lead story - Crowdfunding platform suspends campaign to distribute 'deceitful' school resources on transgender young people

Yas Necati
Independent

London, UK

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VIDEO - How Democracies Die - Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

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Zanesville, Ohio

estimated transgender population:  148*
(rounded up)

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ezs note:  Well, do you like bridges?  In particular, old bridges?  Zanesville, Ohio has the only Y-bridge extant from its original building at the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum rivers.  Come on... it's worth at least a crossing!

*Credit:  http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/How-Many-Adults-Identify-as-Transgender-in-the-United-States.pdf

Donald Trump - Trump applying 19th-century remedies to 21st-century problems

Menzie Chinn
The Hill

Doctor Trump's excellent medicine

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Hong Kong - In Hong Kong, Gay People Prescribed Prayers And No Sex As ‘Cure’

Beh Leh Yi
HuffPost

"doctors" working hard on a "cure"

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civil rights - ACLU: Some R.I. school districts slow in implementing transgender protection policies

Linda Borg
Providence Journal

Westerly, RI

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Alabama - Alabama's 'political punching bags': Campaign rhetoric concerns LGBTQ community

Brian Lyman
Montgomery Advertiser

Uh... need I say more?

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lead story - Repeal of transgender protections unlikely

Maeve Duggan
CommonWealth

eastern end of Mass Pike

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Donald Trump - LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats

Tim Mak
NPR

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Germany - Celebrating Magnus Hirschfeld, the Einstein of Sex

Paul Masterson
Shepherd Express

Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935)

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civil rights - To transgender high school graduates, a note of hope and gratitude

Rex Huppke
Chicago Tribune

Chicago, IL

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Rhode Island - Rev. Anderson of RI State Council of Churches Is Transgender

Scott Mackay
RI NPR

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lead story - Chile transgender: 'Growing up here is torture'

Jane Chambers
BBC News

Santiago, Chile (bicentennial celebration)

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Donald Trump - Trump’s not a liar. He’s a madman.

Dana Milbank
The Washington Post

OR

Any questions?

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and

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Donald_Trump_official_portrait.jpg

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Italy - Italian Parliament deputy speaker meets LGBT delegation

Press
Business Standard

Palazzo Parlamento, Rome

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civil rights - WSW: Director Of National Transgender Rights Group Says "The Law Is On Our Side"

Gordon Evans
WMUK

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Wyoming - EWC kills transgender policy proposals

Andrew D. Brosig
Gillette News Record

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lead story - Transgender migrant from Honduras dies in U.S. custody

Annie Rose Ramos
NBC

BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS, DONALD.

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Donald Trump - RETIRED GENERAL SLAMS TRUMP: THERE'S NOTHING 'HAPPY' ABOUT MEMORIAL DAY

Shane Croucher
Newsweek

Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington, VA

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Sri Lanka - Freedom of Expression on the decline in Sri Lanka

Ruki Fernando
Groundviews

Buddha of Avukana, Sri Lanka

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civil rights - MCRC: Discrimination against LGBTQ people is prohibited under Elliott-Larson

Tracy Samilton
Michigan Radio

Dwarf lake iris (Michigan state flower)

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Oklahoma - Oklahoma City LGBTQ had warned cops about restaurant shooter

Jason Rhode
Georgia Voice

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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