LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — UPDATE – June 12, 2016. Target bathroom explosion is the result of drug use – not trans issues. From an Evanston Police Dept. press release: “Through the course of their investigation, it was determined… Read More ›
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(Updated) Security guard arrested after forcing trans woman out of store bathroom
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Update – May 19, 2016. Name of security guard released. From The Washington Post: Police charged the guard, Francine Bernice Jones, 45, of the District, with one count of simple assault, a misdemeanor. She… Read More ›
North Carolina trans student tells campus police: ‘stop bullying minorities!’
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — After using a women’s restroom earlier this week at a college in North Carolina, a transgender student found herself surrounded by members of campus security and escorted off campus. Andraya Williams was then informed… Read More ›
Trans employee bathroom snafu at McDonalds gets media attention
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — While facts are few and the conversation devolved to a she said-they said situation, it is clear something happened regarding a transgender employee’s use of a bathroom at a Star City, Arkansas McDonalds. Kaye… Read More ›
Utah state legislators mock trans people; apologizes
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS — Some people just can’t help themselves. In Utah, where a lawmaker is proposing a bill in the state legislature would place restrictions on bathroom access for trans people — creating a tense and toxic… Read More ›
UPDATED — Supreme Court in Maine rules in favor of trans student Nicole Maines
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF TRANS –Updated Dec. 1, 2014 — A final order has been issued in the Nicole Maines lawsuit. From the Bangor Daily News: “A final order has been issued in a transgender student’s lawsuit against the Orono… Read More ›
(UPDATED) Harassed U-Houston student body official goes to bat for trans students
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — (Update: Jan. 10, 2014: Resolution passes! See below.) Kristopher Sharp’s path to the University of Houston’s Student Body Vice President seat was anything but uneventful. He was viciously attacked for his HIV status as well… Read More ›
Student group, Pissed Off Trans* People, ‘degender’ campus bathrooms, face fines
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — In October, a group of transgender students at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, were charged with illegally replacing campus bathroom gender signs. The typical “male” or “female” signs were replaced with “all gender bathroom” signs. A… Read More ›
Transgender whipping post: Daily Caller
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Over a year ago I wrote about a transgender hit piece in the Daily Caller. The headline went: “Watch out, you ladies at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith: Those feet under the stall next… Read More ›
School district agrees to change transgender bathroom policy following complaints to Dept. of Justice
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Another school district’s bathroom police have called it quits. This time it’s the Arcadia (California) Unified School District — in exchange for the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights suspension of their investigation, the… Read More ›
Trans student faces arrest if uses bathroom in classroom building
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — While other schools and locales are making the news with proactive changes for transgender students, one Floridian technical school is ‘standing their ground’ and issued an ultimatum — use a single person bathroom across campus… Read More ›
Oregon county, school district forge ahead with gender-neutral bathrooms
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Multnomah County, encompassing the entire city of Portland, Oregon, is the first county in the nation to require gender-neutral, single-occupancy bathrooms in all new county financed construction projects. The county also plans to begin reverting… Read More ›
New study confirms trans people’s high risk of danger in using public restrooms
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — The gist: 70% of transgender people surveyed reported harassment or discrimination in trying to use a restroom — and the survey area was one of the more progressive part of the country in enacting laws… Read More ›
Nine-year-old Australian trans student wins bathroom & sports rights
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — On the heels of an article about a court case in Maine that transgender advocates hopes results in full bathroom access for a trans student there, come the news of a similar case in Queensland,… Read More ›
Progressive Oregon high school prevents trans bathroom angst; newspaper runs trans positive story on front page
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — After an ugly week for trans people in the news, particularly, in newspapers, imagine my surprise when I picked up from my doorstep our local paper and seeing a trans positive story on the front… Read More ›
UK trans student verbally abused, shoved out of university restroom
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Two females in a restroom at the Student Union in UK’s Leeds University apparently grabbed a trans woman’s breasts then shoved her out while verbally abusing her. The university’s security was called and the issue… Read More ›
Courtney O’Donnell — In Transit: Where to Pee?
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — (This was published in the Dec. 2012 issue of Just Out.) As trans people go about their lives, there’s the daily dilemma of where to pee? Aside from our homes, and perhaps workplace and social… Read More ›
New Hampshire transgender third grader to pee in peace
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — It’s settled. The battle between the parents of a transgender third grader and the Nashua, NH school district over the child’s clothes and restroom use at school has ended with an agreement between the two… Read More ›
[UPDATE: Slasher arrested] Trans woman’s boyfriend knifed by McDonald’s customer after she uses restroom
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — [UPDATE: See below.] Yup, another vicious attack resulting from a trans person’s use of a public bathroom. This time it was the trans woman’s boyfriend who was knifed by an irate customer at a Greenwich… Read More ›
Mayor on transgender rights bill: ‘sex perverts will invade women’s showers’
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Fear and hysterics. This is what Maplewood, Missouri, Mayor Jim White used to mark his opposition to a trans and LGBT anti-discrimination bill being considered during a city council meeting. White said: “Under this ordinance… Read More ›
No, Sabrina, she is NOT ‘still a boy!’
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — With the cameras rolling and a TV reporter holding a microphone, rational people keep their mouth shut instead of spilling their ignorance for all to witness. But Vancouver, Washington, bartender Sabrina Brenneise was quick to… Read More ›
Hatred rears its ugly head after DOJ asks university to accommodate transgender student
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — “Watch out, you ladies at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith: Those feet under the stall next to you might just belong to a 38-year-old man.” starts the article in The Daily Caller, written… Read More ›
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