SF News Oregon Court Rules 'Nonbinary' A Legal Gender In Case Of Retired Army Vet In a ruling that is believed to be the first of its kind within the United States, PBS reports that an Oregon judge ruled on Friday that an individual can legally change their
SF News Couple Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime Assault Of Trans Woman Whom Public Defender Refers To As Male Dewayne Kemp, 36 and Rebecca Westover, 42, an engaged couple, have plead guilty to charges that included assault in a November 15 crime against Samantha Hulsey, a young transgender woman in SoMa. The
SF News Suspect Arrested, Charged With Hate Crime In Stabbing Of Transgender Woman Brodes Wayne Joynes of San Francisco was identified as the sole suspect in the stabbing of a transgender woman, Samantha Husley, as police Sergeant Monica Macdonald has told the Examiner. Allegedly, it was
SF News Family Of Sasha Fleischman Has 'Mixed Emotions' After Teen Is Sentenced In Skirt Fire Attack A judge sentenced 17-year-old Richard Thomas of Oakland to seven years in prison today for setting agender teen Sasha Fleischman's skirt on fire (inflicting second and third degree burns) while aboard an AC
SF News In Historic Decision, Medicare Lifts Ban On Sex-Change Surgery A staunch 74-year-old trans woman and Army veteran went toe to toe with Medicare over their denying her coverage of her sex reassignment surgery, and won. In a major decision today, the Department
Arts & Entertainment Video: Justin Vivian Bond Covers Bambi Lake's Vital 'Golden Age Of Hustlers' Broadway star and performer Justin Vivian Bond, who once called San Francisco home before moving to the top of the heap, has covered "The Golden Age Of Hustlers," Bambi Lake's ode to Polk
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Transgender Day of Visibility Billed as a "substance-free" (that means drugs, dummy) and family-friendly event, tonight's celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV) is an evening of performances and speakers to be enjoyed by anyone supportive of
SF News City-Funded Transgender Surgeries A Smashing Success SF Examiner's Chris Roberts blows a blast of fresh air into an otherwise listless Monday with a great piece regarding sexual reassignment surgery in San Francisco for low income and uninsured patients. See,
SF News Agender Teen Burned On Oakland Bus Speaks Out For The First Time For the first time since the terrible incident in which Oakland teenager Sasha Fleishman had his clothing burned at the hands of another teenager in what appears, by all accounts, to be a
SF News Prop. 8 Creep Now Targeting Trans Teens The man behind Prop. 8 may have suffered a setback when his anti-gay marriage campaign was thwarted earlier this year, but Frank Shubert isn't letting that get him down. He's now ramping up
SF News Startup Bro Apologizes For San Francisco Rant Startup co-founder Peter Shih whose anti-San Francisco rant sparked an outcry that, among other things, resulted in these flyers strewn about town on Friday published an apology over the weekend. Shih's screed, if
SF News San Francisco To Cover Gender Reassignment Surgeries For The Uninsured In a move that will make San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to provide and cover the cost of sex reassignment surgeries, the city's Health Commission voted Tuesday to remove
SF News Obamacare Also Offers Protection Against Transgender Discrimination According to a new memo from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare, if you like) will prevent any health care provider receiving federal funds
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Watch Teenage Girl's Terrible Anti-Transgender Rant About Seven-Year-Old In Girl Scouts Teenagers can be horrid creatures. You know this already. In addition to being B.O.-laced, hormone-filled beasts, many of them lack clarity and independent thought. Exhibit D-: this 14-year-old girl from California
SF News Transgender Woman Settles DMV Harassment Suit Amber Yust, the 23-year-old Software Engineer who received a threatening letter from a DMV employee after recording her sex change with the government agency, will recieve a $55,000 settlement the Chronicle reports
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour Bambi Lake and her "hot fashion boy" by Christopher Carroll of Christopher Carroll Photography. Happy Pride, everybody! (MUA and stylist: West Seegmiller)
SF News Today's Trans March Honors Compton's Cafeteria Riot This afternoon's Trans March starts at 3:30 in heavily segregated Dolores Park. This year's annual transgender march should take on an even feistier tone. On Thursday, a San Francisco Superior Court Judge
SF News Hate Crime Charges Dismissed in Attack on Transgender Woman A San Francisco Superior Court Judge has dismissed the felony hate crime charges brought against two men accused of assaulting a 20-year-old transgender woman at the 16th and Mission BART Plaza back in
SF News GLAAD Demands Apology from <em>Saturday Night Live</em> for Transgendered Skit GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, an organization that hands out awards to straight people for being famous) is upset at a recently aired skit on Saturday Night Live, one that
SF News Creepy DMV Clerk Warns Transgender Woman of 'Evil Decision' As if going to the DMV wasn't harrowing enough, Amber Yust, a 23-year-old software engineer, had a particularly vile experience when she went to change register her sex denotation at the San Francisco
SF News Photos: Trans March SF, 6/26 In Dolores Park on Friday, the annual Trans March kicked off Gay Pride weekend. And, according to reports, "people were openly popping hormone therapies right out there in the street." Good gravy. Anyway,
SF News Judge Orders Library of Congress to Pay Transsexual $500,000 A federal judge ordered the Library of Congress to pay $500,000 to former Army Special Forces Commander Diane Schroer (née David Schroer) on Tuesday. Why? Well, after landing a terrorism analyst gig
SF News Transgender Day of Remembrance Sparked by the unsolved 1998 murder of Rita Hester, the Transgender Day of Remembrance has grown from a little candlelight vigil on the streets of San Francisco to a worldwide memorial in major
Arts & Entertainment The Left OUT Party: A Genderful Gayla There will be a colorful and joyous skirmish over at the Human Rights Campaign dinner happening in San Francisco tomorrow n ight. Why? Well, it seems the largest (and allegedly inclusive) "lesbian, gay,
SF News Breaking News: FTM Guy Gives Birth Thomas Beatie, the with-child transgender male who stole the nation's heart on Oprah with his good looks and big baby beer gut, gave birth to a baby girl on Sunday. We repeat, the
