Staffer suffers ‘minor’ injuries in attack at The LGBT Community Center

An unidentified man attacked San Diego LGBT Community Center Trans Services Coordinator, Connor Maddocks late Tuesday afternoon – reportedly “because he didn’t get what he wanted” asking for a referral to a crisis house. Paramedics attended to Maddocks’ injuries, which were described as minor. Nevertheless, Maddocks was treated at a nearby emergency room. Contrary to…

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God told me not to

The last several weeks have been monumental with respect to the implementation of marriage equality in the United States. As gays and lesbians have celebrated the Supreme Court decision giving us equal marriage rights across the nation, there are those committed to ensuring that it is not universally applied. That is one reason why you…

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HHS proposes regulation to protect transgender people from discrimination in health care

WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights proposed a regulation that provides explicit protections from discrimination on the basis of sex stereotyping and gender identity in healthcare and insurance under the Affordable Care Act.  The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) praised the proposed regulation, as well as the…

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