Transgender

Transgender domain goes on sale -- Transwomyn.com

Are you seeking to develop a transgender-oriented website?Transwomyn.com domain is on sale.E-mail editorial@agoracosmopolitan.com to inquire on how you or your organization can acquire this internet domain name.Transgender ( /trænzˈdʒɛndər/) is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles. ....

Transgender: Moving Forward

One of the constants in life always facing us, regardless of race, creed or gender is the need to move forward with ones life, regardless of the challenges or hurdles facing us. Strangely enough, though I moved out of my apartment today, and for the time being I am homeless, I find myself in a surprisingly good mood. Maybe it's because for the first time in a long while, I am no longer in a diff ....

Transgender students get support from Canadian Teacher resource

Wait, we thought everything was OK now? After a heated controversy surrounding Canada's transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova's disqualification ....

Canada considers genderless passports

OTTAWA (UPI) -- Canada is considering passports that allow for an alternative to male or female, Quebec's French-language La Presse newspaper report ....

Transgender: Surprises, Emotional Pain

When I embarked upon this journey, transitioning to another gender, I understood that part of my journey would involve ceasing to suppress my emotiona ....

Transgender: Black Americans struggle against victimization construct

Society too often accepts that young, black, transgender women are victims of violence. Earlier this week, I was in Minneapolis and Chicago supportin ....

Transgender: Trump makes nutty accusations about Jenna Talackova

Wait, we thought everything was OK now? After a heated controversy surrounding Canada's transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova's disqualification from the Miss Universe competition for not being a "naturally born female," we learned that Donald Trump decided to revise the organization's policies and allow transgender women to enter and compete. But even with all that squared away, he brought ....

Transgender: Miss Universe Canada Contestant can compete

It looks like Jenna Talackova still has a shot at being crowned Miss Universe 2012. The 23-year-old was disqualified from the competition last week because she is a transgender woman, but the Miss Universe Organization has reversed its decision and is working with GLAAD to update its policies on such issues. The organization said in a statement that it "will allow Jenna Talackova to compete in t ....

Transgender News Release Service opens

Transgender activists now have a new press release service.  The Canadian now provides a news release service for Transgender activists ....

Dating: Guys and ladies seeking Transgender women

Are you a guy or lady seeking to date Transgender women? Tgirls.agoracosmopolitan.com is a new dating coach services for guys and ladie ....

NDP pursues Gender Identity Bill for Transgender Canadians

Spring is upon us and so is the fight to protect the rights of transsexual, transgender and gender-variant Canadians in Parliament. I am taking the Ge ....

Transgender Agency seeks Webcam Model Talent

When you working as a Transgender webcam model with AdultAgencyAds.com you can expect to earn 5 to 10 times as you would at the average job. AdultA ....

Girl Scouts in U.S. hire transgender counsellor

A few weeks back Queerty reported on Indiana legislator Bob Morris, who refused to sign a proclamation celebrating the Girl Scouts 100th anniversary ....

Girl Scouts in U.S. hire transgender counsellor

A few weeks back Queerty reported on Indiana legislator Bob Morris, who refused to sign a proclamation celebrating the Girl Scouts 100th anniversary because, he felt, the group was a “radicalized organization” that promoted abortion, homosexuality and transgenderism. Well, his head must be exploding right about now: The Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michigan (GSNIM) have hired a trans stu ....

Transgendered Courage?

Transgendered people are often seen as courageous; they have the guts to take radical steps to become the people they really are.  But I don’t see them as any different from people, mostly women, who get nip-and-tuck surgeries, botox, and breast enlargements.  After all, they too take radical steps to become the people they feel they really are – youthful and sexually attractive.I un ....

Rio Police Reports to Respect Transgendered Identities

RIO DE JANEIRO (IPS) - The state of Rio de Janeiro in southeast Brazil will introduce a pioneering policy in March to reduce the under-reporting of crimes against transvestites and transsexual people, who will be able to identify themselves with their preferred names when they report crimes to the police.The right to use the names and pronouns chosen by transgender people, rather than the names on ....

Transgender Canadians confront Air Travel discrimination

Air travel is a stressful enough situation for trans people to endure, especially when we have combinations of identity documents that may or may not match our current gender presentations for various reasons.   Mercedes Allen has a post up at her Dented Blue Mercedes blog which comments about a Canadian regulatory change in the Aeronautics Act pushed through by Harper government ministe ....

Transgender Rights: U.S. confronts Bathroom Issue once again

U.S. civil rights movements — ones formed to address the oppression of minority populations — have often had significant pushback by societal oppressors that have included bathroom and/or significant shower components. Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races. Jim Crow signs were placed above water fountains, door entrances and exits, and in ....

Protect Transgender Rights in the Girl Scouts of America

When I was seven years old, I was excited to join a Brownie troop. Whatever experiences I had in those first few years of Girl Scouts stuck with me — I’m now in my 20s and still a scout. I pay my yearly dues, spent three summers counseling at a Girl Scout camp and I chow down frozen Samoas by the box. The Girl Scouts of America are, in part, responsible for who I am today — I learned abou ....

Transgender Book: My Husband Betty

Helen Boyd never expected to write about transvestites and their partners, yet here is her fascinating account of marriage to a cross-dresser, the intent of which is to reduce the tumult his cross-dressing causes in the couple's lives and to help more women deal better with having transgendered husbands. Boyd was supportive from the onset of her knowledge of "Betty," but even after two years' soci ....