The Common Application, a generic application aspiring college students can use to apply to multiple colleges at once, is considering adding voluntary questions about applicants’ sexual orientation and gender identity. The application is used by hundreds of colleges and universities — including...

Yesterday, Washington state passed an anti-bullying law that mandates the formation of an anti-bullying policy in all Washington state public schools. What makes the law special, is that it also protects students from bullying on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression....

BOSTON — The U.S. Tax Court ruled Tuesday that a Massachusetts woman should be allowed to deduct the costs of her sex-change operation, a decision that could have broad implications for transgender people. Rhiannon O’Donnabhain (oh-DON’-oh-vin), who was born a man, sued the Internal Revenue...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) The Student Non-discrimination Act of 2010 (SNDA) was introduced yesterday to the House of Representatives. If passed, the bill would prohibit discrimination against any public school student on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill would further...

More than 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education offered the hope of integrated classrooms, today’s schools not only remain racially segregated, but are dividing along gender lines, sexual orientation and immigration status in the name of better education, according to the Spring 2010 issue...

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ The Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has begun performing state-sponsored sex-change operations after the government lifted a longtime ban on the procedure in 2007, President Raul Castro’s daughter said Tuesday. A sexologist and gay-rights advocate, Mariela Castro runs the...

About the show: Barack Obama made the first transgender political appointments that we know of recently–Amanda Simpson, appointed last week as senior technical adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Commerce Department, and Dylan Orr, special assistant to Assistant Secretary of...

Iran’s military will no longer classify transgender people as “mentally disturbed,” said Hasan Mousavi Chelk, who heads the Socially Vulnerable Groups section of the State Agency for National Well-Being. Chelk said Jan. 6 that putting such a determination on transgender people’s military discharge...

President Barack Obama WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has inserted language into the federal jobs Web site explicitly banning employment discrimination based on gender identity. The protection is expected to apply to the small transgender population — people who identify their gender differently...

Floyd Elementary School administrators have recently become more concerned about a young boy’s hair than his educational development. Young Tyler Pugh found himself suffering from an in-school suspension for sporting locks that fall past his ear lobes, which is reportedly in violation of the school...