Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• APNewsBreak: Unisex Easy-Bake oven on the way

  December 17, 2012 in Nation/World PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Hasbro says it will soon reveal a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven after meeting with a New Jersey girl who started a campaign calling on the toy maker …

• Transgender college hoops player keeps head high

  December 14, 2012 in Nation/World SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The women’s basketball team at Mission College expected the bleachers to be full and the hecklers ready when its newest player made her home court …

• Transgender college hoops player keeps head high

  December 13, 2012 in Nation/World SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The women’s basketball team at Mission College expected the bleachers to be full and the hecklers ready when its newest player made her home court …

• NJ girl to meet with Easy-Bake team at Hasbro

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A New Jersey girl who started a campaign calling for an Easy-Bake Oven in gender-neutral colors is planning to meet with the people who design it. … 1

• U. Iowa adds optional LGBT question to application

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa has become the nation’s first public university to include optional questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on its application, a …

• Calif. city plans to provide transgender surgeries

  November 8, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is preparing to become the first U.S. city to provide and cover the cost of sex reassignment surgeries for uninsured transgender residents. The city’s …

• Texas district expands corporal punishment policy

  September 26, 2012 SPRINGTOWN, Texas (AP) — Like many schools in Texas, “spare the rod and spoil the child” might be considered the motto at Springtown High School. But when two teenage girls …

• AP Exclusive: Mass. inmate lauds sex-change ruling

  September 18, 2012 BOSTON (AP) — A convicted murderer in Massachusetts says a judge’s decision to grant her request for sex-reassignment surgery is “the right thing to do.” U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf …

• Some notable rulings on transgender people

  September 6, 2012 in Health Some court rulings in recent years on transgender people’s access to gender-related medical care: — In 2010, the U.S. Tax Court found that the costs of female hormones and sex-reassignment …

• Transgender-inmate ruling is movement’s latest win

  September 6, 2012 in Health Years ago, in a darkened parking lot in the middle of the night, Kathy Padilla would meet with fellow transgender people who sought support from one another in a society …

• Some notable rulings on transgender people

  September 5, 2012 in Health Some court rulings in recent years on transgender people’s access to gender-related medical care: — In 2010, the U.S. Tax Court found that the costs of female hormones and sex-reassignment …

• Transgender-inmate ruling is movement’s latest win

  September 5, 2012 in Health Years ago, in a darkened parking lot in the middle of the night, Kathy Padilla would meet with fellow transgender people who sought support from one another in a society …

• Mass. inmate sex-change ruling praised, condemned

  September 4, 2012 BOSTON (AP) — A ruling ordering Massachusetts prison officials to provide sex-reassignment surgery to an inmate is being praised by advocates as important recognition that the surgery is a legitimate …

• Judge: Mass. must pay for killer’s sex change

  September 4, 2012 BOSTON (AP) — State prison officials must provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder, because it is the only way to treat her …

• Judge grants sex change for Mass. murder convict

  September 4, 2012 BOSTON (AP) — State prison officials must provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder, because it is the only way to treat her …

• Judge orders sex change for Mass. murder convict

  September 4, 2012 BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder. U.S. District … 1