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Transgender Nurse Awarded $120,000 in Landmark Discrimination Case

A transgender nurse has been awarded $120,000 after the Iowa prison where he worked rejected his requests to use the men’s bathrooms and locker rooms. A District Court jury in Polk County decided on Wednesday (February 13) that Jesse Vroegh should receive $100,000 for damages for sex discrimination and $20,000 for discrimination in equal access to health care benefits, The New York Times reported. The case marks the first transgender rights case in Iowa since 2007, when the state added gender identity protections to the Iowa Civil Rights Act. Vroegh, 37, sued the Iowa Department of Corrections (DoC) for workplace discrimination and damages related […]

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Ways of Getting Your Home Noticed By Springtime Buyers

Do you plan on selling your home this spring? The best way to ensure that your home gets the attention you want it to, is to make sure it is totally ready for when those buyers start looking at the local real estate market. Here are some tips that you can use to make sure your home is ready to get noticed, both inside and out. The more of these things you can get done, the better! Start by Cleaning Up the Outside Take a few minutes to check the outside of your home. Since it is spring, no one […]

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High Rates of Undiagnosed Infection Among Black Trans Women

J Black transgender women have one of the highest rates of HIV of any population in the U.S., with one study estimating an HIV prevalence rate of 56%. Yet the extent to which Black trans women are able to access HIV testing, treatment and care has not been well characterized. HIV and epidemiology data oftentimes lump relatively small numbers of trans women in with a much larger community of men who have sex with men—obscuring the experiences Black trans women have getting diagnosed and linked to care. Now, a recent study highlights the startling disparities Black trans women experience in HIV diagnosis and care. In a […]

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Nashville Becomes First Southern City to Recognize LGBT-owned Businesses

Nashville on Monday became the first city in the South to recognize LGBT-owned businesses.  Nashville Mayor David Briley signed an executive order including LGBT Business Enterprises certified by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce in contracting and procurement opportunities throughout the city.  The new policy will give NGLCC-certified businesses in Nashville the same access to contracts and economic development opportunities as businesses owned by women and ethnic minorities.  “Thanks to the leadership of Mayor Briley and of our local affiliate chamber, the Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce, LGBT entrepreneurs in the Nashville region will now have the opportunity to create […]

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Planned Parenthood Introduces New Programs for Gay Men and Trans People

Planned Parenthood, the 102-year-old organization providing sexual health care, is expanding their mission. The organization is introducing programs specifically for gay men and trans people. Tell me more For gay men, Planned Parenthood (PP) is now offering PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis). This is a type of regimented medication to prevent HIV infection. ‘We’ve just started doing PrEP fairly recently,’ Phebe Brandt, a Philadelphia-based Planned Parenthood clinician, told Philadelphia Gay News. ‘We do all the counseling around it,’ Brandt continues. ‘We do all the testing that’s necessary, we actually provide prescriptions. And if people don’t have insurance and need to go through the program […]

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Poll: 70% of U.S. Voters Support Transgender Military Service

A new poll has found a whopping 70 percent of the American public believe transgender people should be able to serve in the U.S. military despite policy from President Trump seeking to bar them from enlisting. The Qunnipiac University Poll was published Tuesday in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court green lighting Trump’s transgender military ban. Republicans were the only listed group in the poll opposed to transgender people in the military. They oppose transgender service 50-40 percent. Comparatively, Democrats backed transgender service 94-3 and independent voters support it 75-16. Among racial groups, the greatest support for transgender service came from […]

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Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Introduce Bills to Protect Transgender Servicemembers

A group of bipartisan lawmakers on Thursday introduced bills that would allow openly transgender people to enlist in the military and protect trans servicemembers who are already serving. U.S. Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.), John Katko (R-N.Y.), Susan Davis (D-Calif.) and Anthony Brown (D-Md.) introduced House Resolution 1032 in the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) introduced an identical bill in the U.S. Senate. The lawmakers introduced the bills less than three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court essentially allowed President Trump’s ban on trans servicemembers take effect.  Speier and […]

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US Supreme Court Votes to Allow Trans Military Ban to Go Ahead

The US Supreme Court has voted to issue a stay of injunction that will allow President Donald Trump’s ban on trans people serving in the military to go ahead. The US’ highest court delivered its decision early on Tuesday morning (22 January). However, it will continue to debate the matter before making a final decision on the issue. High Court Justices voted along party lines issuing a 5-4 win in Trump’s favor. Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kegan dissented from the vote. LGBTI advocates have started speaking out against the decision. ‘Allowing Trump and Pence’s trans military […]

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Only Half of US Cancer Doctors Have Good Knowledge of LGBTI Patient Needs

According to a new report, half of cancer doctors in the United States are unprepared to adress and treat the specific needs of their LGBTI patients. The report was published by several authors in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. As it explains, the purpose of the report is to ‘identify potential gaps in attitudes, knowledge, and institutional practices toward LGBTQ patients’. In order to complete their survey and find results, the authors took a random sample of 450 oncologists from 45 cancer centers from the American Medical Association’s Physician Masterfile. Promsingly, a majority of the oncologists affirmed the importance of knowing their […]

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Google Under Fire for Allowing Users to Download ‘Conversion Therapy’ App

Google is under fire for allowing users to download a LGBTI ‘conversion therapy’ app. Religious group Living Hope Ministries offers vulnerable LGBTI teens and adults ‘gay cures’ through prayer and therapy. Every mainstream health group considers ‘gay cure’ therapy dangerous to a person’s mental and physical health. The Texas-based group refers to LGBTI people as ‘sexually broken’ individuals. Living Hope Ministries also encourages people to ‘walk out of false identities’, claiming LGBTI lifestyles are harmful. The app also falsely portrays homosexuality as an ‘addiction’, ‘sickness’, and a ‘sin’. Truth Wins Out has already been victorious in seeing the app removed […]

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