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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Moving Targets
As distasteful as it will be to argue for military inclusion, the cost for not doing so is to legitimize a clear attempt to paint a target on all trans people’s backs. By Katherine Cross.
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The Head Of The Coast Guard Says He Will Not Turn His Back On Transgender Service Members
"We have made an investment in you, and you have made an investment in the Coast Guard, and I will not break faith."
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Mattis freezes transgender policy; allows troops to continue serving, pending study
Defense Secretary establishes panel to review controversial issue
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A Patient Gets the New Transgender Surgery She Helped Invent
Hayley Anthony recently became one of the first people in the world to have tissue incised from the cavity of her abdomen and turned into a vagina.
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Transgender teen stabbed to death and burned but police say it is not a hate crime
Police have said the case of a murdered transgender teenager was not a hate crime, despite the fact she was stabbed in the genitals and had her body burned. Ally Lee Steinfeld, 17, was allegedly attacked by her girlfriend and two teenagers in an assault in Cabool, Texas Country, Missouri which left her with her eyes gouged out, court records said.
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Swedish government orders study into mental health conditions of transgender people
The Swedish government has ordered the Public Health Authority to carry out an in depth study into the living conditions and mental health of transgender people.
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Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner
How a transgender Australian found her niche cleaning up after murders, suicides, and unimaginable filth of endless variation. By Sarah Krasnostein.
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Roy Moore Just Blamed His Sexual Misconduct Allegations On Lesbians, Gays, And Socialists
Speaking from a church pulpit in Alabama, the Republican Senate candidate said the "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...socialists" are behind the "malicious" allegations against him.
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Japan Forces Sterilization on Transgender People
The Japanese government has taken some positive steps to improve the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. But the country’s legal gender recognition procedure – the law that allows transgender people to be recognized according to their gender identity – remains a stain on Japan’s record.
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Child dumped by her parents because trans woman donated blood to her
A child in India was abandoned by its parents after they discovered that her blood donor was a transgender woman. Rekha (not her real name) saved the anaemic baby’s life with a blood transfusion, but later found the baby outside her house with a handwritten note attached. The parents had deserted the child as they were worried she would become “one of them” – meaning a trans person – because a trans woman’s blood was running through her veins.
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