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The Human Rights Campaign has weighed in on the trans-exclusionary 'womyn born womyn' intention of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and festival organizers may not like what the national group has to say.

The transgender community is celebrating a small victory today after the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation made the announcement that they have agreed to allow transgender individuals to identify themselves more accurately on forms supplied by the state agency.

An Indiana hospital has made changes such as mandatory training on gender identity after an incident in which a transgender patient said she was mocked and denied treatment at the emergency room. Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie has been working with equality groups to improve services, and mistreated patient Erin Vaughn is happy with the developments.

Target shareholders are demanding that the company reform its donation policies to avoid a repeat of the controversial $150,000 donation it made to MN Forward, which supports antigay gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. Additionally, the New York State pension fund holds 3.8 million Target shares, and New York comptroller Thomas DiNapoli agrees that the company should have been more careful in considering the political implications of such a donation.

From the Carolinas to Oregon to the interwebs, sexism and homophobia run rampant.

Following criticism that they were hostile to a prospective transgender student, Massachusetts's Smith College will form a committee to change their policies on trans women.

A lesbian high school couple in Champlin, Minn., were told that they cannot walk into a school dance together after Anoka-Hennepin school district administrators changed rules to make students walk in one at a time instead of in pairs.

The Dallas Independent School District is set to hold a final vote on an anti-bullying policy, with protections specifically against bullying for LGBT students, that started in response to the recent gay teen suicides around the country. The board of trustees is scheduled to vote on Thursday November 18th, and if they vote passes, it will be the first policy in Texas to include sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Hundreds protest Montana school district's new sex-ed policies.

The community has rallied around the couple.

With the Boy Scouts of America set to vote on Thursday over whether it can allow openly gay scouts, several op-eds on the subject are getting attention.

Students at Brigham Young University who posted an "It Gets Better" video recently, have not violated the school's honor code, which condemns homosexuality, a spokeswoman for the school says.