Extensive and reliable information on discrimination, hate violence, criminal law, Congress, other issues.

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.

Research project highlighting homicides of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender victims in Minnesota and its border cities.

Contact information, application, and member list for the nonprofit professional organization of judges, attorneys, law students, and affiliated law workers.

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.

"A Westerville couple is fighting to regain custody of their 6-year-old boy, whom they said was taken by social workers because they let the child dress and act like he's a girl," a news story from the Columbus Dispatch. <small>(August 26, 2000)</small>

Summary of existing case law in the U.S., including employment discrimination, parental issues, marriage, immigration, and prison issues; authored by Shannon Minter, senior staff attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Australia-based site with a wide range of topics, many of interest to US users.

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."

Provides services which includes counseling and legal assistance to LGBT youth.