civil rights - ACLU praises Connecticut for passing ‘most protective transgender policy and law in the country’

Josh Delk
The Hill

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ezs note: Yeah, yeah, we've got problems (who doesn't?) but Connecticut has the MOST progressive laws in the country! Yay!  👧

Hawaii - Hawaii Enacts Legislation Protecting LGBTQ Youth from Abusive Conversion Therapy

Press
Windy City Times

Honolulu, Hawaii

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lead story - Transgender people withdrawing from society due to lack of gender-neutral toilets

Alexandra Treloar
ABC (Australia)

Sydney, Australia

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Donald Trump - Trump Claims Aide Who Gave Official White House Briefing Does Not Exist

Chas Danner
New York

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Bermuda - The campaign for equality

Monica Jones
The Royal Gazette

Hamilton, Bermuda

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civil rights - Here's how N.J. could soon give a big boost to transgender rights

Susan K. Livio
nj.com

North Bergen, NJ

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Ohio - Gender dysphoria: Ohio bill protects parental rights

Kiley Crossland
Baptist Press

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ezs note:  Oh, great.  A man sticks his schlong into his wife/girlfriend's vagina, and suddenly they're "experts'.  Listen, there's a world of difference between advice from great aunt Gertrude and someone who's actually studied six to eight years.  There's also a difference between consent and informed consent.  Ohioans, urge your state representative and state senator to vote NO on this stupid bill.

lead story - Transgender people encouraged to become priests in Church of England diversity drive

Olivia Rudgard
The Telegraph

Canterbury Cathedral

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Winnfield, Louisiana

estimated transgender population:  28*
(rounded down)

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ezs note:  Do you know what the Project Plowshare system was?  It was a system designed to turn nuclear warheads into peaceful uses - and one of the places was at Winnfield, Louisiana!  Oh well... it was a nice idea, anyway!

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

Donald Trump - TRUMP GOES FULL ALEX JONES AS “SPYGATE” FALLS APART

Abigail Tracy
Vanity Fair

Trump 'n Jones, together at last!

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Nigeria - 5 Nigerian films that advocate for gay rights

Chidumga Izuzu
pulse.ng

Abuja, Nigeria

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civil rights - The Michigan Civil Rights Commission defends humanity

Jack Lessenberry
Michigan Radio

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West Virginia - How Transphobic Anti-LGBTQ Groups Hijacked a Small Town's Fight for Equality

Whitney Kimball
Jezebel

Parkersburg, WV

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lead story - Transgender woman sexually assaulted while sleeping at Cleveland homeless shelter, police say

Adam Ferrise
cleveland.com

Cleveland, OH

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Donald Trump - Trump’s Reckoning Arrives

David Frum
The Atlantic

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Sudan/Israel - NGO: STATE DETAINED SUDANESE OF DARFUR UNTIL MID-MARCH DESPITE PLEDGE

Yonah Jeremy Bob
Jerusalem Post

Sudan (map)

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civil rights- Federal Court Emphatically Shoots Down Anti-Trans Lawsuit in Rare Ruling From the Bench

Mark Joseph Stern
Slate

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Washington (state) - Transgender veteran sues state, alleging sex discrimination in hiring

Camille Lemke
The News Tribune

Fife, WA

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lead story - HRC Mourns Gigi Pierce, Transgender Woman Fatally Shot in Oregon

Helen Parshall
HRC

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Police_car_with_emergency_lights_on.jpg

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Donald Trump - Trump lawyer 'paid by Ukraine' to arrange White House talks

Paul Wood
BBC

gettin' ready for the next big payoff, uh, talks 

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Hong Kong - Event: 2nd 1905 International Human Rights Film Festival launches in Hong Kong

Press
Hong Kong Free Press

Hong Kong at night

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civil rights - Federal Court Rules Civil-Rights Law Protects Transgender Students

Amanda Arnold
The Cut

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Indiana - Lyft driver in Indianapolis orders gay couple out of his car after they kiss

Mark Alesia
IndyStar.

Wow - it's the same driver!

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lead story - Sephora launches makeup classes for transgender population

Chelsea Ritschel
Independent

Sephora, Champs Élysées, Paris

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ezs note:  Hey, everybody!  There's a Sephora store in my town of West Hartford, Connecticut!  Come on down, and just maybe you'll see me congratulating the owner!

VIDEO - How Do We Abolish the Electoral College? (Robert Reich)

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Donald Trump - Hey, Look: More Evidence That Broidy May Have Been Covering for Trump in That Playmate Affair

Paul Campos
New York

Elliott Broidy, in happier seconds

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ezs note:  When I was reading this article, I did a Wikipedia on George Nader (the businessman, not the actor) to find out if they were related. (as far as I could, they either weren't, or were distantly related)    But I'll let you discover the, uh, 'fun'. (barf bag, please)

Oh, yeah.  Fine, upstanding men, these.

Vietnam - LGBT community in Vietnam’s path to recognition

Press
vietnamnet bridge

sidewalk in Hanoi, Vietnam

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civil rights - DeVos grilled on civil rights for students

Lydia Wheeler
The Hill

grilled chicken, House special

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Rhode Island - Chariho school committee to vote on transgender policy

Press
NBC 10

Bell School, Richmond, RI

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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

Linköping University, Linköping, Norway

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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

Press
Tampa Bay Times

Tehran, Iran

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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

Press
Radio Poland

map of Poland

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

Press
Tampa Bay Times

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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

Idaho state capitol (interior)

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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!

JFK eternal flame

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

Marta Rodriguez Martinez
euronews

Muxes, Zapotec region

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

Holly Ramer
Hastings Tribune

Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire

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California - Saddleback College continues to investigate submitted transgender student complaints

Ashley Hern
Lariat

Saddleback College

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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!

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

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

Press
Latin American Herald Tribune

Santiago, Chile

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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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