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Doing your taxes? Write off that pesky sex change.

By: Liv

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Tax Court ruled Tuesday that a Massachusetts woman should be allowed to deduct the costs of her sex-change operation, a decision that could have broad implications for transgender people.

Rhiannon O'Donnabhain (oh-DON'-oh-vin), who was born a man, sued the Internal Revenue Service after the agency rejected a $5,000 deduction for approximately $25,000 in medical expenses associated with the sex-change surgery.

The tax court said O'Donnabhain could deduct as a medical care expense the costs associated with treating her gender-identity disorder, including sex-reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. But the court said she could not deduct the costs of breast augmentation surgery because it found that she had achieved breast enhancement through hormone treatments.

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Male Pregnancy Catching On...

By: Liv



A transgender couple have revealed they are expecting their first baby in a month’s time.

Scott Moore - thought to be only the second ‘pregnant man’ to go public - is due to give birth to a boy in February, with husband Thomas by his side.

The couple were both born girls and have undergone surgery to transform their sex.




I guess there's some concern when he shows up at the hospital and claims he's giving birth that the medical staff might not take them serious. They've pre-empted the birth by preparing the staff at the local hospital. I do wonder if you were forced to call an ambulance if they'd show up or not?
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Paul Scott plans to make Michigan a transsexual's hell.

By: Liv



Paul Scott, republican candidate for Michigan secretary of state released his platform last week:

" I will make it a priority to ensure transgender individuals will not be allowed to change the sex on their driver’s license in any circumstance." -Official Paul Scott Weblog

Another reason why Scott's position is such a great concern is that the secretary of state is the primary government official who deals with issues like document and ID changes.


First off, if you visit the blog of Paul Scott you quickly realize he isn't caucasian. The idea that a member of a minority group who has suffered huge civil liberty and freedom injustices in the past now wants to do the same to another minority is poetically ironically frightening to the point I want to vomit in this guy's mouth as he spews it.
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One less Cuban Cigar...

By: Liv


Or in other words, wish you were in Cuba. But don't start paddling yet... they're only doing about 15 a year:

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba has begun performing state-sponsored sex-change operations after the government lifted a longtime ban on the procedure in 2007, President Raul Castro's daughter said Tuesday.

A sexologist and gay-rights advocate, Mariela Castro runs the Center for Sex Education, which prepares transsexuals for sex-change operations and identifies Cubans it deems ready for the procedure.

She said only that Cuban doctors working with Belgian counterparts have gotten to "less than half" of the 30 islanders approved to undergo the procedure.

The operations are covered by Cuba's universal health care system, even though some have protested the decision to allow them — either because of general opposition to the procedure or due to its high costs for a developing country with economic problems.
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Years of confusion and I've finally made a decision.

By: Omenirea

I figured it'd be best for a story rather than straight up questions. It gives people something to read, and a background to look on so ... here it goes.

I hardly remember my childhood. Only bits and pieces do I still have collected in my mind, but all else- is pratically gone. Anyways, I remember enough where I can give you some infor.

When I turned about four- I stopped playing with barbie dolls. Instead of playing with them like a normal little girl would, I would pop off their heads, scribble all over them and make them look beat up and did as much damage as I could with out help from my older brother.
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