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3 October 2012
Comment: Some Tories are Gay Get Over It! 189 In a comment piece for PinkNews.co.uk, Conservative Party member Tara Hewitt hits back at the recent criticism of her party.
18 September 2012
Terrence Higgins Trust launches new transgender online resource 7 HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has launched two new support guides for the UK’s transgender community.
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.
13 August 2012
Arizona judge questions validity of trans marriage in divorce case 88 Thomas Beatie, the trans Arizona man who became pregnant in 2008, is being blocked from divorcing his wife of nine years by a state judge who is questioning the validity of the marriage.
8 August 2012
US: Trans man’s doctor ‘failed to tell him he had cancer’ 13 A New York transgender man has revealed that his doctor didn't tell him he had breast cancer because he was confused by his patient's transgender status.
6 August 2012
ObamaCare ‘will ban discrimination against transgender people’ 6 A senior official with the Department of Health and Human Services has told transgender rights groups that federal health programmes and companies receiving federal dollars are barred from discriminating against trans people.
1 August 2012
Gotye addresses trans ‘hoax’ 6 Belgian-Australian musician Gotye has addressed rumours he is transgender, describing them as part of a 'hoax' but explicitly declining to deny them.
31 July 2012
Video: Matrix director Lana Wachowski speaks on film after transition 12 Co-director of the Matrix films Lana Wachowski has appeared on film for what is believed to be the first time since transitioning.
30 July 2012
New Zealand: Prime minister to support MP’s equal marriage bill 16 New Zealand's prime minister, John Key, has said he will support a member's bill selected for a vote in the House of Representatives that would legalise marriages between two people of the same sex.
29 July 2012
Oxford University changes dress code for transgender students 14 Transgender students at Oxford University will be permitted to wear formal dress appropriate to their new sex.
27 July 2012
Liverpool: Two-year project on life of April Ashley launched 4 Arts festival Homotopia is preparing to launch a two year heritage project to research, explore and document the experiences of transgender people in Britain over the past 70 years, focussing on the life of trans model and actress April Ashley.
24 July 2012
Police guidance on risk of trans suspects ‘manipulating sex’ was outdated 3 There were red faces at the Association of Chief Police Officers yesterday as PinkNews.co.uk quizzed officials about wording on recent guidance perceived as offensive by many in the trans community.
24 July 2012
Trans pupil ‘had to show head Equality Act’ to wear female clothing for exam 34 A trans teenager has said she had to show her headmaster a copy of the Equality Act before he would allow her to sit an exam wearing female clothing.
23 July 2012
New search rules for trans police officers and suspects drawn up 26 It is all change for trans police and policing, as increased awareness of trans sensitivities sees new rules for searching suspects – both who can do the searching and how people should be searched – emerging in the last few weeks.
19 July 2012
France: Concern as senate approves protections for ‘sexual’ not ‘gender’ identity 12 Hopes that the election of a Socialist President and Assembly might usher in a new era of inclusivity in France took a blow last week, as Socialist Senators faced up to a first opportunity to legislate protections for the country’s trans minority but declined to do so.
18 July 2012
New protocol puts more power in the hands of Scottish trans people 6 A new protocol issued this week by the Scottish Government is set to revolutionise the way trans people are served by the health system.
17 July 2012
Sweden: Trans asylum seeker’s partner to be deported to Russia 9 Russian trans asylum seeker, Lita, who is currently in hiding somewhere in Sweden, narrowly escaped being caught last week.
12 July 2012
Chloe Sevigny worried about reactions to trans assassin role 18 Chloe Sevigny says she feared trans people would be disappointed with her for playing a trans character in TV series Hit & Miss.
11 July 2012
Canada: Toronto trans community pays tribute to leader who killed himself 3 Tributes have been paid to a Canadian transgender community leader who killed himself last week.
8 July 2012
Australia: ACT bid to remove surgery requirement for trans recognition 3 Legal and human rights groups in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) are pushing to change a law which requires transgender people to have surgery in order to change their legal gender.

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