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• A Moral Imperative: Passing Laws to Protect Transgender People from Hate Violence

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  The following is from Allyson Robinson, HRC’s associate director of diversity who participated in Friday’s Transgender Day of Remembrance events in Atlanta. Speaking at the Atlanta Transgender Day of Remembrance observance last Friday night, Georgia State Senator Vincent Fort (D-39) said, “The passage of a ...
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• Transgender Day of Remembrance

  
  Reconciling Ministries Network — Authority: 413
  by Violet Fenn Redistributed from Reconciling Ministries FlashNet Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today, many memorial services will be held around the world to remember the lives of men and women that were killed because of they were transgendered. As of November 11th, eighty-eight (11 in the U.S) ...
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• FBI Reports 11 Percent Increase in Victims of Hate Crimes Based on Sexual Orientation

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Today the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued hate crimes statistics from 2008 showing the number of victims of bias-motivated crimes based on sexual orientation increased by 11 percent that year — the third year in a row reported hate crimes against LGBT people have increased.  Hate crimes based on sexual ...
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• On empowering the powerless

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 429
  From Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009 by Jos at Feministing. While I feel a strong personal connection to this day I also know the stories are not my own. I can mourn but also recognize important power differentials that make other trans folks more likely targets of violence. We must avoid using the stories of ...
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• The Obama-Care Health Bill’s Stealth Homosexual Agenda

  
  Americans For Truth — Authority: 622
  Already the homosexual activists are boasting that Obama-care is advancing their agenda. As sure as the push for  “gay marriage” follows homosexual special rights laws, federal socialized “health care” will lead ultimately to taxpayers funding transsexual “sex-reassignment surgeries” (read: ...
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• HRC Responds to Misleading Claims by Organizations Seeking to Discriminate

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Today 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders released the “Manhattan Declaration” — a document indicating that they will not cooperate with laws that conflict with their beliefs, including those recognizing same-sex couples. The document also references the federal Employment ...
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• FL: Tampa Approves Expansion of Anti Discrimination Laws to Transgender Citizens

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  On Thursday the Tampa City Council voted to expand anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals. The 5-1 vote came after two hours and more than 60 speakers spoke expressed their thoughts and feelings on the issue in what at times seemed to be a festival of hate and ignorance. Before the ...
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• Trans Day of Rememberance

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 559
  Photo from the vigil for murdered transwoman Tyli’a Mack, by Hans from the TNG Flickr Pool. Today is transgender day of rememberance. Though The New Gay does not currently have as many trans writers as we would like (and always welcome trans viiewpoints from our readers) the topic is an important one to us. Since ...
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• Transgender Day of Remembrance: The War Within

  
  The New Gay — Authority: 559
  Photo: John Baird We all know (or at least we all should know) that today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day where we honor those trans and genderqueer people who have suffered and died due to hatred and violence, and, hopefully, take the time to read their stories and figure out what we can do to ...
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• Transgender Day of Remembrance moment of silence

  
  A Femanist View — Authority: 127
  Today is the 11th Transgender Day of Remembrance , a day to remember all those who have suffered and died (i.e. been murdered) because they were unable to conform to the arbitrarily-assigned-at-birth* gender role that society demanded of them. I dont have any fancy words, or clever thoughts, to add on this occasion. ...
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• Caster Semenya Will Keep Gold Medal

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 482
  Caster Semenya will keep her gold medal , according to several published reports, including in The New York Times: In a statement posted on the Web, the South African Sports Ministry said that it had reached this deal with the International Association of Athletics Federations, or I.A.A.F.: Because Caster ...
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• Caster Semenya, the sorta-kinda-girl, gets to keep her gold medal

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 571
  “Because Caster has been found to be innocent of any wrong, she will then retain her gold medal, retain her title of 800m world champion and retain her prize money.” A message from the South African sports ministry • Describing the decision to allow the runner, under tons of scrutiny due to gender tests that ...
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• Was The Mormon Church Just Doing Damage Control Backing Salt Lake City’s Gay Rights Ordinances?

  
  Back2Stonewall.com — Authority: 140
  Coming on the heels of the “historic endorsement” from the Mormon church last week, the Salt Lake City Council unanimously passed a pair of ordinances making it illegal to discriminate against gays in housing and employment. But the question remains if this was just an orchestrated damage control stunt to lessen ...
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• What Does Transgender Day of Remembrance Mean To You? – Sassafras Lowrey

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  I’ve struggled to find the words to describe what the Transgender Day Of Remembrance means to me.  Each year on November 20th I pause to mourn the loss of so many whose lives have been cut short because of senseless violence fueled by prejudice.  This year, like every year, as I read through the names of community ...
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• BREAKING: Puerto Rico Police Confirm Jorge Steven López Murder is being Investigated as a Possible Hate Crime

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  The Associated Press reported late Wednesday that Puerto Rico police have confirmed that the savage murder of 19 year-old Jorge Steven López is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Juan Antonio Martínez Matos confessed on Wednesday to brutally murdering, decapitating and dismembering López on November ...
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• Nationwide ENDA Call-in Day TODAY

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  The House Education and Labor Committee is getting ready to move the Employment Non-Discrimination Act soon, but you may have heard that the committee vote has been pushed back a few weeks.  It’s more important than ever that you call members of Congress to make sure that our voice is heard in support of ENDA ...
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• Trans: transgender life stories from South Africa

  
  flip flopping joy — Authority: 542
  I feel so proud and over joyed to be writing this post today. In spite of the struggle against transphobia and homophobia two exciting ground breaking pieces of work are happening in Africa which celebrate Transgender lives on the continent. The first is the launch of Trans: Transgender Life Stories from South ...
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• Remembering Trans Activism: Q & A with Troy Erik

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Troy Erik Troy Erik is the president/founder of HANDS ON ADVOCACY GROUP, a 24hr agency assisting people with disability issues, homelessness, domestic violence, hate crimes, police interactions, discrimination, intervening in any situation where the law as been violated, regardless of race, religion, sexual ...
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• Businesses Can Help Pass a Federal Inclusive ENDA

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  This post is submitted by Meghan Stabler, a member of HRC’s board of directors and also a member of HRC’s Business Council. On November 5 we saw the first ever Senate hearing on an inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act (S. 1584). In the coming weeks, we understand that the House Education & Labor ...
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