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Skyler Pfeil, a transgender 15-year-old who loves art and the outdoors, hopes to have breast-removal surgery soon. Of the female body he was born with, he says, “I felt it was wrong.” Getting medical intervention to transform his appearance to match his male identity has been difficult. Photographed Sept. 21, 2016 in the Seattle metro area. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times via AP)
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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to retired and active law enforcement personnel at a Fraternal Order of Police lodge during a campaign stop in Statesville, N.C. The endorsement by a national police organization for Trump has exposed a divide within the ranks of law enforcement: Can they support someone who calls himself the law-and-order candidate, but was caught on tape bragging about sexually predatory behavior toward women? And what about his antagonizing the very minority communities that police agencies need to win over amid turmoil over police shootings of unarmed black men? (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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Staff and security stand outside iCandy nightclub in Philadelphia during the city's annual OutFest, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. The club's owner was recorded using a racial slur, helping spur a conversation about racism in the city's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. (AP Photo/Jeff McMillan)
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In this photo provided by International Rescue Committee, hundreds of refugees seek shelter in a hangar at the United Nations peacekeeping base in Kaga Bandoro refugee camp in Central African Republic, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Fighters with the former Seleka rebel group attacked a northern town in Central African Republic overnight Wednesday, and clashes left at least 30 dead and 57 wounded as United Nations peacekeepers confronted them, the U.N. said. The attack in Kaga-Bandoro was likely retaliation for the death on Tuesday of a suspected former Seleka member, the peacekeeping mission said in a statement. Peacekeepers repelled the attackers, killing at least 12 of them, the U.N. mission said. (David Belluz/International Rescue Committee via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2008 file photo, singer Alicia Keys performs before the Super Bowl XLII football game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants in Glendale, Ariz. Since San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick announced he would not stand for the song in protest of racial discrimination against blacks in the United States, many performers are rethinking offers to sing the national anthem. Keys, who is biracial like Kaepernick, said that she learned new information about the anthem after the athlete’s protest. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
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The Cherry Creek School District in Colorado is defending a survey given to staff during diversity training sessions that asks employees to identify their white privilege. (Denver 7 News)
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FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2016 file photo, Michael B. Jordan arrives at the Sundance Night Before Next benefit in Los Angeles. Jordan, Danny Glover and Michael K. Williams take on the issue of racial bias in police shootings with a simple message: “Black is not a weapon," in a 4-minute, black-and-white Public Service Announcement. It features the actors up against a wall to a soundscape of news reports, TV commentators and 911 calls about police encountering black men. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE- This booking photo provided by the Wayne County Sheriff shows Michael Montgomery, who was arraigned via video conference, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, in district court in Detroit, for crimes committed in 2005-2006, including sexual assault, kidnapping and a fatal stabbing. Montgomery was sentenced to 40 to 80 years in prison, Thursday, Oct. 13 in Detroit. (Wayne County Sheriff via AP)
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Law enforcement officers have clashed with protesters trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. An extreme faction within the protest encampment has been terrorizing the rural community. (Associated Press)
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Supporters of immigration reform gather in front the Supreme Court in Washington on April 18. (Associated Press)
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In this Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, photo, Emerald Correctional Management CEO Steve Afeman poses for a photo at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, which will open soon and is run by the Lafayette, Louisiana-based company. Some activists are asking questions about a new detention center in North Texas that is slated to house about 700 immigrants, including three dozen transgender individuals. (Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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William Luth, is shown in an undated photo provided by the Johnson County, Ks., Sheriff’s Office. Luth, of Blue Springs, Mo., and Brady Newman-Caddell, of Independence, Mo.,are now charged in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a Kansas sheriff's deputy in Olathe, Kans., on Friday, Oct. 8, 2016. Each is charged with two counts of rape and single counts of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sodomy. The men were arrested in Missouri Monday night. (Johnson County, Ks., Sheriff’s Office via AP)
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Fat Cupcake owner Anjelica Hayes, pictured with her father in this post from her bakery's Instagram page. Ms. Hayes found herself in the middle of a social-media controversy after a Yelp reviewer denounced a cupcake she sells, named Mr. President, as racist.
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This October 2016 photo provided by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department in Mandan, N.D., shows actress Shailene Woodley who was arrested Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline. Woodley is scheduled to appear in a North Dakota court Oct. 24 on criminal trespass and riot charges. (Morton County Sheriff’s Department via AP)
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New Orleans Pelicans player Anthony Davis, attends a dedication ceremony for a NBA Cares Learn and Play Center at the Huangzhuang Migrant School in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2016 file photo, migrants use a lavatory at a makeshift camp in Calais, northern France. Charities operating in Calais are opposing the planned dismantling of the border refugee camp on the French side of the English Channel. Although no official date has been set for the closure of the slum-like camp, the French government has announced it will shut it by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)
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In this April 8, 2016, photo provided by Breakthrough, Columbia University graduate student Savannah Badalich leads a Breakthrough Campus Catalyst Training with student activists at Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y., for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. When news broke that Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, had bragged of groping women, and then trivialized it as “locker room talk,” it felt to some students like a repudiation of their efforts. (Jacob Greenfield/Breakthrough via AP)
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Illustration on complications attendant to living up to the hopes of the Nobel Peace Prize by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Saudi Accountability for September Eleven Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Ti
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Danny Bible. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused an appeal from Bible on death row for the 1979 slaying of a woman who went to his house in Houston to use a telephone and was found later stabbed 11 times with an ice pick, raped and dumped on the bank of a bayou. The high court, without comment Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, rejected the appeal of 65-year-old Bible. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
