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  • Carrie Davis, Transgender Community Organizer, in Transgender Basics.

    Transgender Basics 2008

  • Last week, I was disgusted by the media's response to coverage of Tammy Lobel, an 11-year-old transgender girl who was recently featured in a CNN article titled "Transgender kids: Painful quest to be who they are."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Emerson Whitney 2011

  • Transgender, which is a form of Gender Identity Disorder (GID), designates "a person whose identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender roles, but combines or moves between these."

    Active Christian Media 2009

  • I personally lobbied for Federal Hate Crimes bill six times in DC, honestly I had almost no confidence it would pass until I heard President-Elect Obama actually say the word "Transgender" in his Grant Park acceptance speech.

    Blog for Democracy: October 2009 Archives 2009

  • I personally lobbied for Federal Hate Crimes bill six times in DC, honestly I had almost no confidence it would pass until I heard President-Elect Obama actually say the word "Transgender" in his Grant Park acceptance speech.

    President Obama to sign Hate Crimes Bill today! (Blog for Democracy) 2009

  • Feel free to read Lafferty's piece, "'Transgender' Man Attacks TVC," before reading my parody.

    Bil Browning: TVC's Andrea Lafferty: A zombie queen in pastel 2010

  • As I'm not a CD or any other variant within the "Transgender" umbrella term, I'll always refer to my self as a Transsexual .. to clarify "what" I am.

    The Times updated style guide Christine Burns 2009

  • "Transgender" is mentioned as a standard throwaway line in the standard "Notes to Editors" that go on the bottom of every commission press release.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Christine Burns 2009

  • "Transgender" is mentioned as a standard throwaway line in the standard "Notes to Editors" that go on the bottom of every commission press release.

    Is the Equality and Human Rights Commission trying to “forget” trans people? Christine Burns 2009

  • "Transgender" is an umbrella term that includes anyone whose gender identity or expression differs from the sex of their birth — whether they have surgery or not.

    (Rethinking) Gender 2007

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