t/Obama-Statement-on-Pride-Month-June-01-2007-http-www-ba.html www.barackobama.com/2007/..._month.php

Obama Statement on Pride Month
| June 01, 2007
www.barackobama.com/2007/..._month.php
CHICAGO , IL-- U.S.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Danielegrl) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1434 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:29:27 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1435/t/Limited-gender-neutral-housing-should-go-to-those-that-need.html Opinion
Locked Out
Limited gender-neutral housing should go to those that need it
Published On 2/23/2007 3:25:01 AM
By THE CRIMSON STAFF


Transgender students face unique, daily challenges, even at this famously liberal University. Students that do not identify with their biological gender—or even students questioning their gender but not ready to identify themselves publicly—are occasionally chased from bathrooms, forced to jump through desultory... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1435 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:23:36 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1436/t/Transgender-Documentary.html
Just wanted to inform we just made our award winning documentary on Asian transgender immigrants available online.

You can watch it at
www.groovefilm.net/transgender.html

Enjoy! ]]> feeds@yuku.com (groovefilm) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1436 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:01:14 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1437/t/Equality-Maryland-preps-for-lobby-day.html Hundreds expected to attend rally, visit state reps

By JOSHUA LYNSEN
Friday, February 02, 2007
Washington Blade


Hundreds of gay Marylanders and their allies are expected to convene in Annapolis later this month to demand new moves toward equality.

Equality Maryland, the state’s largest gay civil rights group, will hold its annual rally and lobby day at the Maryland Statehouse on Monday, Feb. 12. An estimated 500 people... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1437 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:27:11 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1438/t/Author-S-Bear-Bergman-redefines-gender-identities.html Southern Voice
‘Butch is a noun’
Author S. Bear Bergman redefines gender identities with new book

By ZACK HUDSON
Friday, February 02, 2007

In author and gender theorist S. Bear Bergman’s mind, the lines of gender distinction don’t stop at male and female. In fact, in “Butch is a Noun,” Bergman’s new book, the author stipulates that sexual assignment, the difference between male and female, has little to do with gender. According to Bergman, the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1438 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:25:55 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1439/t/More-U-S-employers-cover-sex-transition-surgery.html More U.S. employers cover sex transition surgery
Large corporations follow city's lead in offering benefit
Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, January 31, 2007


People who change their gender must undergo rigorous mental health evaluations and trial periods that last years, and they sometimes face stigma, but the biggest challenge for many is paying for the process.

In the past few years, however, following the model of San... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1439 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:02:06 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1440/t/Child-transgender-begins-sex-change.html Hassan Mirza, GAY.COM
Tuesday 30 January, 2007 12:08
Twelve-year-old Kim is believed to be the youngest person to begin gender reassignment.

Biologically male and originally named Tim by her parents, Kim was diagnosed officially as a transsexual two years ago and has been undergoing hormone treatments.

In the UK, doctors generally avoid gender reassignment surgery until the patients are over 18.

However, following an extensive... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1440 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:48:12 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1441/t/Police-refuse-to-release-911-tape-Nizah-Morris.html
Philadelphia Gay News
Jan. 26, 2007

Police refuse to release 911 tape

The Philadelphia Police Department has refused to release an unedited 911 tape covering a courtesy ride police gave to transgender woman Nizah Morris in December 2002.

Morris, 47, of West Philadelphia, was discovered with a fatal head wound shortly after she received the ride.

In April 2003, police released an edited version of the tape, which
included transmissions to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1441 Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:17:01 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1442/t/CA-s-First-Openly-Transgender-Administrative-Law-Judge.html by Chris Daley
Friday Jan 19th, 2007 12:33 AM
Transgender Law Center Board Member and long-time civil rights advocate, Victoria Kolakowski, will be sworn in as the state's first openly transgender Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) today when she will be among eight new ALJs sworn-in by Angela K. Minkin, Chief Administrative Law Judge of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
San Francisco, CA - January... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1442 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:23:34 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1443/t/Raytheon-making-push-for-diversity.html
Its initiatives are unique to industry

By Bryan Bender and Robert Weisman, Globe Staff
January 16, 2007

WASHINGTON -- When Raytheon software engineer Louise Young and her partner wanted a civil union in 2001, her employer did something unexpected in the conservative defense industry: It temporarily moved her to a division in Sudbury, Vt., so they could realize their dream.

The Waltham-based defense giant considered Young too... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1443 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:11:34 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1444/t/Schering-benefits-from-its-diversity.html Tuesday, January 16, 2007

By TERESA M. McALEAVY
STAFF WRITER
The Record

"The fact that the company treated me so well is what kept me here," says Gina Pastino, a senior clinical scientist with Schering-Plough's research institute.

When scientist Gina Pastino decided she wanted to work on developing new drugs, she checked out options within her company, and weighed them against openings at other pharmaceutical... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1444 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:42:36 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1445/t/Transgender-People-Face-Violence-Obstacles.html by Megan Tady
Cast to the margins of society, gender-nonconformists have always lived under the threat of harassment and brutality, but a new report and vigilant voices of resistance aim to expose and challenge prevailing social stigmas.
Jan. 15 – From an early age, Margaux Ayn Schaffer – who was born male – identified as a girl. And from an early age, she was threatened for not conforming to her socially assigned gender.

Schaffer... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1445 Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:23:56 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1446/t/Shaking-up-transgender-assumptions.html
Reviewed by Julie Foster

Sunday, January 7, 2007

"Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers

By Cris Beam

HARCOURT; 323 Pages; $25
Real women can have penises. And "the brain and the heart are the only organs with a gender, and ... all genital modification or lack thereof is simply a personal aesthetic choice." These are some of the titillating ideas explored in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1446 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:37:54 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1447/t/N-J-lawmakers-pass-transgender-rights-bill.html
N.J. lawmakers pass transgender rights bill


The New Jersey state assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would make the Garden State the eighth in the nation to outlaw discrimination based on gender identity or expression. The bill, passed by the state senate on Monday, now goes to Gov. Jon Corzine, who is expected to sign it.

“The legislation in New Jersey represents a huge civil rights victory for transgender communities,” Mara Keisling,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1447 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:18:50 GMT http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1448/t/Education-board-sworn-in-includes-transgender-member.html ASSOCIATED PRESS

6:41 p.m. December 6, 2006

HONOLULU – Five new state Board of Education members were sworn in on Wednesday, including a civil rights lawyer believed to be the highest-ranking elected transgender official in the country.
Kim Coco Iwamoto, Eileen Clarke, Mary Cochran, Donna Ikeda and John Penebacker officially joined the 14-member board, which governs the islands' 285 public schools with more than 180,000 students.


None of the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (GunnerButchDBoy) http://butchdykeboy5326.yuku.com/topic/1448 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:05:38 GMT