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Congress is getting an earful. in a historic first, On June 26 they heard from a number of transgender Americans about how honesty often leads to a lost career, homelessness and even suicide.

Witnesses included gay Reps. Barney Frank and Tammy Baldwin; four transgender people, including an aeronautics engineer; and a spokesman for Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co., one of more than 150 Fortune 500 companies with a non-discrimination policy on gender identity.

One of the witnesses, David/Diane Schroer, a highly-decorated veteran, is no stranger to a challenge. Schroer was an Airborne Ranger qualified Special Forces officer who completed over 450 parachute jumps, received numerous decorations including the Defense Superior Service Medal, and was hand-picked to head up a classified national security operation. She began taking steps to transition from male to female shortly after retiring as a Colonel after 25 years of distinguished service in the Army.

When she interviewed for a job as a terrorism research analyst at the Library of Congress, she thought she’d found the perfect fit, given her background and 16,000-volume home library collection on military history, the art of war, international relations, and political philosophy. Schroer accepted the position, but when she told her future supervisor that she was in the process of gender transition, they rescinded the job offer. (The ACLU is now representing her in a Title VII sex discrimination lawsuit against the Library of Congress.)

The hearing was an important first step in educating Congress about why Uncle Sam should guarantee transgender workers the right to be evaluated solely on ability.

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Kaylee Seals is pissed off. Why wouldn’t she be? Her scum employer, Old Dominion Freight Line, apparently fired her after she disclosed her plans to transition to female full-time. Still retaining the “balls” she was born with, Kaylee has filed a federal lawsuit against her former employer alleging discrimination and retaliation due to her gender […] Continue Reading…

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Sometime life just isn’t fair. A Florida man discovered that when a judge ordered him to continue making alimony payments of $1250 to his ex-wife even after she had transitioned to a man and technically became his ex-husband.

After 18 years of marriage and a divorce, Larry Roach’s wife, Julia, became Julio. It was a slow FTM transition, but one […] Continue Reading…

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In a country where officially flirting, sex before marriage and homosexuality are considered crimes, amazingly, the Iranian government has come to recognize transexuals under Islamic Law. Homosexuality is mentioned in the Koran whereas Transgenderism is not mentioned and therefore acceptable under Islamic Law.

Excellent documentary! Fascinating how transsexuality is allowed only when it will create […] Continue Reading…

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Last month Cuba authorized sex-change operations and will offer them free for qualifying citizens. The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel, in February. Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariela, heads Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education, which strongly backs the new policy. The procedure would […] Continue Reading…

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