Tag: transgender
HRC Foundation to Launch Program to Explore Workplace Policies of Jewish Non-Profit Organizations
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation announced today that it will begin an effort to investigate the existing workplace policies for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees at Jewish non-profit organisations.
Star of VH1’s ‘TRANSform Me’ Laverne Cox to join panel on transgender images in film
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, today released its guide to LGBT inclusive films showing at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival. With over XX film listings, the guides serves as a resource for LGBT filmmakers, audiences and allies who want to support films that highlight the LGBT experience.
Free seminar helps address significant hiring bias against the transgender community
The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organisation, announced today it will hold the inaugural event of its Back to Work project in Boston on February 26-27, 2011.
Immigration Releases Transgender Woman Under the Convention Against Torture
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently released a Salvadorian Transgender Woman known as “Karla” after she was granted Deferral of Removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) by a San Diego Immigration Judge (IJ.) Karla’s release and legalized status in the US constitutes the culmination of a two and a half year long struggle with ICE.
LPGA Changes Female at Birth Policy Following Transgender Woman’s Discrimination Suit
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), following a vote of its members, today changed its policy requiring that players be female at birth to participate in LPGA tournaments and events. The change came following a lawsuit brought by Lana Lawless, a transgender woman who underwent sexual reassignment surgery in 2005.
KRXQ Hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States Apologise for Dehumanising and Defamatory Comments Advocating Child Abuse of Transgender Children
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy organisation, today responded to an on-air apology from KRXQ-FM radio hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States of the Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning program.