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On 16 April 2016, the web site World News Daily Report published an article reporting that police in North Carolina had tased and brutally ejected a woman from a ladies' restroom because they thought she was transgender: Despite its reference to a topical controversy, this item was nothing more than another fabrication from World News Daily Report (WNDR), a clickbait web site that traffics in fake news stories. WNDR's disclaimer notes that all of the site's articles are entirely fictional and that any resemblance to the truth in them is purely a miracle: The image used by WNDR for this article also did not depict a transgender woman arrested in April 2016. The photograph was actually taken in 2012 and captures Mary Lee Bradford and Mary Jamis as they were arrested at the Country Register of Deeds office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, while protesting that state's ban on same-sex marriage:
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