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At least 20 transgender candidates are currently running for office across the United States, NBC News reports. “We are making 2017 the year of the trans candidate," said Victory Fund President Aisha C. Moodie-Mills, whose organization has endorsed trans candidate Danica Roem for a seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates. "We have more transgender people running this cycle than almost all other cycles combined.”

Published on Jun 10, 2017 6-10-17, Portland Oregon The leftist groups organize an event to counter ACT "no to sharia law" events across the US, this paltry group of a dozen or so show up at the original sight of the infamous MAX stabbings, the Videographer filming them along with me is continuously shouted at and finally it comes to a head with punches thrown, the police respond but no charges are filed.

FULL TITLE: It's political correctness gone Psycho! Remake won't show the killer cross-dressing in a shower scene in order to avoid 'transphobia' It is the chilling moment from the classic film Psycho that once seen can never be forgotten. Deranged motel proprietor Norman Bates, dressed up in his mother’s clothes, launches a murderous knife attack on a defenceless guest in the shower. But now the scene from the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh has been remade, but with a crucial difference. Bates is no longer wearing women’s clothes – for fear of damaging the image...

<p>JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s appointment of a transgender man to the state human rights commission has evoked displeasure from conservative lawmakers. KTOO-FM reports the state senate voted Wednesday to delay a joint session on whether to confirm Walker’s appointments.</p>

She made headlines this year as the first ever contestant on Britain's Next Top Model. But the dream came crashing down for Talulah-Eve Brown tonight as she became the next contestant to be booted off the cut-throat modelling contest. The 5ft 8in beauty queen, from Burton-on-Trent, was eliminated by judges in dramatic scenes on Thursday night's episode - and in a poignant interview she tells FEMAIL she had to 'work harder' than her fellow contestants. 'There were times when I really envied them and thought, I wish I could wear those leggings without a bulge. But I tried not to...

I don’t particularly care which bathroom you use, as long as you wash your hands when you’re done. I also don’t particularly care if your company suffers a huge backlash for bowing to political correctness. And I don’t go to Target stores much anymore, ever since a Meijer store opened up near me. So Target’s recent travails don’t really concern me. Tough luck. Being “woke” might make you feel better about yourself, but it can cost you. Literally. .. {..snip..}

The controversial bill that would require public school students and colleges to use the restroom matching their gender at birth failed without debate Wednesday, March 22, in the Senate Education Committee. Although the bill was reintroduced from last year by Mt. Juliet Republican Sen. Mae Beavers, it failed to receive a motion from senators, killing the bill for the year as legislators will not be able to be reintroduce it until the next legislative session.

[Full title: "EXCLUSIVE: NYC Victoria's Secret burglary suspect accused billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 of molesting her as teen"]A woman arrested for breaking into an Upper East Side Victoria’s Secret is a model who once accused billionaire Jeffrey Epstein of sexually molesting her when she was a teenager, the Daily News has learned.Maximillia Cordero, 33, lost a 2007 suit against Epstein claiming that the mega money-man who rubbed elbows with the likes of former President Clinton and Prince Andrew had pressured her into sex when she was a teenager, according to court documents.The suit alleged that Epstein told her that...

Kids can now delay the onset of puberty using drugs called hormone blockers.

You can be a guy with a vagina that bleeds for a week every month. There’s nothing wrong with you. You are beautiful. We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about their periods, and we heard from a lot of trans and nonbinary people who want you to know they menstruate too. 1. “But you’re a guy…guys don’t get periods?” Whenever my period comes, all my friends will hear about it. I always complain to my mother and sister, too, but that’s the extent of talking about it with family for me.

FULL TITLE: Transgender woman, 58, who killed her sixth husband in a botched castration is arrested for threatening to shoot a judge A transgender woman who served jail time for killing her sixth husband in a botched castration found herself arrested again this week. Tammy L. Felbaum, 58, was detained after threatening to shoot a judge at the Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Courthouse Monday morning. Authorities say Felbaum was going through security when she made a comment that she 'had guns and an Uzi and a rocket launcher' in her purse, which she sent through the X-ray scanner. As she walked...

A New Jersey boy has become the first openly transgender member of the Boy Scouts. Just one week after the Boy Scouts of America changed its policy to allow transgender children to join, Joe Maldonado donned his uniform as the newest member of Pack 20 in Maplewood. 'I am accepted,' said the nine-year-old on Tuesday night, as his mother fought back tears. The youngster had previously been banned from Pack 87 in Secaucus because his birth certificate stated that he was born a girl.

A woman who was exposed for posing as a U.S. Army Lieutenant by Guardian of Valor in 2015 was just sentenced to prison by a Nevada judge last week. Kelsie Hoover, a transgender woman who began to undergo gender reassignment surgery a few years ago, was caught posing as a male U.S. soldier at Baltimore Washington Airport named “Michael Cipriani.” Following Guardian of Valor’s video being posted, Hoover was arrested in Oregon and extradited back to Nevada to face charges. Hoover went through trial and was sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.American Military News spoke to Anthony...

FULL TITLE: Convicted killer who was first US inmate to receive state-funded sex reassignment surgery is finally moved to a women's prison The first US inmate to receive state-funded sex reassignment surgery has been moved to a women's prison. Convicted killer Shiloh Heavenly Quine, 57, was taken to the Central California Women's Facility on Wednesday, after previously serving time behind bars at a men's prison. Quine, who has been living as a woman since 2009 and is serving a life sentence, underwent the sex reassignment surgery in December. California prison officials agreed to pay for her operation in 2015 under...

Transgender people will no longer be classified as “mentally ill” in Sweden, the country’s main national health authority has announced, in a decision widely criticized as overdue. Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare, or Socialstyrelsen, announced late on Friday that it would no longer automatically apply the diagnosis “gender dysphoria” to transgender patients. “…more than anything, this change has an important symbolic value,’ Kristina Bränd Persson, the organization’s head, said in a press release. “This is a completely reasonable change. Many divisions and categories are obsolete. For us, the decision is uncontroversial. We tend to follow the changes the...

Comedian Colin Mochrie has opened up about his transgender daughter, Kinley. The 'Who's Line Is It, Anyway?' star gave a shout-out to the elderly folk in his family, who have been accepting of Kinley's recent transition. 'My 90-yr-old mother-in-law and 87-yr-old mother love and acceptance of our trans daughter warms me. Wonder why some who are younger can't,' (sic) he wrote on Twitter. The tweet received over 14,000 likes. He also revealed how he's comfortable in his new role as transgender advocate and how he even helped select Kinley's new name. Scroll down for video

FULL TITLE: Mike Pence slams Obama's decision to free Chelsea Manning as a 'mistake' because she is a 'traitor who shouldn't be turned into a martyr' Vice President-elect Mike Pence says Barack Obama's decision to commute former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning's prison sentence 'was a mistake'. Obama said on Wednesday that he commuted Manning's 35-year prison sentence for releasing classified military documents to Wikileaks because the punishment didn't fit the crime. He said the prison sentence was too long, compared to other leakers. But Pence disagreed during an interview with Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier later...

<p>PARIS (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange retreated from his pledge to accept extradition to the U.S. if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency, arguing Wednesday via his lawyers that what he was really asking for was an immediate pardon for the ex-Army analyst.</p>

The Army says former private Chelsea Manning will lose her military healthcare benefits despite President Obama’s commutation of her prison sentence. “If Pvt. Manning is discharged with a dishonorable discharge, she will lose her entitlement to [military] benefits, including gender-transition care at [military] medical treatment facilities,” Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith told USA Today Wednesday. Smith said Manning’s dishonorable discharge was included in the terms of the 35-year prison sentence imposed on her in 2013. Manning was convicted of leaking classified information about U.S. national security activities that were later publicly disclosed by WikiLeaks. Smith said Manning could appeal her discharge...

A 52-year-old man arrested in Grover Beach on Sunday on suspicion of impersonating a police officer was later held in jail as a female, according to local reports. Ken Kennon was apprehended by law enforcement after reports that he had pulled over a driver on Friday evening in his Toyota Prius, using the emergency lights system used by police vehicles. The driver became suspicious after being pulled over by Kennon on the 800 block of N. Oak Park Boulevard, and then followed him to a nearby parking lot where he confronted Kennon and took down his details, before filing a...