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DC’s New Transgender Hero is Not Their First
image of Alysia Yeoh, all images via ComicVine By Caitlin E Bridges In the most recent issue of a Batgirl #19, outgoing painter-slash-bartender Alysia Yeoh comes out to her roomie Barbara Gordon (aka Batgirl) as trans. News spreads like wildfire on the internet, and everybody pats DC Comics on the back for introducing the first openly [...]
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Protesters rally outside bridal shop for denying service to transgender woman
Rohit Singh (left) and Colin Peace outside Jenny’s Bridal Boutique in Saskatoon. Photo: Liam Richards via The Canadian Press Staff Reports SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — Dozens of transgender activists and allies gathered outside a Canadian bridal shop on Saturday to show support for a woman who said she was refused service at the store because she is transgender. [...]
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Councilman: Murder of Cleveland Transgender Woman Should be Investigated As Hate Crime
BOB VITALE | Outlook Columbus CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland City Council member has called on authorities to investigate as a hate crime the death of a 20-year-old transgenderwoman whose body was found in a northeastern Ohio pond in April and identified this week. Twenty-year-old Cemia Dove of Cleveland was reported missing March 27,according to The Plain Dealer. Her partially [...]
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Duke University to offer health insurance coverage for transgender students
MATT COMER | QNotes DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University has announced it will begin offering student health insurance coverage for gender confirmation surgery. The university joins a handful of other institutions offering similar coverage, though the University ofNorth Carolina System currently does not. The new plan just signed by Duke will include up to $50,000 to cover [...]
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OpEd: Give Us A Chance
By: Lori Wright My resume discloses my thirty-years of experience in the electrical field. Prior to moving to Virginia I owned and operated an electrical contracting company for 17 years in Western Pennsylvania. In 2011, I moved to Lynchburg Virginia to care for my disabled sister and aged mother, and I felt confident that I [...]
