national/world - Anti-trans attack ads haven’t won the GOP anything. Dems should stop acting scared.

Katelyn Burns

MSNBC

Mansfield, OH

(birthplace of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH))

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Donald Trump - Schmidt: Trump's 'only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand'

Joe Concha
The Hill

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Parents of transgender six-year-old 'will do anything to make her happy' in spite of their own sense of loss (UK)

Zahra Mulroy
Mirror

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ezs note:  I don't know... maybe it's just me, with transgender stories entering my brain daily, but isn't it possible that these 'heartrending' stories are just a tad bit, *ahem*, melodramatic?  Y'know, just a bit?  Especially when you consider that Christine Jorgensen had her sex reassignment surgery in 1951!!!  Just a thought...

Nobody Should Make Transgender Kid a ‘Poster Child’ for Anything - ZEYNEP TUFEKCI - http://www.wired.com

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