Nancy Wichmann

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This story never seems to end. There are, apparently, doctors accepting cases of underage female children who "identify" as males and performing double mastectomies on them to avoid the trauma of developing breasts.

Hundreds took to Copley Square Sunday to express their support for the third ballot question in the upcoming Massachusetts general election. PHOTO BY RACHEL SHARPLES/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Over 500 Massachusetts residents flooded Copley Square Sunday to support the upholding of statewide protections for transgender individuals in the Commonwealth.

Actress Anne Hathaway has an emotional moment after addressing the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner after being presented with their National Equality Award in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018.

The survey results, released in Port of Spain on Friday, noted there has been increased attention on LGBTQI issues in the country over the past few months, triggered by a landmark ruA ling in the High Court.

After all, the eight-part series features the largest transgender cast in television history. At least 13 trans actors in recurring roles - to be precise - with many of them newcomers.

Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, has been accused of killing four women, including one transgender woman, and kidnapping a fifth woman, who escaped and alerted law enforcement. A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been accused of going on a nearly two-week-long "serial killing spree" that came to an end on Saturday after he was arrested him in connection with the deaths of four women and the kidnapping of a fifth woman.

Abbie Goldberg, a professor of psychology at Clark University, studied the growing population of transgender and gender-nonconforming students across the U.S. While some institutions promote trans-inclusive policies and practices, others have not kept pace.

A former student has sued a north Alabama school district, saying she was harassed and physically assaulted because she was transgender, while administrators turned a blind eye. Zelda Menefee filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against the Huntsville city school system, former superintendent Casey Wardynski and eight other teachers and school employees.

Scottish prison chiefs have rejected the idea of holding transgender inmates on separate wings, after concerns were raised that their policy was putting other prisoners at risk. Campaigners have claimed that the current policy, under which Scottish prisons are advised to house male-bodied transgender inmates in women's prisons, is "open to abuse".

STUDIO CITY - Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed into law a landmark bill that gives, as a right, access to medical services, including counseling, hormone therapy and surgery, to transgender youth in foster care. The services will be covered by Medi-Cal for transgender and gender nonconforming youths and include other services, such as dental and vision.

When Joe Biden speaks at the national dinner for the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday night, he'll find himself at a familiar juncture. Speaking at the same dinner three years ago, he was grappling with a decision to make a late entrance in the 2016 presidential race mere months after the passing of his son Beau.

When she started going through puberty and her body began changing physically, she realized quickly she was unhappy, and took time to figure out what she needed and wanted to feel better. After coming out to her mother and father, she says they had a lot of questions and had to do their own emotional work about her decisions, but that they were also consistently supportive of her.

It felt like these people did not want me there. I feel as if they want to get rid of me.

WATCH ABOVE: A not-for-profit organization focused on helping transgender youth has just opened up their office in Calgary. But to remain sustainable, they need financial support.

Zelda Menefee alleges in a federal lawsuit that she faced harassment, discrimination and bullying while attending Grissom High School in Huntsville. ( A transgender teen alleges in a federal lawsuit that she faced harassment, discrimination and bullying while attending Grissom High School in Huntsville.

In 2018, there have been 20 transgender deaths across the country, and the latest involves Londonn Moore, 20-year-old black transgender woman living in North Port, FL. Last Saturday, Moore was found shot to death and police aren't ruling out the possibility of Moore's murder being a hate crime.

New Delhi, Sep 14 : Jindal Global University has unveiled a handbook on the rights of transgenders and gender non-conforming people in India. The handbook, titled "Rights of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People in India", was unveiled here by Professor C. Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, JGU, on the sidelines of a day-long legal training on the rights of transgenders and gender non-conforming people, as part of the 7th Annual Hijra Habba.

She picked up the phone and repeated these words, which had grown familiar, like a refrain in a song she never wanted to sing: "We're listening. We hear you.

The North Carolina native is making the media rounds and opened up about the ban against transgender women competing in the competition. According to Advocate.com , "One of the competition's official rules is that you have to be a 'natural born woman' to compete, therefore eliminating transgender women and non-binary women."