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13 February 2013US: Increase in colleges providing health insurance to trans students + A growing number of America's top universities are now extending health insurance coverage to transgender students, that's according to campaigners. -
12 February 2013Terrence Higgins Trust launches extensive online trans health service + UK HIV and sexual health charity, the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), announces its launch of a new health and wellbeing advice service for transgender people. -
8 February 2013Trans woman student abused and shoved out of toilets at Leeds University 267 A trans woman student at Leeds University was verbally abused and pushed out of the Student Union's female toilets by two girls. -
8 February 2013Polish trans MP Anna Grodzka loses out on deputy speaker job in parliamentary vote 9 Anna Grodzka, the transgender MP who had been a contender for the position of deputy speaker, has lost out in a parliamentary vote that chose to keep the incumbent deputy speaker in the role. -
6 February 2013US: State finds six surgeons to perform gender reassignment for trans woman prisoner + The US state of Massachusetts has found six surgeons willing to perform gender reassignment on a trans woman prisoner allowed to have the surgery in prison. -
4 February 2013Comment: Thank you Prime Minister for supporting equal marriage, it is going to benefit the trans community 22 Conservative Party member Tara Hewitt has written a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, thanking him for supporting equal marriage in the face of heavy opposition from his party. -
1 February 2013UK: Housing association refuse to relocate trans woman away from phobic neighbours and say it is ‘lifestyle choice’ 33 A trans woman who was harassed by neighbours was told by a housing association that it was not a good enough reason to relocate her, as her gender identity was a "lifestyle choice". -
31 January 2013Update: Poland’s first trans MP officially nominated for deputy speaker job in Parliament 10 Poland's first trans MP has been nominated to fill the position of deputy speaker in the country's parliament.
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30 January 2013Oregon: Bar owner accused of discriminating against transgender customers + The Oregon labor commissioner has filed discrimination charges against a Portland bar owner accused of telling transgender patrons to stay away. -
28 January 2013Vietnam: Trans woman to lose official legal recognition 6 Vietnam's only trans woman to have been officially recognised as female has been told she will once again be considered male after a local committee objected to the decision. -
28 January 2013Brazillian trans model features in Benetton ad campaign 19 A global advertising campaign by United Colors of Benetton has launched, and features a Brazillian trans woman model. -
24 January 2013US: 11-year-old trans girl says Obama should have mentioned trans people at his inauguration 11 An trans girl has written a speech in response to that given by US President Barack Obama at his public inauguration on Monday, during which he referred to the gay community. -
22 January 2013Nepal introduces gender neutral citizenship documents 2 An official says Nepal's government will begin issuing gender neutral citizenship documents. -
22 January 2013Video: Trans community speak of their hurt at Julie Burchill’s Observer article 23 Scottish Transgender Alliance is championing a YouTube video that shows personal individual responses to a transphobic article published in the Observer this month. -
22 January 2013Chicago: Transgender man prevented from using men’s shower room at spa 18 A transgender man has filed a complaint with the Illinois Department of Human Rights after the manager of a Chicago spa asked him not to use the men's shower room. -
20 January 2013Inclusive Syfy TV show criticised for depicting anti-trans violence 47 A popular television show, which is widely regarded as being one of the most LGBT inclusive on air, has been accused by GLAAD and many fans of showing a scene depicting images similar to those of anti-trans violence. -
18 January 2013Observer’s readers’ editor says ‘it was wrong’ to publish transphobic slurs 62 The Observer’s readers’ editor, Stephen Pritchard, has issued his full response into the paper’s decision to publish a transphobic article by Julie Burchill. -
18 January 2013London: Protesters demonstrate outside Guardian offices over transphobic Burchill article 18 More than 100 transgender people and cisgender allies have taken part in a protest outside the central London offices of the Guardian and Observer newspapers over the publication of a transphobic article by Julie Burchill. -
18 January 2013Press Complaints Commission to investigate Julie Burchill’s transphobic article 8 The Press Complaints Commission is to launch an inquiry into the Observer's decision to publish a transphobic article by Julie Burchill. -
17 January 2013Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore attacks PinkNews 87 Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore has launched an outspoken attack on PinkNews after it published a story about the killing of a trans woman in Brazil.
