Transgender News

RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) - Transgender inmate Ophelia De`Lonta is begging the world not to judge her and desperately wants sex reassignment surgery.

A transgender woman stabbed in the head at a Metro bus stop overnight has died. The victim has been identified as 23-year-old JaParker Jones. The killer is still on the run. Advocates tell us the victim was especially vulnerable to violence and residents are calling this a hate crime.

WAMU
DC Trans Coalition speaks after transgender stabbing victim dies
Washington Post (blog)
By Katie Rogers (Creative Commons photo/Flickr.com user rbrwr) After a transgender person died after being stabbed at a bus stop Thursday evening, the DC Trans Coalition is asking for help in identifying the victim. “We are working with the police to ...
Transgender women murdered at DC bus stopWashington Blade
Transgender woman dies after stabbing in NortheastWashington Times
Transgender Woman In Stabbing Death IdentifiedW*USA 9
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A new South Carolina license plate advocates equality for gay residents in a state that bans any type of domestic union.

News: The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the death of a transgender woman who was stabbed yesterday at a bus stop in the District's Benning Heights neighborhood, on the border of Northeast and Southeast D.C. According to police reports from the Sixth Police District, the woman was stabbed at the bus stop at the intersection of East Capitol Street SE and Sycamore Road NE at ...

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Khloé Kardashian Odom Fires Back, Acted in "Self-Defense" in Transgender ...
E! Online
The reality star is defending herself against a lawsuit filed last year claiming that, in a now two-year-old altercation, she assaulted a transgender woman outside a nightclub. In the newly filed response, obtained by E! News, Kardashian claims she did ...
Khloe Kardashian fighting back against transgender womanMiamiHerald.com
Khloe Kardashian Claims She Attacked Transgender Woman in Self-DefenseShockya.com
Khloe Kardashian Files Response To Transgender Woman Assault SuingReality Rewind
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Sex addict Crystal Warren, who was controversially asked by This Morning presenter Eamonn Holmes whether she would consider becoming a prostitute, has revealed that she was born a man.

Khloé Kardashian Odom is a lover, not a fighter. Right up until the time she's absolutely forced to protect herself. The reality star is defending herself against a lawsuit...

Globe and Mail
Are transgender Canadians being banned from boarding flights?
CBC.ca
Changes to Canada's airline screening regulations that took effect last year have recently angered some members of the transgender community and raised questions about whether the new rules could effectively prevent them from boarding planes.
Canada Identity Screening Regulations: Transgendered Community Effectively ...Huffington Post Canada
Transgender People and Airline Policy in Canada: Media AttentionMontreal Gazette (blog)
New travel ID rule angers transgendered CanadiansGlobe and Mail
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A transgender person who was stabbed last night at a Metrobus stop last night has died, WTOP reports. The death of the victim, who has not been identified, brings to memory the spate of violence last year against transgender people. [ more › ]

METRO Transit Police tell 9NewsNow that the stabbing happened at about eight o'clock in the 4900 block of East Capitol Street, at a bus stop.

A transgender woman died from injuries she suffered when she was stabbed in the head at a bus stop in Northeast, officials said Friday. The attack occurred around 8 p.m. Thursday at a bus stop near East Capitol and Sycamore streets, Metropolitan Police Department officials said. Police are working with ...

WAMU
Transgender woman dies after stabbing in Northeast
Washington Times
By Andrea Noble A transgender woman died from injuries she suffered when she was stabbed in the head at a bus stop in Northeast, officials said Friday. The attack occurred around 8 pm Thursday at a bus stop near East Capitol and Sycamore streets, ...
Transgender Woman Stabbed In DC DiesW*USA 9
Police: transgender woman fatally stabbedNECN
Transgender Person Dies After Being Stabbed at Bus StopDCist.com
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Khloe Kardashian is finally fighting back against a transgender woman who sued her for assault after a street fight in 2009. The two went at it after Chantal Spears commented to her husband Lamar Odom that he was too young to be married.

The Express Tribune
Transgender rights: NADRA provides 3 gender options on CNIC registration form
The Express Tribune
The National Database and Registration Authority will be providing transgendered community members with three gender categories on the registration form for a computerised national identity card. PHOTO: IRFAN ALI/EXPRESS The National Database and ...

A city legislature in a central Russian town has approved a bill that will penalise people with fines for promoting homosexuality.

TMZ.com
Khloe Kardashian Fires Back at Transgender -- It Was…
TMZ.com
Khloe Kardashian just launched her first counter-attack after a transgender woman sued her for assault -- insisting she didn't do anything wrong during the 2009 street scuffle ... she merely acted in self-defense. Khloe filed the response in LA County ...

Metro
Eamonn Holmes' sex addict gaffe victim revealed to be transgender
Metro
Sex addict Crystal Warren, who was controversially asked by This Morning presenter Eamonn Holmes whether she would consider becoming a prostitute, has revealed that she was born a man. Crystal Warren appeared on This Morning earlier this week to ...

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Transgender Woman Stabbed At Metro Bus Stop
Huffington Post
Police are investigating a stabbing at a Metrobus stop Thursday evening involving a transgender victim. The victim was stabbed at the corner of East Capitol Street and Sycamore Road in northeast DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier says the victim, ...
Transgender Woman Stabbed At DC Bus StopW*USA 9

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A District man convicted of attacking a transgender woman last summer in Northwest Washington was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday, according to the United States Attorney's Office.