The Nashua Telegraph reports that Stacie Laughton, a Democrat, beat out two Republican candidates for one of three seats in the state's House of Representatives in Ward 4. In the interview, Laughton told the Telegraph's Joseph G. Cote that she hopes her victory will inspire other lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) candidates in both local and national politics.

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden said transgender discrimination is "the civil rights issue of our time" during a visit to a Florida field office on Tuesday, according to pool reports.

Biden was meeting with volunteers at an Obama for America office in Sarasota, Fla., when he singled out one woman "who he thought had beautiful eyes," reads the pool report. The woman said something to Biden that was inaudible to the pool reporter, but Biden responded to her by saying it was the "civil rights issue of our time."

WASHINGTON – In a landmark ruling, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced late Monday that Title VII, the federal sex-discrimination law, protects employees who are discriminated against because they are transgender.

In its unprecedented 5-0 decision, the EEOC concluded that “intentional discrimination against a transgender individual because that person is transgender is, by definition, discrimination ‘based on … sex’ and such discrimination … violates Title VII.”

NEW YORK -- The Miss Universe Organization is close to finalizing an official policy change that will allow women who are transgender to participate in its beauty competitions, according to GLAAD and the pageant competition owned by Donald Trump.

GLAAD first contacted the Miss Universe Organization on Saturday, March 24, after news broke that transgender contestant Jenna Talackova was disqualified from the Miss Universe Canada competition. GLAAD called on the Miss Universe Organization to review Jenna's case, as well as open the competition to transgender women.