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The University of Pittsburgh updated its Nondiscrimination Policy in 2008 to include "gender identity and expression." This article looks at the transgender policies of other universities in order to evaluate whether Pitt could be doing more to be an advocate for social equality.

This research paper identifies and describes the state of transgender and how they are surviving in this society. In this world, Pakistan is the second largest Islamic state. Islam has given equal rights to everyone. Through electronic and print media, we found that being an Islamic state; still transgender is neglected by the government and the local society. In general, they are usually associated with dancing, prostitution, and begging. To identify the state of transgender's in district Rawalpindi, a quantitative and qualitative survey has been conducted. A sample of 60 respondents was taken in district Rawalpindi. To dig the hole deeper, existing literature on the topics was thoroughly reviewed. The questionnaire was prepared in the light of research objectives for data collection. Suitability of the questionnaire was examined through its pretesting on the ten respondents Interviewing with questionnaire schedule was used as a tool to collect data. Finally, through SPSS (statically package for social sciences) was used for data analysis.

Abstract
In 2007, a Brazilian federal appeals court ruled that gender affirming care was guaranteed on the basis of the constitutional right to health. This is part of a broader process of the "judicialization" of the right to health in Brazil. In this essay, the author draws on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at a public gender clinic in southern Brazil to consider the experiences of transgender people who accessed surgery through the expanded public services that followed the litigation. The article argues that access to surgery does not, by itself, ameliorate the intersecting forms of vulnerability and exclusion experienced by the people followed by the author. Yet despite the limitations of a focus on surgery, expanded access to care does create possibilities for trans people to engage in diverse forms of self-transformation. The paradigm of access to gender affirming care through right-to-health litigation circumscribes the possibilities for social transformation within a set of biomedical technologies that come to stand for more radical change. Attending to the diverse forms of care and self-governance that trans people themselves labor to enact offers a more productive register for thinking about the socially transformative potential of the judicialization of health in Brazil.

Preface: Crossings -- Donald: Boy to man ; Marriage ; Internet ; Professor dressed ; Clubs ; In the ladies' room ; Boldness ; Epiphany ; Losing a family ; Academic drag ; A day you feel pretty ; Premarin ; Sweet October -- Dee: Outed ; "Welcome" ; The cuckoo's nest ; Hearing? ; Then why are you doing this? ; Chicago ; Changing ; Sister's last ; Professional girl economist ; Farewell speech ; Dutch welcome ; Dutch winter ; Passing ; Yes, ma'am -- Deirdre. Vriendinnetjes ; Women's world ; To make up for God's neglect ; Merry May ; Starting ; Finishing ; A woman on hormone replacement therapy ; Facelift ; This is how we live ; Thou winter wind ; Homeward ; Costs ; Iowa drag ; Professoressa ; Second voice ; Making it up ; Home ; Differences ; Christ's mass 1997 -- Afterword.

Teaching transgender studies is often assumed to fall under the purview of gender and women's studies programs and the GLBT studies programs often nested there where claims have been made on the territories of gender and sexuality. The questions that have long plagued these programs persist: Is our subject matter women and men, gays and lesbians, transgender people? Or is it rather the production of those categories and how they come to matter? What, exactly, is the object of our study, when that object is so often our own subjectivities and a necessarily moving target? Identities are historical artifacts rather than static realities, so to teach identity-based programs is to risk further calcifying the very categories that operate to oppress those of us who live on the margins of them. At the same time, those categories are necessary to our understanding of very real material histories of oppression and resistance; to teach as if identity is mere figment would render invisible the very real legacies of domination that must be understood if they are to be undone.

In response to concerns voiced by Judith Butler and Joan Copjec regarding the possible incompatibility of the discourses of Lacanian psychoanalysis and gender studies, this paper argues that gender studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis can hope for a meeting ground precisely around the topic of ``sexual difference.'' Questions about transgender subjectivities afford a point of entry for thinking through the impasses and political purchase of a necessarily contestatory integration of these two domains; however, imagining this integration requires in part an analysis of each discourse's limitations. This paper suggests that one of the limitations of Lacanian psychoanalysis resides in the too easy capitulation of the terms ``feminine'' and ``masculine'' to ``gendered'' readings. Arguing that Jacques Lacan's formulas of sexuation write against the facile collapse of sexual difference into gender identity, the paper considers what it would look like to conceptualize transgender subjectivity as an expression of the logic of sexual difference, ultimately suggesting there may be a way of reading transgenderism as a ``feminine'' phenomenon. The paper responds to two texts also invested in the integration of Lacanian psychoanalytic and queer/feminist concerns: Judith Butler's Antigone's Claim and Tim Dean's Beyond Sexuality. Dean's project to ``de-gender'' desire offers a reply to Butler's concerns about the compulsory heterosexuality of the Oedipal scene; however, both texts, in their preoccupation with scenes Oedipal and object based, occlude to some extent a ``feminine'' perspective and by extension significant ``feminine''/transgender insights concerning sexual difference.

Dr. Michele Angello und Alisa Bowman geben fundierte Antworten aus ihrer langjährigen Arbeit mit transidenten Kindern und deren Familien. Die liebevollen und praktischen Tipps helfen Eltern dabei, Ängste, Sorgen und Schamgefühle zu verlieren, die Identität ihres Kindes anzunehmen und es auf dem Weg in eine glückliche Zukunft zu begleiten

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the workplace experiences and access to career-enhancing opportunities of transgender employees and to apprise organization leaders of opportunities to create an all-inclusive workplace environment.


Design/methodology/approach
This phenomenological study used semi-structured interviews with transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in the US. Study participants (n = 12) varied slightly in racial and ethnic identities, the highest level of formal education completed and the industry sector they were employed at the time of interviews.


Findings
The data reveals a lingering presence of dominant narrative (cissexism) in US organizations and its adverse impact on workplace experience and access to career-enhancing opportunities of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals. The participants' narratives reveal recommendations for effective organizational practices for a transgender-inclusive workplace.


Research limitations/implications
The challenge of recruiting qualified participants from the marginalized group along with the selection criteria of English proficiency and legally adult age resulted in a relatively limited sample (n = 12) nevertheless adequate for the study.


Practical implications
Results of this study point at the urgent need to increase visibility and acceptance of the represented population and expand workplace diversity policies to create inclusive, just and equitable organizations for all individuals that will translate into job satisfaction and improved productivity.


Social implications
This study contributes to developing a culture of inclusion and prevention of discrimination in the workplace thus ensuring respect, safety and agency for gender minority employees.


Originality/value
This study contributes to a better understanding of workplace experiences, access to career-enhancing opportunities of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals and best practices for a transgender-inclusive workplace.

Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers.

Foreword / by Shannon Minter -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Emerging -- Confessions -- Becoming Phyllis -- Sharing Her Story -- Breaking Barriers -- Into the Streets -- Trans Rebel -- On the March -- Advocating for Others -- The Personal and the Political -- From Protest to Politics -- Radicalized -- Shaping Transgender Law -- Breaking the Barrier -- Stonewalling -- On Capitol Hill -- Judgments -- Transitions -- Back to Battle -- From Law Breaker to Law Enforcer -- Concluding Interview.