Trans News

Эта группа для английского языка только. Смотрите ru_transgender для русского языка.

This is an open forum for people to post and discuss news articles, bulletins, etc. related to the Transgender and genderqueer community. NO RUMORS PLEASE - only stuff from reliable news sources. Discussion of the issues is also welcome.

If you’re new to the community, please check out the tags. (The tags for any journal or community can be accessed by clicking the Tags link at the top of the profile page.)

For an organised list of other Trans-related communities (and there are a lot of them), look in this post (and feel free to comment there if you know of any additional communities).

Community Rules (in no particular order):
1) Posts over 40 lines long and posts which contain any images must use a cut tag or the post will be deleted. Unless there are other major problems with the post, you will have 24 hours to edit your post and add a cut before a moderator removes it.
2) You must include the location in the subject line of your post. State-specific or province-specific posts must contain the country and the state; e.g., US, CA: [title] or Australia, NSW: [title] or Canada, BC: [title].
3) You must include the full text of any article you post, as well as a link to the original article.
4) Do not change the size or color of the text in your post. It makes your post more difficult to read and does not make anyone more likely to read it. Similarly, bold, italic, and underline are used to add emphasis to specific bits of text; do not use any of them on your entire post. This defeats their purpose and has the same effect as changing the size or color of your text. Posts which violate this rule will be given 24 hours to edit their post, after which time it will be removed.
5) Please keep posts limited to things that relate directly to Transgender people. Posts about general political issues, which may be of concern to Trans people but are not Trans-specific in nature, should be posted to politicsforum or similar communities.
6) Anything sexually explicit and/or not work safe should be behind a cut tag, with a note in front of the tag indicating why it's been cut. Links to sites, communities, etc. that are sexually explicit and/or not work safe should be indicated as such. Posts, comments, and default userpics should be kept free of explicit content. (from http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=107 )
7.) No personal attacks on others.
8.) Please speak from your own experiences and avoid speaking for others.
9.) Constructive criticism of something that someone else says is fine; flat-out insulting someone is not.
10.) Transphobia of any kind will not be tolerated here, nor will prejudice against any generalized group of people (i.e. homophobia/heterosexism, racism, classism, sexism, etc.)
11.) If you have a response to a specific post, respond in the comments section of that post; do not make a new post to follow up on any discussion that is less than a week old. If you feel the need to heavily revise your post, add a note that says you have done so, and why (e.g., "Post heavily revised in response to comments", "Post heavily revised after doing some more thinking", etc.). Similarly, don't continue conversations from a previous post in someone else's unrelated post.
12.) Posts that are greatly off-topic or that advertise irrelevant communities, blogs, products, etc. will be removed. This includes posts that are blatant advertisements thinly disguised as relevant posts.
13.) Requests for donations/money are not allowed.
14.) Posts or comments that contain blatant hate speech will be removed. Individuals who post hate speech will be warned twice, and on the third occasion will be banned. Additionally, the need for everyone to feel respected and supported is more important here than the need for someone to try to be funny by making fun of others, whether directly or indirectly. Comments or posts that serve no purpose but to make fun of others will be treated as hate speech.
15.) Please do not screen or disable comments on any post. Individuals who have screened the comments on their post will be reminded of this rule and given the chance to correct it. Posts with comments disabled will be removed immediately.