Vietnam - LGBT community in Vietnam’s path to recognition

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civil rights - DeVos grilled on civil rights for students

Lydia Wheeler
The Hill

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Rhode Island - Chariho school committee to vote on transgender policy

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lead story - TRANSGENDER PEOPLE'S BRAINS ARE WIRED LIKE THOSE OF GENDER THEY IDENTIFY WITH, NEW STUDY SHOWS

Kashmira Gander
Newsweek

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Norway - Is it difficult to be gay in the Norwegian workplace?

Nancy Bazilchuk
The Local No

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civil rights - Here’s why psychiatric hospitals are so bad at helping transgender patients

Josh Israel, Danielle McLean
ThinkProgress

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ezs note:  If you are as moved as I was, do as I did and call your state Senator and State Representative and ask for more, better beds for those who desperately need them.  Thanks.   

Florida - Transgender Political Candidates Monica DePaul and Wendy Ella May Explain Their Positions on Universal Health Care

Danielle Bernstein
teenVogue

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ezs note:  It's a ways off (Tuesday, November 6) but whether you are in Florida, North Carolina - or anywhere - VOTE!

lead story - Despite fatwa, transgender people in Iran face harassment

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VIDEO - Joshua Green, "The Devil's Bargain"

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Donald Trump - Warner: Why doesn't Trump understand that it's illegal for other countries to interfere in US elections?

Jacqueline Thomsen
The Hill

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Poland - Polish conservatives oppose rainbow flag at European Parliament

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civil rights - American bishop brings human rights focus to royal wedding

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Arizona - Phoenix will add rainbow crosswalks to celebrate LGBT community

Jessica Boehm
azcentral.

Phoenix, AZ

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lead story - Idaho agrees to pay transgender women's attorney fees

Betsy Z. Russell
Idado State Journal

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VIDEO - David Cay Johnston & Greg Palast: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

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Donald Trump - Bill Maher: Congress ‘Wouldn’t Turn on Trump If They Found Out He Was Using the Eternal Flame to Light Farts’ (Video)

Tony Maglio
Yahoo!

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Mexico - Mexico bans 17 'false' transgender women running in local elections

Marta Rodriguez Martinez
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civil rights - 'Live Free or Die' motto often invoked, with mixed results

Holly Ramer
Hastings Tribune

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California - Saddleback College continues to investigate submitted transgender student complaints

Ashley Hern
Lariat

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lead story - Belgian transgender ballet film wins Cannes Queer Palme

Johnny Cotton
Reuters

Jacques Brel, Belgium

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Middletown, Delaware

estimated transgender population:  121*
(rounded down)

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 ezs note:  Wow! So that's where Dead Poets Society was filmed!  Middletown, Delaware is home to St. Andrews School, a private co-ed boarding school.  In the movies, boarding schools are starchy, stuffy places, (especially in the fifties) but St. Andrews is fortunately different.  They have a Gender and Sexuality Alliance - good for them!

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Donald Trump - Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms

Damian Patella, Josh Dawsey
The Washington Post

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Chile - Chile LGBT Group Blasts Campaign against Transgender Actress

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civil rights - This transgender graduate will make history at Pass High. And he's only 16.

Jeff Clark
SunHerald

Pass Christian, Mississippi

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Illinois - Pride Action Tank report and project address issues concerning LGBT older adults

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Chicago, IL (Wicker Park)

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lead story - GOP Candidate Films Herself Harassing A Transgender Woman

Andrea González-Ramírez
Refinery29

Jazmina Saavedra (R-CA)

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Donald Trump - Senate Transcripts Suggest Trump, Jr., Was Willing to Collude with Russians

John Cassidy
The New Yorker

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