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+17 +4Lawsuit: TSA needs formal regulations for full-body scanners
WASHINGTON – The Transportation Security Administration would have to develop formal regulations for full-body scanners, under a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Three groups representing limited government and civil liberties asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to order TSA to propose a regulation governing the use of the machines within 90 days. Three groups representing limited government and civil liberties asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
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+13 +2Pentagon moves toward lifting ban on transgender troops
The Pentagon took a significant step Monday toward lifting its ban on allowing transgender men and women to serve in the military, announcing a six-month study designed to clear the way.
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+21 +3“Tangerine”: A gorgeous and timely human comedy — and one of the most important American films of the year
This moving, hilarious Christmas tale about two trans sex workers breaks new ground, and was shot all on an iPhone
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+5 +1A (Cisgender) Lesbian is Targeted by the Bathroom Police
An interesting article on the practical problems of "bathroom laws" and how they can affect cisgender people as well as transgender people.
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+1 +1The internet is for queers: an interview with “Gender Is Over”t-shirt creators
We interviewed Gender Is Over’s Marie McGwier and Nina Mashurova about fashion, the future of genderqueer youth, and what it’s like to be all over Miley Cyrus’s Instagram.
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+7 +2Awful Real Name Policy Ensnares Trans Woman Who Worked to Make Facebook Inclusive
When we were young and the Internet was too, many of my friends treated it as a laboratory, experimenting with identity. In chat rooms and on message boards they would offer new names, claim different genders, and pretend to be older than they were. This was the early Web’s utopian...
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+16 +2We Must Put an End to Gender Conversion Therapy for Kids
Getty Images Leelah Alcorn, a trans youth who endured conversion therapy, wrote in her suicide note, “The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren’t treated the way I was, they’re treated like humans, with valid feelings and human rights.”
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+9 +3Girl Scouts Looking for $100K After Donor Says They Can't Use Gift for Transgender Girls
So the organization gave the money back. And now they want your help.
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+38 +3Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Transgender Rights (HBO)
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+7 +1How Do You Know You’re a Woman?
Trans or not, it's a hard question to answer.
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+19 +2No more Bruce: Meet Caitlyn Jenner
Vanity Fair tweeted its latest cover Monday, starring the former Bruce Jenner, now called Caitlyn.
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+2 +1Mike Huckabee: I wish I could have claimed to be transgender to 'shower with the girls' in high school
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+18 +1High Suicide Risk, Prejudice Plague Transgender People
A staggering 41 percent of transgender people in the United States have attempted to commit suicide, according to a recent survey.
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+2 +1'Bathroom surveillance' bills criticized for targeting transgender people in U.S.
Amid the national uproar over "religious freedom" legislation that critics say permits discrimination against gay people, there is also growing controversy over bills criticized for being "anti-transgender." Lawmakers have proposed such bills in at least 12 states around the United States so far this year, ranging from Massachusetts to Oklahoma.
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+3 +1This School Is Supporting Trans Teens In The Simplest, Most Powerful Way
In a powerful gesture of support, a Jewish secondary school has designated a gender-neutral bathroom and dedicated it to a trans alumnus. Patrick Rock transitioned during his time at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. ...
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+14 +2Clerk accuses Texas mom of ‘child abuse’ for letting 5-year-old daughter wear boys suit for Easter
A Texas mother said a store clerk scolded her after she let her 5-year-old daughter try on a boys suit for Easter.
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+16 +1Transgender woman buried by family as a man at Idaho funeral
Jennifer Gable, an Idaho transgender woman who died of a brain aneurysm in October, was presented at an open casket by her family as a man.
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+22 +1In The Hospital, There's No Such Thing As A Lesbian Knee
People in the LGBT community often have a hard time getting appropriate health care. But the problems aren't unique to them. Doesn't everyone want to have a doctor call them by their preferred name?
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+17 +2Meet The Trans Teen Who Just Won $25K to Make Schools Trans-Inclusive
Inspirational trans organizer Eli Erlick was awarded a Peace First fellowship to continue her important work with Transgender Student Education Resources.
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+21 +2Transgender Pioneer Leslie Feinberg of Stone Butch Blues Has Died
She was a pioneer in trans and lesbian issues, workers rights, and intersectionality long before anyone could define the phrase. Her partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and family offered us this obituary.
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