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A former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress because he was in the process of becoming a she won a discrimination lawsuit on Friday.U.S. District Judge James Robinson ruled that the Library of Congress discriminated against Diane Schroer of Alexandria, Va., by not giving her the job after the former David Schroer disclosed he would start becoming Diane before beginning the new job. "The evidence establishes that the Library was enthusiastic about hiring David Schroer -- until she disclosed her transsexuality," Robinson wrote in his decision. "The Library...

A former state employee living as a transgender woman on Friday filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against leading Georgia lawmakers and the supervisor who fired her. Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn, a former employee in the General Assembly Office of Legislative Counsel, was fired after she told supervisors she no would no longer come to work as a man. The lawsuit names the office's director, Sewell Brumby, House Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram), Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Senate President Pro tem Eric Johnson (R-Savannah). Glenn is represented by lawyers with Lambda Legal, a gay rights advocacy group. According to the lawsuit, Brumby...

Female transsexuals may have their genes to blame for feeling like they belong to the wrong sex. Scientists identified a specific gene variant in female-to-male transsexuals that meant they had been exposed to higher levels of sex hormones during their early development. Almost half the female-to-male transsexuals in the study carried the gene variant.

Karen Deamons wants to use the women's locker room, like a normal woman. Deamons is transsexual - she presents herself and lives as a woman. But because she has not yet had sex-change surgery, Cleveland officials insist that she change clothes in the men's locker room of the indoor pool at Cudell Recreation Center, after they received complaints from a few women who said Deamons made them uncomfortable. For more than a year, Deamons, 53, followed the mandate. But now, after an embarrassing question from a boy in the men's locker room, she's fighting the city. She filed a gender...

Confused by the title? Confused by the concept of a "man" giving birth? Confused in general about how society let this nonsense happen? Well, you're never going to be as confused as the baby boy of the pregnant "man"! See why in this cartoon from "Geeks On Caffeine."

In today's gender bending society, would it really be an honor for a transsexual, pregnant man to name his/her child after you? In this comic, Joe of "Geeks On Caffeine" has this dubious honor bestowed upon him...

Heard about the pregnant "dude" on Oprah? Well he's in "Geeks On Caffeine" and...uh...well, the title of this post pretty much says it all. Further evidence of the decline of Western civilization? A sign of the apocalypse? Or just another story about a nutbag that expects the rest of the world to buy into personal delusion? YOU MAKE THE CALL!!

A business owner has to worry about many "groups" with a social agenda. After coffee shop owner Joe Black had a run-in with the Transsexual Mafia, the next group with a social bone to pick made its presence known!

The title pretty much says it all. Check out the toon!!

Sometimes it's just so durn easy to get confused when you're having a conversation with a transsexual...

You know what happens to those who cross the mafia, right? They get whacked, rubbed out, erased and so on. Well with the transsexual mafia, you wind up at the bottom of the river swimming with the fishes in a pair of cement...

You don't know where it will happen. You don't know when it will happen. You don't know who it will happen to. But if you own a business or believe in conservative societal norms, at some point you will feel the impact when the TRANSSEXUAL MAFIA STRIKES!!!!

Have you ever wondered how dudes who like to wear dresses who have "gender identity disorder" came to wield so much political power in present day America, then check out this site! The web cartoon "Geeks On Caffeine" has the answers you seek! FUNNY!!!

For the past 12 months, she had proudly taken to the road as part of an all-female driving school. But Emma Sherdley is not exactly all woman. Until a few years ago she was a married father-of-two called Andrew. She is, though, in the middle of treatment to change gender and has the legal paperwork to prove it. But that wasn't enough to satisfy one client who claimed he had been shortchanged when he booked a female instructor to teach his wife how to drive. He phoned the Laugh 'n' Pass driving school threatening to sue after Miss Sherdley, 42,...

BEND, Oregon, April 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The mainstream media pushed the story of Thomas Beatie this past week, billing the story as the 'miraculous' male pregnancy. The startling news headline took the media by storm on April 1 (was this date a coincidence?), following Beatie's appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show and an interview in People magazine.If this story really were an instance of an unexplained pregnancy in a male, it might really be newsworthy. But it is actually a total non-story about a woman becoming pregnant. And yet, it has been turned into a giant media deception to...

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell U by: Malcolm A. Kline, December 06, 2007 It looks like the university named after the father of our country has figured out a way to move gender studies to the next level. “Every Wednesday afternoon this past summer, a retired Army colonel named Jeff left his consulting job at a military base and headed to George Washington University,” Jennifer Ruark reported in the September 7, 2007 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. “But first he stopped at home to change into a skirt.” “By the time he arrived at the university’s Speech and Hearing...

More than half a century of emotional pain came to an end when Janice Carney opened her eyes on the morning of Feb. 25, 2001, in a Colorado hospital. Carney, born John Joseph Carney, vividly remembers waking up on her 51st birthday, after eight hours of surgery, and seeing her best friend holding a birthday cake with a single candle on it. "It was the beginning of my new life," Carney says. A surgeon removed Carney's male genitalia, which Carney describes as "toxic waste," and reshaped the tissue to medically turn Carney from male to female. . . .

Federal Appeals Court Rejects Demand of "Transsexuals" for Special Rights DENVER, September 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A federal appeals court has issued a significant ruling saying that an employer's concern over the use of restrooms by "transsexual" employees is legitimate, according to Alliance Defense Fund Senior Legal Counsel Brian Raum.  Raum explained further that the court ruled that "transsexuals" do not qualify as a protected class under Title VII. "The court delivered a significant legal punch to political special interest groups who are demanding that persons with Gender Identity Disorder be treated as though they were members of the opposite...

Transgendered person charged with practicing medicine without license 05:39 PM EDT on Friday, August 17, 2007 Reported by: Lindsey Roberts Suffolk Police have arrested a man and charged him with practicing medicine without a license. According to police, Francis Renee White, 36, of South Main Street, injected silicone into other transgendered people. Police say the shots, used to plump up lips, cheeks and breasts, were administered inside White's home. The injections were with the consent of the transgender customers, but the practice is illegal and very dangerous. "They did them in different places, but generally the face the buttocks or...

Ontario Catholic School Board Approves Referrals to Gay-Activist Therapist, Censors Right to Life Material Also Approves "National Day Against Homophobia" and PFLAG pamphlets By Elizabeth O'Brien and John-Henry Westen WATERLOO, August 9, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Minutes of meetings of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) Family Life Advisory Committee (FLAC) reveal that the Catholic board has undertaken activities that seriously contradict Catholic teaching. Despite Catholic teaching opposing homosexual acts, the board has approved referral of Catholic students to homosexuality-promoting therapists and organizations. In the January 25, 2006 meeting minutes, published on the WCDSB website, the FLAC approved the referral...

Fresno High School students selected senior Dan Abril as prom king and senior Corissa Compos as queen. So what, you say?Among the contenders vying to be crowned prom king was tranny Cinthia Covarrubias. While the senior was perfectly happy to be in the spotlight a few days ago when (s)he said (s)he wanted to "break a barrier for future transgender students," The Fresno Bee reports that on the Big Night Covarrubias sicced Fresno Unified School District Assistant Superintendent John Marinovich on TV camera crews to tell them to buzz off: "She and her parents do not want to be taped,...

CLEARWATER, Florida (AP) -- Lawrence Roach agreed to pay alimony to the woman he divorced, not the man she became after a sex change, his lawyers argued in a Florida court Tuesday in an effort to end the payments. But the ex-wife's attorneys said the operation does not alter the agreement. The lawyers and Circuit Judge Jack St. Arnold agreed the case delves into relatively uncharted legal territory. They found only a 2004 Ohio case that addressed whether or not a transsexual could still collect alimony after a sex change. "There is not a lot out there to help us,"...

LARGO, FL (AP) -- Steve Stanton loved this city he ran for 14 years. This week, he asked the city to love him back -- to accept his plans to pursue sex-change operation and let him keep his $140,000 job as city manager. It didn't. Almost 500 people packed into City Hall Tuesday night for a special meeting to decide if they would accept Susan instead of Steve as their top official. And while many spoke eloquently in his defense, more called for his ouster. "If Jesus was here tonight, I can guarantee you he'd want him terminated," said Pastor...

VIENNA, Austria, January 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A boy of 12 began receiving radical hormone treatment to stop the natural development of male puberty and prepare his body for a sex-change operation, after doctors and psychiatrists diagnosed him as transsexual. The boy, now 14--called Kim instead of his original name of Tim--convinced his parents and medical professionals that he was “in the wrong body” and needed to receive treatment to prevent him from developing into an adult male, the UK Telegraph reported earlier today. His parents said they initially assumed their son’s desire to be a girl was a temporary...

A transsexual Norwegian wanted two passports, one as a man and one as a woman, but his request was rejected. The Norwegian, a 63-year-old crime fiction writer, applied to state officials in charge of enforcing sexual equality and anti-discrimination measures. The writer's current passport only shows him as a man, which isn't always how he appears as he undergoes treatment. Both the Ministry of Justice and the state police agency, which issues passports in Norway, contended, though, that current regulations don't allow issuance of two passports to the same person. "A basic assumption in the issuance of a passport is...

Mordechai, a 31-year-old Orthodox lawyer from Toronto, gave his wife a Jewish divorce this summer. Then he began his life as Nicole, a woman. Nicole isn't the first transgender person to live an Orthodox life, but as far as anyone knows she is the first Orthodox person to transition publicly and "in place." Transsexuals may always face obstacles and taboos in mainstream Western societies, but Orthodox Jews who make the transition face even greater complications. "I'm not challenging halachic Judaism and I don't want it to be perceived that way," Nicole said, referring to Jewish law. "It would be easier...

After an aggressive campaign, Kim Coco Iwamoto earned a seat on Hawaii's statewide Board of Education and, according to national advocacy groups, a place in history as the country's highest-elected transgender official. Iwamoto, a 38-year-old lawyer, did not tout her gender status in the campaign but has openly advocated for transgender youth and related issues at the state capitol. She placed third in Tuesday's election among six candidates for three seats on the board. She was not immediately available for comment. However, in a statement early Wednesday she said she was looking forward to "working in collaboration with the other...

Italy's first transsexual MP, a flamboyant 41-year-old television star, has caused a storm in the houses of parliament by using the female lavatories.Vladimir Luxuria, 41, an MP for the Communist Refoundation party, was born a man but dresses in women's clothes and prefers to be addressed as a woman. She says she considers herself "neither male nor female". She was found in the ladies' lavatory by Elisabetta Gardini, a former showgirl who is now a spokesman for Forza Italia, the party led by Silvio Berlusconi. Miss Gardini allegedly told Ms Luxuria: "This is the ladies', you cannot come in here,...

A man claiming to be a transsexual has asked the LDO for assistance in acquiring two passports, one with a "woman passport photo". "I have previously applied to the Ministry of Justice on this matter, since traveling as a woman leads to considerable problems when one's passport photo depicts a man," the man writes, describing himself as a "trans-person". The applicant explains in the letter that traveling as a woman has become markedly more complicated after the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, due to the increased security checks at airports. "For me this has made it virtually impossible to travel...

Stockholm - A hen in southern Sweden that has grown a rooster comb, tail and wattle and begun to crow is wreaking havoc in its henhouse, where the rooster, Henry VIII, is hopping mad, Swedish media reported on Friday. "Henry VIII is bloody angry. The other hens are mostly just surprised but they seem to increasingly accept him or her," the owner of the henhouse, Christel Hammar-Malmgren, told the online edition of regional daily Blekinge Laens Tidning. Hammar-Malmgren woke up one morning in July to the sound of two roosters crowing, instead of just one. To her surprise, she discovered...

SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- A Somerville physician is sending letters to his patients letting them know he's living as a transsexual. Doctor Roy Berkowitz-Shelton says he's taking a three-week vacation and will return as Doctor Deborah Bershel. The 52-year-old family physician has worked in Davis Square for 18 years and hopes to continue serving patients as a woman. The executive director of the state board of registration in medicine says the change won't affect the doctor's standing.

A beloved Somerville family doctor has dropped a bombshell on his patients by revealing he is transsexual and will begin seeing patients as a woman. “After almost 18 years of practicing medicine in Davis Square, I am looking forward to many more years as your family physician. There will be only one major change that will occur in July - I will begin practicing medicine as a woman,” Dr. Roy Berkowitz-Shelton wrote in a letter to patients. Berkowitz-Shelton, the married father of two, said in the letter that he will return from a hiatus “to live my life as I...

Con: Fund my sex changehttp://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=141529 http://tinyurl.com/qmn9u By Dave Wedge Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - Updated: 07:35 AM EST Not satisfied with his taxpayer-funded female hormones and laser hair removal, a convicted killer-turned-transsexual is again asking the state to pony up to complete his transformation into a woman. Robert Kosilek, who is serving life in prison for strangling his wife, was back in federal court yesterday, again demanding that the state Department of Correction pay for his sex-change operation. A similar bid was denied in 2002, and his latest attempt has infuriated Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey. “I strongly oppose using taxpayer...

Woman who underwent sex-change operation appeals to High Court of Justice after Rabbinic Court cancels prior alimony agreement; appeal rejected The High Court of Justice rejected Monday an appeal made by a transsexual woman who demanded to cancel a prior Rabbinic Court decision which prevents her from meeting her nine-year-old daughter. The judges decided that the woman, who was born as a male and underwent a sex-change operation a few years ago, did not utilize all the available legal procedures to the fullest. Her lawyer, Yonatan De-Paris, vowed to study the court's decision. The affair began four years ago when...

Cross-dressing teen barred from senior prom http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/prom24.html May 24, 2006 FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS GARY, Ind. -- The prom ticket was in hand: $85. The fuschia, slinky prom dress and strappy heels were ready. The whole week of giddy anticipation and pampering -- more than $200 worth of a manicure, pedicure and hair set -- was set to culminate with the grand walk into the glam ball. But when Kevin Logan, a transgender and gay student at Gary’s West Side High School, arrived last Friday at Avalon Manor in Hobart for his prom, he was banned by Principal Diane Rouse....

TORONTO (CP) - A group that supports transgender rights is applauding a "precedent-setting" decision by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario that gives transsexuals who are strip-searched by police the right to choose between male or female officers or both to perform the act. The ruling, which stems from a complaint by a man who was in the process of becoming a woman, is a "win-win" for both transsexuals and police, said Laurie Arron of Egale Canada, a group that advocates equality for homosexual, bisexual and transgender people. The transsexual complainant, Rosalyn Forrester, was strip-searched by male Peel Region police...

Barbara Colonna had a secret.For most of her 56 years, she led a solitary existence to protect her identity. But now that she has filed as a Republican candidate for Haworth Borough Council, she's breaking her silence. The 5-foot-3-inch woman with bobbed salt and pepper hair and piercing green eyes was once a man named Edward.  After becoming more involved in town, it made sense that eventually she would run for council. But what would she tell people about her past? She started with her running mates. When they were not alarmed, she was encouraged. Her slate plans to run...

We all know that liberals, unlike conservatives, are empathic, good, smart and not uptight about sex, race or gender. You too can become a self-congatulating member of the faith, even if you are a Republican. All it takes is shedding your archaic belief in the limits imposed by biology. Meet Jennifer Lee Jackson, a man, oops woman, oops, surgically castrated man- once confused and conflicted but no longer so. She is Woman, hear her roar...

AB606 would give inappropriate, draconian power to the California Superintendent of Public Instruction to unilaterally withhold state funds from school districts that don’t promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality according to his arbitrary “standards.” Because two-thirds of a school districts’ funds come from the state, AB 606 would interrupt and destroy the academic learning of millions of California schoolchildren. AB 606 attacks local control by removing the time-honored authority of school boards to select appropriate curriculum related to sexual matters. For example, all schools would be required to define “gender” as “a person's gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior...

EAGLESWOOD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - To students at Eagleswood Elementary School, she used to be Mr. McBeth. Now, after undergoing a sex change, 71-year-old Lily McBeth is ready to return to teaching as Miss McBeth. Despite criticism from parents, the school board on Monday stood by its decision to allow McBeth to resume working as a substitute teacher. After two hours of public debate and a private meeting with McBeth and her lawyer, the board took no action on calls by several parents to bar McBeth from returning to the school where she taught for five years before becoming a...

Cop-killer transsexual Leslie Ann Nelson was honored as an Inmate of the Month during a recent ceremony in which she received a certificate, a hug and a special lunch, infuriating a statewide police organization that represents nearly 30,000 officers. "The idea that our state would award a vicious and cold-blooded murderer like Leslie Ann Nelson is both outrageous and disgusting," said state Policemen's Benevolent Association President Michael J. Madonna, who yesterday called for the New Jersey Department of Corrections to end the Inmate of the Month award and for the warden at Nelson's prison to step down. The award also...

VANCOUVER — A transsexual who was fired by B.C. Ferries last year after she confused “starboard” and “port” and steered a ship in the wrong direction has accused the company of discrimination, saying she was held to a higher standard than other employees because of her sex. Deborah Magnone filed a complaint with the B.C. human rights tribunal and yesterday, the tribunal rejected a bid by B.C. Ferries to have the complaint dismissed. That means the case will proceed to a public hearing, unless the parties can resolve the matter. Magnone, who was hired as a casual deckhand on May...

Many men have found peace at the Hub's veterans shelter – and one of them is living as a woman. Jacquelyn Bissett, a former M16-toting Army private who kept his bisexuality secret for fear of retribution, is now accepted as a transsexual woman at the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans. "A lot of the men here have been cordial,'' said 45-year-old Chelsea native Bissett, who, until she changed her name five years ago, was Michael Blair. Thanks to a regimen of hormone pills and injections, Blair ``died,'' Bissett told the Herald, ``and Jacquelyn was born.'' Vincent Maloney, the Boston...

CNSNews.com Correspondent June 14, 2005 (CNSNews.com) - The lawyer who convinced a Florida mediator to transfer custody of two children from a transsexual to the children's biological mother claims the case sets a "huge precedent" for pro-family advocates. The case involves a woman, Margo Kantaras, who in 1987 had female-to-male sex-change surgery, married a woman named Linda Forsythe in 1989, and then adopted Forsythe's biological child the same year. When Forsythe bore another child in 1992, Kantaras was listed as the father on the birth certificate, even though Kantaras' brother had provided the sperm for Forsythe's artificial insemination. Eleven years...

St. Anselm College senior computer programmer Robert Blanchette told superiors he was a transsexual last year and would be returning from a spring vacation as Sarah Blanchette. He asked for their compassion and support.

It will take four hours for Jacqueline Yanni to become a woman thanks to a Montreal surgeon and a sharp knife. But she needed a year to grasp the feminine mystique - the words, gestures, tone and melody contained in a simple "How are you today?" Every Wednesday, the 47-year-old Pennsauken hairdresser, who was born male, comes to Temple University Speech-Language-Hearing Center. Dark hair swinging around her face, she picks up the microphone to practice the everyday sentences of life in a new gender. Nothing is easy. Gesture from the wrists, not the elbows. Ask questions at the end of...

March 23, 2005 -- A lovestruck teenager who created a public spectacle by climbing 30 feet up a Central Park tree to canoodle naked with his transsexual sweetheart was sentenced yesterday to community service — most likely back in a city park.

LONDON (AP) -- Transsexual golfers will be allowed to play in this year's women's British Open in a policy change made by the Ladies Golf Union. The move, announced Wednesday, comes 11 months after Danish-born Mianne Bagger became the first male-born golfer to play in a professional women's tournament. The LGU, which governs amateur golf in Britain and also runs the women's British Open, followed a similar move made last year by the Ladies European Tour, the governing body of professional women's golf in Europe. Bagger, who had a sex-change operation in 1995, is playing this season on the Ladies...

LONDON (AP) -- Transsexual golfers will be allowed to play in this year's women's British Open in a policy change made by the Ladies Golf Union. The move, announced Wednesday, comes 11 months after Danish-born Mianne Bagger became the first male-born golfer to play in a professional women's tournament. The LGU, which governs amateur golf in Britain and also runs the women's British Open, followed a similar move made last year by the Ladies European Tour, the governing body of professional women's golf in Europe. Bagger, who had a sex-change operation in 1995, is playing this season on the Ladies...

U.S. National - AFP US Marine shot by police after killing transsexual prostitute 46 minutes ago U.S. National - AFP LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Police in Los Angeles shot a US Marine to death after he allegedly killed a transsexual prostitute, officers said. LAPD Photo The active-duty Marine shot the prostitute after picking her up in Hollywood believing she was a woman, the Los Angeles Times said. The Marine, whom police did not immediately identify, was killed while allegedly brandishing a handgun during a confrontation with police, which followed a high-speed car chase through the city early Sunday, police said....