lead story - INDIA: NO COUNTRY FOR TRANSGENDER WOMEN

Puja Changoiwala
South China Morning Post

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ezs note:  USA - Uh, before we get all proud 'n shit, here's a sobering fact for you:  according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, we are the 10th worst and the only first-world country to be shamed by the danger to women (cis and trans).  Please, let's go to our town and city halls and speak up.

Donald Trump - In The World According To Trump, NATO Allies Are Bad And Putin Is Good

S.V. Date
HuffPost

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Guyana - Transgender Guyanese women ask CCJ to strike down colonial law

Press
St. Lucia News Online

Georgetown, Guyana (Stabroek Market)

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civil rights - Weekend Read: ‘The Rosa Parks of the transgender movement’

Press
Southern Poverty Law Center

Sylvia Rae Rivera

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Oregon - Oregon to allow students to identify as neither male nor female

Bethany Barnes
The Oregonian

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lead story - Teddy Geiger realized she was transgender in therapy

Jessica Sager
Page Six

Teddy Geiger

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Middletown, New Jersey

estimated transgender population: 380*
(rounded up)

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ezs note:  The Evil Clown of Middletown!  Where is it?  Why,  in Middletown, New Jersey, of course!

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

Donald Trump - Trump’s Mar-a-Lago asks to hire 61 additional foreign workers using visa program

Shannon K. Crawford, Soo Rin Kim
ABC

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Croatia - Transgender people have a right to be issued new diplomas

Vedran Pavlik
Total Croatia News

Ŝibenik, Croatia

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civil rights - Inside the Fight to Save LGBT Rights at an All-New Supreme Court

Samantha Allen
The Daily Beast

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Idaho - At Boise's first Pridefest, people had to hide behind masks. Now thousands celebrate.

Michael Katz
Idaho Statesman

Boise, ID

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lead story - I'm a surgeon who helps transgender people live the way they feel inside

Jonathan Keith
USA Today

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Donald Trump - Michael Cohen tells friends he doesn't think Trump would pardon him

MJ Lee
CNN

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Ghana - UN Expert Spotlights LGBT Poverty in Ghana

Wendy Issack
AllAfrica

Independence of Ghana

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civil rights - Military retirees support lawsuit against Trump’s military transgender ban

Press
Dayton Daily News

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Oregon - Corvallis woman runs drag performance and transgender advocacy organization

Lillian Schrock
Corvallis Gazette-Times

Corvallis, OR

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lead story - Barely any transgender recruits have made it into the military since Trump's ban ended

Kathryn Krawczyk
The Week

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Donald Trump - Trump Repeatedly Questioned Why the United States Couldn’t Simply Invade Venezuela

Daniel Politi
Slate

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Poland - Poland’s Supreme Court Stands Up for LGBT Equality

Boris Dittrich
Human Rights Watch

Supreme Court of Poland

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civil rights - Military Officers, Organizations Urge Ninth Circuit to Maintain Block on Trans Troops Ban

Press
HRC

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Louisiana - Book Remembers Devastating 1973 Fire at Gay New Orleans Bar

Rebecca Santana
US News & World Report

Up Stairs Lounge, after fire (1973)

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lead story - New Jersey Gov. Signs Bills Giving Transgender Residents More Rights

Alanna Vagianos
HuffPost

Gov. Phil Murphy

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Donald Trump - Hold the champagne on North Korea, President Trump

Editorial Board
The Washington Post

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Israel - TRANS BY CHOICE, TRANS BY FORCE

Hen Mazzig
The Jerusalem Post

Jaffa train station, Tel Aviv, Israel

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civil rights - She Says She Lost Her Job For Coming Out as Transgender. But Her Biggest Battle Could Come at the Supreme Court Without Kennedy

Jennifer Calafas
Time

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South Carolina - Family of SC transgender woman killed in Florida: 'We want everyone to be comfortable with who they are'

Tanita Gaither
wistv

Bishopville, SC

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ezs note:  As of this time, the suspect who killed Cathalina Christina James is still at large.  If you have any information, please call the Jacksonville, FL police at 904-630-6300.  Thanks.

lead story - For this transgender men's team in Brazil, soccer is a path toward self-acceptance

Jill Langlois
Los Angeles Times

map of Brazil

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