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1. Brockton MA Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Student (2000)

Positive: A Massachusetts Superior Court ruled that a middle school may not prohibit a transgender student from expressing her gender identity even if that expression does not conform with the sex ascribed to her at birth.

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2. Columbia High Court Restricts Intersex Genital Mutilation (1999)

Positive: two decisions restricting the ability of parents and doctors to operate on children born with atypical genitals. Press release in English, brief and opinion are in Spanish.

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3. Desperately Seeking Arlette (and the Precedent She Set)

a court actually recognized a legal change of gender for a post-op transsexual as early as 1945 and that the court specifically rejected an effort to prohibit that transsexual from marrying as a member of her post-transition gender?

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4. Goodridge v. Department of Public Health [MA]

A dissusion of how the Massachusetts high court ended government discrimination against same-sex couples in marriage

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5. Hernandez-Montiel v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (9th Cir., 2000)

Positive: A U.S. federal court of appeals finds that a transgendered Mexican woman "had a well-founded fear of future persecution and was entitled to asylum and withholding of deportation."

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6. Littleton v. Prange (1999)

Negative: Texas appellate court negates 7-year marriage of Christie Lee Littleton because she was born male-bodied. Site also contains documents related to the litigation.

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7. Louisiana and the FGTRA of 1949

THE PROOF IS IN THE HISTORY: THE LOUISIANA CONSTITUTION RECOGNISES TRANSSEXUAL MARRIAGES AND LOUISIANA SEX DISCRIMINATION LAW COVERS TRANSSEXUALS SO WHY ISNT EVERYBODY CELEBRATING?

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8. Ontario Trans Strip-Search Decision

The human rights tribunal of Ontario Decision of May 16 2006

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9. Rosa v. Park West Bank (1st Cir., 2000)

Positive: a federal Court of Appeals found that federal sex discrimination laws applies to an individual who was discriminated against for cross-dressing, and suggested that Ulane is no longer good law.

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10. Schwenk v. Hartford (9th Cir., 2000)

Positive: a federal Court of Appeals found that discrimination "because one fails to act in the way expected of a man or woman" may violate federal sex discrimination laws.

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