* Transgender Day of Remembrance has occurred on November 20 each year in the United States since 1999.

* Transgender Day of Remembrance ( LGBT community )

When the show aired in the United States on the 2007 Transgender Day of Remembrance, trans author Julia Serano noted, " Programs like ' There's Something About Miriam ' not only reinforce the stereotype that trans people's birth sex is ' real ' and our identified / lived sex is ' fake ,' but they perpetuate the myth of deception and thus enable violence against us.

They participate in national campaigns to raise awareness, such as the Day of Silence, National Coming Out Day, No Name Calling Week, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Harvey Milk Day, GSA Day or locally organized campaigns.

The ensuing candlelight vigil a few days later was attended by 250 people and inspired the Transgender Day of Remembrance, observed each Nov 20 worldwide.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1998 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, a transgender graphic designer, columnist, and activist, to memorialize the murder of Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts.

* International Transgender Day of Remembrance

* HRC: Transgender Day of Remembrance

* Transgender Day of Remembrance Webcomics Project Archive

* Transgender Day of Remembrance Online Art Vigil

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Typically, a TDoR memorial includes a reading of the names of those who lost their lives during the previous year and may include other actions, such as candlelight vigils, art shows, food drives, film screenings, marches, among others The TDoR is the culmination of Transgender Awareness Week ..

* Kaldera, Raven ( 2002 ), Hermaphrodeities, the Transgender Spiritual Workbook.

Transgender Nation ( 1994 ), Bowling Green State University Popular Press.

The magazine Anything That Moves coined the acronym FABGLITTER ( from Fetish such as the BDSM lifestyle community, Allies or poly-Amorous as in Polyamorous couples became more used, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Intersexed, Transgender, Transsexual Engendering Revolution or inter-Racial attraction ), although this term has not made its way into common usage.

However, the meaning of " sex reassignment surgery " has been clarified by the medical subspecialty organization, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health ( WPATH ), to include any of a larger number of surgical procedures performed as part of a medical treatment for " gender dysphoria ", " transsexualism " or " gender identity disorder ".

), Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, Charles Scribner ’ s Sons, 2003.

Committees include Asian Pacific American Student Coalition ( APASC ), Black Student Union ( BSU ), Election Board, Environmental Task Force ( ETF ), Filipino American Student Association ( FASA ), Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender & Allies ( GLBTA ), Housing Commission, International Students ' Council ( ISC ), Ku Ah Mah, KZUU Radio, Middle Eastern Students Association ( MESA ), Movimiento Estudianti Chicano de Aztian ( MEChA ), Student Legal Services ( SLS ), Veteran ’ s Affairs and Washington Student Lobby ( WSL ).

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Inc. ( WPATH ), formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Inc. ( HBIGDA ), is a professional organization devoted to the understanding and treatment of gender dysphoria.

Sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table ( GLBTRT ) of the American Library Association ( ALA ), the Stonewall Book Award is for LGBT books.

" Eichelberger, Ethyl ( 1945-1990 )" ( biography ), glbtq ( An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture ), www. glbtq. com, last-updated July 17, 2002 — ( Which includes the observation " Eichelberger's plays were performed in almost any space that might pass as a stage in New York City during the height of the East Village performance bar scene of the 1980s.

Transgender people have criticized the HRC for its stance on the 2007 version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act ( ENDA ), which enumerated sexual orientation as a protected category but not gender identity and expression.

( Transgender Youth Resources and Advocacy ), a program of the Illinois Gender Advocates and Howard Brown Health Center, is a Chicago area transgender youth initiative named in the memory of Tyra Hunter.

Responding to the sentence, Sören Andersson, the president of Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights ( RFSL ), said that religious freedom could never be used as a reason to persecute people.

In 2006, CTS launched the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer ( LGBTQ ) Religious Studies Center ( Queer Center ), a grant-funded research program.

In late 2005, Westminster City Council decreed that the Admiral Duncan and all other LGBT ( Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender ) bars and businesses that operated in its jurisdiction, including those in Soho and Covent Garden, remove their pride flags claiming that such flags constituted advertising which was forbidden in its planning laws.

Transgender refers to the development of a gender identity which is discordant with gender of rearing and often also genital anatomy.

In early 2007, along with Lewis Turner, he published the research report ; Engendered Penalties: Transsexual and Transgender People ’ s Experience of Inequality and Discrimination for the Equalities Review which was instrumental in ensuring the inclusion of trans people in the remit of the new Commission for Equalities and Human Rights.

Primarily known as an author, Warren is also commonly known as " the mother of Frontrunners "-the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender running / walking clubs that have been started in Los Angeles and other large cities around the world which was inspired by Warren's bestselling novel The Front Runner about a gay coach and his Olympic runner.

More recently, they also published The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals, by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper, a guidebook for the friends and families of transgender and gender nonconforming children, which addresses significant social, legal, and medical issues.

In August 2011, the APA clarified their support of same-sex marriage in light of continued research suggesting that the same community benefits accepted as result of hetero-sexual marriage apply to same-sex couples as well, " We knew that marriage benefits heterosexual people in very significant ways, but we didn't know if that would be true for same-sex couples ," said Dr. Clinton Anderson, associate executive director of the APA and director of the Office on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns.

* Health Law Standards of Care for Transsexualism An alternative to the Benjamin Standards of Care proposed by the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment Policy.

APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues.

Transgender actress Candis Cayne in 2009 called the LGBT community " the last great minority ", noting that " We can still be harassed openly " and be " called out on television.

Promoting the more liberal ideas — including changing the name of the church because it is seen to be exclusionary of women, acceptance of homosexuals as members and ministers, and increased social and political activity — are groups such as Womaen's Caucus, Voices for an Open Spirit, and the Brethren Mennonite Council on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Interests.

In 2009, a controversy arose after a local couple complained to the West Bend Community Memorial Library about books on a list entitled " Out of the Closet: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Fiction and Non-Fiction " that was published on the Young Adult section of the library's website.

These include “ My Secret Self: A Story of Transgender Children ”, " Romance Morphs Into Horror Story ", “ Waiting on the World to Change ” – a year in the lives of children in one of the poorest cities in America – “ Scared Stiff: Worried in America ”, “ Caught on Tape ” – on how the proliferation of cameras in our society has impacted our lives – “ Seeing and Believing: The Power of Faith ”, “ Privilege in America: Who ’ s Shutting You Out ”, “ Sweet Revenge ”, a report on the differences between female and male brains, and " When Is Young Too Young?

Center on Halsted is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ( LGBT ) community center in Chicago, Illinois.

Horton is also a Consultant on Transgender Workplace issues and on UNIX and Internet technology.

Sexual Orientations United for Liberation is the student-led Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex ( GLBTI ) group on the SUNY Brockport campus.

A survey of transgender and gender non-conforming people conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality found 90 percent of respondents experienced harassment, mistreatment, or discrimination on the job or took actions like hiding who they are to avoid it.

The American writer Patricia Nell Warren, known as " the mother of Frontrunners " — the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender running / walking clubs — locates parts of her 1974 best-selling novel The Front Runner, as well as of Harlan's Race, a 1994 sequel, on Fire Island.

Transgender people were on the staff of the Institute, as well as being among the clients there.

In recent years, he has collaborated with other members ; Paisley Currah, Shannon Minter and Alyson Meiselmann, of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health WPATH on amicus briefs to courts in many jurisdictions.

The publication has documented and reported on news events including coming out stories of proximally close celebrities and is archived in many LGBT collections including National Transgender Library collection.

* Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Culture on Gay Literature