lead story - For 20 Years, Law & Order: SVU Has Given a Voice to a Silenced Transgender Community

Lake Schatz
Consequence Of Sound

Law & Order:  SVU

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civil rights - N.J. Transgender Students Get Rules on Restroom, Name Preference

Elise Young
Bloomberg

Jersey City, New Jersey

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Kansas - Did Prairie Village council pull disappearing act to avoid debate on LGBTQ ordinance?

Editorial Board
The Kansas City Star

Prairie Village, KS

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lead story - 'Epidemic of violence': 2018 is worst for deadly assaults against transgender Americans

Marina Pitofsky
USA Today

Rio Grande, TX

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Donald Trump - Letters: ‘We Don’t Need a Misogynist on the Supreme Court. We Have One in the White House.’

Susan Seligson (among others)
The Atlantic

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Taiwan - Taiwan's transgender minister Audrey Tang seeks to break barriers

Press
The Straits Times

Presidential Office Building

Taipei, Taiwan

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civil rights - A Transgender Software Engineer Alleges Nike Failed to Stand Up for the Values It Advertises

Nigel Jaquiss
Willamette Week

Willamette (part of West Linn), OR

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Tennessee - A transgender priest finds a new life helping others on the margins

Press
Religion News Service

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lead story - Transgender Guide leaders are no more of a risk to girls than other volunteers, say bosses

Press
The Telegraph

Girl Guides (1918)

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AUDIO - Bob Woodward - FEAR - Trump In The White House (part 3)

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Sri Lanka - The battle against homophobia in Sri Lanka

Aanya Wipulasena
Sunday Observer

Sri Lanka

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civil rights - Sharice Davids to fund-raise in New York at iconic gay rights bar

Hunter Woodall, Bryan Lowry
The Kansas City Star

Stonewall Inn

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ezs note:  If you'd like to donate to Sharice Davids, but you can't make it to The Stonewall Inn, you can make it here. 

Colorado - Gender ID removed at Colorado children’s hospital to make kids ‘feel comfortable’

Lisa Gutierrez
The Bellingham Herald

Aurora, CO 

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lead story - Portrait of Humanity: Celebrating São Paulo’s transgender community

Sarah Roberts
British Journal of Photography

British Journal of Photography

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AUDIO - Bob Woodward - FEAR - Trump in the White House (part 2)

U

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Cambodia - Cambodia’s LGBTIQ Community Adrift in the Divide

Sheila Yuan Jiahuan
Khmer Times

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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civil rights - Gavel Drop: Evangelicals Claim Religious Objections to Serving Transgender Homeless

Brie Shea
Rewire News

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Kansas - Transgender Dad Inspired To Transition By Step-Daughter Who Came Out As A Boy

Rachael Grealish
LAD Bible

Kansas City, KS

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lead story - A Longtime LGBT Rights' Leader Becomes a Transgender Battleground State

Candice Norwood
Governing

Massachusetts State House

Boston, MA

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ezs note:  Massachusetts residents:  Please remember - first, register to vote, and second, be sure to vote YES on Question 3. 

AUDIO - Bob Woodward - FEAR - Trump In The White House (Part 1)

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civil rights - Tribune editorial: Reyes doesn’t help Utah with entry into Michigan transgender case

Editorial
The Salt Lake City Tribune

Salt Lake City, UT  (1850) 

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Connecticut - Jeff Jacobs: State champion Botelho questions fairness of transgender rule

Jeff Jacobs
ct post

Quinnipiac University

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