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TG rights bill passes California senate California may be in one of the worst crises it’s ever faced, but it’s good to know that it hasn’t lost its time-honored spirit of progressive politics. The state’s Democrats, despite recent shifts from liberalism and a bit of punch-drunkenness over the controversial and unprecedented recall effort of Gov. Gray Davis, passed a bill that would guarantee the rights of transgendered citizens at home and in the workplace.  Not surprisingly, Republicans fought AB 196 tooth and nail, screaming at the top of their lungs about how it would further hurt the California’s already beleaguered economy, particularly in the huge, lucrative bible sales industry. Evidently, the tide of TGs busily planning an invasion of employment at Christian bookstores would crash into the state economy like marauding Visigoths.Nevertheless, the bill enjoyed a list of supporters ranging from the California Professional Firefighters to the California Teachers Association, and passed the Senate by a vote of 23-11. It had previously passed the Assembly by 42-34. AB 196, authored by Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco, would make it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in housing and employment. AB 196 adds "gender identity or expression" to sex and other characteristics that are already protected by the state's Fair Employment and Housing Act. "Everyone deserves a chance at the American Dream," said Leno. "This bill will help ensure that all Californians, regardless of their gender, are protected from discrimination, keeping them in their homes and employed and, hopefully, treated with the respect and dignity all individuals deserve." According to AB 196 co-author Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, the bill is "a simple matter of civil rights." "California law already protects against hate crimes based on gender stereotyping, and protects students and teachers from discrimination or harassment on this basis," Kuehl said. "We should not tolerate such arbitrary discrimination that can lead to the problems of unemployment and homelessness among those who are perceived as different." The San Francisco Department of Public Health reported 70 percent unemployment among transgender people in 1999, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Now the bill goes to Davis’ desk, and there’s not much indication which way the governor will go on AB 196. He hasn’t publicly stated any support or lack of support for the bill, although he has been a bit busy lately trying to process the notion of getting replaced after less than a year in office by a muscle-bound Hollywood action star. Flies emerge from boy’s penis Puberty’s a really difficult and confusing time for everyone, though I doubt many of us had it as bad as 13-year-old Chandan Goswami has had it recently. That’s because while we merely struggled with new and strange hair growth and even the relative trauma of menstruation, Goswami has flies coming out of his penis.  That’s right… flies.The whole affair started when the West Bengalese boy felt discomfort in his abdomen more than a month ago. This was followed by the horror of the flies shooting out of his urinary tract. Ouch! To add insult to injury, Goswami’s parents thought he was bullshitting them when he first relayed his terrible tale. The poor kid had to actually demonstrate the parasitic "birth" process before they rushed him to a local hospital, where physicians observed the phenomenon slack-jawed, then ran shrieking in abject terror. Chandan is now receiving treatment at a state-run hospital in West Bengal's Burdwan district. Doctors there diagnosed the boy as suffering from a condition called myiasis, a disease seen mostly in Central and Latin America. In myiasis, the larvae of a type of fly invade a human or animal body, dead or alive. The deposited eggs can then enter the body through pores, the mucous membrane or even the mouth. The hatched larvae then emerge out the host's skin and pupate. What is freaking physicians out in Chandan's case is that whole flies complete with wings are emerging out of his body and flying off. "This is very, very rare. We are trying to find out how the fly entered the boy's body," Sudhansu Pan, the surgeon attending Chandan, told Indo-Asian News Service. Goswami’s case was first reported a couple of weeks back, when doctors, in carrying out a cystoscopy to clear the boy's urinary tract, expressed confidence they had fixed the problem. But the treatment evidently failed, since two more flies emerged out of his penis last week. Now physicians have been forced to admit they haven’t a fucking clue where the flies are coming from, and how they’re coming out fully formed. Usually with myiasis, the maggots are found underneath the skin and are removed by minor surgery. Whole flies emerging out of a human penis is a completely different fuckin’ can of worms, doctors say. I’m sure all of these adults’ complete befuddlement as to his condition is a great comfort to the young boy, whose penis continues to shoot out winged horror. Jesus, isn’t that one of the Four Horsemen, or a sign of the apocalypse or something?
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