High School girls stage walkout to protest transgender student in their bathroom

In the middle of last school year, Lila Perry came out as transgender. Before that, she had been living as a gay male. So this year, she told teachers and administrators at Hillsboro High School, where she is a senior, that she would no longer be content to use a unisex faculty bathroom. She wanted to be treated like other female students, including access to bathrooms and locker rooms for girls.   Her decision spread quickly through the small...

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From the war on terror to the war at home: FBI seeks smaller, faster biometric collection tools

In the latest example of surveillance technology trickling down from the foreign war space to the domestic United States, the FBI is seeking proposals for the creation of fast, mobile biometric tracking devices capable of collecting face recognition prints and fingerprint scans on the go, and comparing them to information held in federal databases. On August 30, 2015, the FBI posted a request for proposals to the Federal Business Opportunities...

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