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Despite its reputation as a bastion for strong women, Smith College officials have rejected applications from transwomen -- a policy that many students and alumni protest.

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.

GLAD’s strong track record continues in 2013, with the ensuring of protections for transgender people and guidelines for Massachusetts schools, which they will work to ensure are enforced.

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.

Rather than travel abroad for expensive surgery or taking risks with self-administered work, the transgender community can turn to Dr. Sherman Leis, a world-renowned surgeon and the founder of The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery.

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.

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.