lead story - New Zealand Weightlifter Will Be The First Openly Trans Competitor At The Olympics

Laurel Wamsley

NPR

Wellington, New Zealand

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New Zealand - New Zealand rugby grapples with transgender debate

Greg Stutchbury
Reuters

Wellington, New Zealand

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Donald Trump - Burnett: Trump embraced same word as suspected shooter (video)

Erin Burnett
CNN

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New Zealand - Should New Zealand drop gender for birth certificates, licences?

Zane Small
Newshub (NZ)

Wellington, New Zealand

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New Zealand - Growing up trans in regional New Zealand

Andre Chumko
stuff.co.nz

Kawerau, New Zealand

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New Zealand - The impossibility of being transgender in New Zealand

Felix Desmarais
stuff

Wellington, New Zealand

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New Zealand - New Zealand’s only gender surgeon not performing sex-change surgeries

Sarah Harris
South China Morning Post

Emerald Lakes, New Zealand

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New Zealand - Pacific dance show pushes cultural boundaries

Sela Jane Hopgood
RNZ

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Donald Trump is 'furious' with Ivanka for Roy Moore comment (New Zealand)

Valerie Edwards
New Zealand Herald

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ezs note: If you plan on being in Washington DC anytime between December 6 through the 9th, perhaps it would be a good idea to be here.

Transgender woman selected for New Zealand weightlifting team (New Zealand)

Stephen Foote
Newshub

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Scathing Donald Trump poem wins New Zealand competition (New Zealand)

Hamish McNeilly
www.stuff.co.nz

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Tom Arnold has a tape of Donald Trump 'saying every offensive, racist thing ever' (New Zealand)

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nzherald.co.nz

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ezs note:  No!  Not sweet, loving Donald! It can't be!

Curt Schilling reportedly to host conservative radio show on Breitbart network (New Zealand)

Press
Sportal

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ezs note:  Wow... The Breitbart Times... isn't that just one step next to the rag the Ku Klux Klan puts out?

But hey, you go with that, Curt.  You go.

Shortland Street transgender star helps foil schoolboy bully (New Zealand)

Russell Blackstock
nzherald.co.nz

Shortland Street cast

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Wentworth star learns about transgender (New Zealand)

Shaun Bamber
stuff.co.nz

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Transgender activist would swap honour for law change (New Zealand)

Staff
Newshub

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Auckland Grammar responds to gay and transgender students' concerns (New Zealand)

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Taranaki mum learns her child is transgender via Facebook (New Zealand)

Taryn Utiger
Taranaki Daily News

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Beauty queen axed for being transgender (New Zealand)

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nzherald.co.nz

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Transgender community demand answers following alleged prison rape (New Zealand)

Press
one news now

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