US and UK Leaders Reject Call to Boycott Sochi while thousands protest in solidarity with LGBT Russians. #NoPussiesNoGames

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It should come as no surprise that both President Obama and now David Cameron, British Prime Minister, have let it be known that while they sympathise with the unrelenting brutal persecution of Russia's LGBT community they are against a boycott of the Russian winter Olympics.

1. David Cameron ‏@David_Cameron17h

   2/2 @stephenfry However, I believe we can better challenge prejudice as we attend, rather than boycotting the Winter Olympics. DC

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2. 1. David Cameron ‏@David_Cameron17h

      1/2 Thank you for your note @stephenfry. I share your deep concern about the abuse of gay people in Russia...

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While it is gratifying that our united efforts have gained these leaders ears it is clearly not enough to have any real meaning in Russia dominated by Putin.

Just days after one bureaucrat said the "gay propaganda" law would be suspended for the Olympics so it would be "safe" for LGBT athletes and visitors Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko  insisted that athletes would "have to respect the laws of the country"  at Sochi meaning the "Gay Propaganda law could be subjectively enforced.

That is exactly why "No Pussies No Games" is petitioning the worlds peoples. We support both a worldwide boycott AND protests at the Sochi Olympics. Politicians more concerned with the number of medals athletes win, not human rights. The Olympic committee is more concerned with the high fees it receives than human rights.

No Pussies No Games: Boycott / Demonstrate at The Russian Winter Olympics

Victory In Taiwan: MTF Trans Couple Abbygail and Jiyi Wu's Marriage is reinstated

In a historic reversal the Taiwanese government has reversed a earlier ruling invalidating this transgender couple's marriage.

The Sun Daily reports: in what was hailed as a "benchmark" ruling, Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday decided that the marriage status of Abbygail Wu, 27, and her 29-year-old partner Jiyi Wu remained legal.

Abbygail graciously gave planetransgender a interview while the couples fate was still unknown. It was her suggestion that the article be titled Can The Taiwanese Gov't Revoke A Marriage With A Letter? It was a wonderful experience for me to learn first hand from these two young people what love means to them and a joy to be in some small way a contributor to what the WSJ described as a important component to this victory.

Abbygail and Jiyi Wu's struggle to love has transcended national boundaries lending their humanity to the realization that trans people worldwide belong together in one community.

While some see this as a leap forward for marriage equality not everyone is so optimistic according to the WSJ

Taiwan’s LGBT rights groups caution that the case does not signal that conservative Taiwan is ready to rewrite its marriage law yet.

“Protection of marriage and the right to marry is part of basic human rights, which means the decision was delayed justice but nothing groundbreaking,” said Chien Chih-chieh, the secretary-general of Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights.

The case, in fact, shows the government is still unwilling to budge from the current regulation that states a marriage can take place only between a man and a woman, she said.

The only silver lining, she said, is that the public and the government seem more willing to discuss the issue, which gives the group hope that a bill on recognizing same-sex marriages they plan to pitch to the legislature in September may meet less resistance.

人一出生，就被賦予性別是男生或女生，但是有一群人，他們無法認同自己的生理性別，長­期不安、痛苦，甚至去做變性手術，這個族群叫作「跨性別者」！接下來，我們要帶您來看­台灣，一對非常特別的「跨性別」伴侶、Abby和小芷的故事！Abby和小芷，兩個人­原本生理上是男生，成年以後，他們都進行了變性手術，就在Abby變更身分證為女性之­後，他們到戶政機關完成結婚登記。當時，身分證件註明，兩個人是一男一女，在法律上沒­有問題。但後來、戶政機關發現，原本登記為男性的小芷，身分證也由男變女！這下子問題­來了，兩個變性人、身分證都成了女性、他們的婚姻還算合法嗎？一場全球罕見的跨性別者­「婚姻保衛戰」，在台灣正式開打！

Men are born, were given gender was male or female, but a group of people, they were unable to identify with their physiological sex, long ­ unease, pain, even for the sex change operation, the group called the "transgender"! Next, we'll take you to see – Taiwan, a very special "cross-gender" companion, Abby He Xiaozhi story! Abby He Xiaozhi, two people ­ was physically to be boys, as adults, they have carried out that operation, after Abby change ­ of identity cards for women, they went to the population administration organ complete marriage registration. At that time, the identity documents indicated, two persons were a man and a woman, no ­ on legal issues. But then, the population administration organs found was originally registered as a male small Zhi, identity card by the MTF! Grabbed the issue ­ came, two transgender people, identity card were all women, their marriage is legal? Rare transgender ­ a global "battle for marriage", in Taiwan officially started!

Peruvian nightclub Gotica Discoteca fined $123,302 and shutdown for discriminating against a transgender woman

Peru nightclub Gotica Discoteca was fined S/370,000 for denying Godfrey Arbulú entrance and later trying to charge her a higher cover than normal. All of this was caught on video and audio which Ms Arbulú successfully used in social media, radio talk shows and Television in a bid to get the government to protect her human rights.

Panamericana Televisión S.A. "Indecopi multó a la discoteca Gótica con 370,000 soles por discriminar a Godfrey Arbulú por su orientación sexual. Además, la empresa deberá emitir una carta pidiendo disculpas por el trato discriminatorio y tendrá que publicar por seis meses un aviso en su página web al igual que un letrero en el local donde indique que ahí se prohíbe toda práctica discriminatoria."

Gotica Discoteca is contesting the ruling has this sign posted above its shuttered doors stating “Gotica Entertainment S.A. informs the public that all discriminatory practices to consumers for any reason, including unjustified distinctions by origin, race, sex, language, religion, opinion, economic status, sexual preference or any other reason are prohibited.”



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Russian Sports Minister tells Obama, LGBT and other human rights advocates to "Just Calm Down"

AP: Urging critics of Russia's new anti-gay law to "calm down," the country's sports minister said Thursday that the rights of all athletes competing at next year's Winter Olympics in Sochi will be respected.

Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko did insist that athletes would "have to respect the laws of the country" during the Feb. 7-23 games in the Black Sea resort in southern Russia.

The law, signed by President Vladimir Putin in June, bans "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" and imposes fines on those holding gay pride rallies.

Mutko said the issue had been blown out of proportion by a groundswell of protest and unease outside Russia.

"I want to ask you to calm down," he said."

36 Pictures of Russian police, orthodox thugs and generic scum "calming down" LGBT people.

Essentially, anyone willing to forgo common human dignity supported by the vast majority of the world are welcome. All others, gays, Lesbians, Transsexuals, Bisexuals, Gender Queer, Intersex, followers of religions other than the Orthodox church, atheists, anyone not belonging to the United Russia political party and migrant workers, shut up, calm down and maybe you won't get you head caved in.

Obama cancelled a summit with Putin in part because of Russia's anti LGBT laws making Obama the first world leader not 'calming down'.



Recently the new civil rights movement wrote about the quandry the IOC faces regarding the human rights records of host countries.

IAAF president is calmed down.

"I don't have the feeling there is a problem whatsoever," IAAF President Lamine Diack said. "There is a law that exists. The law has to be respected. Some things have to be respected. We are here for the world championships."

Pussy Riot in prison for singing a protest song in a Orthodox church and they aren't calmed down. Nether am I. I am outraged and pissed off that any country should treat its minorities so horriably THEN have the adacity to tell those of us outside of its sphere of influance to JUST CALM DOWN.

Want to know what would start calming me down Mr. Mutko? If you freed Pussy Riot and recinded the 'gay propaganda laws and stopped encouraging to beat up my people. Then I would start to calm down,

Untill That happens we will have a Pussy Riot. 

International Olympic Committee Charter

Survival Tip For Trans Sex Workers: Kick Kick Kick, then Back Roll

Fascinating info from a former trans sex worker who now instructs others on how to survive in those seconds when a john suddenly becomes a murderer. These tips could save your life from WNCY news.
OK, lets say I'm giving you head.......

Don Ennis ABC News Icon time as Dawn ends. Oy Vey! oh shit. I've, done that too

"Purging".

Its found at the traumatic tip top of the roller coaster ride of transition when the car slows to a stop and shimmies,  and as our hearts skip a beat and we begin back to the bottom of this ride we call life. Uncontrollably, ever increasing to breakneck speeds we hurdle to the welcoming velvet of denial. Its the moment when some trans people suddenly come to the horrific realization someone we know, a brother, friend, or worst, an employer might have seen us while we made forays en femme.

Its a mindless trashing of every fem article we just spent mad money on. Its a purging of all thoughts of femininity. Its a temporary sense of relief, an incredible peace knowing there is nothing 'wronge' with us.... that gradually weeks and months later it becomes a heightening of feminine sense until one day we start to wonder if there wasn't something we did wrong presenting that garnered so many transphobic glares and snickers. Then its the slow gradual euphoric trip back on the roller coaster to the top of life.

Its knowing that we are trapped in a revolving door because no matter how hard we try to deny Dawn, or Tina or Samantha she still lives inside of our now hyper masculine presentations.

I write about purging as if I have first hand knowledge of it . That's because I did it a few thousand times in the earliest days of my transition. And I'm not ashamed of that, anymore. It doesn't lessen the authenticity of my being rather admitting to it reinforces me.

I'm not saying Don purged. I'm not saying that I don't take what he says about making a mistake at face value. I'm just saying...

Don, the major difference I can seen right now between your experience and mine was that no one knew me. No one.

To everyone who has or is experiencing what Don has, know this. There is nothing to be embarrassed about what you have gone through. And Don, there will be many disparaging articles written and to be frank, your credibility may have taken a hit but that's why I'm writing this article, because if the truth be known,  you will be even more respected now.

Like the Cosmopolitan article which tried to empower us but ultimately couldn't because the author had not experienced transition personally, purging is misunderstood by the cis community by no fault of there own. I hope that Sam reads this.

Trans people can now own "Purging", as it should be, thanks to you Don. Its part of our culture, our physiological makeup, our birth right. We can now come to terms with it publicly. For some of us its a beginning on our road less traveled, or possibly a exit from it, but there is no denying purging is at a intersection of transsexualism.

Then again, some trans people have never experienced a purge. *sigh.

What ever you do Don, live your life authentically.