Last month, we reported on an amazing piece of new legislation aimed at protecting against discrimination on the basis of gender expression that was soon to be presented before the New York state legislature. Today, we are excited to report that the New York state Assembly passed the Gender Expression...

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Alex Roberson is a senior at Wasson High School. He “came out” two years ago, when he was 16, as “trans” or transgender. He said it was not and has not been easy. “To me basically it is feeling like I was born in the wrong body, like I was not supposed to be born...

France has become the first country in the world to declassify transgenderism as a mental illness. Health minister Roselyne Bachelot announced in May last year, before International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), that the country would move to de-list the condition as a mental illness. A...

What would GENDA do? This legislation would prohibit discrimination because of a person’s gender identity or expression. It would, in particular, make it impermissible to discriminate against an individual simply because that person does not fit a narrow stereotype of what it means to be a man or a...

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...

Jena Lewis went through a sex change more than five years ago and carries a driver's license that identifies her as a female. PHOTO BY Emily Zoladz | The Grand Rapids Press Republican Paul Scott, candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, has promised to block the possibility of transgender men...

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...

AP — Gay couples will likely be able to apply March 2 for marriage licenses in the nation’s capital. That’s the day the city projects a bill it passed legalizing same-sex marriage will go into effect. The district’s City Council passed a bill last month. But the bill, which has been signed...

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...