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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A transgender woman who wants to be Miss Universe said Tuesday that a rule requiring contestants to be born as women should be dropped, whether or not she gets a chance to compete. "I do not want any other woman to suffer the discrimination that I have endured," said Jenna Talackova, who underwent a sex change four years ago.

The public hearing for the Massachusetts "Transgender Rights and Hate Crimes Bill" H502 will be held in the State House next Wednesday, June 8. The transgender movement has been flooding the legislators with their emotional stories and their general disinformation, including bitter complaints about "discrimination" and demands for transgender "civil rights". But there's another side - the truth - that needs to be heard. It's about what this unfortunate and tragic disorder is really about, and how it harms the people engaging in it and the people around them. The following testimony was sent to MassResistance from Denise Shick in...

Good speech for a Rethuglican. That's the consensus of the DUmmies on the Compromiser-in-Chief and his State of the Eunuch snoozefest last night. It was Obama's Nudnik Moment: The erstwhile Anointed One has become the Annoying One. Many threads to choose from; for now we'll go with . . . this THREAD, "So far, it's a super-progressive speech." and this THREAD, "Well DU has become quite the Obama bash fest...." and this Pitt THREAD, "Is this as bad as I think it is?" There's more where those came from, so if PJ wants to do a SOTU DUFU later,...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – A furious eunuch at the centre of a scandal in northwest Pakistan told a court Wednesday that police allegations claiming the teenager married a middle-aged businessman were a "conspiracy". Kashif, who goes by the name Rani, and 42-year old fertiliser dealer Malik Mohammad Iqbal were remanded in judicial custody for a further two weeks as a court in the city of Peshawar gave police time to build a case. "It is a conspiracy against us. I had no intention of getting married," the 19-year-old Rani told the court, bound in handcuffs to Iqbal. Iqbal told the...

Eunuch regiment needed to protect Indian borders, minister says A regiment of eunuchs should be established to guard India's borders and leading politicians, a state minister said on Tuesday, citing their "loyalty and integrity". Published: 1:59PM BST 11 May 2010 "In my humble opinion, if eunuchs are engaged in policing or paramilitary forces they would do a better service to the nation," said Tako Dabi, home minister of the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. Mr Dabi sent a letter to Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram to offer his idea for the improved defence of the country. "Why can't there be...

"China's last eunuch was tormented and impoverished in youth, punished in revolutionary China for his role as the "Emperor's slave" but finally feted and valued, largely for outlasting his peers to become a unique relic, a piece of "living history." He had stories of the tortuous rituals of the Forbidden City, Emperor Pu Yi's last moments there and the troubled puppet court run by the Japanese during the 1930s. He escaped back to the heart of a civil war, became a Communist official and then a target of radical leftists before being finally left in peace. This turbulent life has...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is denouncing Republican attempts to link President-elect Barack Obama and disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A protester who wanted his message to stick managed to superglue himself to the British prime minister Tuesday evening. Dan Glass, right, takes hold of the British PM's right arm just before he was about to receive his award. Dan Glass was at 10 Downing Street to receive a charity's award for his work on transportation issues when he staged the unusual protest. Just before Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented him with the award, Glass squirted superglue in the palm of his left hand. He shook Brown's right hand and then grabbed the prime minister's sleeve....

Mitt Romney referred to the possibility of electing Sen. Hillary Clinton for president as electing an "intern." Romney recently said, "The government of the United States is not a place for a president to be an intern. You need to have experience actually leading and running things." He has said it more than once, so there's no mistaking -- and it's a smart line of attack. Romney is onto something, turning his attention to Hillary before he's had a chance to win a primary or caucus. He has a point about experience. Unlike Romney, and unlike Rudy Giuliani, Clinton hasn't...

WASHINGTON -- A prominent feminist, allied with the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards, accused Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday of "disingenuously playing the victim card" by infusing her campaign with messages about gender. "When unchallenged, in a comfortable, controlled situation, Sen. Clinton embraces her political elevation into the 'boys club,' " Kate Michelman, the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, wrote in a posting on a blog of the liberal group Open Left. But when she's challenged, when legitimate questions are asked, questions she should be prepared to answer and discuss, she is just as...

A short while ago, a “deep green” group in New Zealand sponsored by the Wellington City Council got a bit of attention for advocating a voluntary two-child limit for New Zealanders. Sustainable Wellington Net, the environmentalist branch of the city council’s Wellington Community Network, says, “The lower the population, the easier it is to live sustainably. Consider limiting your family to two children.” Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, a sparsely-populated country with a birthrate below replacement level.

PATNA, India (AP) -- One cash-strapped Indian city has launched a unique collection service to dislodge payment from tax deadbeats: Door-to-door eunuchs. Eunuchs, or men who lack external genitalia, are regarded as powerless in India and traditionally make a living on tips for dancing at weddings or blessing newborns. But they are also known for extreme stubbornness and Patna, the capital of Bihar state in eastern India, hired scores of them Wednesday to compel shop owners to pay their tax arrears.

John Kerry's comments stirred up quite a bit of emotion yesterday. The American Legion promptly denounced them, and John McCain and President Bush rushed to hold press conferences. Kerry vowed to apologize "to no one" and insisted that the statement--"education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq"--was a botched joke directed at Yale graduate George W. Bush. Few, however, stopped to consider the factual nature of the assertions. If they did, they'd realize...

Eunuchs hold annual congregation in Agra By Brajesh Kr Singh, Agra: It was a confluence of different sort when thousands of eunuchs gathered here to participate in a twenty-day long annual congregation, which commenced here on Tuesday. Over 4,000 eunuchs from across the country gathered for the elaborate function, marked by song and dance performances as the general public watched with delight. The eunuchs dressed in their festive finery bedecked with heavy jewellery, parading through the streets of the ancient city danced to the tunes of popular Bollywood numbers. Shobha Nehru, a eunuch, comparing the meet to a marriage celebration...

On a hot Saturday night last June, Don Brunner arrived home with his wife and took off the last suit and tie he'd ever wear, knowing that the life he had always led was about to end. The next morning, the New Milford plumber glanced one last time in the mirror and emerged from their split level - still very much a father and husband, but no longer a man. This is a story about a family that could have spun apart, but instead pulled together. It's a story about a stunned New Jersey town that could have spurned a...

Ludhiana, February 12: PARVEEN Kumar alias Bittu, a 35-year-old resident of Kuldeep Nagar has claimed that he has been castrated by eunuchs. In the complaint made to the police, Parveen has claimed that six eunuchs forcibly took him away from his house on February 8 in a Tata Sumo and drugged him, which made him unconscious. Yesterday evening, Parveen was found by some workers in the farms near Dana Mandi in a painful state. He was taken to Civil Hospital where he is being treated. Today, police registered a First Information Report (FIR) against six persons, and two, viz Kanta...

No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

John Kerry is hot. It’s not what you’ve been hearing, I know, but it’s true. The man’s a stud. He’s old enough to be my father (technically, he’s old enough to be my grandfather—he just happens to be sixty, the same as my dad), so I can’t honestly say that he gets my heart a-racin’ the way that, say, Johnny Depp does. But if I were an older and checking out prospects in the political world, where men of power and import reside, John Kerry would be at the top of my list. He does things, like kite surfing, that...

BOSTON -- It's not often one gets a quiet afternoon away from the office to run errands. When you're campaigning for president of the United States, those moments can be even more fleeting. John Kerry was home in Boston Friday for what was billed as a day off. But a routine trip out on a snowy afternoon by the presumed Democratic nominee quickly turned into a big-time production. The Massachusetts senator and his daughter Vanessa, 27, were escorted from their red brick townhouse in Beacon Hill to a nearby Borders bookstore by a seven-car motorcade -- two police cars, three...

<p>December 15, 2003 -- A 22-year-old transvestite was in critical condition yesterday after he hacked off his penis, then lied and told cops he was the victim of a hate crime. The man, who was not identified because of the nature of the crime, was in critical condition yesterday after doctors at Harlem Hospital Center were unsuccessful in reattaching his penis. Police said the man initially claimed it was a berserk gypsy cab driver who had severed his penis in a fit of rage.</p>