Article: Hermaphrodite alleges racial bias.(News)

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The Boston Herald
Article date:
September 28, 2004
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Byline: J.M. Lawrence

Federal civil rights investigators are probing whether Plympton officials discriminated against a black female hermaphrodite horse trainer who was denied permits to house migrant workers in mobile homes on her farm.

Justice Department lawyers launched an investigation based on complaints Patricia Renee Pina, 45, filed with the Department of Housing and Urban Development last year, according to letters signed by DOJ trial attorney Charla Jackson in Washington.

Plympton officials deny discriminating against Pina and strongly reject her claim in a lawsuit pending in federal court that a building inspector called her a racial ...

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