GLAAD and MTPC Call on Boston Herald to Apologize for Offensive Coverage

July 11, 2008 – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC) are encouraging people to contact the Boston Herald and ask editors to apologize for the paper’s offensive slurs and sensationalistic coverage of transgender people.

On July 7, the paper posted an article online about a police operation headlined “Undercover ‘john’ takes on trannies, pimps” and focused on a Boston-area detective who goes undercover to arrest sex workers. The article repeatedly referred to transgender women as “trannies” and opened the story by describing how the detective has been “trapped inside houses of ill repute by giant naked trannies.” The article was also published in the July 8 print edition.

Please contact the Boston Herald and call on them to issue an apology. Tell them that they are failing to meet basic standards of journalistic integrity and that they must remove the defamatory terminology and references from the article.

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    posted Friday July 11, 2008

Free Legal Clinic for Transgender people at AIDS Action this month only

For the month of July only, the Massachusetts Transgender Legal Advocates legal clinic will move its location to AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. AIDS Action is at 294 Washington Street in Boston, on the fifth floor. It is in the downtown area, a few blocks from Downtown Crossing, Park Street, State St, or Government Center T stations. (Link to a map). The July clinic is on July 17, 2008.

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    posted Wednesday July 9, 2008

MTPC July E-Newsletter

MTPC Updates
Transgender Youth Summit a Success!
The last weekend in June MTPC and BAGLY co-sponsored the first day-long summit designed for transgender youth 24 and under. Over 45 youth came together for a full day of activities including presentations from GLAD and MassEquality; hands on art and writing workshops; and identity groups. Summit participants were treated to “swag bags” with t-shirts, health information, and resources.

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    posted Tuesday July 8, 2008

Watch Excerpts from Congressional Hearing on TG Discrimination

[source: NCTE]

If you weren’t able to watch the first Congressional Hearing on transgender issues, “An Examination of Discrimination Against Trangender Americans in the Workplace,” as it happened live on Thursday, June 26, we have posted clips of the hearing on YouTube. You can find the clips on the NCTE page at YouTube.

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    posted Saturday June 28, 2008

Two Announcements - Congressional Hearing and AMA Transgender Resolution

Congress to Hold First Ever Hearing on Transgender Issues
Source NCTE

*The US House of Representatives announced America’s first Congressional Hearing on transgender issues. The hearing, “An Examination of Discrimination Against Transgender Americans in the Workplace,”

AMA Call for “Removal of Financial Barriers to Care for Transgender Patients”
Source NCTE

The American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution June 16, 2008
calling for “public and private health insurance coverage for treatment of
gender identity disorder as recommended by the patient’s physician.” The
declaration, known as Resolution 122, “Removing Financial Barriers to Care
for Transgender Patients,” was passed by the House of Delegates – AMA’s
primary decision-making body – at its annual conference in Chicago.

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    posted Friday June 20, 2008

Why HB1722 is about all of us

  Also: NoHo TG Pride Photos

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    posted Sunday June 8, 2008

Now Available: MTPC Name Change Kit

The MTPC Name Change Kit is a step-by-step guide to how obtain a legal name change in Massachusetts. It includes how to change your name with Social Security Administration, on your state-issued IDs [including drivers’ license], and on your passport. Check it out.

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    posted Friday June 6, 2008

MTPC Wishes Senator Kennedy and His Family Well

MTPC sends our thoughts and best wishes to Senator Ted Kennedy and his family during this difficult time.

We are all very saddened to hear about the Senator’s recent health issues and we at MTPC are sending our wishes for the best possibly outcome. Senator Kennedy is a leading champion for civil rights in Congress and many members of MTPC have worked with the Senator and his staff over the years on issues important to the transgender community.

Please take moment to send your thoughts and best wishes to Senator Kennedy and his family.

Thank you,

Gunner Scott
Director

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    posted Tuesday May 20, 2008

MTPC Mid- May Alerts Newsletter

If you are not seeing us in your in box twice a month, please be sure to join our e-news list. Go to our Stay informed page to sign up.

Check out the latest newsletter

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    posted Friday May 16, 2008

Open Letter to Baystate Hospital from GLAD, NE TG Pride, & MTPC

May 2008

To Whom It May Concern:

We are writing to let you know about a very troubling situation that has been on-going for some time now at Baystate Hospital. Two of the doctors affiliated with the hospital, Drs. Steuber and Johnson, have been providing surgical services to members of the transgender community but not providing surgical letters that are sufficient for many of their female-to-male (“FTM”) transgender patients to get the legal document changes that we need.

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    posted Sunday May 4, 2008

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