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War on ‘-Men’ Continues in Melrose, Massachusetts Legislature

Matthew McDonald

The last remaining city in Massachusetts with a Board of Aldermen is asking the state Legislature to approve a change in the city's charter to make its top board a city council, in order to go gender-neutral.

State Representative Paul Brodeur, a Democrat from Melrose who is running for mayor, told State House News Service he first proposed the change when he was an alderman in 2004, but that it went nowhere.

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Third Massachusetts School Principal Comes Out As Transgender

Matthew McDonald

The former Colleen O'Connor now wants to be known as Declan O'Connor, but will continue as principal of a charter middle school in Springfield.

The biological female has announced now identifying publicly as a man.

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