TER General Board
Thanks for heads up on transgender beauty pageant.
I think it's important that we are all exposed to these kind of news. Makes us more tolerant. I firmly believe this 
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This might get moved to the TS Board, but I'll start it in General because it might be of interest to a few regulars who will catch it early. (It is not yet posted to TS - I checked there first.)
Yes, there are some pics in the yahoo news link.
An Arab-Israeli Catholic Ballerina Just Won Israel's First Transgender Beauty Pageant.
Twenty-one-year-old Arab Israeli Ta'alin Abu Hanna from Nazareth won Israel's first transgender beauty pageant and will represent the country at the Miss Trans Star International pageant in Spain in August.
"If I had not been in Israel and had been elsewhere — in Palestine or in any other Arab country — I might have been oppressed or I might have been in prison or murdered," Hanna told the Times of Israel.
Twenty-one-year-old Arab Israeli Ta'alin Abu Hanna from Nazareth won Israel's first transgender beauty pageant and will represent the country at the Miss Trans Star International pageant in Spain in August.
"If I had not been in Israel and had been elsewhere — in Palestine or in any other Arab country — I might have been oppressed or I might have been in prison or murdered," Hanna told the Times of Israel.
Yes, there are some pics in the yahoo news link.