Articles about Trans Discrimination

17 May 2013
Scotland: Trans woman threatened with ban from shopping centre for using ladies’ toilets 38 A transgender woman has claimed she was threatened with being banned from a shopping centre, after someone complained about her using the ladies' toilets.
17 April 2013
European Parliament calls on European Commission to increase efforts against trans discrimination 7 The European Parliament has asked the European Commission to step up its work against discrimination faced by transgender people.
28 March 2013
US: Arizona House panel approves amended law targeting trans people 10 A panel of lawmakers from the Arizona House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass a bill which would allow business owners to discriminate against trans people by barring their use of facilities that don't correspond to the gender on their birth certificate.
19 March 2013
London: Trans woman told to use New Look changing facilities ‘out of hours’ 23 New Look has responded to claims that a trans woman was prevented from using the changing rooms at one of their London stores, then advised she should arrange to shop at the store "out of hours" in future.
12 January 2013
Trans woman accuses Post Office of discrimination for refusing to open a savings account 21 A trans woman from Lancaster has accused the Post Office of discrimination, after she was denied a savings account because her drivers license still contained her former name.
4 October 2012
US: Trans prisoner files for expenses from gender-reassignment legal battle + Michelle Kosilek, the trans woman incarcerated in an all-male prison, has filed for the expenses she, and her attorney, are requesting from the court, following a ruling that her legal costs, as well as the cost of gender reassignment surgery, as a treatment for gender dysphoria.
26 September 2012
US: State to appeal against gender reassignment ruling for trans prisoner 21 The Department of Correction is to appeal against a judge's ruling that a trans woman incarcerated in a male-only prison should be given gender-reassignment surgery as the only way to treat her condition.
17 September 2012
US: Trans prisoner may be given legal costs as well as surgery 3 The legal costs of a trans woman incarcerated in a male prison, who has been allowed to have gender reassignment surgery whilst still serving her sentence, may also be eligible to have her legal costs covered, a court has ruled.
5 September 2012
Judge orders that trans convict be given gender reassignment surgery in prison 11 A Judge in Boston, Massachusetts has ruled that a trans woman must be given gender reassignment surgery in prison, in order to treat her gender dysphoria.
19 May 2011
California’s transgender protection bill makes progress 4 A California bill to improve legal protections for trans people has been approved by the state assembly.
18 April 2011
Irish trans woman wins £30,000 for discrimination 13 An Irish trans woman has been awarded 35,000 euros (£30,000) after an equality tribunal ruled she was discriminated against on the grounds of gender and disability.

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