Just this week, the Australia’s Supreme Court ruled that trans people don’t need surgery for changing identity documents. From the National Center for Transgender Equality’s (NCTE’s) blog Advancing Transgender Equality: Australia’s highest court ruled today [Thursday, October 6, 2011] that transgender people can legally change their gender without undergoing surgery, at least in some Australian [...]

Note from Laurel: I’m posting this on behalf of MonicaH, who is experiencing technical difficulties. The following PSA commercial was sponsored by Special Olympics and is their campagine against the R-word.     This video inspired Monica Helms to do one that pointed out transgender, transsexual and intersex slur words.