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      <title><![CDATA[Advocates Want Hate Crime Law to Include Transgenders]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1265662524" delta="4 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/8/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Carmella EtienneLGBTQ advocates are pushing the state legislature to amend New York's hate crime law to include gender identity. Under the current state law, prosecuters can classify assault as a hate crime if it stems from the victims' sexual orientation, but crimes against transgender victims do not necessarily qualify.  ]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[State-wide transgender organizations gather for summit]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1265662464" delta="4 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/8/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Last weekend, the state-wide transgender community gathered for San Diego's 4th Annual Transgender Leadership Summit. Equality California, Transgender Law Center, along with more than 20 community-based organizations presented the three-day affair, hosted by the University of California San Diego.   ]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Man guilty of hate crime, first-degree murder in transgender slaying]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1265662378" delta="4 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/8/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Reporting from Denver -- A Colorado man who says he bludgeoned his date to death out of rage and shock after discovering she was biologically male was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder and a hate crime. Jurors deliberated about two hours before finding Allen Ray Andrade, 32, guilty of killing Angie Zapata, 18, of Greeley last July. District Judge Marcelo Kopcow swiftly sentenced him to life in prison without possibility of parole.  ]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Traveling exhibit focuses on transgender people]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1253218415" delta="24 weeks ago"><![CDATA[9/17/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Arthur Robinson Williams wants his fellow medical students to know more about the unique challenges of patients who are lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual.  So he has produced a traveling documentary exhibit, "My Right Self: Transgender Considerations." It's composed of 25 photos and personal stories.  ]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Transgender rights  No, 24-0]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1241046138" delta="44 weeks ago"><![CDATA[4/29/2009]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Concord – The New Hampshire Senate today unanimously rejected a bill that would have extended anti-discrimination laws to transgendered people. House Bill 415 would have protected those with sexual identity issues in areas of housing and employment, much the way the state's laws protects others from discrimination on the basis of color, race, religion or sexual orientation. ]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Where is my transgender beauty pageant?]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194685595" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/10/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[First, an explanation.  I've been on the American Family Association's mailing list for a couple months now.  I ended up on there because ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Transgender Childrens Clinic]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194589307" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Boston Children's Hospital Opens “Transgender” Children's ClinicBOSTON, Massachusetts, May 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new clinic at Children's Hospital Boston is offering hormone treatment to ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Insurance victory for Ohio transsexual]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194588993" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[An Ohio transsexual has won a court battle with her insurance company over the cost of her gender reassignment surgery. Jan Stacy, and electronics engineer, ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Democrats weaken employment legislation for transgender people]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194588798" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Even as the Senate passed a hate crimes bill sought for a decade by gays and lesbians, House Democratic leaders decided Thursday to strip transgender ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[The female gender beats all]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194588501" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[RECENTLY, the broadcast industry led by ABS-CBN and GMA aired for 376 times a strange TV commercial posing a killer question: “Why are there no ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vatican Official Insists He's Not Gay]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194588193" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY (AP) - 1013dv-italy-priest A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[The beauty queens with rather surprising a-genders]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194587969" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[This picture shows an attractive model applying some essential last-minute make-up backstage before competing in an international beauty pageant, right? Well, not quite. You see, ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Transvestite helps capture suspected paedophile]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194587748" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[AFTER a three-year hunt involving cutting edge technology and police on three continents, it was dogged detective work and a Thai transvestite that finally led ...]]></text>
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    <article id="1008">
      <title><![CDATA[Beauty gets to shine]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194587542" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[A beauty pageant for transsexuals and transvestites has taken place in the Philippines.Twenty-three hopefuls battled it out in swimsuit and evening gown events for the ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Battling stigma]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194587311" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[A Singaporean transsexual fights the 'culture of shame' in Asia. SHE loves children and her lifelong dream is to be a wife and a mother, ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prostitutes Strike in Bolivia]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194587001" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[As of Wednesday morning, Bolivia's "night workers" are on strike. Up to 35,000 prostitutes across the country have refused to report for the medical checkups ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Skeleton in the closet]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194586808" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Should a spring-break sexual tryst with a transvestite be forgiven?Should a woman call it quits after finding out her husband-to-be once had a wild time ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fetish for footwear]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1194586506" delta="121 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/9/2007]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Painful heels, pointed toes, patent leather: the big trend in footwear this season is fetishism. But why, asks Hadley Freeman, would you want to dress ...]]></text>
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    <article id="10101">
      <title><![CDATA[Be All Conference - Chicago's Annual Transgender Conference]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1265991806" delta="3 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/12/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[June 1st to June 6th, 2010(Tuesday to Sunday)28th Year Celebration9th Consecutive Year in Chicago Hosted by Chicago Gender Society (CGS) and Chi Chapter Tri-ESSThis is ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dica Las Vegas Sunday, April 18 thru Friday, April 23, 2010.]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1265992311" delta="3 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/12/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The best way to describe Diva Las Vegas is to say it's a great opportunity to get away and be yourself for a while. Diva ...]]></text>
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      <createdate unixtime="1265992444" delta="3 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/12/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[November - Erie, PA A fabulous fun weekend for crossdressers will be held in Nov. in Erie, Pa. Spa services, shopping, tours, formal banquet, vendors ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Southern Comfort Conference 2010 Seminar]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1265992038" delta="3 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/12/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[September 9-11 2010 Thursday threw SaturdayThis year is the 20th annual Southern Comfort Conference and the theme will be “Party Hearty”.Vendors, authors, entertainers and leaders ...]]></text>
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      <title><![CDATA[Transgendered Discussion Group  Thursday 25 March 2010]]></title>
      <createdate unixtime="1265992664" delta="3 weeks ago"><![CDATA[2/12/2010]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Thursday 25 March 2010 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Transgendered Discussion Group This group runs for two hours an evening and we will meet to ...]]></text>
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