Camp For Transgender Youth Paving Way For Inclusion
On Sunday, The Boston Globe highlighted a camp that offers a safe space for transgender and gender non-conforming youth called Camp Aranu’tiq. The camp was started in Connecticut by founder and...
View ArticleVote YES on Question One in Maine to uphold New England values
I'm a New Englander. I was born in Rhode Island. I've lived in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts throughout my adult life. My current home in northern New Jersey, just outside NYC, is both...
View ArticleConnecticut Yankee Council opens Scouting to gay youth and adults
The Connecticut Yankee Council of the Boy Scouts of America has announced that it will open Scouting to all youth and adults. This comes just days before 1,400 members of the Boy Scouts of America...
View ArticleTransgender Connecticut police officer files charges over hostile work...
Francesca Quaranta, a transgender police officer in Middletown, Connecticut, has filed a complaint with The State Commission on Human rights and Opportunities claiming her supervisors created a hostile...
View ArticleConnecticut prohibits healthcare discrimination against transgender patients
Connecticut is set to become the fifth state requiring health insurance providers to cover treatment related to transgender people's transitions and prohibit anti-trans discrimination, the Advocate...
View ArticleGSAFE at Hartford School makes lasting change for LGBT students
Manchester High School, a school in a central Connecticut town ten miles from Hartford, has a GSA club with a 15 year legacy.Leah Nelson, MHS alumni, during her junior year in 1996-97 began to think...
View ArticleConnecticut Gov. Malloy wants transgender teen girl out of prison
Following the imprisonment of a 16-year-old transgender girl of color, Jane Doe, by order of the Department of Children and Families, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is calling for her release. Jane...
View ArticleConn. newspaper editorial calls for release of transgender teen girl from prison
An editorial in Connecticut's New Haven Register calls for the release of transgender teen girl, Jane Doe, from the prison where she is being held without criminal charges against her by order of the...
View ArticleLawyer says jailed Conn. transgender teen 'deteriorating' despite move within...
Aaron J. Romano, an attorney for the transgender teenage girl imprisoned in Connecticut, says that the girl's situation has not improved following her move to a different area of the adult prison,...
View ArticleTAKE ACTION: 50 days of prison is not #JusticeForJane
A transgender 16-year-old girl of color, Jane Doe, has now been held in solitary confinement at an adult prison facility for 50 days, without criminal charges against her. Jane Doe was imprisoned at...
View ArticleTrans teen to be moved to "treatment center for youths," says Conn. DCF
The Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) Commissioner Joette Katz said today that the transgender teen girl, Jane Doe, who has been held in an adult prison for nearly 2 months without...
View ArticleLawsuit filed for detained trans girl treated 'as a boy' by CT child welfare
Lawyers for a transgender 16-year-old girl, known in court documents only as Jane Doe, are suing Connecticut's Department of Children and Families and prison officials, alleging that Doe's traumatizing...
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