Though their primary focus and issue currently is the Constitutional Equality Amendment, they also deal with reproductive issues and abortion access as well as ending violence against women, combating racism, economic justice and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender rights ( LGBT ).

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

Patrick Califia has written extensively about issues surrounding feminism and transgender issues, especially in Sex Changes: Transgender Politics ( second edition, 2003 ).

LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender ) organizations, including organizations of or for LGBT persons, or about LGBT issues.

Cleis Press has also published a number of books on transgender issues, including Patrick Califia's Sex Changes: Transgender Politics and Loren Cameron's Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits.

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.

WPATH is most known for publishing the Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People, but also provides information for professionals and consumers, sponsors scientific conferences and offers ethical guidelines for professionals.

In 2002, PFLAG's Transgender Network, also known as TNET, became PFLAG's first official " Special Affiliate ," recognized with the same privileges and responsibilities as regular chapters.

Outside of the band, Lynn Breedlove is also the author of a novel, Godspeed, published in 2002, now translated into German as Goetterspeed, and a memoir " Lynnee Breedlove's One Freakshow " published in 2009, winner of the 2010 Lambda Award for Transgender Writing.

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

Transgender and transsexual groups were also largely unhappy with the storyline, and found Hayley's original character traits, as written, to be cliched and ill-informed.

Maranatha also hosts events, including Elder Queer Spirit, Transgender Forum, workshops about the spiritual journeys of LGBT people, and movie nights.

She is also the chair of the Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup, and a member of the Intergroup for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender ( LGBT ) 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.

He also co-edited The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities for Knopf Books for Young Readers with David Levithan.

See also Transgender American history.

A Transgender identity, opens up a gender continuum rather than a gender binary rubric but does not discard or disregard the idea of gender altogether.

Gender Sexuality XYZ ( GSX ) is made up of students interested in bringing together the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Allied communities of Dartmouth College.

In response to this problem, the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association ( now known as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health ) authored one of the earliest sets of clinical guidelines for the express purpose of ensuring " lasting personal comfort with the gendered self in order to maximize overall psychological well-being and self-fulfillment.

The Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health ( WPATH-SOC ) are the most widespread SOC used by professionals working with transsexual, transgender, or gender variant people.

In the NDP Shadow Cabinet, Siksay was critic for Ethics, Access to Information and Privacy, and for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues ; the NDP's was the only shadow cabinet with this latter position.

California State Senator Sheila Kuehl, who is a member of the legislature's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus, claimed that the governor had resorted to " blatant homophobia ," stating that the phrase " uses an image that is associated with gay men in an insulting way, and it was supposed to be an insult.

* with the Lambda Literary Foundation and New York City's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Services Center co-sponsor of the " Big Bi Book Weekend " including " Bi Lines: A Celebration of Bisexual Writing in Reading, Music and Culture " a fund-raising event to benefit the Bi Writers Association ( 2007 )

It took over responsibility for supporting the development of the LGBT movement in Europe including Transgender Europe and for relationships with the European Union, Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

In 2005 he was awarded The Sylvia Rivera Award for Transgender Studies by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies for the monograph ‘ Respect and Equality .’ In 2007, along with his co-editor, Susan Stryker, he was awarded a Lambda Literary Award for their annotated collection of 50 key historical and contemporary transgender science, political and theory texts ; ' The Transgender Studies Reader '.

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.

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.

Mr. Lady Records has sponsored numerous showcases of feminist and lesbian music, including events at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis, Minnesota ( working with the Queer Student Cultural Center ) and " Mr. Sister ", a showcase at the National Queer Arts Festival in 2003 at the Center for Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender Art & Culture in San Francisco.

By clicking on “ Icon Search ” and choosing one of hundreds of categories such as African-American, Athlete, California, Germany, HIV / AIDS, Military, Religion, Transgender, Youth ; visitors to the site will be provided with links to all Icons in that category.

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.

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.

In the past, the conference has featured guests from organizations such as the White House Office of Public Engagement and the Council for Global Equality, as well as prominent trans figures like Shannon Minter from the National Center for Lesbian Rights and Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center.

Transgender people who are undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment therapy are usually not regarded as cross-dressing.

The Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People are non-binding protocols outlining the usual treatment for individuals who wish to undergo hormonal or surgical transition to the other sex.

Most US professionals who provide services to transsexual women and men follow the controversial Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People put forth by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

" Transgender man " is an umbrella term that may include anybody who was assigned the female sex at birth but identifies as male.

Mental health professionals who go by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health ( WPATH ) Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People will normally require a patient to go full-time for at least a year ( a period of time generally referred to as the " Real-Life Experience " or " Real-Life Test ") before recommending surgery.

Transgender Day of Remembrance ( TDoR ), which occurs annually on November 20, is a day to memorialize those who have been killed as a result of transphobia, or the hatred or fear of transgender and gender non-conforming people, and acts to bring attention to the continued violence endured by the transgender community.

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 ..

An enormous Rainbow flag # LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender ) Pride ( 1978 ) | Gay Pride flag flies above and this prophetic quote recalls the Moscone-Milk assassinations and those LGBT people who coming out | came out of their closeted | closets as a result.

) who are, or are known to have been LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender ).

People from Canada who identify as LGBT ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender )

Transgender was listed as a condition in a Singapore Armed Forces ( SAF ) ' Directory of Diseases ' and recruits who outed themselves to the examining doctors at the Central Manpower Base ( CMPB ) at Depot Road had their ' deployability ' denied in sensitive positions.

" Transgender individuals who have undergone sex reassignment surgery ( SRS ) are able to skip National Service entirely.