News

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5 former Anchorage mayors back gay rights initiative

2/4/2012 4:26:39 AM

Five former Anchorage mayors on Friday endorsed an April ballot measure to extend legal protections against discrimination to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents of the city. Former Anchorage mayors Matt Claman, Jack Roderick, Rick Mystrom

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Transgender Woman Killed [UPDATED] Victim suffers fatal stabbing at Northeast ...

2/4/2012 2:10:35 AM

According to a press release from the DC Transgender Coalition (DCTC), an altercation between the victim and her attacker broke out at the bus stop, which resulted in the victim being stabbed in the cheek. A third person at the bus stop reportedly

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Khloe Kardashian Fights Assault Claims In Lawsuit!

2/4/2012 1:22:55 AM

A transgender woman named Chantal Spears filed a lawsuit against the reality star in December which claimed that she was "assaulted and battered" by her outside the Playhouse club in Hollywood back in 2009, and now, Miss Khloé is claiming it was simply

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Transgender inmate: Don't judge me, I need sex change

2/4/2012 12:38:05 AM



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DC Trans Coalition speaks after transgender stabbing victim dies

2/3/2012 10:49:01 PM

By Katie Rogers (Creative Commons photo/Flickr.com user rbrwr) After a transgender person died after being stabbed at a bus stop Thursday evening, the DC Trans Coalition is asking for help in identifying the victim. “We are working with the police to

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Khloé Kardashian Odom Fires Back, Acted in "Self-Defense" in Transgender ...

2/3/2012 7:43:11 PM

The reality star is defending herself against a lawsuit filed last year claiming that, in a now two-year-old altercation, she assaulted a transgender woman outside a nightclub. In the newly filed response, obtained by E! News, Kardashian claims she did

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Transgender woman dies after stabbing in Northeast

2/3/2012 6:01:22 PM

By Andrea Noble A transgender woman died from injuries she suffered when she was stabbed in the head at a bus stop in Northeast, officials said Friday. The attack occurred around 8 pm Thursday at a bus stop near East Capitol and Sycamore streets,

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Transgender Woman Stabbed In DC Dies

2/3/2012 5:23:07 PM

WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) --- Police say a transgender woman who was found stabbed in Northeast Washington Thursday evening has died. METRO Transit Police tell 9NewsNow that the stabbing happened at about eight o'clock in the 4900 block of East Capitol

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Khloe Kardashian Fires Back at Transgender -- It Was…

2/3/2012 4:46:24 PM

Khloe Kardashian just launched her first counter-attack after a transgender woman sued her for assault -- insisting she didn't do anything wrong during the 2009 street scuffle ... she merely acted in self-defense. Khloe filed the response in LA County

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Khloe Kardashian Claims She Attacked Transgender Woman in Self-Defense

2/3/2012 3:34:38 PM

Khloe Kardashian has publicly spoken for the first time about her alleged assault on a transgender woman, saying she didn't do anything wrong and was acting in self-defense, TMZ is reporting. The E! reality star filed a response in LA County Superior

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