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A transgender teen running for prom king is upset that his school principal will only allow him to run for prom queen. Fellow students in York, Pa., are siding with him in the dispute.

GLAAD announced on Wednesday that it would barr the New York Post from covering the GLAAD Media Awards because of the newspaper’s anti-transgender coverage.

Arvada, Colorado’s first openly transgender City Council member Joanne Conte passed away on Jan. 27 at the age of 79. But she leaves behind a legacy of public service as a trailblazer for the trans community.

Members of a frat from Emerson College have launched an online campaign in order to raise money for a transgender pledging member’s surgery.

Brown University’s new student health plan coverage will cover 14 types of sexual reassignment surgeries for transgender students.

The MTPC and the Transgender Equal Right Coalition invite the transgender community and allies to participate in a Community Action Day on Jan. 17 at the Massachusetts State House.

Although Colorado Springs received a failing grade on HRC’s Municipal Equality Index for LGBT inclusion, many community organizations are working hard to make the area a safer and more welcoming place.

The American Psychiatric Association finally updated its mental illness manual and removed "gender identity disorder" from the document. Transgendered persons instead may be diagnosed with "gender dysphoria," a more clinically neutral term.

The Trans Advocacy Network (TAN), a consortium of grassroots organizations aimed at promoting the rights of this oft-excluded part of the LGBT community, left a recent summit in Berkeley with a feeling that they were helping to mobilize the movement.

The Sylvia Rivera Law Project celebrated a decade of helping low-income trans people with free legal help, survival education and movement-building with a special event honoring three prominent transgender activists.