| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
Tanya Walker had lung cancer and was coughing up blood, but she says her emergency room doctor kept asking about her genitals. "It seemed like they weren't going to treat me unless I told them what genitals I had," Walker, a 53-year-old transgender woman said about her 2013 experience in a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in New York. Walker is just one example of how far the medical community still needs to come in its care, according to leaders in transgender medicine, transgender advocates and patients. Quote of the day: "We have a lot to apologize for in the medical community. Our treatment of transgender people has been abhorrent." – Dr. Aron Janssen, founder and director of the gender and sexuality service, New York University Langone Medical Center.
As the haj pilgrimage comes to a close, the province governor of Mecca warned Iran against using force in its rivalry with Saudi Arabia. "I pray to God Almighty to guide them and to deter them from their transgression and their wrong attitudes toward their fellow Muslim among the Arabs in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and around the world,” said Prince Khaled al-Faisal. Iranian Shi'ite Muslims and Saudi Sunni Muslims have a rather long history of discord. But Prince Khaled's remarks also come a year after hundreds of pilgrims, many of them Iranians, died in a stampede.
Initial quantities of the iPhone 7 Plus are sold out globally, as are the jet-black models of the iPhone 7. In other news, people are pretty passionate about the new iOS 10. But not everyone is a fan.
Surf's up – way up 
U.S. military veteran Joshua Alves shoots out of the ocean on a water jetboard as part of an event by Warrior Passion, a charity that helps adjusting U.S. veterans, and Jetpack America in San Diego, Sept. 14, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Around the country - Police nabbed the man accused of setting fire to a mosque attended by the gunman who killed 49 people in a gay nightclub in June. The arson suspect, 32-year-old Joseph Michael Schreiber, faces at least 30 years in prison if convicted of committing Monday's arson attack.
- The ACLU, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are pushing for a pardon of Edward Snowden before President Obama leaves office. Speaking on Wednesday via video, Snowden said he was "comfortable with the decisions I made," but whether he gets a pardon is not up to him. "I do not myself ask for a pardon and I never will," he said. Snowden leaked documents about top-secret surveillance programs to journalists in 2013.
- Kelly Ayotte's easy victory in New Hampshire's Republican Senate primary suggests that Donald Trump isn't having much impact in down-ballot races, at least at the primary stage. Ayotte won 80 percent of the vote against a pro-Trump challenger. She has refused to endorse Trump, but said she plans to vote for him.
Around Wall Street - Americans blame political gridlock in Washington for the United States' declining economic competitiveness, and hold both Democrats and Republicans responsible, according to a Harvard Business School study. The study said GDP grew at a rate of about 2 percent since 2000, well below the 3 to 4 percent average in the prior half-century. It said factors including a complicated corporate tax code, tangled immigration system and aging roads contribute to the slow growth.
- U.S. prosecutors are investigating sales practices at Wells Fargo that led to a $190 million settlement with regulators. The settlement addressed claims that some customers were pushed into fee-generating accounts they never requested.
- Bayer's deal to buy Monsanto will test growing political and consumer unease in the United States and abroad over the future of food production. The companies say Bayer’s pesticide-focused agricultural business has few overlaps with Monsanto's dominant seed franchise. But the deal was struck at a time when other agricultural mergers are fueling concern over reduced competition in the $100 billion global market.
Around the world - Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai criticized his country’s government for giving the U.S. military greater freedom to fight Taliban insurgents, saying this erodes Afghanistan’s sovereignty. "How could the U.S. president authorize U.S. troops to launch attacks on their own in Afghanistan?" Karzai said. "Don't we have a government here? Aren't we a sovereign country?" Karzai's successor, President Ashraf Ghani, welcomed U.S. political and military support.
- Humanitarian aid is expected in Aleppo Friday following a withdrawal of combatants from a contested road leading to the Syrian city, a rebel official said. "Today the withdrawal is supposed to happen, with aid entering tomorrow. This is what is supposed to happen, but there is nothing to give hope," Zakaria Malahifji, of the Aleppo-based rebel group Fastaqim.
- Nuclear war is inevitable and we're all doomed. Have a nice day.
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