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Alleged harassment by the New York City Human Resources Administration against transgender woman Jolie Estrella has led to a lawsuit filed against the city.

The Trans Advocacy Network (TAN), a consortium of grassroots organizations aimed at promoting the rights of this oft-excluded part of the LGBT community, left a recent summit in Berkeley with a feeling that they were helping to mobilize the movement.

The Sylvia Rivera Law Project celebrated a decade of helping low-income trans people with free legal help, survival education and movement-building with a special event honoring three prominent transgender activists.

The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund recently helped a transgendered girl, 12, be readmitted to her school after she was prohibited from wearing girls’ clothes and being called by her preferred name.

Two ESPN radio hosts have been suspended after making comments about a 50-year-old transgender basketball player who made her college basketball debut earlier this month.

A former transgender contestent on "America’s Next Top Model" gave a bizarre testimony against her firefighter model boyfriend who is accused of brutally beating the model.

New York City marked the 14th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov. 20 with events throughout the city, including a march across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Atlanta put a positive spin on the Transgender Day of Remembrance with a free health fair, plus a community panel discussion and gala event to honor those working to improve life for the transgender community.

Advocates for transgender health access came together in Pomona for the 2012 Trans Conference: Outside the Lines, looking at removing the stigma around being trans, and putting an end to pathologizing it.

The Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative and House of Blahnik merged forces to form Project Mobilize, Educate, & Engage, a task force to pioneer the advocacy for awareness and treatment of HIV in the transgender community.