Los Angeles County Judge Gregory Keosian dismissed Richard Simmons lawsuit against National Enquirer owner American Media, saying that "it is simply not libelous or defamatory to call someone transgender."
Misidentification of a person as transgender is not actionable defamation .... The court will not validate those prejudices by legally recognizing them.
--Judge Keosian
State regulators in California have penalized Health Net $200,000 for violating antidiscrimination laws by denying coverage for transgender people seeking gender reassignment surgery.
Nicole Brar attended Heritage Oak Private Education in Yorba Linda until it became apparent they had irreconcilable differences.
The school would not allow Nikki to dress as a girl, to use the girl's restroom, or to be referred to by female pronouns.
A civil war in the Democratic Party between the populist left and the neoliberal centrists finally, belatedly has broken out.
California has some new regulations that have been approved during the past year by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing. These regulations expand workplace protections for transgender and gender variant people.
Tomorrow the District of Columbia will become the first jurisdiction in the United States to issue driver's licenses with a non-binary gender option of X.
In the late hours of Tuesday, Imer Alvarado was shot multiple times in the upper chest in Central Fresno. Alvarado did not survive.
MiraCosta College is a public community college in San Diego County with two campuses in Oceanside, plus a campus in San Elijo and a Technology Career Institute in Carlsbad.
The college has announced that it will award a $1,000 scholarship annually to a student who identifies as transgender or is actively involved with the transgender community.
war·lord (wôr'lôrd'): A military commander exercising civil power in a region, whether in nominal allegiance to the national government or in defiance of it.
On December 27 19-year-old transgender girl Jai Bornstein from Bakersfield, CA left the family home intending to commit suicide. In her possession was her father's gun. She was transported to Hart Park by an Uber driver. The driver observed her walking directly toward the river. That was the last she was seen alive.
