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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   In three lawsuits currently in process, plaintiff parents ask that public funds follow their children to the school of their choice. The impetus for those suits was the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark case of Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, announced last June. In that case, the Court held that if the State of Montana provided tax credits for contributions to a nonprofit organization that supported scholarships for students at independent schools, the organization could not exclude students at religious scho...

5280 The Visionary Surgeon Who Put Trinidad on the Map For decades, thousands of people came to Trinidad, Colorado, to have gender confirmation surgery done by Dr. Stanley Biber. This excerpt from Going To Trinidad tells his—and one of his patient's—poignant stories.Martin J. Smith •   On December 12, 1990, a law office secretary and part-time English graduate student in Rancho Cucamonga, California, sat down to write a letter that had been nearly four decades in the making. Her name was Claudine Toni Griggs. The diminutive Griggs had lived as a woman for 16 years, since the summer ...