I'm not doing so well coming up with fresh titles lately. Three days in a row with the same damn topic can do that.
Jaquarrius Holland was an 18-year-old transgender woman living in Monroe, Louisiana.
Tristan Broussard was hired as a management trainee for Tower Loan in Lake Charles, Louisiana in February of 2013. He was required at the time to submit his driver's license, which listed the transgender man as female.
Governor John Bel Edwards (D) and Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) spent yesterday before Judge Todd Hernandez in Baton Rouge arguing Bel Edwards' executive order prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people in state government.
I have been a supporter of Bernie Sanders for years. He and I are of an age. I was thrilled when he started up a revolution of positive change. Take a close look at the word positive. One of the definitions of positive from Merriam-Webster is " indicating, relating to, or characterized by affirmation, addition, inclusion, or presence rather than negation, withholding, or absence ." It is change we can believe in.
Yup, our sensitive, caring, concerned president is really being proactive regarding the worst natural disaster to hit Louisiana since Katrina. Pardon my bluntness (so when am I not?) but playing golf in Martha's Vineyard with the upper crustics while the Hoi Polloi in LA are manning bucket brigades, commuting to what businesses are still open by kayak and going hungry is the most hypocritical, disgusting thing yet done by this hypocritical, disgusting President.
Ten days ago a charred body was found in a burned out car in New Orleans East (The 9th Ward). That body has now been identified as Devin Diamond. The Nola Coroner's Office has classified the death as a homicide. The victim was beaten to death before the car was torched.
Although described as a male by the Coroner's Office, further investigation reveals that Devin had begun transition.
George Melichar, who knew Diamond through a French Quarter retail job, said the two had a conversation on the subject several months ago.
When I asked her if she identified as a man or a woman, she told me that she would answer to both. But being that she was transitioning, I felt that it was the best to refer to her as a woman, and she agreed.
Devin was very loved, and Devin was very kind. And that's what makes this more difficult. In addition to losing a friend, we lost an LGBT leader.
--Melichar
DeMarkis Stansberry was a 30-year-old black transgender man residing in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
On Saturday, DeMarkis was fatally shot in the head by Nicholas Matthews, who just turned 24 on Monday.
Matthews was booked by sheriff's deputies for negligent homicide, illegal use of a weapon, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Judge Carl Barbier of the Eastern District Court of Louisiana has allowed the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to intervene in Tristan Broussard's federal lawsuit against First Tower Loan, LLC.
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Alexandra Glover of Denham Springs, LA needed to update her drivers license. That's not a fun thing to do for anyone, but it was worse for Alexandra. You see, Alexandra is transgender and she lives in Louisiana.
Transgender advocates say Louisiana is one in a minority of states that are behind when it comes to accommodating transgender and gender non-conforming people in ID laws. Recent efforts by transgender people in South Carolina and West Virginia have helped to change driver’s license practices in those states.
After being denied at a couple of OMV offices, Alexandra's friend thought she should document a visit with video.
You can’t present as a woman if you’re listed as a man.
If you have makeup on or anything like that you’re supposed to take all that off, because you are actually a man.
--OMV worker
