Tag: transgender
Ireland : Landmark day for transgender rights
This afternoon President Higgins welcomed ten trans activists to Áras an Uachtaráin to discuss trans rights.
Students expelled from schools for being gay? It’s not OK
Private schools are exempt from provisions that make it unlawful to discriminate against a student on the basis of homosexuality or transgender grounds. MP Alex Greenwich is right to challenge it.
Transgender Rights Must Be Protected in New Legislation
A group of civil society organisations are today calling on politicians to consider the human rights of transgender and intersex people as the Oireachtas Committee debates the Gender Recognition Bill this week.
Republican Pollster: Supermajority of Voters Support Employment Non-Discrimination Act
New polling by a prominent Republican pollster shows a supermajority of voters– 68 percent, including 56 percent of Republicans – support a federal law protecting gay and transgender employees from discrimination in the workplace.
10-year-old transgender girl wages battle to change identification rules
A 10-year-old Comox girl has started a campaign to stop what she sees as bullying every time she crosses the border to visit her grandmother, Cathie Dickens.
Transgender Workers at Greater Risk for Unemployment and Poverty
A new report released today offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the inequities facing transgender workers in the American workforce—from finding and keeping good jobs, to having equal access to job-related benefits, to obtaining adequate health insurance coverage.