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		<title>Where Your HRC donations are going!</title>
		<link>http://www.transadvocate.com/where-your-hrc-donations-are-going.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<title>Back to Oz</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really do hesitate to even write this post, as the topic is a rehash of one of the ugliest times for GLBT unity I&#8217;ve ever seen. Recently Matt Foreman said the following on the Michelangelo Signorile Show concerning the ENDA debacle: I think what really happened is the Speaker&#8217;s people said &#8216;look, Congress has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Frank Bitch Slap</title>
		<link>http://www.transadvocate.com/a-frank-bitch-slap.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Barney Frank&#8217;s Tuesday night tirade against the GLBT community, I wondered if the situation between Congress and the GLBT community could get any worse. I have to learn to stop asking that question! Frank&#8217;s press conference yesterday in which he claimed that some folks “can’t handle the truth unfortunately” amounted to a hysterical bitch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ENDA Three Card Draw</title>
		<link>http://www.transadvocate.com/enda-three-card-draw.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.transadvocate.com/enda-three-card-draw.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With passage of The Matthew Shepard Act in the Senate on Thursday, it should have been a time for celebration. But on the heels of the victory came the news that gender identity could possibly be stripped of from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The Advocate confirmed the story tonight saying: &#8220;The Democratic House leadership is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Déjà Vu All Over Again!?!  Do We Hafta???</title>
		<link>http://www.transadvocate.com/deja-vu-all-over-again-do-we-hafta.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.transadvocate.com/deja-vu-all-over-again-do-we-hafta.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“So I get on my knees and pray … we won’t get fooled again!” — the Who Fresh on the heels of Southern Comfort Conference (SCC), many of the transgender community reveled in what seemed a penultimate victory: HRC – yes, the Human Rights Campaign – was actually appearing to take the transgender community as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Put Up Or Shut Up Time</title>
		<link>http://www.transadvocate.com/its-put-up-or-shut-up-time.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.transadvocate.com/its-put-up-or-shut-up-time.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Washington Blade: &#8220;House Democratic leaders are strongly considering dropping anti-discrimination protections for transgender persons from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, after an internal Democratic head count on Wednesday found that the bill would likely be defeated if it included the trans provision, multiple sources familiar with the bill said. &#8220; In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Needs Truth When There’s Revisionism?</title>
		<link>http://www.transadvocate.com/who-needs-truth-when-there%e2%80%99s-revisionism.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.transadvocate.com/who-needs-truth-when-there%e2%80%99s-revisionism.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[duplicity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[those kookie fundies!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you think you’ve heard it all …. Just a couple weeks ago, President George W. Bush let loose what we in Texas parlance (at least among polite company) term “a whopper” (no, not the hamburger). First he went on news saying how we needed to get more results from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do It for the GOPper: Republican Presidential Politics Plays to the Faithful</title>
		<link>http://www.transadvocate.com/do-it-for-the-gopper-republican-presidential-politics-plays-to-the-faithful.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.transadvocate.com/do-it-for-the-gopper-republican-presidential-politics-plays-to-the-faithful.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Dems got through with their debates a week back, in the interest of fairness it behooves me to at least give the GOPpers a report with regards to Trans America. Two weeks earlier, they had their first network debate with all candidates currently declared (Fred Thompson is not one of those) in Iowa; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice, American Style</title>
		<link>http://www.transadvocate.com/justice-american-style.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.transadvocate.com/justice-american-style.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was striking seeing a blurb by a spokesperson in the Iowa Republican Party responding to the prospect of former-President Bill Clinton lobbying for his wife Hillary’s presidential campaign: “After Bill Clinton tarnished the name of the president of the United States, the Republican Party restored hope, respect and morality within the Oval Office by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dirty Dozens</title>
		<link>http://www.transadvocate.com/the-dirty-dozens.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.transadvocate.com/the-dirty-dozens.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marti Abernathey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton is going to be the next President of the United States and look at all the trans friendly people who are endorsing her campaign. Can you imagine endorsing a candidate that doesn&#8217;t support gays and lesbians? Why not? They don&#8217;t have a problem supporting Presidential candidates that don&#8217;t support transgender people, and why [...]]]></description>
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