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Study says 50% of transgender people cancel or delay their medical appointments to avoid discrimination. The French doctor admitted he didn't have the training or knowledge to treat trans patients - as experts say there's no need for a trans woman to visit a gynaecologist at all. "I only treat real women" - that's what French gynaecologist Victor Acharian told a 26-year-old transgender woman he refused to treat in his clinic in the south-west of the country recently. The transgender woman, accompanied by her boyfriend, went to a gynaecological appointment when, after minutes of waiting, the secretary told her...

NORFOLKA Guatemalan national made it easy for illegal immigrants on the Eastern Shore to drive, according to the FBI. The FBI arrested Felipe Jesus Mazariegos-Perez at his home Tuesday on federal charges of buying hundreds of Tennessee and Mississippi license plates and car titles and selling them to immigrants who cannot prove their residency, as Virginia requires.The FBI raided Mazariegos-Perez's home in Nelsonia, Accomack County, on Tuesday morning, looking for the out-of-state plates and titles. He was arrested and taken into U.S. District Court that afternoon, where a magistrate ordered him jailed pending a bond hearing Thursday.Mazariegos-Perez, speaking through an...

'Osama's People' Smuggled Into U.S.? Court documents in a Brownsville, Texas drug-smuggling case cite a wiretapped telephone conversation by one of the smugglers who said that "Osama's people" are ready to be transported across the Mexican border into the U.S. The Brownsville Herald reported earlier this week: "[Paperwork in the case] contains details of a December 2004 incident in which [one smuggler] tried to secure transportation for 20 Middle Eastern 'terrorists' waiting to enter the United States from Monterrey, Chiapas and Puebla in Mexico. "Recorded telephone conversations authorized under the U.S. Patriot Act and a court order captured the [suspect]...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security has tapped the nation's truckers to help find a man who has been seen taking photographs of tanker equipment. On three separate occasions, the man also asked truck drivers several questions about deliveries and operations, according to the Highway Information Sharing and Analysis Center. "The individual in question is also reported to have videotaped tank truck operations and deliveries as well as taken photographs of tanker equipment," states the "Be on the Lookout," or BOLO, alert. "Law enforcement has requested assistance in ascertaining the identity or whereabouts of the person in question."...

FBI nabs 7 in probe of driver's certificates By JAMIE SATTERFIELD, satterfield@knews.com December 6, 2005 For the second time in six months, the FBI has uncovered what the agency alleges is a plot to bring illegal immigrants to Tennessee to get driver's certificates. Seven people, including five alleged illegal immigrants, were arraigned Monday in U.S. District Court in connection with charges they were part of a conspiracy to take advantage of Tennessee's liberal licensing requirements. In court records, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Theodore identified the accused ringleader of the group as Claudio Galvan. Armando Rodriguez-Riveros was alleged to be Galvan's...