12/23/2012 04:57
Happy Holidays or is it? Whether you’re ready or not it’s here. Unfortunately at this time of year we should remember those in the transgender community that can’t go home for the holidays. I remember living in Atlanta in the late...
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12/18/2012 16:51
I may be the lone liberal on this issue and have debated even mentioning my opinion to family, friends or here, where I stand. Yes, what happened at the elementary school in CT., was extremely troubling and sad. Since then I have tried to avoid the...
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12/04/2012 22:48
We’ve all been told that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In our modern world now one may also add, if you have the money you can have the looks, when you don’t the results can be deadly. Many Transpeople’s in the beginning of their transition are eager...
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12/04/2012 00:09
In a new report, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Task Force on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder calls for specific guidelines to help determine the best course of treatment for transgender patients. The report notes that although the APA introduced the diagnosis of Gender...
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12/03/2012 01:47
Police in Virginia are searching for a transgender teen who has been missing for more than a week.
Dashad Smith, 19, also known as Sage, Sagey and Unique, was last seen Nov. 20, in the 500 block of West Main Street in Charlottesville. Smith was last seen wearing a black...
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12/03/2012 01:21
Two years ago, smugglers buried a woman named Joselyn in Matamoros, a Mexican border city that attracts immigrants waiting to cross into the United States. Several men encased her body in dirt, covered her face with leaves and told her to wait until Border Patrol agents had disappeared to dig...
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12/02/2012 02:51
Gary Niles Montgomery, the Washington man accused of killing Deoni Jones, a transgender woman, at a Northeast bus stop in February will go to trial in June 2013. The 55 year old Montgomery was indited Nov 9 for first degree murder while armed and fatally stabbing Deoni...
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11/27/2012 22:30
President Barack Obama and Transgender Rights: The Real Deal
Toni Newman
Writer, law school student, and author, 'I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman'
President Barack Obama, the first African-American president, has been progressive in advancing the rights of...
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11/27/2012 21:48
A Canadian Press report on today’s Bill C-279 hearing:
Jennifer Ditchburn
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have declared themselves strong advocates for gay rights worldwide, but the prime minister’s caucus is divided over a bill that would recognize...
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11/27/2012 17:53
Nashua Patch:
House Majority Leader Pete Silva, R-Nashua, is calling on newly elected State Rep. Stacie Laughton, D-Nashua, to resign her post after "not coming clean" with constituents about her past conviction for credit card fraud, for which she served four months in Belknap County House...