Immigration officials to start sending transgender women to the middle of Texas

Jorge Rivas
Fusion

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ezs note:  Yes, I do understand what would happen in a perfectly ideal situation.  But I also understand this reality:  It. ain't. gonna. happen.   Conversely, this President has made some good, realistic goals.  Thank you, President Obama!

How The Justice System Fails Trans Women

Hannah Simpson
Refinery29

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Immigrant Transgender Women Experience Harsher Treatment than Other People Once Detained: Report

Michael Oleaga / m.oleaga@latinpost.com
Latin Post

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Probing The Complexities Of Transgender Mental Health

Tara Haelle
NPR

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Young transgender women face mental health risks

Alan Mozes
UPI

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The brutal reality transgender women face under Myanmar's 'darkness law'

Joshua Carroll
Mashable

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ezs note:  If you are visiting Myanmar on business or pleasure, please contact the ambassador and let him/her that you would like to see Section 377 revoked, and unless there is clear evidence of a crime, transgender people will not be harassed. Thanks! 

Danish Girl’s Oscar Loss a Satisfying Win for Trans Women

s. e. smith
yes!

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Two German transgender women 'are stoned in the street' by a gang of three North African teenagers in Dortmund who said 'such people' should be killed (UK)

Tom Wyke 

Daily Mail

Dortmund, Germany

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Discrimination Against Transgender Women Seeking Access to Homeless Shelters

Caitlin Rooney, Laura Durso and Sharita Gruberg
Center for American Progress

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The History of the Khmer Rouge; Transgender Women in Men’s Prisons

Khathayra Um, Kris Schreier Lyseggen and Ashley Diamond
KPFA 94.1

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How Transgender Women Are Training Their Voices to Sound More Feminine

Angela Chen
Smithsonian

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Banner disparaging transgender women hung by Lehigh students

Nick Falsone
lehighvalleylive

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Argentina: Transgender women suffer spate of murders as country introduces laws recognising LGBT rights (UK)

David Usborne
The Independent

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A Brief History Of Memoirs By Trans Women: Lives Beyond Our Identities

Meredith Talusan
Buzzfeed

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Outcry over the killing of three transgender women in Argentina (Singapore)

Press
Today

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ezs note:  Word came from Buenos Aires, Argentina the sad news that three transgender women were murdered.  The most recent one was Diana Sacayan. Whether you live in Buenos Aires or travel there, please contact the Buenos Aires police immediately!!!

Rest in peace, Diana...

MSU sorority opens doors to transgender women

Claudette Riley
Springfield News-Leader

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Transgender Women's Lives: A Family Matter

Laurin Mayeno
The Huffington Post

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Trans Scripts at Edinburgh festival review – six timely stories from transgender women (UK)

Lyn Gardner

The Guardian

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Living their truth: Transgender women talk about the road to acceptance

Roger DuPuis
Times Leader

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A Study in Sexism: What Happens When Trans Women Lose Their Male Privilege

Lane Florsheim
Marie Claire

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