The resulting change opens this fall's 2013 pageant season to transgender women, it said.
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The court ruled that the transgender surgery was part of her treatment and therefore, deductible.
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Wade, supported affirmative action, championed lesbian gay and transgender rights and other social justice causes.
Kernow Katz was formed in 2011 to help and support the transgender community in Cornwall.
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The IOC requires transgender athletes to undergo hormone therapy long enough to remove gender-related advantages.
The Rainbow Project, which lobbies for gay, lesbian and transgender rights, also carries out free testing.
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Many transgender people report feeling discomfort with their gender as early as they can remember.
Actress and campaigner, April Ashley, 77, will become an MBE for services to transgender equality.
Throughout America and around the world, many transgender people face bullying, harassment, discrimination, and violence.
Last year Cumbria Police dealt with almost 40 hate crimes against homosexual and transgender people.
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Transgender individuals and their advocates say the city's conception of sex is outdated and inappropriately narrow.
So, I think that will lower, like, especially HIV rates among young, queer men and transgender women.
Transgender advocates have argued that these mental health problems are usually reduced dramatically by sex reassignment surgery.
International studies have estimated that anywhere from 1 in 30, 000 to 1 in 1, 000 people are transgender.
The issue of transgender identity is somewhat new, and policies vary in school districts around the country.
At the meeting, community leaders highlighted a range of issues and concerns of importance to transgender people.
Last year, the Girl Scouts allowed a transgender member into a troop, sparking a cookie boycott.
Last week, I attended the Ninth Anniversary of the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.
Several gay-themed movies and TV dramas have become hits and some male-to-female transgender entertainers have risen to stardom.
Out of those 2, 531 were connected to race, 52 to religion, 46 to disability and 10 to transgender people.
An Arizona judge has refused to grant a divorce to a transgender man who gave birth to three children.
It began as a simple online resource for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people wanting to foster or adopt.
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Asked Monday what issues facing gay New Yorkers are most urgent, Ms. Quinn cited transgender rights, youth homelessness and bullying.
Sussex Police monitors crimes targeting race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or transgender identity but said other groups were also targeted.
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We fully support anti-discrimination protections for transgender and transsexual people that do not run roughshod over laws that protect females.
And this is what we're trying to do now is to inform people and let them know about transgender athletes.
He appeared last year as a man on "Dancing with the Stars, " in part, he said, to destigmatize being transgender.
On Tuesday, Obama issued a memo ordering American diplomats abroad to advance the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons.
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They have story lines that play up the foibles of all people, whether they happen to be gay, straight, or transgender.
She said anti-gay violence had increased in Italy, with 150 reported attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people this year.
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