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Jodie Foster's Closet is None of Your Damn Business

Kathleen Smith | Posted 03.16.2013 | Canada Alberta
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Kathleen Smith

To those who expected Foster to announce publicly that she is gay, the speech was likely a disappointment. Certainly celebrity news opportunists like Harvey Levin and Perez Hilton were deleting hastily written posts for their websites when Foster said little more than "I'm single" as her big announcement. The subsequent outcry from some in the LGBTQ was perhaps far more surprising than Foster's refusal to publicly come out.

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Danielle Smith and the Trouble with Trans Medicine in Alberta

Valerie Keefe | Posted 08.26.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Danielle Smith, Genital Reconstruction, Cissexism, Transgender, Trans Rights, Alberta, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Gay Voices, Transsexual Medicine, Canada Politics News
Valerie Keefe

Danielle Smith came out against Alberta Health Insurance funding genital reconstruction surgery. She said it was because she didn't want vital resources spent on elective medicine when there was important care to be paid for. But currently, a trans person expressing a need for hormone replacement therapy, has a very long -- and difficult -- road ahead of them.

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