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Transgender former elite Navy Seal challenges Donald Trump: 'Tell me to my face I'm not worthy'
A transgender former member of the elite Navy Seal Team 6 challenged Donald Trump to tell her face to face that she was "not worthy" to serve. Kristin Beck spoke out after Mr Trump announced he was banning transgender people from the US military, calling it a "terrible decision". Miss Beck was a Navy Seal for two decades including in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia. "Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy," She told Business insider. "Transgender doesn't matter. Do your service.
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Canadian Forces' reply to Trump's transgender ban: Everyone's welcome here
Hours after President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he’s barring transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, the Canadian Armed Forces tweeted its own message to the transgender community: You’re welcome to sign up with us. “We welcome [Canadians] of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Join us!” tweeted the CAF, with the hashtags #DiversityIsOurStrength, #ForcesJobs, and included a link to jobs in the CAF.
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Kristin Beck, transgender Navy SEAL hero: 'Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy'
"Let's meet face to face and you tell me I'm not worthy," said Kristin Beck, a 20-year veteran of the Navy SEALs. "Transgender doesn't matter. Do your...
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Trump announces ban on transgender people in U.S. military
Trump reverses the Obama administration decision to allow transgender troops to serve.
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Cuba Holds First Ever Mass with Transgender Pastors
"This is not only a first of its kind event for Cuba, but certainly one of the very first ever to be held anywhere in the world," said a trans reverend. Amid the Cuban Assembly Against Homophobia and Transphobia’s two-week long event against sexual and gender discrimination, Cuba hosted the first mass of its kind anywhere in the world, with three transgender people as pastors.
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Philippine court upholds guilty verdict on U.S. Marine in transgender woman's killing
The Philippine Court of Appeals has upheld a guilty verdict on a U.S. Marine for killing a transgender woman nearly three years ago, a case that stirred debate over the U.S. military presence in its former colony. A lower court had found Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton guilty of killing Jennifer Laude in a hotel in Olongapo, outside a former U.S. navy base northwest of the capital, in 2014.
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Two transgender Pakistanis tortured to death in Saudi Arabia
Two transgender persons, both natives of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), died on Tuesday after being subjected to torture allegedly by Saudi police in Riyadh for dressing up as women in public. Thirty-five transgender people were arrested by a law enforcement agency for cross-dressing, which is a punishable offence in the kingdom. A rest house was raided where a ‘Guru Chela Chalan’ gathering, a formal meeting of Khuwaja Sara in which they choose their Guru (leader) and Chelas (Students), was taking place.
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Trump administration withdraws protections for transgender students
The Trump administration Wednesday rolled back an Obama-era regulation extending certain protections to transgender students, the latest development in a fierce ongoing public debate.
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Real Life: My Sister, My Brother
The winner of our tenth essay contest, Meghan Tear Plummer, shares her honest, heartfelt story of loving her transgender brother—and missing the sister he used to be.
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Manning to lose transgender benefits with dishonorable discharge
Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the national-security leaker and transgender soldier, will lose her entitlement to military health care benefits under the terms of the sentence that President Obama commuted, according to the Army. Obama’s commutation Tuesday will allow Manning to leave the Army’s prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., on May 17, about six years before she would have been eligible for parole. The Army has been providing her with treatment for gender dysphoria, including hormone treatments.
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Meet Seattle Police's first openly transgender cop
Seattle Police has been recognized nationally for its recent progress in protecting LGBT rights. Now the department has its first openly transgender police officer.
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Nation’s first transgender killing of 2017 is in Mississippi
An LGBT advocacy group said Madison County’s first homicide of 2017 is also the nation’s first transgender homicide this year. Madison County spokesman Heath Hall said authorities received a call about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday about a possible death. Coroner Alex Breeland said the body of Omario Caldwell, also known as Mesha Caldwell, was found on Heindl Road near Old Yazoo City Road. He confirmed the death is a homicide but would not release a cause pending autopsy.
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8-year-old transgender boy barred from Cub Scouts
From the moment he joined, 8-year-old Joe Maldonado eagerly looked forward to camping trips and science projects with his Secaucus Cub Scout pack. By Abbott Koloff.
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The Sissies, Hustlers, and Hair Fairies Whose Defiant Lives Paved the Way For Stonewall
“Although the conflict at Compton’s was mostly ignored by the media, including publications run by the nascent gay community, 1966 would prove a major turning point in the battle for transgender civil rights, a year when cultural shifts aligned to begin improving the trans community’s access to healthcare and its relationship with law enforcement.” By Hunter Oatman-Stanford.
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This Lawmaker Wants To Make Absolutely Sure No Law Protects Transgender People
Rep. Pete Olson just wants to make sure everything’s “uniform.”
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Is God Transgender?
In the 1970s a cousin of mine, Paula Grossman, became one of the first people in America to undergo sex-reassignment surgery.
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Trans Tokenism — Chuck Schumer’s Ugly Bigotry Trumps Love
Go the the “races” page of the official Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee website. Tester and Schumer, who run the operation, list every state with a race this cycle from Arizona to Wisconsin– except one. By Howie Klein.
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Transgender Identity Is Not a Mental Health Disorder, Study Finds
A new study in the journal The Lancet Psychiatry finds that "distress and dysfunction" often reported by transgender people results from stigmatization. People who identify as transgender should not be considered to have a mental health disorder, according to a new study from Mexico. The World Health Organization currently lists transgender identity as a mental health disorder, and the new study is the first in a series of research aimed at finding out whether this categorization is apt. The study will be repeated in Brazil, France, India, Lebanon and South Africa, according to the researchers.
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Before European Christians Forced Gender Roles, Native Americans Acknowledged 5 Genders
It wasn’t until Europeans took over North America that natives adopted the ideas of gender roles. For Native Americans, there was no set of rules that men and women had to abide by in order to be considered a “normal” member of their tribe. By Pearson McKinney.
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Huge rise in number of Britons trying to change gender
Figures obtained from UK clinics show referral increases of several hundred percent, leading to long waits for new patients
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