Transgender

This week's round-up of news of consequence to the queer professional community: missives from The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Dot Gay, Grindr, Rentboy, and Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan. FAA removes “disorder” label from transgender pilots First, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

Despite outcries over the lack of diversity among this year's (most years?) Oscar nominees, the esteemed voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have made at least one progressive move in their 2016 props. Said esteemed voters recognized...

Four of Boston's major league teams and the TD Garden rallied around state legislation this week that would include non-discrimination protections for transgender people in public places like sports stadiums, restaurants, shopping malls, and...

It's almost sold out but online registration runs right up until midnight on January 15 for one of the largest annual transgender conferences in the country — 2016 First Event, which takes over all 17...

November is Transgender Awareness Month and Fenway Health is celebrating the great strides made over the past year for the transgender and gender non-conforming community towards visibility and equality. A recent Fenway Focus posting notes: TV stars like...

Many health care providers have as many questions about how best to serve their transgender patients as their transgender patients have for their doctors. A two-day conference, "Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health," brought nearly 130 care...

Major corporations like Google and Eastern Bank have signed on with Freedom Massachusetts to ensure that transgender people are not denied service at any hotel or restaurant. New organization Freedom Massachusetts and its Co-Chairs Kasey Suffredini...

The first openly transgender person to serve as a Beacon Hill staffer has made history again. The Obama administration appointed Raffi Freedman-Gurspan as its new outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the White House...

Schuyler Bailar, 19-year-old Harvard undergraduate, will be the first openly transgender swimmer to compete on a college team. The talented recruit, who broke records on the University's women's team last year, will dive into next season...

Transgender personnel serving in the US Navy may soon see a significant boost in job security. The news came in an official statement that announced a reevaluation of exactly who gets to decide when and for what...