National Center for Transgender Equality

...lesbian groups added the "T." "The visibility of trans people was just beginning," said Mara Keisling, 50, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, who herself came out as a woman in 1999. It helped that...

In this article: Sara Davis Buechner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, New York City, and CBC Radio

...the cause of the disagreement is a sex-change procedure; in these circumstances, anatomy and chromosomes would no longer agree. The National Center for Transgender Equality estimates that one-quarter to 1 percent of the U.S. population has...

In this article: Hormone, Caster Semenya, Columbia University Law School, Surgery, Androgen insensitivity syndrome, Testosterone, and Yale University

...crimes that the government is about to start documenting, like violence against transgender people. Mara Keisling is with the National Center for Transgender Equality. She says her community documents an average of a murder every month.

In this article: FBI, Barack Obama, Mara Keisling, Lambda Legal, Public Radio, and National Public Radio

...based on gender identity is wrong and will not be tolerated in our country," stated Mara Keisling, the Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. "Every day transgender people live with the reality and the threat...

In this article: Americans with Disabilities Act, Mara Keisling, and Barack Obama

"It's the first time that transgender people will be in federal code in a positive way," says Mara Keisling, director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. "That's a really important historical moment for the...

In this article: Matthew Shepard, Justice Department, Edward Kennedy, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Attorney General

...results from a survey of 6,000 transgender Americans, which was conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality. The survey found that 97 percent of transgender people have been...

In this article: John Kline, Barney Frank, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and 1964 Civil Rights Act

...if a judge sees that the inmate never participated in any of the jail's programs," said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, D.C. But Orange-Osceola Chief Judge Belvin Perry...

In this article: Defendant and Mara Keisling

...Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. "It's religiously devout employees ... who face reprisals for opposing homosexuality." The National Center for Transgender Equality disagrees. It recently released a survey of 6,500 transgender...

In this article: Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Barney Frank, Jeff Merkley, Oregon, and Massachusetts

...be up to date. In the U.S. section, the "Additional information and background" link has tips and suggestions. Travel advice from the National Center for Transgender Equality is at nctequality. org/Issues/travel.html. TOY STORIES

In this article: Surgery, HIV, U.S., Department of Health and Human Services, Anxiety, and Estrogen

...of differences. "The great thing is these [developments] are not just about hate crimes," said Mara Keisling, the director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. "They're about transgender people, and about gender in general. This...

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