Nancy Wichmann

Washington Post
This Wisconsin Democrat gave $115k to elect Va.'s first transgender lawmaker
Washington Post
In her bid to become Virginia's first openly transgender lawmaker, Democrat Danica Roem is getting a major boost from a donor who lives 800 miles away. They've never met. She's not even sure how to pronounce his name. Milwaukee County Executive ...

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Connecticut colleges work to accommodate transgender, non-binary students in safe learning environment
New Haven Register
At New Haven's Southern Connecticut State University, one of its most recent changes in the field of transgender issues is its “gender inclusive housing.” The on-campus housing, which gives students who don't identify as the gender they were assigned ...

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Daily Mail
I am NOT transgender, says Richard Simmons: Reclusive fitness guru lays down five reasons why he 'is a male' in ...
Daily Mail
Richard Simmons says he is not transgender and gives a pointed list of reasons why in an ongoing explosive lawsuit with a magazine company who printed otherwise. The fitness guru, 68, who has been living as a recluse for years, is in the middle of a ...

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Fox News
Richard Simmons says he is not transgender in new court filing
Fox News
“I fully support transgender individuals and their struggle to achieve acceptance and equality,” he said. “Nonetheless, the false and fabricated claims that I was contemplating 'castration' and have had a 'boob job' have caused me extreme embarrassment.”.
Richard Simmons 5 Reasons I'm Not TransgenderTMZ.com
Donald Trump's Military Transgender Ban Comes Up in Richard Simmons LawsuitHollywood Reporter
Richard Simmons sets the record straight: 'I am not transgender'Wonderwall
Instinct Magazine
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Transgender Protesters Arrested At Glasgow Pride
NewNowNext
Trans and queer protesters were pinned to the ground by police, handcuffed, and arrested Saturday at Glasgow Pride, Gay Star News reports. The protesters, who carried signs with anti-police slogans, were attempting to block the parade at the beginning ...

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A STUDENT has spoken of how much support he was given after revealing he was transgender while studying for his A-levels. Daniel Walker, from Nelson and Colne College, achieved three As in computer science, maths and further maths and will go on to study computer science at the University of York.

Minnesota 'toolkit' addresses transgender issues
WDAZ
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. — The "toolkit" to protect the rights of transgender students, which recently was distributed to Minnesota school superintendents, "was given to us as a guide" and is not legally binding, said East Grand Forks Superintendent ...

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Give me a freaking break. Psychiatrists have already come out and said this whole transgender nonsense amounts to child abuse.

AZFamily
Police investigating after transgender teen assaulted at apartment pool
AZFamily
Phoenix police are investigating after a transgender teen was apparently assaulted by up to 20 people at a west Valley apartment complex. Dakota Kern says she was invited to a pool party at the complex near 35th and Dunlap avenues on August 16.

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After a long night performing at one of Pattaya's most famous cabaret shows, Aom only wanted a good rest. The 35-year-old cabaret performer left work at 1am without pausing to remove her make-up.

Pakistan's Parliament is poised to pass the nation's first law recognizing transgender people as equal citizens and laying out penalties for discrimination and violence against them, a surprising victory for activists in a country with deeply conservative social views. The Transgender Persons Protection of Rights bill , which community members and activists say has the support of all the major political parties, is expected to pass easily in Parliament in the coming weeks.

Arizona Daily Star
Chance Agrella: Transgender kids need support, not harmful pseudo science
Arizona Daily Star
The debate surrounding the Pima County Board of Supervisors resolution to ban paid conversion therapy seems to have been taken by some as an opportunity to question the legitimacy of transgender and gender non-binary identities as a whole.

He's the lieutenant governor after all, the veteran senator thought, and he cared about this "bathroom bill." Plus, since he'd assumed his role as head of the Senate two years earlier, Patrick had never before personally called to ask her to vote for something.

New York Times
Transgender Pakistanis Win Legal Victories, but Violence Goes On
New York Times
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan's Parliament is poised to pass the nation's first law recognizing transgender people as equal citizens and laying out penalties for discrimination and violence against them, a surprising victory for activists in a country ...

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Dallas News
How Dan Patrick's bathroom bill galvanized transgender Texans
Dallas News
For more than a year, Patrick pulled out all the stops for the bathroom bills, which would have restricted restroom use based on biological sex and undone local anti-discrimination ordinances protecting the rights of transgender Texans. But rather than ...
Texas pastors call for revival of transgender bathroom billThe Christian Times

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A D.C. man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing a transgender woman in Montgomery County last April. Renier fatally stabbed Keyonna Blakeney.

The California state Senate is considering a bill that would punish health care workers up to a year in jail if they "willfully and repeatedly" decline to address a transgender resident with their "preferred name or pronouns." The bill, SB 219 , proposed by San Francisco's Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, is aimed at protecting transgender and other LGBT groups in health care sectors such as hospitals, retirement homes and housing institutions.

This photo of transgender activist Ashley Smith with Abbott went viral. Such activists have argued that their gender identification trumps their gender of birth, but some say that should not be so.

Fox News
Use wrong pronoun for transgender senior? California may punish ...
Fox News
The California state Senate is considering a bill that would punish health care workers up to a year in jail if they “willfully and repeatedly” decline to address a ...

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mySanAntonio.com
Critical questions need to be answered in transgender debate
mySanAntonio.com
People who identify as transgender typically describe an internal subjective experience of belonging in the other category, and I am not challenging those self-reports. But an internal subjective experience doesn't change physical realities in the world.