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Two Transgender Representatives About To Join New Hampshire Legislature

Matthew McDonald

Two biological men who identify as women plan to join the New Hampshire House of Representatives in January 2019 — and they'll make up half of the openly transgender state legislators in the nation.

State representative-elect Gerri Cannon (D-Somersworth) plans to file a bill that would allow transgender people to change the sex listed on their birth certificates.

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Parishioners Hold Christmas Eve Service Outside Demolished Polish Church

Matthew McDonald

As they have since their church closed in 2011, parishioners of Mater Dolorosa in Holyoke gathered outside the church for a Christmas Eve service on Monday.

Only this time, they were standing beside the rubble of its demolished ruins.

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