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» Brockton MA Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Student (2000)
   Positive: A Massachusetts Superior Court ruled that a middle school may not prohibit a transgender student from expressing her gender identity even if that expression does not conform with the sex ascribed to her at birth.
   http://www.glad.org/current/pr-detail/brockton-court-rules-in-favor-of-transgender-student/

» Columbia High Court Restricts Intersex Genital Mutilation (1999)
   Positive: two decisions restricting the ability of parents and doctors to operate on children born with atypical genitals. Press release in English, brief and opinion are in Spanish.
   http://www.isna.org/colombia/index.html

» Couple fights for son, 6, they say is girl at heart
   "A Westerville couple is fighting to regain custody of their 6-year-old boy, whom they said was taken by social workers because they let the child dress and act like he's a girl," a news story from the Columbus Dispatch.
   http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/TSChildCustody.html

» Hernandez-Montiel v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (9th Cir., 2000)
   Positive: A U.S. federal court of appeals finds that a transgendered Mexican woman "had a well-founded fear of future persecution and was entitled to asylum and withholding of deportation."
   http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F3/225/1084/499789/

» Littleton v. Prange (1999)
   Negative: Texas appellate court negates 7-year marriage of Christie Lee Littleton because she was born male-bodied. Site also contains documents related to the litigation.
   http://christielee.net/main1.htm

» Rosa v. Park West Bank (1st Cir., 2000)
   Positive: a federal Court of Appeals found that federal sex discrimination laws applies to an individual who was discriminated against for cross-dressing, and suggested that Ulane is no longer good law.
   http://caselaw.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=1st&navby=case&no=992309

» Schwenk v. Hartford (9th Cir., 2000)
   Positive: a federal Court of Appeals found that discrimination "because one fails to act in the way expected of a man or woman" may violate federal sex discrimination laws.
   http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=9th&navby=case&no=9735870