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Every Top Transgender News Story in the World Brought To You Live!
If what you are looking for is not shown here please go to the Main Library Index. If you're looking for news on issues affecting trans people, why not start with the news services run by trans people themselves?
Regular newsfeed ... bringing readers a regular series of news updates from the UK and around the world, as well as campaign briefings, announcements, and calls for action. UKPFC-NEWS is distributed as a mailing list to which you can easily subscribe ... or if you prefer, you can read it the archives.
The PFC siite exists to publicise the work of Press for Change, and to support all those who are interested in achieving basic human rights for a group of UK citizens who have done nothing more than to be different ... and to undergo a prescribed medical treatment. Press for Change is a political lobbying and educational organisation, which campaigns to achieve equal civil rights and liberties for all transsexual and transgendered people in the United Kingdom, through legislation and social change. A sea change in public understanding in recent years has meant that nowadays it's rarely necessary to explain to people that transsexuality is an internationally recognised condition, and not a form of sexual or political rebellion. Yet few people actually appreciate that over the last 30-40 years, more than 5,000 people in Britain have successfully transitioned between the genders ... for the simple reason that most of them have blended invisibly into ordinary society. More importantly though, only a very small number of people are really aware of the needless and damaging bureaucratic obstinacy that such people face during and after their transition, and the fact that this quiet and invisible group of people are among the most cruelly discriminated of all citizens in the United Kingdom. Here you can learn about the problems which UK trans people continue to face, since a divorce case in 1970 branded us as non-people ... and our successes in reversing a state of law which can only be described as ignorant, fearful and spiteful. (For an introduction to the issues, start here)
is another trans mailing list, this time from the USA. You'll find the archives and subscription instructions on GAIN's website.
A very large, US-based website serving gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. Its news service is thorough, and broad-based. News pages of The International Foundation for Gender Education Gender Education and Advocacy (GEA) is a national organization focused on the needs, issues and concerns of gender variant people in human society. We seek to educate and advocate, not only for ourselves and others like us, but for all human beings who suffer from gender-based oppression in all of its many forms. We also are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in Georgia. The
news pages of the US-based GenderPAC (Gender Public Advocacy Coalition).
The Queer Resources Directory claims to have "23253 files about everything queer" Live newsfeed and daily updated news headlines from Gaywire. It'd be wonderful if there was no need for this website ... but sadly, some trans people are killed just for being trans. Gwen Smith maintains this site, and it's not just a valuable historical record -- it's a powerful reminder of the importance of ensuring that police services understand how being trans can make us vulnerable to attack. We have history, we have traditions, we have words for ourselves. They have been hidden, but we are finding them again. This finding brings strength not only to us, but to all the people of the world. Just as a person grows inside through self-knowledge, so humanity grows. Looking for a Job ? See the Transgender Employment pages The Daily Telegraph was the first of the major UK newspapers to have a website and its on-line presence is still one of the best -- even if it is slightly irritating to have to register. The relatively uncluttered layout has sprouted rather more graphics than would be ideal, but it is still clear and logically presented. It has a very effective search engine, which provides easy access to an archive stretching back to 1995. For UK news, this is one of the best sources, providing comprehensive and well-balanced coverage of issues affecting trans people. The Guardian's website has a simple and elegant layout, which loads quickly: the other papers could learn a lot from it. Unfortunately, it doesn't have an on-line archive, but the site does carry the major news stories each day -- so if you're looking for quickly downloadable coverage of a current story, it's a good place to look. The Independent's website is rather spoilt by a surfeit of bulky graphics, which produces an elegant effect but makes downloads rather slow -- and breaks some browsers -- and the site is set up so that it can't be navigated with graphics off. Still, it does seem to carry all the day's stories in an easily-accessible manner -- though, like the Guardian, it has no archive. This website suffers, as do so many others, from excessive use of layout tricks ... making for a rather cluttered screen which can be difficult to read and to navigate. As far as I can see, it does carry all the day's stories, and has an archive of all on-line issues going back to January 1996 ... but the archive search facility which used to be provided has sadly disappeared. Registration required for use. The Scotsman is one of Scotland's leading daily newspapers, and has a nicely-designed website, with a searchable archive going back to October 1997. Unfortunately, not all the day's stories make the journey from the print edition to the website, so the archive is not as comprehensive as might be expected by regular readers of the paper. Previously the "Glasgow Herald", this is Scotland top-selling broadsheet newspaper. Politically fairly impartial The Irish Times website has a clean and uncluttered look, with most (if not all) of the day's stories and a searchable archive going back to 1996. The Mirror's website (formerly "The Daily Mirror") reproduces on-line the spirit of the tabloid presentation of the printed paper, with lots of graphics and picture and strong colors ... but it includes a pretty good search selection of the paper's news stories. We couldn't find an archive, though. Is only really a link to its sport section, and to its news pages -- hosted separately on LineOne. The pages there are simply presented, and highly legible: currently only a selection of the top stories from each day, but the full paper is promised soon. There's an archive too. Naturally contains plenty of coverage of its programming, but as the world's largest public-service broadcaster, renowned for its new coverage, it also has a very impressive on-line news section. The layout is clear, easily navigable and doesn't oversuse graphics and, for those with slow modems, they've thoughtfully provided a low-graphics version of the site. There's also a good search engine which produces results quickly ... but which, sadly, throws up some instances of rather poor use of language in referring to trans people. To contact the BBC, for feedback or information, try the How to contact us page. CNN has grown in the last two decades from a small start-up on cable television to become one of the world's biggest news broadcasters. Its easily-used website, with easily-searchable archives, reflects the scale of its operations, but they don't seem to give much coverage to trans people. The ASA is not directly concerned with news ... but since most news media are funded at least partially by advertising, news tends to come with adverts attached. If those adverts don't portray us fairly, that can have as big a negative impact as misreporting of news. Yahoo's index is one of the most heavily-visted sites on the web, but they don't always seem able to keep up with the deluge of new websites appearing. So the 'News & Media' index is large, and has many useful links ... but it's not exhaustive.Yahoo may live to regret their latest decision to remove all transgender e-groups. See Newsgroups section for all off beat chat groups, ezines and web groups
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