A Colorado SWAT team coordinator made history by becoming what is believed to be the first transgender woman accept into the FBI National Academy, an elite and intense training course in Quantico, Va.
A transgender woman missed her flight after the TSA forced her to undergo questioning and a 40-minute search after an “anomaly” during her full-body scan calibrated for a woman.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com NSA officers did nothing wrong when they shot and killed a transgender woman outside of a security gate at the entrance of the agency in Fort Meade, Md., the Washington Post reports. The Maryland U.S. attorney’s office said no evidence of a crime agains the officers were was found. “Federal prosecutors…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Transgender people are disproportionately harmed by violence – so much so that the Justice Department is training law enforcement how to handle them as crime victims. The idea is to help identify hate crimes and build more trust with law enforcement, the Associated Press reports. “It’s clear that such a training is as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A woman who was denied a job after ATF officials discovered she was transgender won a lawsuit this week in which she claimed she was the victim of unlawful discrimination, the Transgender Law Center reports. Mia Macy, an experienced police detective who has worked with the ATF on ballistics, said she was…
