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31 March 2018

Donald Trump - Trump lashes out after California Gov. Jerry Brown pardons 5 immigrants under threat of deportation

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Jennifer Hansler CNN Credit: http://www.viikonloppu.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/d2.jpg?x44988 please press: www.cnn.com ...

Malawi - Chief declares Nkhatabay free LGBTI zone

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Luke Bisani Malawi 24 Credit: http://manskligsakerhet.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/16356020316_6fcf87986c_b.jpg please press:...

civil rights- Top Justice Dept lawyer leaving for LGBT rights group

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Jacqueline Thomsen The Hill Credit: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqTlOzlt052gP0h8vKFHfRVzL_2HjS-80T5...

Michigan - Author discusses intersection between race and transgender identities

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Rachel Cunningham The Michigan Daily University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Credit: https://www.aaihs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/0...

Summit County’s SWAT leader to be first transgender woman sent to prestigious FBI National Academy

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Jack Queen The Denver Post Credit: http://images.14ymedio.com/internacional/FBI-terrorismo-EE-UU-EFE_CYMIMA20160924_0004_16.jpg ...

Miami, Florida

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estimated transgender population: 2631* (rounded up) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Miami_collage_201...

30 March 2018

29 March 2018

South Africa - How to report hate crime anonymously in SA

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Petru Saal Times Live Credit: https://images.alphacoders.com/475/475526.jpg please press: www.timeslive.co.za

civil rights - Wiener bill expands civil rights for trans prisoners

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Alex Madison The Bay Area Reporter Credit: https://psychologybenefits.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/blog-trans-prison2.jpg pleas...

Alaska - Proposition 1 is discriminatory and would hurt Alaska tourism

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Suzanne Rust Anchorage Daily News Anchorage, AK Credit: https://avmag.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/picture-7.jpg please p...

Is Massachusetts the next transgender rights battleground?

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Lauren Dezenski Politico Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Map_of_Massachusetts_NA.png please press:...

28 March 2018

Forget Facebook—Donald Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon

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Alison Griswold Quartz Credit: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2a/a6/d1/2aa6d1a645a19590c6dd6099f14b1a48.jpg please press: qz....

El Salvador - Transgender activist runs in El Salvador national elections

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Michael K. Lavers Washington Blade The torogoz, El Salvador's national bird please press: www.washingtonblade.com

civil rights - ACLU Indiana plans transgender rights Facebook Live event

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Rob Burgess Indiana Lawyer.com Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Ask_Me_Anything.jpg please press: ...

Vermont - April 12 deadline for LGBTQ grants

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Press Stowe Reporter Credit: http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/grant_money.jpg please press: www.stoweto...

‘It felt so good’: On Day of Visibility, older transgender women look back

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Nancy Fowler St. Louis Public Radio Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Stacked_-_small.jpg please pre...

27 March 2018

These farmers voted for Donald Trump. But now they fear a trade war with China will ruin them

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Andrew Buncombe Independent Soybean crop, Abbeville Co., SC Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Soybea...

Sweden - Sweden to pay compensation to trans victims of forced sterilisation

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Matt Moore Gay Times Malmö, Sweden please press: www.gaytimes.co.uk

civil rights - Trump's transgender military ban 'worse than don't ask, don't tell,' advocates say

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Julie Moreau NBC Credit: https://i.redd.it/83vo556eih1z.png please press: www.nbcnews.com

Iowa - Republican senator opposes Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military

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Zack Ford ThinkProgress Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Joni_Ernst_Official...

Transgender Air Force Officer On Trump's Ban And His Supportive Fellow Troops

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Ari Shapiro, Noah Caldwell NPR Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Defense.gov_News_Photo_000421-F-8705R-0...

26 March 2018

Donald Trump - Stormy Daniels's Oh-So-Familiar Story

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Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic Credit: http://media.nj.com/new_jersey_opinion/photo/dt-bozojpg-98b8b9a864e88a59.jpg please press: ...

UK - Miss Transgender UK hoping to inspire and support LGBT people in the community

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Simon Leonard Scunthorpe Telegraph Scunthorpe, UK Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Church_Square%2C...

civil rights -- Lambda Legal, OutServe-SLDN Urge District Court to Block Transgender Military Ban

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Press Windy City Times US Federal District Court, Seattle Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/U.S._Cou...

Georgia - Legal experts: Hate crimes bill under consideration will cover transgender people

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Patrick Saunders Georgia Voice Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Georgia_population_map.png please p...

'The Mermaid Hour' explores ups and downs of parenting a transgender child

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Ben Waterhouse The Oregonian Credit: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/7c/6f/9e7c6f110538766c674511d20f0490fb.jpg please press...

25 March 2018

Donald Trump - Stormy Daniels to tell her story of Trump 'affair' on CBS

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Press BBC ♬ Ev'ryone knows it's Stormy... ♪ Credit: http://skopje24.mk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/73571099.jpg plea...

Kenya - Kenyan court rules forced anal exams unlawful

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Tom Odula The Philadelphia Tribune Statue of Dedan Kimathi (Nairobi, Kenya) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com...

civil rights - DeVos Finally Agrees Federal Dollars Shouldn’t Fund LGBTQ Discrimination In Schools

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Rebecca Klein HuffPost Credit: https://processpositive.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/img_1750.jpg please press: www.huffingtonp...

New Jersey - PFLAG in NJ celebrates 45 years uniting LGBTQ, families and allies

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Cheryl Makin myCentralJersey.com Shrewsbury, New Jersey Credit: http://christchurchshrewsbury.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2...

IS TRUMP’S NEW TRANSGENDER TROOP BAN ALREADY DEAD ON ARRIVAL?

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Emma Stefansky Vanity Fair Credit: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/DeadOnArrivalLogo_Sidebar1.png please press: www.vanityf...

24 March 2018

Donald Trump - Stormy Daniels Is Beating Donald Trump at His Own Game

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Cristian Farias New York Credit: https://www.amon-hen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/tt180119.gif please press: nymag.com

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

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Sarah Harris South China Morning Post Emerald Lakes, New Zealand Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/E...

civil rights - Latest Version of Trump Transgender Service Ban Still Unconscionable and Unconstitutional

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Vanita Gupta The Leadership Conference Kristin Beck Credit: http://www.socialsciencespace.com/wp-content/uploads/Kristin-Beck....

Texas - SAN ANTONIO MAN WHO PUSHED TRANS WOMAN INTO RIVER WON'T BE TRIED FOR HER DEATH

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Kashmira Gander Newsweek Credit: http://www.studiobriefing.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/anonymous9.jpg please press: www.n...

In a first, transgender person becomes news anchor in Pakistan

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Press The Express Tribune Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Badsha...

Boonville, North Carolina

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estimated transgender population: 7* (rounded up) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Boonville%2C_NC_poli...

23 March 2018

Peru - ‘Blasphemous’ art installation celebrates the LGBT community

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Frances Jenner Peru Reports Credit: http://wizbangblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Muhammad-looks-in-mirror.jpg please press...

civil rights - Oklahoma transgender employee seeks reinstatement

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Charlie Plumb EmployerLINC Credit: http://www.californialaborlawattorney.com/files/2014/07/equal-opportunity.jpg please press: ...

New Hampshire - Applying Classroom Lessons to Fight Discrimination

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Press Keene State College Keene State College Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Keene_State_College%...

BETSY DEVOS IS A DANGER TO TRANSGENDER CHILDREN

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Vanessa Ford Newsweek Credit: https://www.laprogressive.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-07-at-7.49.06-PM.png ...

22 March 2018

Donald Trump - “NOW I’M F---ING DOING IT MY WAY”: JUBILANT AND SELF-LIBERATED, THE PRESIDENT PREPARES FOR WAR WITH MUELLER

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Gabriel Sherman Vanity Fair Credit: https://www.blog.jimr.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/bd160306-701x526.jpg please press: ...

Japan - LGBT pioneer calls for strategy to spread message

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Ayako Hirayama Japan Times neighborhood in Tokyo Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Yanaka_Ginza_Stre...

Carson: Some 'not comfortable' with transgender people in homeless shelters

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Rebecca Savaransky The Hill Obviously, 'a danger to society'... Credit: https://www.sott.net/image/s22/454212/full/rou...

Tennessee - Transgender Bathroom Bill Is Back

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