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www2.LJWorld.com – By Scott Rothschild
Topeka – Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday signed an executive order aimed at protecting state employees from workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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ABCLocal.Go.com – By Gerrick Brenner
Durham – For 12-years a band and music teacher named Leslie Webster has taught at the Duke School for Children – a private kindergarten through eighth grade school near the Duke University campus. Now Ms. Webster…
DukeChronicle.com – By Chelsea Allison
Shakeup follows parent’s protest
A transgender student who is awaiting sexual reassignment surgery and was temporarily granted access to a female restroom while living in a male wing of Craven Quadrangle rel…
Gawker.com – Rod Townsend (aka our commenter Momo)
Rod Townsend (aka our commenter Momo), sometimes receives telephone calls from The Past, a mysterious entity that remembers where things used to be in New York before Starbucks and Whole Foods came …
CommonDreams.org
Assemblymember Eng?s Hate Crimes Resolution, Sponsored by EQCA, Passes Senate
Sacramento – The California Senate on Monday approved a resolution urging Congress and the president to strengthen the federal hate crimes law. Senato…
EBAR.com – by Ed Walsh
The former suspect in the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey told the Bay Area Reporter that he had sought gender reassignment surgery, not because of any driving desire to become a woman, but to help him a…
SouthernVoice.com
Boise, Idaho (AP) An inmate who castrated herself with a disposable razor blade after prison officials refused to treat her for gender identity disorder should have female hormone therapy paid for by the state, a federal judge said…
PinkNews.co.uk – Gemma Pritchard
BBC3 has commissioned eight documentaries for its third Body Image season, including the story of an 18-year-old who travels to Thailand to undergo a sex-change.
BBC3 will follow up last season’s Lucy: Teen Transs…
WCBSTV.com
Port Ewen’s Gary Suraci To Become A Woman, Change Name To ‘Genna’
(CBS) Port Ewen, N.Y. Parents and school officials in Ulster County are addressing a bizarre situation after a Port Ewen principal announced he will undergo a sex change…
ABCLocal.Go.com – By Gilbert Baez
Durham – Some students at Duke University and their parents say they were shocked by a decision to let a male student who plans to become a woman live in female dorm.
The University changed its plans, but not bef…