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Transgender rights still unenshrined

Started by Natasha, July 31, 2008, 10:37:38 AM

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July 31, 2008, 10:37:38 AM
Transgender rights still unenshrined

http://www.straight.com/article-155751/transgender-rights-still-unenshrined
by Carlito Pablo
7/31/2008

Raigen D'Angelo recalls playing a low-key role in the transgender-rights movement as a sex-trade worker during the 1990s.

"I did not want my clients to know about me, and if you look at the picture of me on the wall right there," D'Angelo said in her East Vancouver home, pointing to a framed photo of a sultry-looking woman. "I would probably have been beaten royally by clients if they knew what I was, and I didn't want my picture on every newspaper as a transwoman."
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