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More Corporations Are Putting Money on LGBTQ Equity

By Laura Alix ● Politics ● June 23, 2016

With the LGBTQ population’s annual spending power estimated in the hundreds of billions, companies don’t want to get left behind. “They’re all very competitive,” says one marketing consultant.

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Health System Skimps on Trans Health Care Training

By Mallory Locklear ● Health & Science ● June 15, 2016

A scarcity of physicians with special training in the needs of one trans man left him giving his doctor guidance on his own testosterone dosage. “There’s a huge online community,” he says, “and luckily I knew from YouTube and Facebook what was typical.”

For Tasha Amezcua, Safety Starts by Not Calling the Cops

By Madhuri Sathish ● Crime & Law ● March 30, 2016

The program coordinator of the Safe OUTside the System Collective in Brooklyn, N.Y., talks about the effort to foster community wellness among queer and trans people of color contending with police violence and criminalization.

Transgender Becomes Mayor; Anti-Choice Laws Rise

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● January 10, 2015

A transgender Dalit in central India has become the country’s first transgender to be elected mayor. Also this week, House Republicans are renewing their effort to ban abortion after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy and anti-choice efforts continue across the U.S.

Transgender Women Face Highest Risk of Violence

By Nicole Deniflee ● Uncategorized ● June 12, 2014

A new report on violence experienced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, transgender and queer identified documents its pervasiveness in the U.S.

Seattle Ups Min Wage; Barbarous Attacks in India

By WeNews Staff ● Uncategorized ● June 6, 2014

Seattle’s City Council has approved an increase in the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. Also this week, more horrific assaults against women and girls in India.

Detention Centers Prep for Safer Transgender Housing

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● September 30, 2013

Regulatory reform is expected to gradually improve housing safety for transgender detainees. At the same time the Department of Homeland Security is cutting beds and exploring programs that move at-risk people out of locked-in facilities and into houses and hotels.

GBT Housing ‘Pod’ Offers National Detention Model

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● September 8, 2013

During a tour of the only housing unit that ICE sets aside for GBT detainees to live together, one detainee in Santa Ana praised conditions. Lawyers and other advocates are still watching to see if guards’ behavior improves after a sensitivity training this summer. The third of four stories.

Complaints by Transgender Detainees Quantify Abuse

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● September 3, 2013

Mistreatment of transgender detainees described in government documents match the anecdotal accounts in dozens of interviews. One lawyer says she has never met a transgender detainee who has not been subject to some sort of harassment. The second of four stories.

Mexican Transgender Women Deported to Life of Peril

By Amy Lieberman ● Uncategorized ● August 26, 2013

Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous places to be transgender. But as lawmakers try to change that, transgender women who are deported confront a social backlash that makes their homeland more fearful than ever. The first of four stories.