Global Action for Trans* Equality (GATE) and American Jewish World Service (AJWS) released today the results of the first-ever survey of transgender and intersex groups around the world in a new report, The State of Trans* and Intersex Organizing. The report is being presented on January 28 during the International Human Rights Funders Group’s 2014 San Francisco Conference.

Repealing don't ask, don't tell was big. But the discrimination that continues undermines the honor of my fellow service members.

The Equality Tribunal has awarded transgender woman Deirdre O'Byrne EUR 5,000 compensation after it ruled she had been discriminated against by AIB. In October 2010, in accordance with the declarations on her change of name of deed poll, she approached the bank to inform them of her change of name. The bank changed her name and gender on her credit card, but told her to close down her 'cashsave' account. The equality tribunal found she has been discriminated against on gender grounds, and have ordered the bank to review their policies in relation to people who change their name.

Georgina Somerset was an intersexual brought up as a boy who fought a traumatic battle to be accepted as a woman.