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Hotel won't rue its loo policy
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| A TRANSVESTITE has claimed discrimination by a Melbourne hotel for a ban on using the women's toliet. The licensee of the Newmarket Tavern, John Booth, said he was shocked by the allegation. He said he ran a sports bar, lounge, restaurant and TAB that were open to anybody. |
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Transjobless
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| Imagine trying to find a job without a shred of work history. Welcome to the transgender job hunt. In the transgender community, to have full-time work is to be in the minority. In fact, a new survey of 194 trans people conducted by the Transgender Law Center (TLC), with support from the Guardian, found that only one out of every four respondents has a full-time job. Another 16 percent work part-time. |
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Sheriff?s Department needs protocol for transgender inmates
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| On Nov. 17, San Diego sheriff?s officers were called to the residence of Vanessa Facen, a 35-year-old pre-operative transsexual woman. Pre-op transsexuals are individuals who have made a personal decision to live as the gender opposite their natal bodies. |
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Transgender is more than a physical image, it's identity 
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| Just as I think it's more comfortable for people to assume that something 'made' you gay, I think there are also things people get very confused about with transgender people. |
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Life in hell
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| In California prisons, an unconventional gender identity can be like an added sentence. Rosa casts her dark eyes downward and then looks up from under wispy bangs to say matter-of-factly, "I've been raped six times. |
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Genderqueer: Straight or gay, these kids refuse to play dress-up by the rules
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| Who / What: Genderqueer One girl was called Jane Marie Another little girl was called Felicity Another little girl was Sally Joy The other was me, and I'm a boy |
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Rally planned for transgender woman arrested at Grand Central Station
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| Outraged after a 70-year-old transgender woman was arrested by Metropolitan Transportation Authority police for using a Grand Central Station women's bathroom, New York transgender activists and allies are staging a rally on her behalf. |
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Hidden past, hopeful future for trans athletes
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| Kristen Worley, a 2008 Olympic hopeful in cycling, has a secret. But now, with great anxiety, she?s divulging it. A few years ago, the Canadian had sex-change surgery to change her gender from male to female. |
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