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- 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.
www.glad.org/press29-10-12-00.html
- 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.
www.isna.org/colombia/index.html
- Couple fights for son, 6, they say is girl at heart - "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.
www.dispatch.com/news/newsfea00/aug00/398425.html
- 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."
www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/newopinions.nsf/4bc2cbe0ce5be94e88256927007a37b9/bbde9214ab1c855488256945005f260a?OpenDocument
- In Re Robert Henry McIntyre (1998) - Positive: Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns lower court decision requiring a transsexual women to have surgery before legal name change.
www.dpg-law.com/opinions/pa-suprm/1998-07/0569-mcintyre.html
- 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.
christielee.net/main1.htm
- Maffei v. Kolaeton Industries, Inc. (1995) - Positive: a state court in New York City finds that the New York City Human Right Law's prohibition against "gender" discrimination applies to a transsexual man.
www.nyagra.org/maffei.htm
- 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.
caselaw.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=1st&navby=case&no=992309
- 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.
www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/newopinions.nsf/4bc2cbe0ce5be94e88256927007a37b9/942e6471f039ce3888256927007a7330?OpenDocument
- Ulane v. Eastern Airlines (7th. Cir., 1984) - Negative: a federal Court of Appeals ruled a transsexual woman was not discriminated against "because she is female, but because Ulane is a transsexual." Upheld by the Supreme Court.
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/polisci/pcurrah/genderlaw/ulane.htm
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