THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — I’m still trying to find the handle on this thing, but it appears that an appeals court in the UK has found that a trans person withholding certain facts prior to sex with another person… Read More ›
Month: June 2013
Honorary Role Model: Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Admittedly, I don’t know where transgender issues rank on Sen. Davis’ list of priorities, but I do know history making when I see it. Wendy Davis’ stand in the Texas statehouse is going down in… Read More ›
New study confirms trans people’s high risk of danger in using public restrooms
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — The gist: 70% of transgender people surveyed reported harassment or discrimination in trying to use a restroom — and the survey area was one of the more progressive part of the country in enacting laws… Read More ›
37-year-old cis-woman with birth certificate gender marker error needs a note from a doctor
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — As it turns out, nightmares that come with getting gender marker changed on birth certificates isn’t exclusive to trans people — cis-gendered people sometimes run into the same bureaucratic nonsense trans people face regularly. Take… Read More ›
Settlement: Sheriff was wrong to remove trans woman from women’s bathroom
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Johnson County, Iowa, has reached an agreement with a trans woman after their sheriff’s department booted out of a courthouse women’s restroom. The settlement included cash and the sheriff’s department will have to undergo training…. Read More ›
School’s barring of trans child from girls’ bathroom ruled discriminatory
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — The Colorado Civil Rights Division ruled that the action of Fountain-Fort Carson School District of banning a trans child from using the girl’s bathroom violated a state law that protects trans people. The school, Eagleside… Read More ›
(UPDATE — 2nd arrest made) Hollywood trans woman brutal beating
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — (Update — Oct. 25, 2013. There has been a second arrest. See below.) The Los Angeles Police Department arrested one of the four suspects involved in the brutal beating of trans woman Vivian Diego in… Read More ›
Trans people in Turkey stage protest against government
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — It was reported that nearly a thousand Turkish transgender people and their allies staged a protest march in Istanbul against the current conservative government last week. The trans march is reportedly an annual event and… Read More ›
Did a victim’s gender identity change prompt DA to drop charges?
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A year ago, the Florida state attorney’s office charged Glenn Straub with criminal battery for an assault on 22-year-old Claire Newman. Straub said he wasn’t guilty and a year later, the state attorney dropped the… Read More ›
Trans people gain rights in Oregon, Delaware
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber and Delaware Governor Jack Markell each signed into law legislation from their state legislatures giving transgender residents new rights and protections. In Oregon, the surgery requirement was dropped for a legal… Read More ›
Hormone blockers safe for transgender kids says new study
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — The use of hormone blockers, sometimes called puberty blockers, in transgender adolescents often times trigger heated debates from opponents of medical intervention of transgender kids. They point to possible long-term harm to their bones… Read More ›
Nine-year-old Australian trans student wins bathroom & sports rights
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — On the heels of an article about a court case in Maine that transgender advocates hopes results in full bathroom access for a trans student there, come the news of a similar case in Queensland,… Read More ›
Transgender community awaits Maine’s high court decision
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — While Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court isn’t the final arbitrator of trans civil rights in the country, the court’s pending ruling on whether a trans student can use a school bathroom of the gender presented is… Read More ›
Trans delegate to DNC 2012 denied admission to Democrat women’s association
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Specifically, they told her she’d be better off if she joined the men’s auxiliary! The Democratic Women of North Carolina (DWNC) told Janice Covington, who was elected by the North Carolina Democratic Party to represent… Read More ›
Social Security eases trans angst with new transgender policies
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — This is the big one — a precedent that will domino down to other government agencies across the country — even reluctant holdouts (states) may convert to avoid the expense of defending legal action. To… Read More ›
Two trans women reportedly murdered in Mexico in recent days
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — According to a social media post that was translated from Spanish into English, a trans woman was murdered in Monterrey, Mexico this week. Diana Martinez was shot 4 times inside the Hotel Colon by a… Read More ›
Murderer of SC trans woman sentenced to 30 years
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — The judge didn’t buy the defense’s “non-violent compassionate man” defense and tossed Sama Chaka Quinland in jail for 30 years for the killing of trans woman DeAndre Fulton-Smith* in 2011. According to news reports, Quinland… Read More ›
Navy SEALS Team 6 unit member is transgender
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Team 6, the Navy SEALS unit that captured Osama Bin Laden, had a transgender member on the team. Kristin Beck, now retired from the Navy, recently appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper to talk about… Read More ›
Hate group ties transgender rights bill to empowering pedophiles
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A hate group linking trans people to pedophiles failed in their attempt to derail a transgender rights bill in the Delaware Senate. The bill is now on the way to the House and the governor… Read More ›
Transgender cartoon superhero character SheZow knocks out conservatives
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — If conservatives are on a rampage, it must be a good thing for trans people. That is what I was thinking while scanning through political commentary about a new transgender television cartoon superhero, SheZow! Originally… Read More ›
Names of trans inmates in federal prisons maintained in ‘GID inmate list’
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Through the Freedom of Information Act, the Smoking Gun obtained a two-page list of names and other information regarding 61 transgender inmates in federal prisons from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). (The names of the… Read More ›
Is Lauryn Hill transphobic?
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — I let Lauryn Hill take a pass the first time around when her new song “Neurotic Society” raised eyebrows for seemingly anti-LGBT lyrics — targeting in particular, transgender people. Song lyrics are most often subject… Read More ›
Suppression rate for transgender patients with HIV improve considerably
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Trans people living with the HIV virus today are experiencing a reversal from mostly dismal conditions. A new research study points towards conditions near parity with non-trans people living with the disease. Past studies showed… Read More ›