Transgender Designer to Undergo Vocal Cord Surgery

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Transgender Designer to Undergo Vocal Cord Surgery
Designer Rhona de Jong will be traveling to Seoul to receive surgery that will raise the pitch of her voice.
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          May 04, 2018
          
        
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Transgender Designer to Undergo Vocal Cord Surgery

Designer Rhona de Jong will be traveling to Seoul to receive surgery that will raise the pitch of her voice.

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Transgender Designer to Undergo Vocal Cord Surgery

Designer Rhona de Jong will be traveling to Seoul to receive surgery that will raise the pitch of her voice.

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Well before he became Texas’s Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, James Talarico helped a nervous student leader find the courage to wear a rainbow Pride pin to meet Barack Obama writes Nathan Barrera-Bunch.

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