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segunda-feira, junho 01, 2015

[Brasil]
Emprego para travestis e transexuais é foco de campanha em PE
Peças publicitárias serão divulgados em locais públicos, ônibus e metrô do Estado

[Brasil]
Falta oportunidade para travestis e transexuais em Teresina
A travesti Dérica Sousa Aguiar, que preferiu não revelar sua idade, afirma que teve que abandonar os estudos para conseguir conquistar sua independência financeira e, assim, sair de casa e deixar de sofrer violência física e verbal por parte do seu pai.

[Brasil]
Mitos sobre arrependimento pós cirurgia de adequação de sexo
Há quem queira negar as cirurgias de confirmação de sexo a todos trans por causa de supostos arrependimentos. A ciência demonstra que esse tipo de arrependimento é quase inexistente

[UK]
New light dawns at Stig Abell’s Sun
The new managing editor has taken a notably strong line after one columnist’s remarks about a transgender MP

[Russia]
Police and Orthodox fascists bloody the 2015 Moscow pride rally
In what has become a rite of spring Russian’s once again rioted against LGBT people during 2015 Moscow pride.

[Australia]
Royal Children's Hospital transgender unit gets $6m boost to cut waiting list
A children's transgender support service that has experienced surging demand has received a cash boost from the Victorian government to reduce its lengthy waiting list.

[Canada]
Pride Toronto to Provide Free Accessible Meeting Space to Grassroots Trans* Orgs, All Year-Round
In the latest of several announcements about improvements to Pride Toronto’s outreach to grassroots elements of the Trans* community, the organization responsible for Toronto’s Pride Festival has come up with a way to support Trans* communities not only during the Pride festival, but all year round.

[NY, USA]
Barnard works toward a new policy on transgender admissions
On a recent bright spring morning, students admitted to the Barnard College Class of 2019 gathered on campus. As blue-and-white balloons fluttered in the breeze, the prospective freshmen attended panels and lunched on the lawn, chatting animatedly with current students.

[PA, USA]
Before Stonewall, a Phila. protest
June 1 marks the beginning of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, celebrated since 1995 in commemoration of the June 1969 Stonewall riot in Manhattan - a turning point in the struggle for gay rights.
Four years before Stonewall, seven women and 33 men picketed in front of Philadelphia's Independence Hall, demanding equality for gays and lesbians on the very spot where Americans first asserted their rights and liberties. From these humble beginnings would emerge the Annual Reminder picket, the first organized, recurring gay-rights demonstration in the country.

[VA, USA]
Transgender student goes through Stafford schools
Reina Robinson clamped her daughter’s curly blond locks into a red-hot flat iron. Every morning after her husband, Greg, left for work, Reina would sizzle her child’s hair into submission.

[Brazil]
Rio to allow transgender inmates to choose male or female prison
Transgender inmates jailed in Rio de Janeiro's penitentiaries will be able to choose incarceration in prisons for men or women, a first for Brazil.