A Georgia judge who denied two transgender men name changes last year has been overruled by the Georgia Court of Appeals.

Yesterday Virginia's Del, Robert G. Marshall (Prince William) was livid at members of the Virginia House General Laws subcommittee as his plan to remove transgender people from public life in his state was tabled by the Republican-controlled committee.

Barack Obama has made dozens of last minute appointments in the past few weeks...because he can.

The Williams Institute is a think tank on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy located at UCLA School of Law.

I totally admit I am no legal scholar and therefore would be better off avoiding analysis of possible SCOTUS nominees, but I see that rightwing voices are not so adept at such self-knowledge and may need to have their motives questioned.

It says here that PEOTUS (emphasis on the pee) met with one of his short-listers for Scalia's seat on Saturday.

Diana Tourjee of Broadly interviews my friend Kate.

Kate Bornstein once sailed around the globe as a captain in the sea organization of Scientology Church. She was later exiled and became an underground queer artist, a transsexual icon, and one of the most important gender theorists in the world.

HB 1361 was introduced in the Indiana legislature on Thursday. Its intent was to block transgender Indianans from updating their birth certificates.

The intent of this bill is to strip transgender people of the most basic and fundamental dignity.

HB 1361 seeks to deny the very existence of transgender people—with the cruel mandate that a transgender person’s birth certificate can never match the identity they live as and the person they have always known themselves to be.

--Freedom Indiana

But the bill encountered what appears on the surface to be a sane republican.

The LGBT community in West Philly is reporting that a violent man with a gun is targeting transgender women of color.

This is nothing new. And we've been saying this for years that trans-women of color are in eminently more danger than most of the other folks in the LGBTQ community.

--Deja Alvarez

Author Rick Riordan was born in San Antonio and graduated from the University of Texas. He is noted as the writer of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series of books for children and young adults. As such Riordan was invited to the Texas Legislature's celebration of authors event.

Mr. Riordan has declined the invitation.

Not all transgender people seek medical treatment for the condition, but those who do most often seek some form of hormone therapy...which would ideally be supervised by an endocrinologist.