Looks like we will finally see some action. Didn't think this happy so soon.

The Guardian/Observer has, in a somewhat mealy-mouthed manner withdrawn Burchill's bigoted rant from their website. However, they haven't written a single word of criticism about Burchill, so expect her bigotry to shine forth in her future writings.

We've had an interesting week in the UK news. On Thursday, the left-wing Guardian commentator Suzanne Moore demonstrated she didn't understand transsexuals. On Sunday, the even more left-wing Guardian commentator Julie Burchill demonstrated (yet again) she is a bigoted transphobe

I was a minor lobbyist at the San Francisco Convention in 2009 or 2010.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-beyer/the-end-of-transgen...

This article is on the Guardian website and in the newspaper, the comments are interesting too, according to one commenter transsexuals just can't cope with reality - I was pleased to see they got shot down rather quickly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/18/cuban-transsexua...

In among the various ballots running in addition to the federal ones yesterday, several States were voting on the issue of same-sex marriage (the first to offer a vote on the issue).

It finally happened! DOMA is unconstitutional!

Click here for news.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-stoll/lgbt-rights-...

I know several who are in this situation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/transgender-veteran...

Please write your congress critter.

Hi everyone,
today while I surfed around on the net I found this site: http://playerversusfrustration.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/comp...

It's about a guy who wants to be a feminism ally and has suggestions for other "dudes" who also want to be a feminism ally.
First I thought it was Satire, but apparently he was serious.

Conservative Right get something correct, for once.

Suze Orman Is a economic expert from Chicago and one of her expertises is women and their money.

Suze Orman show today on CNBC News channel, had a long feature on the Money worries of gay and to a lesser extent "other" marriages. I think if you are going to have a life partner type of relationship or have one, you need to see this...

(Maybe some thing for USA only but good advice for most)

Since no one seems to have blogged about it yet I thought I'd mention some tidbit of good news out of my home province of Ontario. It seems that all three parties (seriously, even including the Conservatives) unanimously voted to adjust the Ontario Human Rights Code to prohibit discrimination against transgender people.

It's a first for any Canadian province but I do believe it won't be the last. Hopefully other provinces will follow suit in time. :)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/06/13/ontar...

Spotted on Google+, shared by a prominent Googler (Kristoffer Sorensen):

The Danish Folketing has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a full ecclesiastical marriage service in the national Evangelical-Lutheran church for homosexual couples, to be instituted as a full, official marriage equal to that of heterosexual couples. After a lengthy and sometimes heated debate, which ran some three hours over its expected time, 85 members voted in favour of the law, 24 against and with two abstentions.

Source: Politiken.dk

Apparently, the reason the Folketing can rule in this way is that the Protestant Church in Denmark is a State Church.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/15/my-take-what-the-bi ble-really-says-about-homosexuality/?hpt=hp_c1

The fella in the post above seems to have a pretty good handle on the bible, and what it says and doesn't say. Not sure if it will make any difference in the current politcal bull crap though.

Just saw this, And find it a tad hard to belive

http://now.msn.com/now/0430-kites-trees-ban.aspx

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/transgender-employe...

at least this administration

shalimar

I posted quite a long comment on the 'Out of Canada' blog today, but it was about something that deserves a wider discussion. I came across rather a good link which sympathetically addresses the issues involved, and gives quite a lot of detail and history.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-trans/

There seems to be a lot of "negative" news stories coming out of my country lately. The transgender beauty contestant or the gender not matching appearance on a passport as prominent examples...

Well, here's something that provides a little hope. Ontario looks like it's poised to take a step forward in transgender rights: changing gender without SRS.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/04/19/surge...

Although I'm sure the comments will be a mixed...

London's dystopian Olympics: criminal sanctions for violating the exclusivity of sponsors' brands

BOING BOING | APRIL 14, 2012
By Cory Doctorow at 5:50 am Saturday, Apr 14

Everyone's button count has been removed. We aren't ready to release the new "product" yet and we said this could and would happen. In fact I want to let everyone know that it WILL happen again, when the system goes live, in order for everyone to start on an even footing.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/mice-plag...

Well if those of us here in the USA keep Buying Mega-Lotto Tickets as they have the last two days the Jackpot could be over $600 Million by Fridays Draw Time. WOW! Well gotta go get some more HA!HA!

This is a video from the United Nations Secretary on his views about LGBT issues. It is positive and worth taking a look.

U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon: The Time Has Come For LGBT People