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8 February 2012Comment: Does today mean change for the trans community? 16 Listen. -
8 February 2012Trans charity to speak at Leveson Inquiry today 11 The Leveson Inquiry will hear today from Trans Media Watch, a charity which supports accurate and respectful reporting on trans and intersex people in the media. -
6 February 2012Canada: Trans woman detained under US flight rules 16 In the wake of Canada’s continued support of a no-fly rule for anyone who fails to meet gender norms, as subjectively assessed by that country’s border police, a harrowing tale emerges of an incident last year in the United States. -
2 February 2012London protest follows Sweden’s trans sterilisation rule 24 Worldwide protest at continuing insistence by the Swedish government on what has been described as a policy of eugenics in respect of trans men and women led on Monday to the unusual sight of a demo outside that country's London embassy. -
31 January 2012Comment: The Canadian rule which bans transgender flight 39 Jane Fae examines the rules, introduced last July but only now coming to light, which state that an air carrier “shall not transport a passenger if [...] the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents”. -
31 January 2012German trans girl ‘to be institutionalised’ 70 News that an 11 year old trans girl in Berlin, Germany, is about to be committed to a mental institution by local authorities – following intervention by her absent father – has prompted grave concern by the International LGBTQ Youth and Student Organisation. -
27 January 2012Interview: Jackie Green, the first trans Miss England? 24 She made history recently as the first trans woman to enter the Miss England competition. -
26 January 2012Data changes raise concerns for trans and intersex university students 16 Concerns have been expressed this week after it was revealed that the Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) is considering changes to the way it records data on sex and gender, with implications for trans and intersex students enrolling at university. -
18 January 2012University records 5% gay applicants 3 A university in the US state of Illinois has said 5% of student hopefuls voluntarily noted they were gay, bi or trans on admission forms. -
17 January 2012Sweden keeps sterilisation rule for trans recognition 24 The Swedish Government have announced that they will not modernise a law from the 1970s which makes sterilisation compulsory for transgender people before the state will recognise their gender identity. -
17 January 2012Kuwait: Reports highlight police brutality to trans community 2 Transphobia is widespread throughout Kuwait following the introduction of a discriminatory law in 2007 that arbitrarily criminalises “imitating the opposite sex”, reports say. -
16 January 2012First trans teen in Miss England competition leads heat 42 The first transgender teenager to enter the Miss England competition is leading in her heat of the pageant. -
16 January 2012Israeli trans man gives birth 16 A transgender man in Israel has reportedly become the first in the state's history to give birth. -
16 January 2012US cross-dressing sitcom cancelled after two espiodes 5 US television network ABC has axed its new sitcom 'Work It', about a pair of cross-dressing men looking for work, after only two episodes, but its entertainment president said it could be compared with Tootsie. -
12 January 2012Sean Bean takes on trans role for BBC drama 75 The BBC has announced Sean Bean will play a transgender character in an episode of its drama Accused, in a storyline it said was "untold on mainstream television". -
6 January 2012Actor slams “dragphobic” complaints to tampon advert 90 The drag queen who featured in a recently-pulled "transphobic" tampon advert has hit back at critics. -
3 January 2012New Zealand company pulls “transphobic” advert 43 Libra, a company which manufactures feminine hygiene products in Australasia, has pulled an advert which provoked outrage among the trans community.
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30 December 2011UK trans artist offers to play any pride event in 2012 for free 29 Trans singer and DJ Chrisie Edkins is offering to play any pride event in the world in 2012 for free. -
29 December 2011Trans teenager pleads guilty to £2,500 Katie Price identity theft 16 A teenager from Lincolnshire has admitted stealing thousands of pounds from former glamour model Katie Price by pretending to be her at a local bank. -
23 December 2011Trans personality Karen Gayle in this year’s Alternative Christmas Message 8 Channel 4's annual Alternative Christmas Message will this year feature Karen Gayle, one of the stars of its popular documentary, My Transsexual Summer.
