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An Amazon book

I make no recommendations for or against this book, it popped up in an ad while I was looking at a completely unrelated book.

https://www.amazon.com/Swapship-Troopers-Walker-Long-ebook/d...

No I wonder if Heinlein is rolling over in his grave or ROFLing in his grave.

The blurb

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Five years ago today Dorothy posted a story...

I didn't like where the story went, so I rewrote it for her. She reminded me of it a while back, and I thought I would post a link to it on the anniversary of her posting it. You can decide which came closer to today.

http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/33014/five-years-gone

(I admit I wrote something overly optimistic, but I found Dorothy's too depressing.)

I'm glad to see that you are still around and posting Dorothy, have a Merry Christmas.

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Early applicant for the bathroom police...

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“When I saw you enter...I thought you was…,” the as-yet-unidentified man said.

“A boy?” Rush replied. She was wearing a t-shirt and basketball shorts.

“You know it’s difficult,” the man said with a shrug as he walked away from the bathroom. “You are dressed like a man. Of course, you are dressed like a man, so…”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/texas-man-woman-bat...

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Court overturns Virginia school's transgender bathroom rule

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/court-overturns-schools-tra...

Still more appeals to go through. This is the same court that would review North Carolina's law.

A Virginia high school discriminated against a transgender teen by forbidding him from using the boys' restroom, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case that could have implications for a North Carolina law that critics say discriminates against LGBT people.

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SD Governor vetoes Bathroom Bill

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/us/governor-vetoes-transge...

The Republican governor of South Dakota on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would have restricted bathroom access for transgender students and made the state the first to adopt such a measure.

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One step forward, a Marathon run backward

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/16/south-dakota...

While in Illinois there is legislation to allow birth certificate changes without surgery, in South Dakota they want to force student TGs to use the bathroom of their biological gender.

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Illinois is trying

http://progressillinois.com/quick-hits/content/2016/02/15/st...

It's a start.

...transgender and intersex people in Illinois could correct their birth certificate if they receive a declaration by a physician stating they have "undergone treatment that is clinically appropriate for that individual for the purpose of gender transition, based on contemporary medical standards, or that the individual has an intersex condition,"

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Advice needed please

I help run a yearly convention. A year and a half ago or so, one of our attendees transitioned MtF. As far as I know, she has had no troubles, other than some wrong name usage (she has been coming to the convention for 10+ years). The wrong name usage dropped from last year to this year. Even my very conservative friends have treated her well, doing their best to use her correct name.

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Illinois passes a good law, for once.

Gender Identity Protection (HB 3552/PA 99-0417): Provides that the written directions a person leaves regarding disposition of that person’s remains may include instructions regarding gender identity including, but not limited to, instructions with respect to appearance, chosen name, and gender pronouns, regardless of whether the person has obtained a court-ordered name change, changed the gender marker on any identification document, or undergone any transition-related medical treatment.

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GRRRRR!

Palatine HS is being stupid!

This if ridiculous. This isn't someone just starting to transition.

The student who filed the complaint has been living as a girl for a number of years, Knight said. She plays sports and would like to be in the same locker room as her friends and classmates. Relegating her to a separate room down a long hallway from the gym only serves to stigmatize her, he said.

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I saw it on the News...

It's been done before

Some fanfiction author is going to sue. The 10th anniversary (has it been that long?) Twilight is going to have a genderswapped version of the story.

(I included NSFW based upon what people are likely to say when they see the story. I couldn't find a Caution for horrible things.)

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What does everyone think of this...

http://www.gocomics.com/bliss/2015/09/10

Bliss 2015-9-10

I was reading my daily comics and ran across this one. I'm not exactly sure what the message is, and whether or not I agree with it.

What does anyone else think?

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Illinois bans Gay conversion therapy

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