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15 January 2017

In a Small Texas Town, a New Private Detention Center for Transgender Migrants Brings Jobs — and Concerns

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Reynaldo Leanos Jr. Towleroad Credit: https://inmateaid.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/prison_photo/image/5128/web_Prairieland_Detention...

Meet Gloria Allen, Trans Icon Who Led Charm School for Transgender Youth of Color

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Allison Keyes The Root Gloria Allen Credit: http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/images/publications/wct/2015-02-25/GloriaAllen2...

14 January 2017

Republican lawmaker blocks anti-transgender bill in Indiana

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Erin Rook LGBTQ Nation Credit: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/bender-applause_medium.gif please press: ...

Civil rights advocates say they fear changes from a Trump presidency

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Gloria Casas Chicago Tribune Credit: https://rampages.us/kiflaivk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2311/2014/09/r-ILLEGAL-IMMIGRANTS-TUITI...

Attorney General seeks to expand hate crime definition

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Jennifer Holliday pulls out of Trump inauguration to 'stand with the LGBT community' (Canada)

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Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada

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13 January 2017

Del. Marshall should stay out of bathroom issues

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Sara Queen The Washington Post Credit: http://employerlinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/EEOC-transgender-bathroom_EmployerLINC.j...

Hagerstown man acquitted in slaying of transgender sister of NBA player

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Press Herald-Mail Media Mia Henderson Credit: https://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/tongue.jpg?quality=65&str...

Transgender veteran fears for safety if forced to use men’s bathroom

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Gigi Barnett KXAN Sierra Davis Credit: https://mgtvwcmh.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/sierra-davis.jpg?w=650 please press: ...

Remembering Transgender Victims of Violence in the US

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Ryan Thoreson Human Rights Watch Credit: http://nonbinary.org/w/images/thumb/c/ca/2spiritflag.jpg/300px-2spiritflag.jpg please...

Mistrial Declared in Death of Transgender Woman

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12 January 2017

Document Claims Russia Has Donald Trump ‘Kompromat.’ What Is That?

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Olivia B. Waxman TIME Credit: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hy8XpxcItt0/hqdefault.jpg please press: http://time.com

Justin Trudeau has promised to house trans inmates based on gender identity (UK)

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Meka Beresford Pink News Justin Trudeau Credit: http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2015/11/8/3816d27300bd4e90a4444eedc2ec...

ACLU wants to review tapes of officer fatally shooting transgender person

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‘When We Rise’ star Ivory Aquino comes out as transgender

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Jeff Taylor LGBTQ Nation Ivory Aquino Credit: http://eclipsemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/IvoryAquino-1-400x321.jpg ...

Some of the world’s least progressive countries recognize transgender citizens. The US does not

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Anaya Bhattacharya Quartz Credit: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/slideshow/4614369547_8b23315a90_b_1_sli...

11 January 2017

Donald Trump vs. CNN. Again.

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Callum Borchers The Washington Post Credit: http://i1.wp.com/eveningharold.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/kid-trump-Copy.png p...

This woman is helping trans sex workers fight against discrimination in Singapore (UK)

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Chelsea Manning Is Reportedly On Obama’s Commutation Short List

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Sara Morrison vocativ Chelsea Manning (drawing) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/C_Manning_Fi...

New report finds California schools remain hostile for many LGBTQ secondary students

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Transgender 'bathroom bills' are a Kafkaesque state intrusion – and Republicans should oppose them (UK)

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Rachel Cunliffe The Telegraph Credit: https://media.giphy.com/media/derdhOiGBtMDC/giphy.gif please press: http://www.telegra...

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10 January 2017

This new poll has all kinds of bad news for Donald Trump

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Aaron Blake The Washington Post Credit: http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151229111157-donald-trump-good-looking-super-169....

Mass. author Rick Riordan snubs Texas over transgender bill

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Amy B. Wang The Boston Globe Rick Riordan Credit: http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/olympians/images/d/d6/Rick_Riordan.jpg/r...

Suspect in death of transgender woman charged with murder

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Local activist plans to take on school district's transgender accommodations

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Transgender Health Training Lags for Endocrinologists

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Transgender Women Fear Abuse in Immigration Detention

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Fernanda Santos The New York Times Credit: http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/images/2014-06/Zoraida%20R...

Frome, Somerset, UK

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06 January 2017

NINE WAYS TO OPPOSE DONALD TRUMP

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Jeffrey Tambor Had To Overcome Serious Nerves For ‘Transparent’ Role

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JamesMichael Nichols The Huffington Post Jeffrey Tambor Credit: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzQxMzA3N...

California funds 1st US inmate sex reassignment surgery

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Transgender Community Faces 'Attacks on Humanity' in Six More States

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Coroner releases official cause of death for transgender woman killed in Madison Co.

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Waverly McCarthy and Mary Grace Brantley WDAM Credit: https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/article_small/public/t...

05 January 2017

Donald Trump has no interest in the Fourth Amendment

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Best-selling author says she is “attacked” for being straight and white

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Nation’s first transgender killing of 2017 is in Mississippi

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Transgender Totowa Man Sues Hospital For Denying Hysterectomy

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Cecelia Levine Teaneck Daily Voice Totowa, New Jersey Credit: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/55/7b/38/557b3840df7bd0...

Transgender woman found dead in cell at Doncaster prison (UK)

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Josh Halliday The Guardian Credit: https://prisonwatchuk.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-30-at-21-28-02.png?w=601...

04 January 2017

Virginia GOP Targets Transgender Community in HB2-Style Bill

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Why Is It So Hard For Transgender Americans To Find Work?

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Adam Salandra newnownext Credit: https://fusiondotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/awjr_reported-workplace-harassment-by-transgender...

03 January 2017

Donald Trump’s Disastrous Example

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Frank Bruni The New York Times Credit: https://i0.wp.com/ultraculture.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/donald-trump-acid.jpg?fit=740...

Transgender journalist announces run for Virginia House of Delegates

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Lambda Legal holds transgender empowerment and passport clinic

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Transgender advocates ready to fight another bathroom bill

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Chinese transgender man wins landmark wrongful dismissal case

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02 January 2017

Bruce Springsteen Questions Donald Trump's Competency on 'WTF'

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