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San Francisco to Expand Transgender Employee Healthcare Benefits
Thu, 06/07/2007 - 10:57am — lmdickeyPublication Type:
Journal ArticleSource:
Lesbian News, Volume 26, Number 9, p.16 (2001)ISBN:
0739-1803Accession Number:
4384921Abstract:
Reports the extension of transgender employee healthcare benefits in San Franscisco, California. Exclusions of transgender/transsexuals to the coverage of traditional healthcare benefits; Comments of Jamison Green, Chair of the Board of Gender Education and Advocacy on the plan; Symbolic value of the plan to the equality and fairness issue.
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Vol. 26 Issue 9, p16 1/2p
Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP, and peter F. Langrock, Susan M. Murray, and Beth Robinson
Thu, 06/07/2007 - 10:57am — lmdickeyPublication Type:
Journal ArticleSource:
Human Rights: Journal of the Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, Volume 30, Number 3, p.24 (2003)ISBN:
0046-8185Accession Number:
10332906Abstract:
With law firms facing ever-increasing pressures to boost revenues, and private practitioners facing constant demands to generate new business, the willingness of private-firm lawyers to devote substantial blocks of time to pro bono work, community affairs, and bar activities is severely tested. At the Vermont firm of Langrock Sperry & Wool LLP (LS&W) however, commitment to working for the public interest and the advancement of civil rights is as much a bedrock principle today as it was when the firm was founded roughly forty years ago. The firm's twenty-three Lawyers, split between offices in Middlebury and Burlington, dedicate an impressive amount of time to defending civil rights, promoting community interests, and contributing to professionalism within the bar. LS&W attorneys have been particularly active in expanding the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. The firm's attorneys, especially Susan Murray and Beth Robinson, have successfully litigated cases addressing second-parent adoption, the rights of nonbiological parents to child custody, and the custody rights of transgender parents.
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Vol. 30 Issue 3, p24 2p; 3bw
D.C. nightmare
Thu, 06/07/2007 - 10:57am — lmdickeyPublication Type:
Journal ArticleSource:
Advocate, Number 899, p.14 (2003)ISBN:
0001-8996Accession Number:
10889494Abstract:
The night after residents in Washington, D.C., gathered at a vigil to mourn the August 16, 2003, shooting death of 25-year-old transgendered performer Bella Evangelista, transgendered woman Emonie Kiera Spaulding was shot to death. The attacks come only a year after transgendered D.C. residents Ukea Davis and Stephanie Thomas were murdered. Making matters worse, activists said, is the fumble of journalists covering the crimes. In response, gay rights groups are organizing a series of town hall meetings on transgender safety in D.C., some specifically for transgendered people, some for all residents, and one that organizers hope will include Washington, D.C., mayor Anthony Williams. No arrests have been made in the Davis and Thomas murders.
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p14 2/3p; 1c
