Month: January 2013

Maryland (USA)

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Senate Bill 449 – lead sponsored by two men, Senators Rich Madaleno and Jamie Raskin – uses the same problematic…

Lowther v. Erimus Housing (UK)

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  Stephanie Elliott Lowther, 46, settled a complaint filed with Middlesbrough’s Erimus Housing after the housing group initially refused to help…

Ida Hammer v. MVP Health Care (USA)

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Ida Hammer, a 34-year-old New York City resident, applied for pre-authorization for male-to-female sex reassignment surgery in July 2011. MVP…

Dixon v. University of Toledo

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The U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed that the speech of a high-level Human Resources official who writes publicly against the…

Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries v. Twilight Room Annex (USA)

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Oregon’s labor commissioner filed formal charges of unlawful discrimination against a north Portland, Oregon bar. The owner of the Twilight Room…

Vietnam

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Vietnam is seeking to establish a new way to recognize transgender people in the wake of a decision to revoke…

Maryland (USA)

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Two men – Rich Madeleno and Jamie Raskin – are the lead sponsors of the Fairness for All Marylanders Act of…

De’lonta v. Johnson (USA)

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The U.S. Court Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that Ophelia De’lonta is entitled to a hearing on whether he should…

Pham Van Hiep (Vietnam)

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Vietnam’s first and only transgender person whose new sex was officially recognized will lose that recognition after the Ministry of…

The EEOC on Transgender Employees and Sex Discrimination

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I want to turn at this juncture in my guest blogging to some recent developments (some of which were briefly…