http://justout.com/news.aspx?id=176

Kindergarten Complications
What the journey of transitioning from female to male means for a five-year-old in Silverton, and for those around him
By Megan A. Gex

Editor’s Note: Silverton native Megan A. Gex is a fourth-year magazine journalism ( Read more... )

http://sherwoodgazette.com/news/story.php?story_id=125167426609679800

Congregation embraces transgender minister as his secret is revealed
Rev. David Weekley hopes his story will help change United Methodist Church doctrine

By Christine Mcfadden ( Read more... )

Teacher breaks silence - he’s a she ( Read more... )

Openly-Trans Democrat Elected DPO TreasurerPress Release - January 14th, 2009 ( Read more... )

Openly Transgender Minister Ordained in SF Lutheran Church

http://blogout.justout.com/?p=5352
and
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3612

This election marked the first African-American President. The first time in 40 years an Oregon Senate candidate beat an incumbent Senator. And in tiny Silverton, Oregon, residents have elected the man who's believed to be the first ever openly transgender mayor in the United States.

Transgender man elected mayor of SilvertonAnd before anyone ( Read more... )

Seattle Times - United States

Oregon inmate loses sex-change lawsuit
By The Associated Press

PORTLAND � An Oregon prison inmate has lost a lawsuit to force the
state to pay for a sex-change operation and transfer him to a women's
prison.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Janice Stewart ruled that inmate Anny May
Stevens could not pursue his federal lawsuit ( Read more... )

Per the oregonean: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1177037717160500.xml&coll=7

They're calling it a gay rights bill, but note it includes gender identity: ' The law bans discrimination based on sexual orientation in housing, the workplace, and public places such as restaurants and theaters. It definse sexual ( Read more... )