national/world - Meet the first transgender woman to take the title of Miss Valley Isle USA

'A'ali'i Dukelow

KITV

Makawao, HI

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Meet the 13-year-old West Virginian suing to join her school's track team

Jo Yurcaba

NBC News

Charleston, WV

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Meet the influential new player on transgender health bills

Jeff McMillan, Kimberlee Kruesi

ABC

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb

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lead story - Meet the minister fighting anti-transgender bills in Texas

Jo Yurcaba

NBC News

 

Austin, TX

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Indonesia - Meet Hendrika Kelan: Indonesia’s First Ever Transgender Public Officer

Jamie
worldofbuzz.com

Indonesia

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Florida - Transgender community, Central Florida law enforcement meet to build trust after description of slaying victim prompted outrage

Michael Williams
Orlando Sentinel

lead story - Meet The Transgender Troops Racing To Get a ‘Gender Dysphoria’ Diagnosis Before April 12

Samantha Allen
The Daily Beast

Arlington, VA

The Pentagon

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Mongolia - Meet transgender Mongolian beauty queen breaking barriers

Agence-France Presse
The Standard

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe: Gays and Lesbians Meet Zimbabwe's MPs

Robert Tapfumaneyi
All Africa

Harare, Zimbabwe

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Nigeria - Meet Four Known Nigerian Transgenders

Ngere Ify Davies
Within Nigeria

Terracotta bust of likely king, 12th-15th CE

(artist unknown)

Ile-Ife, Nigeria (originally)

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St. Lucia - LGBT group wants its turn to meet with government

Staff
St. Lucia News Online

Castries, St. Lucia

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Kenya - Meet the activists fighting for transgender rights in Kenya

Amy Ashenden
PinkNews

Nairobi, Kenya

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Iowa - Meet the people who helped change gender identity in Iowa's Democratic Party

Christine Hawes
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Lone Tree, Iowa

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Trinidad and Tobago - Human rights groups to meet outside Parliament against 'buggery laws'

Press
looptt

Trinidad and Tobago

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Italy - Gay rights under the spotlight at LBGTI meet in Rome

IANS
The Statesman

Rome, Italy

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FATHER OF DEAD NAVY SEAL FROM ILLINOIS REFUSED TO MEET PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AT CEREMONY

Press
ABC7

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Meet a lifelong Republican joining the protests against US President Donald Trump (Australia)

Terrence McCoy
Stuff

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HRC Members Meet with Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to #turnOUT the Vote

Press
HRC

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ezs note:  Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is one of those brave Republicans who is standing by her transgender son unabashedly in the halls of Congress.  Naturally, you have to look at her whole record, warts and all (who doesn't have them?)  but as far as her transgender record goes, she would put some Democrats to shame.

Meet the transgender grocery store clerk running for the US senate

Press
Gay Star News

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Watch Caitlyn Jenner meet Hillary Clinton for the first time

Anna Merod
MSNBC

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