“I refuse to allow anyone to use me and my horrific sexual assault to cause harm and discrimination to others...”
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On March 5th of this year Kelly Herron was assaulted in a park bathroom in Washington state and badly beaten as she fought off her would be rapist and captured him for the police.

Weeks later a friend called her and told her that a group (Just Want Privacy) trying to pass another one of these anti-trans bathroom bills in her state was using photographs of her battered face as proof of what allowing trans people use the "wrong" bathroom would lead to. The group hadn't asked her, and she was really really pissed off at being used by them to promote a bill that she is 100% against and has nothing to do with her being attacked by a cis male rapist.

For an article in the Sunday Times she wrote in which she apparently suggested that transwomen are not real women. It got a mention in the Guardian and some of the comments are more interesting than the article.

For those who want to see the Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/05/jenni-murray...

I haven't actually yet seen the Sunday Times article which is behind a paywall. Thanks Roop!

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2017/02/27/Federa...

Post-Gazette.com
Federal judge: Bathroom choice a decision for Pine-Richland transgender students
February 27, 2017 6:10 PM
By Torsten Ove / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A federal judge today said three transgender students at Pine-Richland High can use the bathroom of their choice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/meet-the-t...

Meet the Texas wrestler who won a girls’ state title. His name is Mack.

For those who haven't heard it, the White House has rescinded the toilet protection that the Obama administration enabled.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/22/transgender-...

A while back I had a throwaway line in my story Blinding revelations.

"I must have still been high from buying my own dress, because I headed right into the lingerie department without a second thought. Hell, this is Wal-Mart - if they sold whole cows no one would blink if you threw a side of beef, dripping and bloody, into your cart and toddled through the registers. Well, maybe the guy who had to clean the floors might object, but a boy buying a bra, ho-hum!"

For Ang and the readers of Bike:
Lessons on Aging Well, From a 105-Year-Old Cyclist

Just to be perfectly clear this is NOT real. Although with the way thing seem to be heading it may not be to far in the future.

According to MSN see the link below.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/vogue-model-hanne-ga...

This
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38637837

is quite interesting. A MtF woman named Gwen from Pennsylvania, hosted an "ask me anything" (AMA) session on the online community site Reddit.

Worth a read.

Samantha

Yesterday, my local paper had an article about a "doctor" who thinks trans people are just autistic with a "fixation" on opposite gender stuff.

I'm 100 % sure the anti-trans people - especially the "Christians" will latch on to this guy so that's gonna be fun ...

Does anyone happen to have the audiobook for this, because it has been discontinued by the publisher and I am having a hard time finding it. I started to listen to what I have when I realized how much is missing and its driving me crazy, that I also can't find it online. Thanks.

Found this news article today about a teen who has allowed National Geographic to film her GRS.

https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/trans-teen-shares-gender-confir...

I was watching the news last night on the local FOX affiliated station. Much to my surprise they were interviewing my cardiologist. He was explaining “broken heart syndrome” in connection with Debbie Reynolds' death.

Not too many years ago he had given me the same explanation. We were in his office going over my medical history, including my family’s health.

I had told him that my father had died in his sleep from a surprise heart attack. Less than a week later, my mother, who had not displayed any heart problems, died from a “heart attack.”

Vera Rubin, the astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of "dark matter", has died at 88.\

Here is an article about her:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/26/507022497/...

So many singers passed away in 2016.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-26/singer-george-michael-...

https://news.vice.com/story/north-carolina-hb2-anti-trans-law

This is a good read about a bad law.

In a conversation I just had with an ER Doctor, he asked me if during my SRS surgery, had the surgeon removed my Prostate Gland? Back in 2007, when mine was done, I do not think they were doing that because it was felt that the proceedure was too dangerous to the nerves and blood vessels.

Apparently some or all surgeons are now doing it orthoscopically as a part of SRS. Are any of you aware if this change in surgical procedure has been implemented or is the ER Doctor wrong?

Gwen

John Glenn passed away today.

All the heros are getting old and dieing, and I don't see people to take their places. Each generation should have heros, real bonafide heros.

This appeared in my Facebook News:

To the man in the JC Penney bathroom today-

I know that comments about the Daily Mail newspaper tend to be somewhat non-supportive, however I feel that the article featuring India Willoughby (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3997244/We-changin...) is helpful.

Stories without endings. I live in a city with a major state university. Listening to my scanner today there was a call for a welfare check. People were reporting a girl on the parking garage at the union that seemed out of it. She wouldn't respond to people and she had 'an odd look in her eyes'.

The university police responded to the garage and the first one on the scene reported she was standing on the top rail of the top deck of the garage. A fall from there would be three stories down to concrete.

It appears after the child of a divorced parent was removed from her custody because she allowed the child to dress as a girl has encouraged other separated or divorced parents to challenge the diagnoses of transgender children and the custody of the child with the sympathetic parent.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/22/parents-fear...

Ran across this news story on Yahoo today. As usual per the disgustingly low standards of news services these days, there is little actual details about the situation itself.

https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/a-mom-is-suing-her-transgender-...