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1 May 2012New York Assembly passes trans discrimination bill for fifth time 10 The Assembly at the New York state legislature has passed an anti-discrimination bill to protect transgender citizens for the fifth time, but the senate may yet stall progress. -
1 May 2012Q&A: Paris Lees on launching trans magazine META 8 PinkNews.co.uk speaks to Paris Lees, editor of the new META magazine – a new digital publication devoted to gender and transgender news, discussion and entertainment. -
24 April 2012Analysis: Sweden to deport trans woman assaulted and urinated on by Russian police 26 As a Russian trans woman prepares to return to violence or worse if she is expelled from Sweden later this week, the latter country’s reputation as a less than welcoming place for the trans community is once more in the spotlight. -
23 April 2012France: Presidential elections highlight trans voters’ rights gap 27 As the dust settles on the first round of the French Presidential election this morning, a sharp warning that discrimination by the French state means that trans citizens can no longer count on access to that most basic of Human Rights – the right to vote! -
10 April 2012Miss Universe to accept transgender contestants 52 GLAAD and the Miss Universe Organization have announced that transgender contests may take part in the international competition. -
10 April 2012Chaz Bono first trans person to receive GLAAD’s Stephen F Kolzak award 4 Chaz Bono will be the first transgender person to receive the Stephen F. -
3 April 2012Transgender contestant may be allowed to return to Miss Universe Canada 96 A woman who was ousted from the Miss Universe Canada competition because she is transgender has been allowed back into the competition if she can prove she meets the requirements for gender recognition by Canadian authorities. -
23 March 2012Nepal’s first gender-neutral public toilet to be unveiled 4 Nepal's first openly gay MP has secured the opening of the country's first gender-neutral toilet. -
14 March 2012In Photos: Germaine Greer glitter-bombed for trans comments 313 Feminist writer Germaine Greer has been glitter-bombed at a book-signing today in New Zealand for saying trans women 'seem to us ghastly parodies' and a 'delusion'. -
1 March 2012Trans charity reports papers to Leveson on ‘child safety concerns’ 12 The Leveson Inquiry has received a charity's submission regarding several articles about trans people published in recent weeks which it is says 'deliberately misrepresented' the realities of gender dysphoria. -
29 February 2012St Petersburg passes ‘gay propaganda’ law 8 St Petersburg has joined three other Russian cities in passing a law banning the promotion of gay and trans identities among minors. -
27 February 2012Restraining order for trans teen who impersonated Katie Price 27 A transgender teenager who impersonated Katie Price at a local branch of HSBC and stole thousands of pounds of her money has been given a restraining order against the former glamour model. -
21 February 2012MPs condemn media hunt for trans man who gave birth 46 Leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas has tabled an Early Day Motion at Parliament condemning the media's attempts to discover the identity of a transgender man who gave birth to a child. -
20 February 2012Delay puberty for children with gender doubts, My Transsexual Summer star says 37 Primary school children should be taught about transsexuals from age ten and have the option of jabs which delay the onset of puberty, according to Drew-Ashlyn Cunningham, one of the stars of Channel 4's acclaimed My Transsexual Summer documentary series. -
20 February 2012Five-year-old may be youngest trans person in UK 39 A five-year-old may be the UK's youngest transgender person recognised by the NHS, with parents who say they will "leave it up to him to decide what he wants to do". -
20 February 2012Sweden set to drop sterilisation rule for official trans recognition 16 The Swedish Christian Democrat party has abandoned its support for the rule which requires transgender people to be sterilised before the state recognises their gender and so cleared the way for repeal. -
17 February 2012Trans media charity slams attempts to ‘expose’ man who gave birth 32 Calls to identify the anonymous transgender man reported to be the first in the UK to give birth have been decried by a charity calling for accuracy and respect for trans people in the media. -
16 February 2012Exclusive: The Sun defends call for identity of ‘first trans man to give birth’ 123 The Sun newspaper hit back yesterday at claims that it had failed to mend its ways in respect of its treatment of the UK’s trans community, defending its attempts to locate the trans man who had given birth as being “in the public interest”. -
12 February 2012Trans man becomes first male in UK to give birth 58 A trans man is believed to have become the UK's first 'male mother' to give birth despite having already had gender reassignment surgery. -
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.
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