THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Back in 2002, no employer in the Fortune 500 offered transgender health care benefits according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Now there are 121 employers in this group that offer some kind of transgender… Read More ›
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Stanford, Penn, Harvard and Brown University all offer student sex reassignment surgery coverage — who will be next?
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT – Also offering SRS coverage for students: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and Emory. While I don’t have a comprehensive list of all colleges that offer students SRS coverage in their health insurance plans, I am curious about… Read More ›
Transgender inmate’s lawyers to get $700K in ‘denying SRS is cruel and unusual punishment’ case
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — No doubt mainstream media is going to exploit this decision by the federal judge who earlier ruled favorably on transgender inmate Michelle Kosilek’s request for SRS, into a barrage of attacks against trans people, so… Read More ›
Ontario, Canada, the latest to officially drop SRS for gender ID change
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — The no-SRS requirement keep falling like dominos. The Ontario, Canada government officially dropped sex reassignment surgery as a needed step for transgender people wanting to change their gender ID on their birth certificates. The new… Read More ›
Argentina’s 21st century transgender ID change laws vs the United States’ 19th century Bible quoting judges
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Yes, I’m talking about you, Judge Bill Graves. I had a splash of water thrown on my face when I was reminded earlier today of Argentina’s simple 15-day wait period, (almost) no questions asked, legal… Read More ›
Gov. Patrick, it’s not about sex reassignment surgery or the cost . . .
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — I’m not going to speculate on the specific reasons why Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick decided to appeal U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf’s ruling on transgender inmate Michelle’s need for SRS, other than to point out… Read More ›
Oklahoma judge cites DNA as reason to deny trans people legal gender ID change
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — If Oklahoma District Judge Bill Graves is also a scientist specializing in the study of DNA, he should submit his research to a peer-reviewed medical journal for scrutiny utilizing the scientific method first. Practicing this… Read More ›
Taiwan considering following European and U.S. definition of transgender
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Specifically, the SRS (sex reassignment surgery) surgery requirement to be legally defined as the gender they identify as will be deleted. While this is some ways from becoming law, it does show that the Taiwanese… Read More ›
German court rules health insurance providers must pay for trans women’s breast implants if needed
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — New precedents are being set in favor of transgender people around the world seemingly every day, the latest: Germany’s Federal Social Court ordered a health insurer to pay for a trans woman’s breast implants after… Read More ›
Transgender inmate SRS saga — don’t second guess judge unless prepared to deal with onslaught of marbles
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — By now, everybody and their neighbor have called for the Massachusetts judge’s head on a pike for ordering that a trans inmate get SRS (sex reassignment surgery) while in prison. I’d like to remind everyone… Read More ›
Illinois trans individuals can change birth certificate without full SRS; Trans Alaskans can change DMV gender marker without SRS
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A court-supervised agreement allows transgender people in Illinois to change birth certificates gender marker without full sex reassignment surgeries provided their physician signs off the vital records affidavit. John Knight of the ACLU: “This agreement… Read More ›
Sex reassignment surgery to be covered in ‘Healthy San Francisco’ plan; Federal judge refuses to dismiss Philly trans discrimination case
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — While San Fransisco’s health insurance plan for uninsured residents does cover many of the health needs of transgender residents including hormone treatment and mental health services, but the big one, sex reassignment surgery, was not… Read More ›
SRS requirement for Australia (ACT) ID change may be deleted; it’s official: Episcopal Church allows trans priests
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — The deletion of the requirement of SRS (sex reassignment surgery) for legal ID change for transgender people — is part of new measures recommended by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Law Reform Advisory Council to… Read More ›
84-year-old Chinese trans woman comes out, first Briton to have SRS awarded MBE
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Although Qian Jinfan didn’t start living as a woman until she was 80-years-old, she knew at age 3 she wasn’t meant to be a male. Sex reassignment surgery came at age 82 and now, at… Read More ›
New Australian transgender health action group hopes to reverse dismal conditions
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — On the heels of a recent Australian study indicating poor health conditions for many trans people, a newly formed group last week held their first meeting hoping to reverse these dismal conditions. Based in Queensland,… Read More ›
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal says SRS not required to change birth certificate gender
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — In finding that the Vital Statistics Act’s requirement of SRS (sex reassignment surgery) before allowing birth certificate gender change as discriminatory, the Ontario (Canada) Human Rights Tribunal has made a ruling that is likely to… Read More ›
Federal judge says trans woman’s health insurer flagrantly violated its duty to the insured
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Christine Radtke legally transitioned to a female several years prior to her marriage to her husband Calvin Radtke. After their marriage, the couple enrolled in Calvin’s employer’s health plan. Somewhere along the line, the administrators… Read More ›
Judge tells NYC health dept. to loosen up on transgender birth certificate case
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — A 70-year-old trans man had sex reassignment surgery (SRS) but the New York City Health Department was giving him the runaround when it came to changing his birth certificate. So Louis Birney took them to court…. Read More ›
25-year-old Chinese twin sisters to become twin brothers after SRS
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — How’s that for a twist? One sister underwent her sex reassignment surgery (SRS) in a Shanghai, China hospital a few days ago while the other had her SRS a few months ago. The surgeon, Zhao… Read More ›
[UPDATED] Mischa Popoff says: “Transgendered kids a bunch of baloney.”
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — [UPDATED May 9, 2012 — over 140 comments in this thread.] – Who is Mischa Popoff? An ignorant writer hardly worth mentioning except for the fact that he puts the lives of trans kids at… Read More ›
ACLU fights for Alaskan trans woman denied DMV sex marker change.
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — The American Civil Liberties Union this week argued in Alaska Superior Court the refusal of the Alaskan DMV to allow a sex marker change on trans person’s driver’s license violates an individual’s right to privacy… Read More ›
Wearing prosthetic penis caused contemplating SRS trans man to lose job – files civil rights complaint
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — While the lawsuit says the employee was contemplating SRS (sex reassignment surgery) when she wore the device, I am unable to confirm if she identifies as a male. However, the civil rights complaint is apparently… Read More ›
Transgender woman to run for county commissioner in Florida
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — More transgender people throwing their hat into the ring to run for political office has no down side — even if they don’t win. Just the fact that they CAN and DO run chips away… Read More ›
Doesn’t the media have better things to do than to exploit a 7ft tall trans person?
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — There’s a story going around about a 7ft tall trans woman — it is poorly written, pronouns wrong and reeks of exploitation. Besides, it’s not really news — somebody is always going to be the… Read More ›
‘Sex-change regret’ article by Sarah Lonsdale — look closer at the date!
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Titled “When Sex Change is a Mistake — Bitter Regrets” — it was first published in 1993, using information from 1987! This story is is being “reprinted” on the UK’s “The Independent” website and is… Read More ›