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• Transpinay Activist Sass Rogando Sasot Speaks To United Nations

  
  The Transadvocate — Authority: 427
  Sass Rogando Sasot speaks to United Nations on December  10th, 2009 – A  panel discussion organized by the Permanent Missions to the United Nations of Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden on the occasion of the International Day of Human Rights. Theme: Opposing grave Human Rights ...
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• The Expired Feminism of Joss Whedon

  
  Overthinking It — Authority: 427
  Joss Whedon is a feminist! His shows feature complicated female characters as the protagonists! No, Joss Whedon is a misogynist! He revels in torturing and degrading women! Feminist! By giving female characters the opportunity to suffer like male characters, he makes the audience identify with women! Misogynist! ...
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• Africa(n movie roles) for Africans

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 135
  Now, let’s start by saying that Jennifer Hudson is a capable actress. She blew Beyoncé out the water in Dreamgirls and by all accounts she did her thing in The Secret Life of Bees . But like all outfits aren’t for all weather conditions, all parts aren’t for all people. It was an outright shock to learn she ...
  6 days ago

• Manhattan Declaration: A Conflict Of Interest

  
  Fannie's Room — Authority: 495
  A couple weeks ago was quite a Manhattan Declaration extravaganza here in Fannies Room! It has been on my mind a bit because of something that happened to me in my real life. You see, my girlfriend has a relative who recently got married. She and I attended this wedding, both of us spending quite a bit of time, ...
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• New York gov extends protections to transgender New Yorkers

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 135
  By 365gay Newswire(Albany, NY) New York Governor David A. Paterson issued an executive order extending anti-discrimination policies to gender identity for state employees Wednesday. “Governor Paterson has taken significant action to advance equality for all New York state employees,” said Human Rights Campaign ...
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• Oklahoma City School Board Adds Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 135
  GLSEN, December 11, 2009Fantastic news out of Oklahoma: the Oklahoma City School Board voted yesterday to add sexual orientationand gender identity to the list of categories protected in the Oklahom City Public Schools anti-bullying policy.Oklahoma is one of 38 states that does not protect students from bullyingand ...
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• A Transgender Critique of Butlers Notion of Gender

  
  The Cracked Crystal Ball II — Authority: 124
  This essay is a response to the the following question raised here : I think I might grasp what youre alluding to here -- especially with regard to the social dimension of gender, and the interaction between biochemical input and gender realization -- but Id very much like to hear what I assume will be your much ...
  1 week ago

• NY Gov Issues Order Protecting Public Employees On Gender Identity

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 137
  Governor David Paterson of New York signed executive order No. 33 protecting state employees from discrimination based on gender identity on Wednesday. The New York Times said : Though state antidiscrimination law includes gay men and lesbians, it is silent on the issue of transgender people. And while ...
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• Transphobia at Seventeen

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 490
  This post was submitted by Hannah. Photo: Ed Jackson This month Seventeen magazine published an article titled “My Boyfriend Turned Out to be a Girl”. The article portrays Sheri, who dated a female-to-male transman named Derek (which means ‘he is a he,’ not the offensive ‘he is a ...
  1 week ago

• Video: Gaza Conflict of Gender

  
  Queer Muslim Revolution — Authority: 91
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• Boy or Girl?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
      But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. Youre looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. George H. W. Bush The term gender identity was used in a press release, November 21, 1966 to announce the new clinic for transsexuals at The Johns ...
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• On institutionalized racism and global politics

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 135
  In their rush to portray liberal internationalism as the height of human achievement, too many historians have forgotten what Mazower regards as the real ideological impulse behind the U.N.’s creation: preservation of the British Empire and white rule over Europe’s colonial possessions. From Hope Against ...
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• Rare gender identity defect hits Gaza families

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  Until last summer, both Nadir and Ahmed were -- for all intents and purposes -- girls. But their lives flipped 180 degrees when they hit puberty. read more
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• Dudes: Breast Ogling Not Problematic for Women

  
  Fannie's Room — Authority: 495
  That liberal and progressive dudemen can be so utterly clueless and dismissive of feminism and the concerns of vagina-humans is not exactly a startling revelation. For a while, I wanted to believe that left-leaning men "got it." Long ago, however, that dream shriveled, dried up, and blew away to that special ...
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• MAP Report on LGBT Right Progress 2000-2009

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 137
  Theres an interesting report out this week called " A Decade of Progress on LGBT Rights " written by one of the smartest (and least well-known) LGBT organizations, the Movement Advancement Project , (with funding from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr Fund ) which puts where the LGBT community is now in a useful ...
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• Gender Identity Disorder in Girls: A Plea For A Label Change

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
      As it stands now, the diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder in Girls is for girls who have intense negative reactions to attempts to have them wear feminine attire. Some may refuse to attend social events where such clothes may be required. Their fantasy heroes are often powerful male figures such as Ninja ...
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• Federal DP Bill Advances To US Senate Floor

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 137
  According to HRC Backstory , the United States Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, S.1102 , (also known as DPBO) by a vote of 10-6 (8-1 official in-person vote) to the Senate floor, with five Republicans and Democrat David Pryor ...
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• Turkey: prosecutor considers lesbian love to be obscene

  
  Unzipped: Gay Armenia — Authority: 426
  * Bianet The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutors Office initiated an investigation on the book "The L State of Love" by Burcu Ersoy which was part of the "From Women to Women Story Contest" carried out by the Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL). The prosecutors office ...
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• Brain volume studies suggest why the “shell-shocked” freak out at thunderclaps

  
  Medical Search Tips, News, and Information for Healthcare Professionals — Authority: 118
  FEATURED SEARCH: stress disorders Among veterans of the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, those with chronic combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had smaller cerebral cortex volumes than others who did not have PTSD. Judging from the cortical regions involved, which mediate associations ...
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• Demand McDonalds Offer Protections Based on Gender Identity/Expression

  
  Queers United — Authority: 132
  The worlds largest fast food chain McDonalds has been under the spotlight after an Orlando manager refused to hire a seventeen year old transgender woman Zikkeria Bellamy because of her gender identity. The manager harassed the teen by leaving a voice-mail saying: "You will not get hired, we do not hire faggots" The ...
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