The ACLU filed a motion yesterday for a stay on the national court order preventing the federal government from enforcing an ACA regulation that protects women and gender-variant people from discrimination in healthcare. The ACLU also asked the court to issue a formal ruling on its request to intervene in the lawsuit.
Friday evening police were called to a Sioux Falls apartment building because a juvenile reported a strong odor emanating from a neighbor's apartment. Investigators discovered the body of Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow, a 28-year-old transgender woman. She reportedly had been stabbed to death.
Ms. Wounded Arrow was an Oglala Lakota who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
A vigil was held outside the building on Saturday evening.
We need justice and we will get it.
I’m still in shock. I keep thinking she’s going to text me or come up here.
I always judge myself more severely than everyone around me. She made me feel like I could be myself.
--Franklin Whiting, Jr, friend and neighbor
The parliament of Denmark, on New Year's Day voted in favor of removing the stigma from being transgender..."separating them from association with words such ads 'problem,' 'disorder,' or dysphoria.'"
Words matter. It was very important that terms like “incongruence,” “disturbance” and “problem” were left out of the code title used by the country’s medical community to track care.
The change makes it a code instead of a diagnosis.
--Linda Thor Pederson, LGBT Denmark
Yesterday was a report on the first murder of a transgender person in 2017. So I figured I needed to lighten the mood a bit. How does citizen journalism accomplish that?
Mesha Caldwell was 41, a hair and makeup artist and a transgender woman. Two days ago her body was found along a road in Canton, Mississippi (Madison County). Coroner Alex Breeland did not deny that she had been shot to death. The incident has been ruled a homicide.
The ACLU's Chase Strangio has written a state of the community report for transgender people and our allies.
Across the country, before state legislative sessions have even convened, lawmakers are making clear that transgender people will again be the relentless targets of discriminatory legislation.
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.
The Williams Institute has completed a new report, this time on public support for transgender rights in 23 countries.
If you haven't encountered Marlo Mack, perhaps you should. Ms. Mack is the mother of a transgender girl, M., whom she creates podcasts with, assisted by KUOW public radio with whom she produces the award winning program, How to Be a Girl. She has a website named gendermom.
Joe Maldanado is 8. He recently joined the Secaucus Cub Scouts Pack 87. He was eagerly looking forward to camping trips and science projects.
Then his mother received a phone call from a Scouting official. Joe was banished.
