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Obama makes first transgender appointment

By Andy Birkey | 01.05.10 | 3:36 pm

Amanda-Simpson-photoIn a move that is being hailed by LGBT advocates and derided by the religious right, President Obama made his first appointment of a transgender person to a federal post this week. Amanda Simpson will be the new

Transgender advocates slam Pawlenty over Newsweek interview

By Andy Birkey | 12.28.09 | 10:11 am

pawlentyThe National Center for Transgender Equality (NTCE) slammed Gov. Pawlenty last week for his telling Newsweek that Minnesota’s laws protecting transgender people from employment discrimination should be changed. Pawlenty called the 1993 Minnesota Human Rights Act “overbaked” because…