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A transgender parent wonders what kind of men her sons will become.

The Civil Rights Movement in America has, unfortunately, never been short of martyrs. Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Dr. King, Vincent Jen Chin, Matthew Shepard... Just a sampling of those who, in dying, helped push America toward greater social acceptance of "others." Add to the list 18 year-old Angie Zapata. A transgender individual, Zapata was born male but identified as female. On July 17, 2008 ...

Two activists argued for expanding hate crime laws at a panel in Sever Hall last night, stressing the current difficulties of navigating the U.S. legal system as a transgender person.

Plain clothes police officers are travelling on buses on Teesside to tackle hate crime against the transgender community.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A New Hampshire Senate committee has voted unanimously to recommend killing legislation extending anti-discrimination protections to transgender people.

A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder and a bias-motivated crime and sentenced to life in prison for killing a transgender teen he met on an online social networking site.

A Colorado man was convicted of first-degree murder and a bias-motivated crime in the slaying of Angie Zapata, a transgender teen he met on an online social networking site. Advocates for the gay and transgender communities say it's a landmark case.

A jury took just two hours to find Allen Andrade guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of an 18-year-old transgender woman, and determined that the act was a hate crime.

A man who claimed he snapped before killing a transgender woman was swiftly convicted of first-degree murder and a hate crime Wednesday for savagely beating the woman with a fire extinguisher.

Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of a Colorado man charged with beating a transgender woman to death with a fire extinguisher.