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A bachelor party last summer for a Knox County sheriff's deputy where the groom-to-be was shot with an electroshock weapon, handcuffed, hog-tied with duct tape, oiled and feathered, and paraded through downtown Camden strapped to a lawn chair on the back of a flatbed truck, is under investigation by Sheriff Donna Dennison. The Maine Attorney General's Office is reviewing a case involving a video that shows a former Knox County sheriff's deputy being shot with an electroshock weapon at his bachelor party last summer, among other hazing-like activities. (This video has been edited, blurring faces, license plates and any identifying features, and cursing and names have been removed from the audio as this case is under investigation.) <a href="http://knox.villagesoup.com/rewrite/113360.htm">http://knox.villagesoup.com/rewrite/113360.htm</a> <a href="http://knox.villagesoup.com/Government/story.cfm?storyID=113439">http://knox.villagesoup.com/Government/story.cfm?storyID=113439</a>

While in for my gastric bypass surgery at the VA Hospital in La Jolla, California, I received a stuffed duck toy from my friend Vicki. It's the most irritating duck in the world.

I went in for gastric bypass surgery at the VA Hospital in La Jolla, California on February 12, 2008. My friends Vicki and Lynda filmed me after I came out of surgery...I'm the one in the blue PJs, Vicki is the one who said I went to surgery to look "cuter."

Logo's Jason Bellini Interviews Hillary Clinton

A long debate ended early Tuesday morning when Gainesville City Commissioners voted to pass an Anti- Discrimination Ordinance for transgendered people... Commissioners voted four to three. The ordinance is mostly addressing housing and employment discrimination, but the part of the ordinance that created much controversy; allowing transgender people to use whichever restroom they wanted in public settings. Now business owners are left with a lot of questions that really are not being answered. http://tinyurl.com/2gfvgr

Attacks against minorities are on the rise, but experts disagree when it comes to how much. Adam May reveals why state and federal statistics are different and why hundreds of local cases might go unreported. ~~~~~ On her way to buy some orange juice, 26-year-old Pamela Brown, who started living as a woman three years ago, said she was viciously attacked because she is transgendered. "I saw five guys blocking the storeway. They called me a [expletive deleted] and then I was hit. Then I was attacked by two more guys from the back and my fiance ran over," she said. "I probably could have been killed if I was by myself." Brown is now recovering while in protective police custody. Meanwhile, two young men have been arrested near the Old Town Mall in Baltimore where the beating occurred. Police commented on the attack last week. "More than likely it will be upgraded to a hate crime, simply because of the things that were being said," said Troy Harris, Baltimore City Police spokesperson. But now the city state's attorney's office is not pursuing hate crime charges. Why? A spokesperson says while there was provocative language, it is free speech and there's no evidence of premeditation. <a href="http://wjz.com/local/pamela.brown.hate.2.636503.html">http://wjz.com/local/pamela.brown.hate.2.636503.html</a>

Gainesville Controversial Transgender Bathroom Ordinance A controversial ordinance dealing with transgendered people and their right to use the bathroom of their choosing will come before Gainesville's City Commission on Monday, January 28, 2008. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2v3hvv">http://tinyurl.com/2v3hvv</a>

Ex-gay, Christian activist James Hartline profiled.

Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, visited UCSF on National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11. Kendell spoke about how far society has come in advancing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights and the critical role each person, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, plays in the struggle for social justice. <a href="http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/200710194.html">http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/200710194.html</a>

Representaive Baldwin will be submitting an amendment that would put gender identity/perceived gender/transgender protections into the version of ENDA being considered by the full House.

Activists from across the U.S. descended on the HRC fundraising dinner in Washington DC on Saturday, October 6 2007. They were protesting the HRC decision NOT to oppose a newly introduced version of the "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" (ENDA) that was stripped of the language which would have protected transgender people. <a href="http://www.ifge.org/Article351.phtml">http://www.ifge.org/Article351.phtml</a>

HRC President Joe Solmonese speaks about the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), September 14, 2007 to a transgender defined (transgender people, their significant others, freinds, and family members) audience at the Southern Comfort Conference (Atlanta, Georgia). There were 871 transgender defined members in the audience. (more)

The U.S. Senate has approved a bill that expands federal hate crime protections to gays, lesbians and transgender people. Known as the Matthew Shepard Act, the legislation would require federal prosecutors to investigate crimes motivated by sexual orientation like the justice department currently does for crimes that are racially or religiously motivated. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ynkneg">http://tinyurl.com/ynkneg</a>

"<a href="http://tinyurl.com/3afcm3">This story</a> speaks for itself. Who knew Ayatollah Khomeini was into trannies?" <a href="http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/09/27/why-there-are-so-many-transsexuals-in-iran/">http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/09/27/why-there-are-so-many-transsexuals-in-iran/</a>

Today Joe Solmonese released a video celebrating today's Senate passage of the hate crimes legislation. The passage of the hate crimes bill which marks the first time a trans-inclusive piece of federal legislation has ever passed both chambers of Congress... <a href="http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2007/09/joe-solmonese-r.html">http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2007/09/joe-solmonese-r.html</a>

Equally Speaking: September 24, 2007 <a href="http://tinyurl.com/32wtk8"http://tinyurl.com/32wtk8</a> ~~~~~ A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that found transsexuals are not covered by federal discrimination laws. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Krystal Etsitty had no legal recourse in fighting her firing by the Utah Transit Authority in 2005. The court, which sits in Denver, found that the trial judge was correct in finding that the transit authority feared it could be sued by people born biologically female if it were discovered Etsitty still had male genitals. <a href="http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/09/092107bus.htm">http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/09/092107bus.htm</a>

This spring, Eyewitness News told you about a Duluthian who was born a man and the struggle with becoming a transgendered a woman. Since our story aired, Marla Evans received support form some people while she says she was let go from two roles at her church, St. Mary's Star of the Sea in Duluth. "I was really stunned, stunned speechless," said Marla. She says she was told she could no longer volunteer there as a Sunday school teacher. She also played guitar in the church band--a paid position, but she says she was let go from that as well. <a href="http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S202050.shtml?cat=10335">http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S202050.shtml?cat=10335</a>

Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of this little Louisiana town Thursday in support of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate. http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3628976

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