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LGBT Thai Teens Forced To Become Monks By Parents To Turn Them Straight LGBT Thai Teens Forced To Become Monks By Parents To... Homophobic Thai parents have been forcing their LGBT children to become monks but they are taking to social media to assert their identity. LGBT teens are being forced to become monks by homophobic Buddhist Thai parents but are taking to social media to express their identities according to the Bankok Post. 28 year-old...

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Transgender Student Becomes High School Prom QueenTransgender Student Becomes High School Prom Queen It was a first for the town of Middleborough, Massachusettes this week when high school senior Cody Tubman became her school’s first transgender prom queen, My Fox Boston reports. Contrary to what many would think, Tubman’s high school years were not fraught with the peer induced angst most transgender teenagers...

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Trans Symposium Forwards Mission of Educating Medical FieldTrans Symposium Forwards Mission of Educating Medical... Fort Lauderdale Trans Symposium Forwards Mission of Educating Medical Fieldby Christiana Lilly, SFGayNews It’s pouring rain outside, but those inside the conference rooms at the Embassy Suites in Fort Lauderdale are too engrossed in their seminars to care. During the second day of the third annual Transgender Symposium,...

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Trans Kids Jazz and Coy Honored at GLAAD AwardsTrans Kids Jazz and Coy Honored at GLAAD Awards GLAAD President Herndon Graddick focuses on Trans issues at the GLADD Awards At the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York this past weekend, GLAAD President Herndon Graddick spoke about the evolving mission of the organization, and the importance of the transgender community in his vision for the future of equality....

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TLDEF Files Complaint to Protect Transgender Child From School DiscriminationTLDEF Files Complaint to Protect Transgender Child... Complaint Alleges Six-Year-Old Transgender Girl Denied Access to Girls' Bathrooms at School TLDEF today announced that it has filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division on behalf of a 6-year-old girl who has been barred from using the girls' bathrooms at her elementary school. For the past year, Coy Mathis,...

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  • 55% of transgender youth report being physically attacked. (GLSEN 2003). The 2003 national school climate survey.
  • In 2007, a Scottish Transgender Alliance survey found that 46 per cent of 71 transgender respondents had previously experienced transphobic abuse in their relationships.
  • 403 transgender people, 78% reported having been verbally harassed and 48% reported having been victims of assault, including assault with a weapon, sexual assault or rape. (Wilchins, R., Lombardi, E., Priesing, D. and Malouf, D. (1997) First national survey of transgender violence.