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Majid Kolestani fought to wear women's clothes during a murder trial, but in the end, won't dress for it at all. The 42-year-old transgender Iranian refugee who identifies as a woman pleaded guilty on Monday in Twin Falls 5th District Court to first-degree murder in a plea agreement that will likely send Kolestani to prison for 18 years to life. Through a Farsi-speaking translator, Kolestani, 42, who also uses the first name Nastaran, requested identification as a woman from the court. Kolestani recently won permission from the court in May to dress in women's attire at a trial originally scheduled...

LONDON - A FEMALE model who felt she was a man and attracted to women, has had a sex change and discovered she's now a gay man. Katherine Dalton was a sucessful glamour model in her teens and 20s, reported The Sun newspaper, who had a troubled secret. 'For years I was a man trapped in a woman's body. And although I was a beautiful woman I felt ugly because I was not who I wanted to be," the 31-year-old told The Sun. But after a sex change undertaken in her early 20s, Katherine became Adrian. He works for an...

AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Human Rights Commission says a restaurant discriminated against a transgender woman by asking her to use the men’s room until she had sex reassignment surgery. The manager of a Denny’s restaurant in Auburn made the request of Brianna Freeman of Lewiston after a female customer complained of having to share a restroom with "a man." Chad Cloutier, a lawyer representing the restaurant, says the woman threatened to call police.

A BOGUS bride who spent three years living with her hubby has confessed to a court that she’s really a MAN. Trusting husband Fu Shitou married transvestite Wei Jinhua after she struck up a friendship with his sister-in-law. The truth only emerged when Wei, from Zhechuan, eastern China, was picked up and strip-searched by cops when she fled the family home after a row. Fu told police: “I can’t believe I didn’t know. But we never had sex - I just wanted someone to take care of me.” Wei, 44, was allowed to walk free after judges ruled that police...

Police: Teen Tricked Other Boys Into Sending Nude Photos Of Themselves, Then Blackmailed Some For Sex (AP) An 18-year-old male student is accused of posing as a girl on Facebook, tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him naked photos of themselves and then blackmailing some for sex acts. The students go to New Berlin Eisenhower High School in New Berlin, which is in Waukesha County about 15 miles west of Milwaukee. According to the criminal complaint, Stancl first contacted the students through the social networking site Facebook, pretending to be a girl named Kayla or Emily. The boys...

A transgender woman is alleging discrimination against a state trooper who called her “buddy” and “guy” and arrested her after she was caught speeding, flipped off the trooper, then stepped into traffic on Interstate 495. Clairese Renee Morgan of Malden has filed a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and wants troopers to go through mandatory training in transgender issues, according to Bay Windows newspaper. Morgan was traveling between 95 and 100 mph on Interstate 495 north when a trooper from the Andover State Police Barracks pulled her over April 28. Morgan told the paper the trooper repeatedly referred...

April 12, 2006 -- A California man was blinded in one eye at a Brooklyn hotel after he got into a confrontation with two transvestites who passed him a bogus $100 bill, cops said yesterday. The attack on Michael Hartwig, 64, was followed by the heroics of a 14-year-old good Samaritan, who saw the cross-dressing duo flee and helped cops nab them, sources said. Hartwig, who lives in Rio Vista, was in the Best Western on Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge at 8:45 p.m. Monday when Dwyer Lopez, 30, and Eileen Rivera, 43, walked into the lobby.

Wolfowitz says economy is the key weapon in war on tyranny Fri May 20,12:33 AM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - Paul Wolfowitz, a US administration hawk and architect of the Iraq war set to become World Bank president, has said peaceful revolutions have been the most effective ways in ending tyrannies over the past three decades. In one of his final appearances as deputy defence secretary, Wolfowitz said economic and social pressures have been more successful than the use of arms since the ending of military dictatorships in Spain and Portugal in the 1970s. Wolfowitz, who will take over as World...

ABC flacking for Clinton again. DIanne Sawyer promises Slick will make a "major announcement," "only here on Good Morning America." No time set, but indicated it was today.

<p>December 15, 2003 -- A 22-year-old transvestite was in critical condition yesterday after he hacked off his penis, then lied and told cops he was the victim of a hate crime. The man, who was not identified because of the nature of the crime, was in critical condition yesterday after doctors at Harlem Hospital Center were unsuccessful in reattaching his penis. Police said the man initially claimed it was a berserk gypsy cab driver who had severed his penis in a fit of rage.</p>