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A Yeshiva University professor left two years ago as a man - and returned last week as a woman. Literature Professor Joy Ladin, formerly known as Jay Ladin, 47, showed up for her first day of school sporting pink lipstick, a tight purple shirt and a flirty black skirt. She cheerfully strutted through the doors of the Midtown campus' main building, where she oversees the writing center. Many at the Jewish university are horrified by the presence of the transgender professor. Some fear the news could cut alumni donations. Ladin and the school won't comment on the situation, but some...

BEND, Oregon, April 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The mainstream media pushed the story of Thomas Beatie this past week, billing the story as the 'miraculous' male pregnancy. The startling news headline took the media by storm on April 1 (was this date a coincidence?), following Beatie's appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show and an interview in People magazine.If this story really were an instance of an unexplained pregnancy in a male, it might really be newsworthy. But it is actually a total non-story about a woman becoming pregnant. And yet, it has been turned into a giant media deception to...

It comes too late to help Carol Barlow, but she certainly could have used it.  Could have invoked it when she got fired.   Could have pointed to it when the job interviewer laughed in her face.  Could have sued after, she says, her boss said, "When you become Carol or whatever the hell you're doing, you're out of there."  Because Carol Barlow used to be Bruce Barlow. And first Bruce, and then Carol, suffered harassment, indignities and discrimination at one job and then another, and still more on innumerable job interviews.  Well, that won't cut it anymore.Starting June 17, it...

Transgendered New Yorkers would be able to get new birth certificates under a proposal being reviewed by the city's Board of Health. The board, which meets tomorrow, is poised to change the city's Health Code so that new birth certificates can be issued to match a person's current gender identity. "This is really good news," said Joe Tarver a spokesman for the Empire State Pride Agenda. "It's important particularly in a post-9/11 world. Anytime you board an Amtrak train or enter a building, you have to provide identification. "And if your ID doesn't match the gender [by which] you identify...

BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) _ Five parents who asked to transfer their children out of Batavia High School classes with a transsexual teacher have been denied, according to city schools Superintendent Richard Stutzman. The written requests did not meet the guidelines set out by the district, Stutzman said Tuesday without providing specifics. "That's all between the school, the teacher, the parents," he said.......... .

SAN FRANCISCO -- As an Ivy League-trained neurobiologist who oversees a research lab at Stanford, Ben Barres feels qualified to comment on whether nature or nurture explains the persistent gender gap in the scientific community. But it wasn't just his medical degree from Dartmouth, his Ph.D from Harvard and his studies on brain development and regeneration that inspired him to write an article blaming the shortage of female scientists on institutional bias. Rather, it was that for most of his academic life, the 51-year-old professor who now wears a beard was once known as Dr. Barbara Barres, a woman who...

Barbara Colonna had a secret.For most of her 56 years, she led a solitary existence to protect her identity. But now that she has filed as a Republican candidate for Haworth Borough Council, she's breaking her silence. The 5-foot-3-inch woman with bobbed salt and pepper hair and piercing green eyes was once a man named Edward.  After becoming more involved in town, it made sense that eventually she would run for council. But what would she tell people about her past? She started with her running mates. When they were not alarmed, she was encouraged. Her slate plans to run...

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...

Transgender Teen Caught Off Guard By Suspicions Witness Says 'Gwen' Was 'Shellshocked' Apr 26, 2004 4:03 pm US/Pacific HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) Transgender teen Eddie "Gwen" Araujo appeared "shellshocked" the night the people she thought of as friends began demanding to know if she was male or female, a man who was at the house testified Monday. Jaron Nabors said the pretty 17-year-old was beyond surprised at the questions, which arose when suspicions about Araujo's gender erupted on Oct. 3, 2002, following an evening of drinking. "She seemed like she was in shock because she wasn't talking much," said Nabors,...