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A former teacher who made national news nearly two decades ago when she tried to retain her job at a Sacramento-area high school while transitioning from male to female has been charged in an Oakland triple homicide. Dana Rivers, 61, of San Jose was arrested early Friday in Oakland on suspicion of killing Patricia Wright, 57; Wright’s wife, Charlotte Reed, 56; and the couple’s 19-year-old son, Toto Diambu-Wright. Police said the two women were both stabbed and shot, and the man was stabbed. They were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Rivers was covered in blood and about to...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Transgender people in the United States are rushing to legally change their name and gender with the help of volunteer lawyers due to concerns the community's civil rights could be threatened under the administration of president-elect Donald Trump. In a race against the clock, transgender people have been connecting on Twitter using the hashtag #TransLawHelp with lawyers offering to help them make the changes free of charge before Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2017. Last week's victory for Trump has left many transgender advocates fearing a backlash against their community after the Republican...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has dropped plans to start covering gender transition surgery for veterans amid concerns about costs. The proposed rule change that would have allowed the VA to pay for such surgeries was withdrawn from the Fall 2016 Unified Agenda, a biannual publication of proposed regulation changes that was due Monday. “VA has been and will continue to explore a regulatory change that would allow VA to perform gender alteration surgery and a change in the medical benefits package, when appropriated funding is available,” the VA said in a statement Monday. VA officials sent a letter dated...

BEAVER TOWNSHIP, OH - A suspected prostitute from St. Clairsville is behind bars after an undercover sting by police in Ohio. Police say Crystal Hotlosz, 36, of St. Clairsville agreed to meet an undercover officer after posting an advertisement for sex services on Youngstown’s Backpage website. She allegedly agreed to meet for a sex act for the price of $50 and nachos.

The New York Times’ gender editor, Susan Chira, castigated white women this past weekend for betraying all women. Noting that 53 percent of white women voted for Trump, Chira laments the fact that “women did not link arms,” and quotes Salamishah Tillet saying the following: “[A] sense of betrayal is sincere and comes from a place in which there was an optimism about solidarity from white-collar women. It’s not like black people or Latino people aren’t sexist and patriarchal. But when we thought about our self and collective best interest, we voted for Clinton.” Hold on just a moment. Did...

A key congressional supporter of Donald Trump says the president-elect’s defense secretary should move quickly to reverse a number of social engineering policies adopted in the Obama years that “have cut down on the warrior mentality.”Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, told The Washington Times that the armed forces need a counterrevolution. It should reverse at least three policies: women in the infantry, open transgender troops and the near-banishment of the word “man” from Navy and Marine Corps titles.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/14/chelsea-manning-wants-reduced-sentence-for-leaking-classified-info.html Chelsea Manning isn't going to wait and see whether WikiLeaks tries to call in a favor when Donald Trump becomes president. She has asked President Obama to reduce her sentence for leaking classified files from 35 years to the more than six she has already spent behind bars, reports the New York Times, which notes that Manning has already spent more time in prison than any other convicted leaker in U.S. history.

Calls to mental health and suicide hotlines spiked this week after Donald Trump was elected president, according to four major crisis-prevention hotlines, with much of the increase coming in calls from LGBT people. Even worse, the election results allegedly triggered the suicides of at least 10 transgender Americans—the majority of them teenagers—within the few days following Trump's win, according to reports rapidly circulating on social media. But while the Trump/Pence win and the return of Republican power may have created apprehension among the LGBT community, there's no evidence to support rumors of a recent wave of transgender-teen suicides and very...

HERMITAGE, Pa. — A Walmart employee who is transitioning from male to female told police that an offended co-worker threatened him over the gender switch, so he walked into the store with a gun Thursday night and fired several shots at the bully, according to a criminal complaint. Police said Zachary Thomas McClimans, 22, of Sharon, was found inside a car in the store’s parking lot on North Hermitage Street. He was being held Friday on $500,000 bond, charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and carrying a firearm without a license. The victim, identified in court...

Playing third party roulette will garner SCOTUS appointees that side against an American heritage... or future Leading up to this election there is a dialogue occurring that jeopardizes the nature of America, and it’s coming from both the left and the right. The analyses of who should pilot the nation has gotten so mired in duckweed that “thinkers” have thought themselves into rationalizing the unthinkable. The make-up of a new Supreme Court is what would mirror the survival or failure of the United States. Hopefully, everyone can agree that the United States has a history. It was conceived, founded and...

One activity, titled "Drag 101" for cosmetology and drama students, suggests inviting local drag queens to teach makeup techniques and organizing a drag performance for the school. The toolkit advises teachers to use gender-neutral language. For instance, rather than relying on the traditional terms "boys" and "girls," the guide suggests using alternative terms like friends, folks or "comrades." Terms such as "caretaker," "guardian" and "responsible adults" can replace "mom" and "dad."

A mother from Brooklyn, N.Y., took Twitter by storm yesterday when she shared a picture of her 8-year-old son in his Halloween costume: He dressed up as Hillary Clinton. In a bright yellow blazer, with his hair blown out in Clinton’s signature ‘do, he’s waving to the people and toting a candy box with the campaign’s logo on it. And that’s his real hair, his mother notes — #notawig.

The day my dad enrolled me in an after school teenage boys’ basketball training program, I cried. At age 13, I was already 5’11’’ and weighed 125 pounds — an awkward conglomeration of gangly knees, elbows, and a singular dark eyebrow that crept across my forehead like a gluttonous caterpillar. If I was going to be this tall, you might as well put a ball in my hands and see what happens, right? Everything about the scenario was painful. In retrospect, my dad had the right idea. He knew that practicing with boys would improve my game, and it did....

AARON Herschell is the first Scottish prisoner to attempt gender reassignment while awaiting trial for sex offences after being remanded as a man. A TEENAGER accused of two rapes has told prison staff he wants to live as a woman. Officers are in uproar over Aaron Herschell, 18, the first Scots prisoner to seek gender reassignment while awaiting trial for sex offences. Herschell was remanded in custody as a man. But now the inmate wants to live as a woman and be called Alexis.

The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case regarding transgender students' right to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. The justices will hear the case sometime next year. At issue is whether a Virginia high school student is allowed to use the boys' bathroom.

Philippe Starck has designed a scent for women, a scent for men and a third scent for those of you who identify as neither. At a party Galerie magazine founder Lisa Cohen hosted in her art-filled Plaza Hotel apartment, Starck said his fascination with fragrances began as a child when he worked in his mother’s perfume shop in Paris. The designer, who flew in from Brazil for the party, and left three hours later for Beijing, said his male fragrance was not for “the macho man sitting in front of a TV watching football — those men are obsolete —...

The Vagina Monologues is “antiquated” because it suggests “that in order to be a woman, you must have a vagina,” an American University student has claimed. Kendall Baron, a junior and a staffer at the Women’s Initiative, criticized the famous feminist play in an email first obtained by Campus Reform. The play “represents a binary representation of gender,” she wrote redundantly.

A seven-year-old boy has been removed from his mother’s care by the high court, after he was found to be suffering “significant emotional harm” due to his mother raising him as a girl. The judge in the case slammed social services who had simply accepted that the boy should be treated as a girl. The High Court judge hearing the case, Mr Justice Hayden, told the court that he believed the mother had been “absolutely convinced” that the boy “perceived himself as a girl” and was therefore determined to treat him as a girl, according to reports. However, the boy,...

Iam the first transgender woman to rush sororities at the University of Michigan," Emily Kaufman captioned a selfie on Tumblr in September 2015, "and because I am representing trans people, looking cute is a must!" She wore her dark, naturally curly hair in a bob; a dainty silver necklace with starfish charms hung around her neck. Emily is bubbly and chatty and, as a sophomore, already had friends in a few of the sororities. After 18 years of what she calls “suppressed femininity,” Emily started coming out to friends and family during her freshman year; she’d spoken about her transition...

SPOKANE, Wash. - A suspected Spokane serial killer is gearing up to prove she's not responsible for a trio of fatal shootings that claimed the lives of three women in 1990. Donna Perry, who was a man when the crimes were committed, is accused of murdering Yolanda Sapp, Kathleen Brisbois, and Nickie Lowe, and then dumping their bodies along the Spokane River. Now, Perry is fighting in court, hoping to not spend the rest of her life in prison. Long before anyone had ever heard of Robert Yates, there was another serial killer preying on Spokane prostitutes. The women would...