Day: April 6, 2015
TLDEF Applauds United States Justice Department’s Historic Action Supporting Transgender Inmate’s Right To Hormone Treatment
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) responded to news that the United States Department of Justice has filed a brief supporting a transgender prisoner’s right to hormone treatment in her federal case against the Georgia Department of Corrections. This is reportedly the first time the Justice Department has taken action in support of a prisoner’s effort to compel hormone treatment for gender dysphoria, the diagnostic term used to refer to discomfort or distress caused by a difference between a person’s gender identity and their sex assigned at birth.
Including Youth in the U.S National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Advocates for Youth Joins Call to President for Young People to be Included the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reports nearly 26 percent of all new HIV cases occur among young people ages 13 to 24 years old.
You don’t boo our ally Dima Bilan
The BBC has admitted it removed scenes of Russia being booed over anti-gay laws from the broadcast of Eurovision’s Greatest Hits Pink News reports today,