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Title: Transgender Woman, IRS Fight over Tax Deduction
Post by: Hazumu on October 16, 2007, 07:06:14 PM
Legal Affairs
Transgender Woman, IRS Fight over Tax Deduction
by Tovia Smith

National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15327911)

"I think the problem doesn't lie in their genitals, it lies in their mind, and we should be working on their mind," says Paul McHugh, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. "We don't do liposuction on people with anorexia nervosa to help them to be more thin. We encourage them to see that this is a misdirection of human interest."

Karen
Title: Transgender Woman, IRS Fight over Tax Deduction
Post by: Bdnewgirl on October 17, 2007, 12:27:19 PM
From NPR by Tovia Smith
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15327911