Friday was historic moment for transgender rights in Chile because the country’s Gender Identity Law came into force. Trans people who are at least 18 and single can now change their name and legal gender with a simple procedure in the country’s Civil Registry. Teenagers who are between 14-18 can do so in court, but(…)
A judge on Thursday set bail at $750,000 for a man charged with a hate crime in the death of a transgender teenager. Prosecutors had asked Clark County Judge David Gregerson to order no bail, or a minimum $6 million bail, for David Bogdanov, of Vancouver, but the judge said the lower amount was appropriate because(…)
Giveback Tuesday @ Rainbow Cattle Co. in Guerneville Tuesday, January 7 @ 6 – 8 p.m. All You Can Eat Italian Comfort Food $5 A Benefit for Queer Asylum Accompaniment Help QAA Assist LGBTQ Asylum Seekers Settle Here in the North Bay Fabulous Italian Food, Lucious Libations, Amazing Raffle Prizes & Fun, Fun, Fun Learn(…)
Giaura Fenris, a transgender woman, was on the dating app Grindr looking for people to chat with and meet when a user whose profile picture was of a cute nurse messaged her. After some pleasantries, however, Fenris realized the hunky health professional wasn’t there for a hookup. She said he asked her “a couple of(…)
The New York Times reports: Leaders of the United Methodist Church, the second-largest Protestant domination in the nation, announced on Friday a plan that would formally split the church after years of division over same-sex marriage. Under the plan, which would sunder a denomination with 13 million members worldwide, a new “traditionalist Methodist” denomination would be created,(…)
The past decade has seen a backlash against human rights on every front, especially the rights of women and the LGBT communities, according to a top U.N. human rights official. Andrew Gilmour, the outgoing assistant secretary-general for human rights, said the regression of the past 10 years hasn’t equaled the advances that began in the(…)
A Trump-supporting Florida judicial candidate has had his law license suspended after saying that gay people will “face eternal damnation.” Attorney Donald McBath has been suspended from the Florida Bar for violating the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct while running to become a state circuit court judge. In a filing with the Florida Supreme Court, the Florida(…)
There are almost no differences between young trans kids and young cis kids when it comes to the strength of their gender identity, new US research shows. The findings from the largest-ever study of socially transitioned trans kidsshow that gender identity and gender-related preferences manifest similarly in both cis and trans kids. This finding, from researchers(…)
At the dawn of the year 2010, few Americans could predict that the coming decade would revolutionize the legal and cultural landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. After all, it was only in 2003 that homosexuality was decriminalized across the country, thanks to a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Over the past 10(…)
An essential element of The Spahr Center’s work is to assure that Marin County government, including its various human services agencies and schools, is a full participant in efforts to assure the well-being of some 13,000 LGBTQ+ people and people living with and affected by HIV. While services certainly exist for our communities, especially LGBTQ+(…)
