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Boston.com – By Emily A. Canal, Globe Correspondent
On the inside, a set of bathrooms at Emerson College looks like standard fare. On the outside, there are newfangled signs to ease the concerns of students who prefer not to signal that they are ent…
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 …
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…
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…
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…