New Hope, TX has a population of 670 with 640 registered voters. The Collin County town is in one of the most conservative suburban parts of Texas, situated 40 miles northeast of Dallas. Jess Herbst had been elected as an alderman after previously being the road commissioner.
A bill that was introduced in the South Dakota State Senate that would have required the state's public school students to use locker rooms, shower rooms and changing facilities matching the gender they were assigned at birth was withdrawn yesterday. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Lance Russell, who said he withdrew the bill because of Gov.
Transgender people have had a rather sparse legal toolbox when it comes to challenging discrimination, but the most effective one has been the EEOC and its application of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Yesterday, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard pledged to veto a discriminatory bill that would restrict transgender students from accessing locker rooms and facilities that match their gender identity.
SB 115 was introduced this week even though Daugaard vetoed a similar bill last spring.
I wrote about the US Transgender Survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality in early December.
Turns out there were enough respondents from Texas (nearly 1500) to glean some Texas-specific data.
On his last day as president (January 19) Barack Obama issued a memo to the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Service) instructing that agency to allow transgender immigrants to request a change in gender on their official documents.
India Monroe was a transgender woman. The twenty-nine-year-old lived in Newport News, apparently with a male friend, Mark Gray, who was 37.
The Virginia Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology moved two bills banning discrimination forward to the full Senate yesterday.
Senate Bill 783, put forward by Sen Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria), would ban discrimination against state employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. It passed by a vote of 12-3.
Brynn Tannehill has written about some new myths about transgender people making the rounds. They are especially aimed at harming trans kids, so don't be surprised to find that you encounter them from your right.
Brynn supplies the myths, but I will provide my own reaction.
Myth #1: Gender dysphoria can be cured by an anti-psychotic.
Hahnemann University Hospital is a tertiary care center in Center City, Philadelphia and the Center City Philadelphia teaching hospital of Drexel University College of Medicine.
