[España]
El 37% de los gallegos considera enfermos mentales a las personas transexuales

El 37% de los gallegos mayores de 16 años considera la transexualidad "una disfunción hormonal o mental". Sin embargo, otro 47% admite que las personas que deciden reasignar su sexo sufren marginación social.

[UK]
Kentish Town transsexual found dead in flat
A murder investigation has been launched after a 29-year-old transsexual was found collapsed at her home in Kentish Town.
Police hunt prostitute's killer

[UK] [News/Health]
Hospital accommodation for trans people and gender variant children
The Chief Nursing Officer at the Department of Health has provided clear instructions for NHS organisations on how to preserve the privacy and dignity of trans people using hospital accommodation.

[UK]
Scottish Archbishop says ‘transsexual Jesus’ play part of agenda to mock Christianity
The Archbishop of Glasgow has denounced a publicly funded play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual, saying it is a “provocative and offensive abuse” of Christian beliefs. He suggested the event is part of an agenda to “mock Christianity.”

[South Africa] [Blog/PR/Books]

Book Launch: TRANS: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa

Jacana Media and Fanele are delighted to invite you to the Cape Town and Johannesburg launches of TRANS: Transgender Life Stories from South Africa. This is the first book of its kind in South Africa and indeed Africa. It takes the reader on a journey into the many worlds inhabited by transgender South Africans, who have come into the spotlight since the Caster Semenya saga began.

[South Africa]
Male, Female Or In-Between?
Runner Caster Semenya made headlines after a gender test discovered she was "intersex". Julietta Jameson talks to people who've received the same disturbing news.

[India]
Hijra mahasammelan held in city
Hundreds of eunuchs from across the country gathered at the Akhil Bharatiya Hijra Mahasammelan on Sunday.
While showcasing their varied talents, they also expressed displeasure over their status in the society.

[Philippines]
Rain Marie Madrigal: The Reigning Queen
Professional title-holder Rain Marie Madrigal eventually wound up wearing the most coveted Queen-Universe crown, after edging out her fellow veteran contestants during the first-ever Queen pageant held at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino over a fortnight ago.

[USA]
Nicole Kidman takes on a man-sized challenge
Apparently eager for a change of pace, Nicole Kidman is to get a change of sex into the bargain with a part in the film version of David Ebershoff's novel The Danish Girl.

[USA]
Foxx and Lawrence to don drag in new film
Comedians Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence are teaming up for a new gender-bending movie - the pair will play drag queens in upcoming comedy Sheneneh And Wanda.

[USA]
Conservatives shop sex ops ban to GOP
The federal government would be banned from funding sex change operations and other services for transgender individuals if social conservative activists get their way.
There’s no sponsor yet for an amendment to the health care overhaul – and it may remain in the dustbin of unrealized wedge issues – but culture warriors are shopping the proposal to Republican senators.
House passes LGBT-inclusive health care bill

[CA, USA]
SD Airport Employee's Lifestyle Sparks Complaints
Several employees at Lindbergh Field said a transgender worker has pushed their limits of comfort, 10News reported.
The employee directs terminal traffic, and 10News learned the worker -- who was born a man, but lives as a woman -- has caused some concern among female employees.

[MI, USA]
Anti-Discrimination Law Takes Effect
Kalamazoo voters approved an expanded anti-discrimination ordinance Tuesday, but the process for filing a complaint alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is still a work in progress.

[ID,USA]
Transgender Day of Remembrance film screening and discussion
In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Janet C. Anderson Gender Resource Center at Idaho State University announces a film screening and community discussion with transgender filmmaker Gwen Haworth. The screening of her award winning film, She's a Boy I Knew begins at 6 p.m, Thursday, November 12, 2009, in the College of Education Auditorium. This event is supported through grants from the Idaho Humanities Council and the ISU Cultural Affairs Council and co-sponsorships from the ISU Psychology Department and Genesis Project.

[VA,USA]
Transgender Day of Remembrance Set for November 20
The Transgender Day of Remembrance honors the memories of lives lost to anti-transgender violence. On Friday, November 20 at 7 p.m. at the Richmond Friends Meeting on 4500 Kensington Avenue, community organizations invite the public in remembering those fallen. An observance will be followed by speakers addressing issues of violence facing the transgender community.

[MA, USA]
Boston to celebrate Transgender Day of Remembrance
Boston residents will be remembered Friday, Nov. 20, in Allston, as the LGBT community gathers in honor of the worldwide Transgender Day of Remembrance.

[AZ, USA]
4th Annual Tucson Transgender Awareness Week Schedule
November 16-20, 2009 marks Tucson’s fourth annual Transgender Awareness Week. This week will be filled with performances, panels, workshops, discussions, trainings, and many important speakers. The week will culminate on Friday November 20th in Catalina Park with the 11th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is intended to be a time to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice during the last year.

[PA, USA]
Finally, A Lady
A small but growing number of people are identifying themselves as transgender. Richard/Renee Ramsey is likely the oldest to make the surgical switch.
(Photo: April Saul / Staff Photographer - Transsexual Renee Ramsey at her Wallington, N.J. home.)

[Bermuda]
Move to end all discrimination is welcomed
Government appeared to have announced an end to the legal discrimination of homosexuals.

[Honduras]
Denuncian que 11 transexuales y 4 gays han sido asesinados en 4 meses en Honduras

La violencia y la falta de garantías constitucionales tras el golpe de Estado en Honduras han dejado un saldo mortal de 15 transexuales y homosexuales en tan sólo cuatro meses, casi la misma cantidad de travestis asesinadas en los últimos cinco años, denunció el lunes una activista hondureña.

[España]
Colectivos transexuales escandalizados ultimas declaraciones coordinador Unidad Barcelona

Dr. Iván Mañero, Coordinador de la Unidad de Género del Hospital Clínico de Barcelona: “el 100 por ciento de los pacientes transexuales quieren operarse” y “no existe ningún paciente, de los cuatrocientos cambios de sexo que he realizado, que se arrepienta de su decisión”

Ivan Mañero dice 100% de transexuales quieren operarse y que ninguno se arrepiente

[España]
El fiscal no recurre la absolución por "bullying" a un alumno transexual
La Fiscalía de Menores de Sevilla no va a recurrir la sentencia que absolvió a tres alumnos de un instituto de Coria del Río (Sevilla) de "bullying" o acoso escolar a un compañero de 16 años que había manifestado públicamente su tendencia sexual y que posteriormente se cambió de sexo.
Fiscalía de Menores no recurre la absolución por 'bullying' a una transexual de Coria

ATA exige a la Fiscalía de Menores que el caso de “Bullyng” de Coria no quede impune

ATA exige Fiscalía de Menores que el caso de “Bullyng” de Coria no quede impune

[España]
Primer paso en Andalucía hacia una ley integral para transexuales
Podría seguir a Navarra, que vota el próximo día 12 una norma pionera
PSOE-A pedirá a la Junta la próxima semana en el Pleno una normativa que evite discriminación a personas transexuales
FELGTB celebra Parlamento andaluz trabaje por ley que mejore situación de transexuales

[España]
Carla Antonielli denuncia la transfobia en la revista del ICEV
La actriz y activista transexual, Carla Antonelli, ha posado para la portada en una instantánea que no dejará indiferente a nadie.

[España]
Carla Antonelli, agradece al cardenal Carlos Amigo su implicacion en la Ley de Transexuales en España
Carla Antonelli, quien fuera Coordinadora del Área Transexual, del Grupo Federal de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales del PSOE, agradece a cardenal de Sevilla, Carlos Amigo, su implicación y defensa de la Ley para las personas transexuales en España.
Cardenal Sevilla deja cargo; GRACIAS, Carlos Amigo, por defender la Ley de Transexuales

[UK]
Man charged with Andrea Waddell murder appears in court
A man charged with the murder of Tilehurst transsexual Andrea Waddell is due to enter his plea in the New Year.

[UK]
A sex-change, bankruptcy and rejection, but Stephanie Booth has the last laugh
Stephanie Booth has a life story that TV and film companies are queuing up to tell and get a slice of. Nearly 25 years ago she gave up her wife, children, job and home to undergo gender reassignment surgery. (Photo)

[UK]
Transexual tells of life of misery
A man who was born a girl has spoken of the abuse and harassment he is suffering in Barnstaple after a sex change.
John (not his real name) says he has suffered years of abuse because he is a transexual.
He is desperate to leave his housing association flat in Barnstaple, where he has been a target for narrow minded teenagers.

[UK]
Trans woman murdered in Kentish Town, London
The 29-year-old woman, named as Destiny Lauren, was found by police at her flat in Leighton Crescent at 00.55am on Thursday morning.
She was taken to the Royal Free Hospital but was pronounced dead at 1.35am.
A police spokesman confirmed that Lauren was a sex worker.

[Italy]
Berlusconi's Tranny Defense
As Italy’s leader tries to use a politician’s affair with a transsexual prostitute to deflect his own scandals, Barbie Latza Nadeau says his misogyny is finally catching up with him.

[SudÁfrica]
Asociación Sudafricana de Atletismo pide disculpas a Caster Semenya
A través de un comunicado se disculpó "por el manejo en el proceso de verificación de género y las consecuencias posteriores".
Recibe Caster Semenya disculpas del atletismo surafricano
Suspenden a varios miembros de la federación por el caso Semenya
Suspenden al presidente de la ASA por el caso Semenya
Athletics boss suspended over Caster Semenya row
Affaire Caster Semenya: les têtes tombent
Sudáfrica suspende a su Federación de Atletismo por el 'caso Semenya'
Suspenden a la Federación Sudafricana de Atletismo

Semenya case: President And Board Of Athletics South Africa suspended

[India]
Abused by father, runaway girl 'grew' into a man
It was a child's way to protect herself from her father and escape sexual abuse. A load of broken stones on her head in a basket, her hair cut like a man's, a slightly over-sized shirt--Pakkerappa could pass for any young man going about his work as a labourer at a construction site.

[New Zealand]
'Tranny Granny' stays on human rights panel
The West Coast's much-loved 'Tranny Granny' Jacquie Grant has been reappointed for another two-year stint on the Human Rights Review Tribunal. (Photo)

[Bermuda]
Group watching political developments on sexual orientation discrimination
A group fighting to eliminate discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation hopes to push through legislation by "education and respectful dialogue".

[USA] [Blog/Film]
Paltrow Joins Kidman in "Danish Girl"

Gwyneth Paltrow will join Nicole Kidman in “The Danish Girl,” an adaptation of the David Ebershoff novel that tells the story of a relationship between the first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener, and his wife Greta.

Paltrow To Play Kidman’s Wife In The Danish Girl

Paltrow joins Kidman's transsexual film The Danish Girl

[PA, USA]
Lambda Legal Files Complaint Against Philadelphia Youth Detention Facility for Tormenting Transgender Girl
Lambda Legal has filed a complaint with the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) against the City of Philadelphia and the Youth Study Center (YSC) among others on behalf of a 17-year-old transgender girl who was physically attacked by other residents and verbally abused by staff every day for almost a year and a half.
Trans teen files complaint against DHS

[FL, USA]
Tampa extends rights to transgender individuals
Transgender individuals are now protected under the city's anti-discrimination laws.
The city council today approved an ordinance extending laws prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on sexual orientation, sex, race and religion to include "gender identity or expression."
Tampa council grants protections to transgender people
Great news for Tampa's transgendered!

[MI, USA]
Kalamazoo voter approval of anti-discrimination ordinance shows 'tides are changing'
It was nearly 15 years ago that Garrett Brookmyer lost his office job at a local automotive-parts distributor for being “one of those kind,” he said.

[GA, USA]
Trans, Dyke marches draw small exuberant crowds
It was a small but energetic crowd that showed up for Atlanta Pride’s first Trans March on Oct. 31. Transgender men and women, a few children and allies marched through Piedmont Park to give visibility to gender identity issues.
(Photos by Dyana Bagby - Saturday’s cold and rainy weather likely contributed to small crowds for the first Trans March and the longstanding Dyke March. But those who marched chanted throughout their routes and were cheered warmly by onlookers.)

[DC, USA]
U.S. Senate Holds First Hearing on Fully-Inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, praised the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today for holding the Senate’s first-ever hearing on a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that includes both sexual orientation and gender identity. The lead sponsors of the measure are Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Susan Collins (R-ME).
Senate Holds First Hearing on Inclusive ENDA this morning
Senate panel hears ENDA testimony
ENDA will provide critical employment protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers Senate Press Conference Highlights Victims of Discrimination
Obama Official Testifies In Favor Of Gay Protections Bill
Breaking news: Senate holds first-ever hearing on inclusive ENDA
Full Civil Rights Division ENDA testimony
Dept. of Justice testimony on ENDA: Pass it now

[GA, USA]
Fired When He Became a She
"I liked being part of the spinning wheels of government." Vandy Beth Glenn sits in her attorney's office, wearing a silk blouse, her hands clasped in her lap.
She's talking about the two years she worked at the state capitol, from 2005 to 2007, editing pending resolutions and legislation. When Glenn was hired, she was a man.

[NY, USA]
LaTeisha Green: A celebration of life
CNY communities are invited to celebrate the life of LaTeisha Green from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday Nov. 12 at the First English Lutheran Church, 501 James Street, Syracuse, at the corner of Townsend & James Streets.

[FL, USA]
International Transgender Day of Remembrance to be marked in Fort Lauderdale weekend of Nov. 20-22
The 11th annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance will be Saturday, Nov. 21. A weekend of activities are planned in Fort Lauderdale, including a screening of the locally-produced film Amancio: Two Faces on a Tombstone and a brunch featuring speaker Marilyn Volker, a nationally known sexologist from Miami.

[CO, USA]
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009 - Colorado Springs - Nov. 20, 2009

We will be observing the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance with a service on FRIDAY, November 20, 2009 at 6 pm at the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church.

[NY, USA]
Cops: Beating suspect said 'God made me hate gay people'
Shouting an anti-gay slur, three assailants beat a man and his cross-dressing friend before stealing $7 from one of them, Nassau County police said Thursday.
One of the assailants has been charged with hate crimes, police said. Robert Bellamy Jr., 23, was charged with robbery and assault.

[AZ, USA]
Michele de Lafreniere has passed away

I know many who read PHB don't know her, or of her, or what she's done.
Or why her passing, today, just a few hours ago, is something for me to write about.
But tonight I am sitting here, teary eyed, upset, that we here in Phoenix have lost her.

[Cuba]
Condenan en Cuba a cinco homosexuales y a una transexual por delitos si cometer
5 Jóvenes homosexuales y una transexual fueron condenados este miércoles por el tribunal provincial de Boyeros a 2 y 3 años de privación de libertad por estar propensos a cometer un delito en el futuro, dijo Guillermo Zalazar Gay 34 años, gastronómico y estudiante de derecho por correspondencia.

[Honduras]
Asesinan a una joven chica transexual de varios disparos en Honduras
Una joven transexual murió de varios impactos de bala que recibió tras ser asaltada por un delincuente que también hirió a una joven la noche del domingo en la comunidad de El Zamoranito.

[Ecuador]
Firmas para evitar que gays se casen
Excerto: “En cualquier momento una de estas personas que ya ha hecho el cambiode sexo irá al Registro Civil a casarse con un hombre, y nadie lopodrá impedir, porque ya su cédula dice que él es mujer”, explicó.

[Colombia]
Protesta en Colombia por asesinato de trans trabajadoras sexuales.

La Relatora Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre la situación de los defensores de derechos humanos, Margaret Sekaggya, se refirió a la peligrosa situación que estos defensores afrontan en Colombia- incluidos los activistas LGBT-. En su declaración pública Sekaggya ha dicho “(…) siguen existiendo en Colombia patrones de hostigamiento y persecución contra los defensores de derechos humanos, y a menudo contra sus familiares. Periodistas, sindicalistas, magistrados, abogados, activistas estudiantiles y juveniles, mujeres defensoras, líderes indígenas y afrocolombianos, así como activistas LGBT han sido asesinados, torturados, maltratados, desaparecidos, amenazados, capturados y detenidos arbitrariamente, judicializados, vigilados, desplazados por la fuerza, u obligados a exiliarse; o bien se han allanado sus oficinas y se han robado sus archivos, a causa de su trabajo de defensa de los derechos humanos y libertades fundamentales“.

[Argentina]
La Marcha del Orgullo Gay, una fiesta con fuerte reclamo

La bandera del arco iris, símbolo de la diversidad sexual, ayer volvió a ondear bien alto en la Avenida de Mayo, donde miles de personas participaron en la edición número 18 de la Marcha del Orgullo Gay Lésbico Trans Bisexual. Como todos los años, la procesión sumó varias reivindicaciones a la fiesta, que tuvo como consigna "Libertad e igualdad de derechos. No a los códigos de faltas". Y un pedido repetido: "¡Matrimonio ya!". Pero esta vez la característica fue que, pese al colorido, había menos gente disfrazada, que iba sola o en grupo y hacía que el aire festivo tuviera una fuerte impronta de reclamo por los derechos de la comunidad gay.

En la Marcha del Orgullo Gay se reclamó el matrimonio homosexual
Alrededor de 50.000 personas marchan por el orgullo gay en Buenos Aires
Más de 70 mil personas reclamaron el matrimonio gay lésbico en la Marcha del Orgullo 2009
Mas de 50.000 personas en Marcha Orgullo GLTB en Argentina reclamaron matrimonio gay
Gay Pride Parade today in the city

[Argentina]

Las primeras escaramuzas por el matrimonio gay frente al Congreso (Se postergó el debate)
Ocurrió este jueves 05/11 entre integrantes de la Agrupación Nacionalista Custodia y la Federación Argentina de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Trans (LGBT), mientras se debatía en Diputados debatía la posibilidad que las parejas del mismo sexo contraigan matrimonio bajo el amparo del Código Civil. Se postergó por falta de acuerdos la firma del dictamen.

[España]
María Jesús pide justicia
Excerto: Nada le podía hacer pensar que aquel contrato por «seis meses» duraría apenas unas horas. María Jesús entró «a las once de la mañana» de un viernes en la bocatería como ayudante de cocina y «a las dos de la tarde» se reunió con su jefe a quien, al parecer, le habían llegado algunos rumores sobre su nueva empleada. «Me llamó y me dijo que se había enterado de que yo era una persona transexual y que no podía tenerme en el local», expuso en su denuncia ante la Inspección Provincial de Trabajo. Los supuestos motivos en que basó su decisión despertaron una profunda indignación en la mujer, que no se creyó que la echaban porque «la gente borracha y la juventud se podían meter conmigo por mi condición»
"Me despidieron por mi condición sexual"
El jefe de María Jesús admite que la echó por transexual
Habrá juicio contra dueño de bar en Asturias que despidió a una transexual por su identidad

[España]
El PSOE da el primer paso para una ley de transexualidad
El pleno del Parlamento debatirá el próximo jueves una iniciativa del grupo socialista para instar al Gobierno andaluz a desarrollar políticas a favor de los transexuales. La propuesta, impulsada por la Asociación de Transexuales de Andalucía (Ata), se presenta como una proposición no de ley para la no discriminación por motivos de identidad de género y de reconocimiento de los derechos de las personas transexuales y supone, según fuentes socialistas, "un primer paso" para desarrollar una ley integral sobre la transexualidad.

[UK]
Christians protest at portrayal of Jesus as transsexual woman
More than 300 Christian protesters demonstrated in the centre of Glasgow last night against a publicly funded play that portrays Jesus as a transsexual woman.
(Photo: Protesters wave placards opposing Jesus, Queen of Heaven at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.)
Polémica por Jesús transexual en Escocia
Outrage as Jesus portrayed as transsexual woman
Evangelical outrage over play featuring transsexual Jesus
Transsexual Jesus sparks protests
Prejudice has no foundation in Bible, says transsexual author
Hundreds protest at sex swap Jesus play
Outrage as Jesus portrayed as transsexual woman
Trans writer defends 'offensive' Jesus, Queen of Heaven play
Polémica en Escocia por una obra con un 'Jesucristo' transexual
[Commentary] Portraying transsexuality as perverse is unlikely to win recruits to Christian right
[Blog/Commentary] Play Exploring Transsexuality and Faith Protested by Christians over Transsexual Jesus

[UK]
Transsexual burglar who stole women's clothes spared jail
A transsexual burglar has been spared jail by a judge who took pity on her.
Thea Cox - born Timothy - broke into a string of student digs stealing food and women's clothes.
Burglar Is Let Off ...Because 'He's' A Tranny
Transsexual burglar escapes jail (Photo)

[France/Uganda]
France condemns Uganda's proposed anti-gay law
The French foreign ministry has attacked a bill in Uganda which would see gay people facing the death penalty.

[Itália]
Reconoce ex gobernador italiano pago a transexuales
Las declaraciones del ahora ex político y ex periodista televisivo fueron dadas a conocer apenas este miércoles, por lo que un tribunal de la capital italiana pospuso para la semana próxima la audiencia en la que debe analizar el pedido de excarcelar a los cuatro inculpados.

[Pakistan]
SC directs for protection of eunuchs’ rights
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday directed the federal and provincial governments to sit together and find out amicable solutions to the issues confronting eunuchs.(AP/File photo - A eunuch (right) submits personal details as others wait their turn at a registration center in Social Welfare Department in Lahore. The government is registring eunuchs after the Supreme Court order to conduct a survey for documenting their record of eunuchs in the country.)

[India]
Three arrested for murder of two eunuchs
Three persons were arrested for allegedly murdering two eunuchs in the national capital a fortnight ago, police said today.
Meena (30) and Vimlesh, the eunuchs, were found dead lying in a pool of blood in their Shaheen Bagh residence on October 20.

[Thailand]
Japan wins transsexual beauty crown
Shimmering in a gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand, reports the Pattaya Daily News.(Photo)
Miss International Queen: World's Largest Transsexual Pageant Raises Awareness

[New Zealand]
Carmen's friends rally to buy her a scooter
Following a failed fundraiser and a public slanging match afterwards, worried friends of trans-Tasman tranny legend Carmen Rupe have called a truce and are working together to buy her the mobility scooter she badly needs.

[Canada]
Transgendered in Hay River
Dean Landrie isn't your typical truck driver. For one thing, he likes to wear nail polish and nylons.
He also goes by Gabrielle Sky and wants to become a woman
Landrie isn't concerned with labels, and neither is his wife of almost 20 years.
(Elizabeth McMillan/NNSL photo - Lila Landrie, left, and Dean Landrie aka Gabrielle Sky, right, say unconditional love keeps them together, even if they may have an unconventional marriage.)

[USA]
Conservatives shop sex ops ban
The federal government would be banned from funding sex change operations and other services for transgender individuals if social conservative activists get their way.

[USA] [News/Commentary]
Transgender Remembrance Day Coming Up
Do you know that more than 434 transgender people have been killed around the world so far this year, and those are just the ones we know about? That's according to the website www.Transgenderdor.org which keeps track of such statistics. All those people will be memorialized at the Transgender Day of Remembrance as celebrated in local communities on or about November 20, 2009.

[USA] [Blog/Health/Medicine]
Update: Statement on Gender Identity Disorder and Transvestic Fetishism in the DSM-V
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association, is regarded as the medical and social definition of mental disorder throughout North America and strongly influences the The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD). The current psychiatric classifications of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and Transvestic Fetishism (TF) in the Fourth Edition Text Revision of the DSM (DSM-IV-TR) inflict great harm to gender variant, and especially transsexual, people in three ways:

[GA, USA]
Hired as a man, fired as a woman
On Halloween 2006, Vandy Beth Glenn, unlike some of her costumed colleagues, came to work dressed in typical business attire.
For that, the former editor with the Georgia General Assembly was fired, as her then-boss recently acknowledged in court documents.
(Photo: Christian Boone, cboone@ajc.com - Vandy Beth Glenn was fired from her job with the Georgia General Assembly for being transgenered. She has filed a federal law suit seeking her job back.)

[CA, USA]
Transgender Memorial Plaque - 11th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance - Friday, Nov. 20
Event sponsored by the City of West Hollywood's Transgender Task Force.Join the City of West Hollywood in a Day of Remembrance and Dedication of the 1st Transgender Memorial known in the United States and maybe the world honoring transgendered individuals who have been murdered for being transgender.Dedication ceremony will be followed by a march from Santa Monica and Crescent Heights Boulevards to Plummer Park.Admission is free.For more information, please call 323/848-6414.TTY for the deaf and hard of hearing at 323/848-6496.

[CA, USA]
8th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance
The 8th Annual San Diego Transgender Day of Remembrance will be held on Friday November 20, 2009, at 6 pm at The Center (3909 Centre Street). There will be a silent march from The Center down University Avenue, with a program to follow in the Center’s auditorium beginning at 7 P.M. Everyone is welcome and invited to attend.

[CA, USA]
A Transgender Candidate
Voters head to the polls today in New York, New Jersey and Virginia for key elections. Political watchers are viewing several races as indicators of how the country feels about President Obama and his administration’s handling of the economy, two wars, and health care during his first 10 months in office.

[MA, USA]
Robert Kosilek’s hair loss cut short
Correction Commissioner Harold W. Clarke suggested that convicted wife killer Robert, aka “Michelle,” Kosilek use a razor if he wants to look more like a woman, because there’ll be no more hoity-toity hair-removal procedures without a judge’s order.

[MA, USA]
Student org takes on transphobia
The student group "Transcending Gender" provides an opportunity for transgender, queer and allied students to discuss pertinent issues, provide support and plan educational projects for the broader campus. The group also works directly with the Smith administration to make the school more trans-friendly.

[IL, USA]
Trans health pros address needs, risks
Chicago transgender health professionals presented a wealth of information about the unique needs and health risk factors applying to transgender people Oct. 28 during a meeting of the HIV Prevention Planning Group ( HPPG ) .

[Argentina]
Interpone Denigris denuncia por difamación
Poncho De Nigris interpuso una contra demanda penal por difamación contra los padres de un transexual desaparecido y con el que se le vincula sentimentalmente.

[UK]
Judge's mercy for Exeter transsexual
The trauma of life as a transsexual has led to a city woman being spared a jail term.
Thea Cox was in breach of a 12-week suspended sentence when she was caught breaking into student accommodation to steal clothing and food.

[UK]
Teenager's hopes to change gender
A 15-year-old girl from Somerset is waiting until she is old enough to undergo surgery to change gender.
The girl who identifies as a boy hopes to begin testosterone treatment when she is 16.

[Malta/Italy]
The luxury of diversity
Actress, campaigner and politician VLADIMIR LUXURIA is in Malta for an international conference on gay rights. She talks to Raphael Vassallo about her struggle against prejudice, both in and outside politics. (Photo)

[Belgique]
Les transsexuels de retour boulevard Albert II
Il y a un an, la Ville annonçait un plan global de lutte qui allait les éloigner. Visiblement, ce n’est pas le cas et çà ne fait pas les affaires des habitants.
Vus il a deux ou trois jours, deux transsexuels racolant boulevard Albert II. Mauvaise affaire pour les habitants et pour la police.
Ce genre de prostitution est le plus désagréable. Bruyants, vulgaires, agressifs, les transsexuels font partie de filières sud-américaines. Leur présence s’accompagne souvent de toute une délinquance: vols, parfois avec violence, bagarres, règlements de comptes.

[Gambia/UK] [News/Commentary]
UK Deports Gambian Asylum Seeker Today!!!!!…Sukai Jack Risked Being Killed If Deported!!!
Excerpt: Meantime, The Gambian Government is busy trying to extradite asylum seekers in Italy, whose asylum claims were premised on transgender. The Government accuses the applicants of “smearing the image” of the country. If deported, the applicants are likely to be killed or jailed for life. (Photo)

[Philippines] [Blog/Commentary]
Another day, another case of trans discrimination

I don't know what's with establishments that keep enforcing asinine dress codes but in the Philippines there are a lot of them. The dress code is almost always lopsided, meaning it is not enforced equally on all and always singles out a certain group of people. That is obviously discrimination but because there is no law that prohibits such prejudicial business practices in this country, many establishments get away with it by invoking the standard excuse that the business has the right to refuse entry to those it deems unfit to enter its premises.

[Australia]
Apology forces trans law change
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been forced to drop its policy prohibiting transgender people from obtaining a passport in their lived-sex to travel abroad for gender re-alignment surgery.

[USA] [Commentary]
Hate crimes law no threat to religious liberty
The clergy is nervous — the hellfire-and-brimstone cultural conservative clergy, anyway. Congress’ recent vote to finally include sexual orientation in hate crimes legislation has caused near hysterics in some religious communities. Someone needs to remind these pious folks that in America, religious freedom is indeed a sacred, secure right. They remain free to demonize the immoral or ungodly, even as those lost souls are free to carry on their lives in peace as they see fit.

[TX, USA]
Cross-Dressing Student Sent Home
A Houston area student is disciplined for not following the dress code, but it's not just baggy pants or an offensive t-shirt that got him sent home.
17 year-old O'Rhonde Chapman went to school Monday morning at Nimitz Senior High School dressed in a patterned purple and white blouse, black leather pants, bold jewelry, purple high heels, and a stylish wig. But because he's really a boy, he said his principal sent him home.
Cross-dressing student sent home from Aldine ISD school (Photo: O'Rhonde Chapman said he feels like a woman and wants to be allowed to dress like one.)

[México]
Himmel responde a los papás del transexual Denisse
Se defiende el transexual Himmel quien ha sido involucrado por la desaparición de Ericka Denisse también transexual, le contesta a sus padres quienes creen que Himmel motivó a su hijo para que diera una entrevista en contra de Poncho Denigris.(Photo)

[Ecuador]
Transexuales Ecuador en Encuentro Nacional evaluaron como solucionar sus necesidades

En encuentro nacional las autoridades se comprometieron a promover políticas de buen trato y salud.

[Argentina]
Dos meses de espanto, maltrato y vergüenza a trans detenida por la policía en Argentina

La acusaron de homicidio, después cambiaron a robo. La detuvieron en pleno invierno. Enferma de tuberculosis, la mantuvieron durante cinco días esposada en un patio porque decían que tenía problemas con los otros detenidos. Al salir libre pasó un mes internada

[Brasil]
Internautas podem votar no concurso Miss Brasil Gay

Os internautas vão poder participar do júri do 33º Miss Brasil Gay, que rola no dia 14 de novembro, sábado, no ginásio do Sport Club de Juiz de Fora, em Minas Gerais. Neste ano, a organização do concurso disponibilizou no site do evento uma votação online popular que vai entregar, na grande noite, a faixa “Júri Popular” à miss eleita pelos internautas.

[Brasil]
DF: Grupo quer incentivar volta de trans à sala de aula

Uma parceria entre o Estruturação - Grupo LGBT de Brasília e a Secretaria de Educação do Governo do Distrito Federal vai incentivar o retorno dos LGBT aos bancos de sala de aula. A primeira ação dessa campanha será ir ao Setor Comercial Sul, o mais tradicional ponto de prostituição de travestis e transexuais do DF.

[España]
Mujer transexual es portada Revista de Estudios Contra Violencia para denunciar Transfóbia
Por primera vez en España -una mujer transexual es portada de una Revista de estudios contra la violencia- para denunciar la TRANSFOBIA y Violencia de género hacia las/os transexuales. Se trata de la edición de Internet de ICEV Revista d´Estudis de la Violència, una Publicación de l´INSTITUT CATALÀ D´ESTUDIS DE LA VIOLÈNCIA. (Foto)

[UK]
Shock as Kevin becomes counsellor Keira
Meet the transsexual rape counsellor who saw vulnerable victims while wearing high heels, leggings and lipstick. Burly Keira McCormack, 47 — who used to be a quantity surveyor known as Kevin — was employed at the Nexus Institute in Belfast from 2005 to May this year. (Photo)

[France/USA/Uganda]
France slams anti-homosexuality bill
France has joined the United States in publicly condemning Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would vastly strengthen the country's anti-gay laws.
'France expresses deep concern regarding the bill currently before the Ugandan parliament,' the French foreign ministry said in a statement sent to AFP in Kampala on Monday.

[Afganistan]
Vida y muerte de las treinta chicas travestis que bailan en las bodas y fiestas afganas

Dos travestis han sido asesinadas en el último año después de haber actuado en dos bodas. Zabi adora las burkas: si no se las pone de vez en cuando, es por miedo a que la policía la detenga

[Finlandia]
La misa del transexual
Un vicario luterano divide a su parroquia finlandesa al cambiar de sexo y volver como mujer Algunos fieles le tildan de blasfemo.
Polémica por un sacerdote transexual en Filipinas

[China]
Drag Beijing: Introducing Mei Mei
"Am I beautiful? Am I beautiful, Dad?" Mei Mei asks, partly in jest, but with a great degree of earnestness, as she pours over photo albums of her in her finest drag ensembles at her parents' home in Dandong.

[Taiwan]
20,000 march in Taipei for gay rights
The gay pride march, which began with only 500 participants in 2003, drew more than 20,000 homosexuals and supporters, including gay rights activists from China, Japan and Malaysia.

[Thailand]
'We are not freaks'
Shimmering in a tight gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand.

Una artista brasileña elegida en concurso entre las tres transexuales más bellas del mundo

Brasil fica em 3ª no 'Miss Transexual'

[Australia]
Aussie gov't apologizes to transsexual
A transsexual has won an apology from the Australian government for having to travel on a passport identifying her as a man, officials confirm.

[USA]
DHS discrimination against transgender teen alleged
A transgender teenager who identifies as a girl said she was subject to constant abuse and discrimination during 18 months in the custody of Philadelphia's Department of Human Services.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
In The U.S., When Will An Open Trans Person Get Elected To Congress?
I was celebrating with every trans person around the world in November 1999, when I heard the news that New Zealand’s Georgina Beyer became the first open trans person elected to a national legislative body. She served as a Labour Party MP from November 27, 1999 until February 14, 2007.

[NY, USA]
This transgender custody battle is odd, even for New York
In an unusually tangled custody battle, a Brooklyn mom is fighting her ex - a woman who lives as a man - for custody of her 7-year-old son.

[FL, USA]
Florida groups applaud hate crimes law expansion
It is now a crime to commit an act of violence against the disabled or gays.

[Dominican Republic]
¿Un reinado gay en La Romana? ¡¡Jamás, carajo!!
Me gustaria saber, cuales son esas personas de la alta sociedad romanense que estan auspiciando un reinado gay.Quiero conocer cuales son esas "Ciguas Secretas" (léase, maricones "tapaos"), que quieren asquerosear a La Romana, estableciendo un precedente al mejor estilo de Sodoma y Gomorra.
Un reinado de maricones, ¡Santo Cielo! Desde ya, tenemos que salirle al frente a la aberración de unos sinverguenzas contra-natura, y que no me digan que es a puerta cerrada y en un lugar privado, si dejamos que se siente ese precedente, todos los años tendremos aquí a maricones de toda la isla y de America Latina.

[México]
Reconocerán a Lucía Méndez por labor altruista con comunidad gay
Encausada a combatir la homofobia y la discriminación basada en la identidad de género y orientación sexual, la organización GLAAD brindará, el 12 de noviembre, una mención honorífica a la intérprete, por su trabajo en la prevención de suicidios entre adolescentes gay. (Foto)

[México]
Ex gran hermano de México declara en Justina por desaparición de chica transexual

Poncho de Nigris, foto, fue relacionado con la desaparición de una chica transexual llamada Érika Denisse, con quien negó tener una relación sentimental.

[Venezuela]
Homofobia uniformada
Excerto: Astrid, travesti que se ofrece como trabajadora sexual a los automovilistas en la avenida Libertador de la capital, relató a periodistas que "a veces la policía nos detiene, nos quita el dinero y hasta nos obligan a tener sexo con los funcionarios de alguna patrulla bajo la amenaza de golpearnos o llevarnos a algún sitio peligroso de la ciudad para dejarnos allí abandonadas".

[Chile]
Otorgan carnet de identidad femenina a una mujer transexual en Chile
La de Alison Constanza es una las cinco demandas por cambios de nombres presentadas por el Movilh con el apoyo de la Universidad Diego Portales y la Fundación Triángulo en el 2007. Los otros casos aún no se resuelven, lo que “demuestra la arbitrariedad de los jueces”, denunció hoy el Movilh en el Registro Civil.

[Argentina]
Los presos gays dan el ejemplo en la cárcel Boulogne Sur Mer
Tienen un pabellón especial con un régimen de convivencia. Pintan la paredes y se hacen sus comidas. Son once -tres de ellos travestis- y para las autoridades "son los mejores del penal". Hablan algunos internos.
(Foto: Adriana Ojeda / Los Andes - Alberto Morales (Karen) está preso hace 14 meses. El interno en el patio y en la cocina del pabellón 14 A.)

[Portugal]
Escolher o sexo depois de nascer
Nasceram com um género sexual com o qual nunca se identificaram e vivem com o estigma de terem escolhido o sexo depois de terem nascido.
Transexuais omissos no quadro legal português
Único cirurgião a fazer mudanças de sexo sem discípulos em Portugal
Escolher o sexo depois de nascer

[Portugal]
Mourir comme un homme

Tonia, une transsexuelle vétéran des spectacles de travesti à Lisbonne, voit s'effondrer le monde qui l'entoure. Son statut de star est menacé par la concurrence des jeunes artistes. Pressée par son jeune copain Rosário d'assumer l'identité de femme et de se soumettre à l'opération qui la fera changer de sexe, Tonia lutte contre ses convictions les plus intimes. Tonia découvre qu'elle est malade. Pour s'éloigner de tous ses problèmes, elle part avec Rosário. Ils se retrouvent dans une forêt enchantée où ils rencontrent l'énigmatique Maria Bakker. Et cette rencontre va tout faire basculer...

[Brazil]
Dice gobernador brasileño que cáncer de mama es culpa de paradas gay
Roberto Requiao, asoció las Paradas del Orgullo Gay a un supuesto aumento en la incidencia del cáncer de mama entre los hombres.

[España]
Cuatro detenidos en Pamplona relacionados con el homicidio de una transexual
Linsy Acosta Carmona murió en Burgos y el presunto autor material del homicidio encuentra actualmente interno en el centro penitenciario de Pamplona.
La investigación sobre el robo a la víctima del homicidio de Burgos llevó a Pamplona

[España]
Aprobado dictamen de no discriminación por motivos de identidad de género
La Comisión de Presidencia, Justicia e Interior ha aprobado hoy el dictamen en relación a la proposición de Ley Foral de no discriminación por motivos de identidad de género y de reconocimiento de los derechos de las personas transexuales.
La primera ley que garantiza derechos a los transexuales supera elprimer trámite

[España]
Casi 200 transexuales se han cambiado de sexo en Málaga en una década
En los casos de hombre a mujer se suele hacer una operación, mientras que en los de mujer a hombre se realizan dos o tres.
Los pacientes sienten que están atrapados en un cuerpo extraño.

[España]
Rifirrafe entre COLEGA Galicia y Maribolheras Precárias, el colectivo que prendió la mecha de la protesta contra Sizzla en Santiago
La protesta contra la actuación de Sizzla en Santiago de Compostela ha acabado derivando en un feo rifirrafe entre colectivos. Como ya informamos, COLEGA Galicia se apresuraba a enviar ayer tarde un comunicado a los medios en el que se congratulaba de la supuesta cancelación del concierto, una cancelación que luego se desveló falsa. Este engaño desencadenó gran malestar en COLEGA, cuyo presidente ha llegado a declarar al diario Público que sospecha de lo que ha denominado “movimiento antisistema” y en concreto del entorno de Maribolheras Precárias, grupo que ha venido desarrollando una activa campaña contra el concierto. Maribolheras ha evitado entrar al trapo sobre este asunto, pero sí reprocha con contundencia a COLEGA que hiciera acto de aparición al ver “el filón mediático” y que se atribuya la representatividad del colectivo LGTB en un territorio en el que no tiene implantación real.

[UK]
Born in the wrong body
Doctors in Britain are reviewing guidelines for the treatment of people under 18 with gender dysphoria. This is a condition where someone is born one sex but feels they are really the other. A key issue is the age at which young people can be prescribed drugs which pause puberty.
Changing sex: can a child decide?

[UK]
Brit girl wants boob-vanishing surgery to join Army as a man!
A British girl wants to undergo a breast removal surgery so that she can join the Army and fight in Afghanistan as a man.
Army dream of transgender man
I want to be man of war

[UK] [Commentary]
The Operation That Can Ruin Your Life
Last year, I was nominated for the Stonewall Journalist of the Year award. This seemed fair enough since I write prolifically about sexuality and sexual identity. But I guessed that Stonewall would not dare give me the prize, because a powerful lobby affiliated with the lesbian and gay communities had been hounding me for five years. Six weeks later I, along with a police escort, walked past a huge demonstration of transsexuals and their supporters, shouting "Bindel the Bigot". Despite campaigning against gender discrimination, rape, child abuse and domestic violence for 30 years, I have been labelled a bigot because of a column I wrote in 2004 that questioned whether a sex change would make someone a woman or simply a man without a penis. Subsequently, I was "no platformed" by the National Union of Students Women's Campaign, a privilege previously afforded to fascist groups such as the BNP. As a leading feminist writer, I now find that a number of organisations are too frightened to ask me to speak at public events for fear of protests by transsexual lobbyists.

Bindel Still Apparently Obsessed With Writing Barely Coherent Crap About Transsexualism
Julie Bindel still doesn't understand what Human Rights actually means

[UK] [People/Television]
Millionaire businesswoman had to fight after she had a sex change

Millionaire entrepreneur Stephanie Booth had to overcome some remarkable challenges to build her string of successful businesses.
And none was greater, or as emotionally draining, as the challenge of overcoming prejudice – after her sex change from family man Keith Hull to businesswoman Stephanie Booth.

[Itália] [Blog/Commentary]
Catholic Church Gives Italian Priest 'Reflection' Vacation After Performing Transgender Wedding
Forty-four-year-old Father Alessandro Santoro, a priest in Florence, is getting an unsolicited vacation! It wouldn't have anything to do with his performing a transgender marriage, would it?

[Finlandia]
Un sacerdote transexual divide a los feligreses de Finlandia
Un sacerdote luterano finlandés de 55 años oficiará mañana, domingo, su primera misa tras someterse a una operación de cambio de sexo, lo cual, pese al beneplácito de sus superiores, ha dividido a sus feligreses, entre quienes alaban su coraje y quienes le consideran un blasfemo.

[Malta]
Largest European LGBT conference being held in Malta
Around 300 persons from all over Europe and North African and Asian countries are participating in the ILGA-Europe conference being held in Malta, the largest ever held.
Call for equal rights for all forms of family

[Turkey]
Struggle against Homophobic Discrimination in Professional Life
LGTB organization Kaos GL held a "LGB Employees Meeting" in Ankara to draw attention to the discrimination of homosexual and bisexual people in professional life. One of the most urgent problems is the rejection of applications because of a person's sexual identity.

[Bahrain]
Q&A: "Guardian Angel" of Gulf Transsexuals
Transsexuals in the Gulf call Bahraini lawyer Fawziya Janahi "guardian angel". She is the Arab world's only female lawyer who takes up cases on behalf of clients who want to change their sex.

[Sudáfrica]
Exigen verdad de Semenya
La prensa australiana aseguró, remitiéndose a una fuente anónima implicada en las pruebas de la IAAF, que Semenya era "hermafrodita", desatando la indignación de la opinión pública sudafricana.
S.Africa ruling party calls for gender row apology

[India]
Chennai transgenders learning karate for self-defence
Many transgenders in Chennai are undergoing karate training to improve their self-confidence and health so that they can land a good job.

[Thailand]
New sex change regulations set to take effect
Areeya Milintanapa, a 26 year old transvestite, had hoped to undergo sexual reassignment surgery at a private clinic in Bangkok next year, but her plans have hit a setback - new regulations by the Medical Council of Thailand.

[Thailand]
Japanese Win "Angel Of Talent" At Miss International Queen 2009
A Japanese contestant easily took out first place to win the “Angel of Talent” contest, which is part of the “Miss International Queen 2009” week that has attracted world-wide attention. This is one of several functions held in the run up to the grand final judging, which will be held at the “Tiffany Theatre” in north Pattaya on the night of Saturday 31st October. (Photo)

Transsexual contest for awareness
Miss International Queen 2009 contest
Una artista brasileña, entre las tres transexuales más bellas del mundo
Haruna, Miss Transsexuel, milite pour le respect de sessemblables
Pattaya kürt die schönste Transsexuelle der Welt
Japanerin zur schönsten Transsexuellen der Welt gewählt

Annual transvestite pageant wows Thailand

[Australia]
Transsexual wins apology over passport
A transsexual has won a written apology from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the distress she experienced as a result of having to travel on a passport that identified her as a man.
(Photo: Passport led to ridicule ... Stefanie Imbruglia’s complaints have brought changes.)
Natalie Imbruglia's transexual cousin airport

[Canada]
Alleged transgendered discrimination highlights need for education
The owner of a night-club accused of discriminating against a transgendered woman says it was case of mistaken identity.
The allegations stem from an incident on Sunday night, when a local transgendered woman was asked to use the men's washroom at the Level nightclub.
Update: Nightclub owner says allegations of discrimination against transgendered woman a misunderstanding

[Canada]
Man charged in deadly blaze
Excerpt: Police arrested Justin Rosdobutko Tuesday night following an extensive investigation of the deadly Oct. 11 fire at the Aquarius Men's Bath on Notre Dame Avenue. Steven Yablonski, 23, of Winnipeg, and Robert Clark, 62, of Saskatchewan, were both killed. Yablonski was a well-known local drag queen and performer.
Police lay charges over fatal Winnipeg bathhouse fire

[USA]
President Obama signs first federal transgender protections into law
Upon President Obama’s signing today, October 28, 2009, of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) issued the following press release:
President Obama has just signed into law the very first protections for transgender people in U.S. history: the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Obama signs expanded US hate crimes law
Obama hails expansion of hate crimes legislation
Obama inks defense bill with hate crimes provision
After 10-year dispute, expansion of hate crimes law to gays signed
Presidente Obama firma Ley contra delitos de odio hacia transexuales y homosexuales

[USA]
Seventeen Slammed for Transphobic Article
A young LGBT activist has launched a Facebook campaign against Seventeen magazine in response to its publication of an article that portrays transgender people in a highly negative way.
[Commentary] Seventeen Magazine Doesn’t Do Much To Encourage Compassion For Transgender Teens

[USA] [News/History]
Remembering the Stonewall Riots
This year’s Atlanta Pride marks 40 years since turning point for LGBT rights
Milestones since Stonewall

[PA, USA]
Group says transgender teen was abused in Philadelphia agency's custody
A transgender teenager who identifies as a girl said she was subject to constant abuse and discrimination during 18 months in the custody of the Department of Human Services.

DHS discrimination against transgender teen alleged

[AL, USA] [Letters to the Editor]
This campaign not about human rights
The phrase "human rights" as used by gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered persons in their advocacy campaign is a gross deception and misrepresentation. Their so-called human rights' agenda consist of advocating conduct that is morally reprehensible, despicable and contemptible before God.

[KS, USA]
KSU-Salina to fund transgender speaker
The student governing group at Kansas State University’s Salina campus has reconsidered and will now help fund a transgendered speaker’s visit to campus.

[CA, USA]
Report: Even with protections, transgenders in California
More than five years since state legislation to ensure employment and housing protections for transgender people went into effect, many still face discrimination, according to a recently released report.

[GA, USA]
First trans march makes Atlanta Pride history
Participants will walk through park to ensure visibility to larger gay community

[Ecuador]
Primer transexual logra cambiar su identidad en Ecuador
Un transexual cambió su identidad en el documento de identificación para aparecer inscrita como mujer, gracias al primer fallo judicial en ese sentido dictado tras una batalla legal que duró ocho años.

Una transexual cambia de nombre y sexo por primera vez en Ecuador sin CRS genital

[Belize]
Gay Student Accuses Baptist High School of Discrimination
You probably haven’t heard about gender identity disorder – or gender dysphoria. It is a condition where a person feels they are trapped in the body of the wrong sex. It is not a biological condition – it is a psychiatric classification – but that doesn’t mean the person who has it is crazy, just different. Tonight we’ll introduce you to a young man who says he is a woman trapped in the body of a man. But that’s not the news tonight – the news is that he might be kicked out of school because of it. Keith Swift has his story.
Gay Student Jose Garcia's Future in Limbo

[República Dominicana]
Homosexuales celebrarán concurso de belleza en La Romana
La Romana, una ciudad con bellezas excepcionales en la explotación turística se prepara para la celebración de un concurso de belleza para homosexuales, que se desarrollará en noviembre, pero que desde ya está siendo repudiado por periodistas y otros sectores que defienden la buena moral.

[Venezuela]

La historia de una joven transexual gana el Festival de Cine Venezolano Mérida

La historia de una joven transexual, que interpreta la colombiana Endry Cardeño, que debe hacer frente a la intolerancia de su familia, fue la ganadora del premio a la mejor película en el Festival de Cine Venezolano Mérida 2009, cuya quinta edición fue clausurada el jueves.

[Chile]
Cambio de nombre de transexual representa avance para la diversidad chilena
Chile consiguió dar un paso importante en logros de los derechos de la población transexual. Recientemente, la transexual Alison Constanza Ruiz Martínez, quien era identificada como René Rodrigo, consiguió cambiar de nombre sin necesidad de una cirugía de reasignación sexual. (Foto)

Trans chilena recibe carné que la acredita con nombre mujer, aunque no se modifica sexo

[Chile]
Anuncian en Chile un Seminario Internacional de personas transexuales y/o transgénero
Zuliana Araya Gutiérrez, foto, la presidenta del Sindicato de Trabajadoras Independientes Travestis “Afrodita” V Región y coordinadora General Encuentro Trans, Valparaíso, Chile, anunció que se llevará a cabo el Seminario Internacional Transgénero “Inclusión en la diversidad” en noviembre próximo en Valparaíso, Chile.

[Argentina]
Por primera vez en Argentina un transexual masculino cambia de nombre y sexo sin cirugía genital
Llevado por la abogada transexual Mariana Casas, el Juzgado Nacional en lo Civil de la Capital Federal Nº 76 dictó sentencia " un caso de transexualidad masculina, otorgándole su cambio de sexo y nombre, adaptándolo así a su realidad social y familiar.

[Italy]
Italy politician quits after sex scandal
A prominent opposition politician embroiled in a scandal over his alleged encounter with a transsexual prostitute has resigned his high-profile job as head of the region that includes Rome.

Policía italiana también chantajeó otros políticos y famosos con videos con personas trans

[Zimbabwe]
Cross Dresser Tells Court He Always Wanted to be a Woman
A man who dressed himself as a woman and made a rape report at Nyamandlovu Police station on Monday appeared in court and was remanded in custody to 9 November.

[South Africa]
IOC to hold meeting on gender cases
The International Olympic Committee will convene a special conference of medical experts to draw up guidelines for dealing with "ambiguous" gender cases in the wake of South African runner Caster Semenya's sex-test controversy.
IOC to draw up 'ambiguous gender’ guidelines after Caster Semenya controversy

[Afghanistan]
Ignored by society, Afghan dancing boys suffer centuries-old tradition
A young boy dressed in women's clothing, his face caked in make-up, dances the night away for a crowd of men.
The bells on his feet chime away, mimicking the entertainment and sexual appeal of female dancers. But there is no mistaking his pubescent body and face as he concentrates, focusing on every step in order to please his master and his master's guests.

[Thailand]
New sex change regulations set to take effect
The council moved recently to strictly control sexchange operations and require that transgender people consult a psychiatrist, live as a woman for a year and receive hormone therapy before being such an operation is allowed.
(Photo:A group of transexuals call for the right to get “Miss” as a title in their national identification cards. A card here refers to the woman in its inset photo as a Mr.)

[Thailand]
Gender diversity isn't disorder
Government officials and gender and human rights advocates have urged the Defence Ministry to revise a ministerial regulation which regards transgendered people as people having a "gender identity disorder" that exempts them from military service.
Speaking at a seminar organised by the Office of the National Human Rights Commission, they said the regulation disregarded the human dignity of transgendered people and needed to be changed.

[Thailand]
Sailor influx prompts Phuket ladyboy crackdown
In advance of the arrival of two more US Navy ships full of marines ready for R&R in Phuket this week, Kathu Police are cracking down on criminal gangs of ladyboys.
Kathu Police Commander Grissak Songmoonnark said last time a large contingent of US Navy sailors were in Phuket around 80 ladyboys were arrested for petty crime.

[Canadá]

Press Release from TAS: Transwoman removed from female washroom
Transwoman removed from female washroom by security and subjected to transphobic slurs for using “wrong bathroom”

[USA]
AFA: Hate-Crimes Bill Is Un-American
The American Family Association, a self-proclaimed pro-family advocacy organization, on Monday criticized the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act as “simply un-American” and encouraged its members to contact Congress members who supported the legislation.
Bill addresses sexuality-based hate crimes

[IL, USA]
Cross-dressers challenge bar ID policy
Cross-dressers showed up en masse at a suburban gay bar over the weekend to test the bar’s policy requiring photo identification matching the patron’s appearance.
Some of those turned away joined preparations to file a complaint with the Illinois Human Rights Commission.
(Photo: John Lund/MEDILL - Hyacinth Piel, 33, was turned away at the door of Hunters Nightclub in Elk Grove Village because his attire did not match his appearance on his ID.)
[Blog/Commentary] Guest Post: Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Transphobia Has Got To Go!!!

[CA, USA]
Transgender student finds support at SJSU
Ari Eldridge finds comfort in being a transgender student, but believes that too few students are knowledgeable about what transgender is.

[NY, USA] [Letters to the Editor]
Law will include transgenders
I awoke one morning full of euphoria that Congress had finally in some form recognized lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, only to find myself invisible again.

[PA, USA]
Black Trans-Activist Lectures at Bryn Mawr
Monica Roberts, writer of the blog TransGriot, gave a lecture at Bryn Mawr Tuesday about transgender issues from an African-American perspective.
Roberts, 47, was the third African-American transperson to receive International Foundation for Gender Education Trinity Award in 2006, the "second highest honor” award in the transgender community.

[International]
Grupos transgéneros harán pedido a la OMS
Este colectivo solicita que la transexualidad deje de ser considerada enfermedad mental

[Brazil] [Blog/Books]
Review of Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes
I had the opportunity to read this manuscript before it was published, while taking a class with Prof. Kulick. My criticisms of it then still stand now…though I have in many ways only deepened my respect for the finer points of this work. I thoroughly applaud the way that Kulick attempts to make clear the way in which the travesti gender identity is a complexity of biological definition, social categorization, and personal identification. Certainly, the way in which Kulick has encouraged his subjects to share their understanding of gender and sexuality SO openly may help all gender theorists and anthropologists better take to task gender issues like these. As criticism, the book simply does not contextualize the travesti experience.

[España]
Ararteko plantea 27 recomendaciones para garantizar derechos de transexuales
El Defensor del Pueblo Vasco -Ararteko- ha recordado hoy a la sociedad que la transexualidad "no es una enfermedad" y ha planteado 27 recomendaciones, dirigidas básicamente a los poderes públicos, para que se garanticen los derechos fundamentales de este colectivo, algo que actualmente "no ocurre".
«Ser transexual no es ninguna enfermedad»
El problema de los vestuarios deportivos
Defensor Pueblo Vasco plantea 27 recomendaciones para garantizar derechos transexuales

[España]
Cuatro personas detenidas en relación con el homicidio de una transexual
Los policías detectaron que faltaban algunos efectos del piso de la fallecida, que se encontró con signos de haber sido registrado

[España]
Niños atrapados en su cuerpo
La Unidad de Trastorno de Identidad de Género ha tratado a 77 menores - Los pacientes reciben asistencia psicológica y tratamiento hormonal a los 16 años

[España]
AES pide que se retiren las subvenciones a COGAM y exige la intervención del defensor del menor
Alternativa Española (AES) ha denunciado ante la Comunidad de Madrid que el ‘calendario laico’ del Colectivo de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales de Madrid (COGAM), cuyo contenido adelantó en exclusiva Madridiario hace una semana, ofende a los católicos, por lo que pidió la retirada de las subvenciones públicas que recibe por parte de esta Administración.

[Italie]
Le prêtre qui avait marié une trans et son ami a été suspendu
Moins de 24 heures après cette cérémonie en Italie, l'archevêque de Florence a relevé le prêtre de ses fonctions, en l'invitant «à une cure de réflexion».
Boda religiosa de transexual desató polémica en Italia
Destituyen a un párroco por casar a un hombre con una mujer transexual
Un travesti brésilien embarrasse la gauche italienne
Un prêtre italien célèbre un mariage jugé «contre nature» par l'Eglise
Priest suspended after transsexual marriage
Un prêtre démis de ses fonctions pour avoir célébré le mariage d'une femme transsexuelle

[Italia]
Abandona el cargo un gobernador en Italia por supuesto escándalo sexual
El gobernador de la región italiana del Lazio (centro), Piero Marrazzo, anunció este sábado su abandono inmediato del cargo alegando "debilidades personales", precisamente cuando existe una investigación abierta contra cuatro policías que chantajearon a Marrazzo con un video en el que supuestamente aparecía con un transexual.
Captan a político con un transexual
Scandales à l'italienne
Advierte Berlusconi a gobernador sobre video comprometedor
Berlusconi no publicará video de gobernador con transexual
Piero Marrazzo démissionne de son poste de président de régionaprès un scandale
Dimite gobernador de región del Lazio tras videoescándalo con transexual
Escándalo y renuncia en la izquierda italiana

[Germany]
East German sports doping victim speaks out after sex change
Heidi Krieger was one of East Germany's star athletes, but years of forced doping caused her to opt for a sex change and become an outspoken advocate for the other victims. (Photo)

[Turkey]
Latest Anti-Gay Surge in Turkey Against Another LGBT Organization
Black Pink Triangle Association in Izmir is the fifth LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) organization that faces closure threat from the Turkish government. The first hearing will take place on February 19, 2010. The reason for closure threat is once again being “against the law and morality.”

[Turkey]
Transsexuals Complain at Prime Ministry about Police Violence
About 80 people gathered in Ankara upon the call of the Pink Life Transgender Association. Despite police resistance they managed to hand their petition for redress to the Human Rights Presidency of the Prime Ministry. The petition is concerned with police violence against transvestites and transsexuals and rights violations occurring in the Act on Misdemeanour.

[Uganda] [News/Commentary]
Ugandan MP Proposes Gay Death-Penalty Bill - Are American Anti-Gay Groups Responsible?
A Ugandan MP has tabled a new bill that could mean the death penalty for gay and transgender citizens convicted of "aggravated homosexuality". The bill, which calls for citizens to tell the authorities about those they believe to be gay, has been called a prelude to "the final solution" by some Ugandan gay rights activists.

[South Africa]
Transgender life stories from South Africa
Most people have the luxury of taking gender for granted; but for more and more people whose gender either challenges them or challenges others, gender is a wellspring of thought-provoking experience. The reflections on the experience of gender contained in this book will enrich readers’ understanding and deepen their awareness of the kind of very human quest that transgender people and those who love them have been undertaking for centuries.

[Pakistan] [Film]
Kiss and tell
An official selection at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival and shown at the 33rd Festival des film du monde Montreal (Montreal World Film Festival), Chan di Chummi (Kiss the Moon) is a revealing documentary about the lives of transsexuals in Pakistan. In the opening scene, script writer and director Khalid Gill says that as a child he was mystified by the transsexuals and he has tried to demystify them in the film.
(Photo by White Star - Eunuch in Pakistan - Chan di Chummi (Kiss the Moon) is a revealing documentary about the lives of transsexuals in Pakistan.)

[India]
Training and placement for transgenders
In an attempt to help transgenders stand on their own feet, members of the Dojo Chakra, a private organisation, have found placements for 30 of them as security guards in apartment complexes, hotels and corporate offices in the city. A six-day training programme in self-defence, yoga and meditation, and confidence building was organised here to give them the basic physical skills and mental outlook that would help them fare well in a their position.

[Canada]
Alberta trans activists call for review of GRS funding
As the Alberta legislature reconvened for its fall session on Monday, trans activists called on the government to reinstate gender reassignment surgery (GRS) funding.
Sex reassignment surgery in Canada: what's covered and where

[USA] [Commentary]
New definition of hate
Last Thursday, the Senate passed a bill that will make assaulting someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity a federal crime. When Obama signs the bill, he will finally begin making good on his promise to ensure equal rights for gays and lesbians and his promise to the American people as a whole for change.
Hate crimes now include sexual identity

[EUA]
Amanda Lear se dévoile
Lorsque l'on s'appelle Amanda Lear et que l'on arpente le monde people depuis des années, l'annonce d'une autobiographie fait toujours saliver. Egérie de Salvador Dali, abonnée de l'émission Les Grosses Têtes, comédienne et sex symbol, entre autres, la blonde a donc décidé de sortir sa biographie sous le titre évocateur "Je ne suis pas celle que vous croyez".

[USA]
Transgendered woman reaches settlement with nightclub over discrimination
Sierra D. Broussard, 28, appeared in Outagamie County Court on Friday in her civil lawsuit against Concepts Unlimited Inc., which does business as Park Central, 318 W. College Ave.

[VA, USA]
William and Mary Students Elect First Transgender Homecoming Queen
Students at the College of William and Mary have elected a transgender homecoming queen for the first time in the school’s history, according to officials. (Photo)
College's homecoming queen is transgender
A “pretty normal” homecoming
Spotlight still on transgendered William and Mary homecoming queen
William & Mary students not bothered by transgender homecoming queen
W&M students elect transgender Queen

[GA, USA]
Emory Pride Dresses Students and Faculty in Drag
College senior Joe O’Geen is pulling junior Megan Bowes from between his legs. O’Geen stumbles, and they collapse in a fit of giggles.
(Photo: Jenni Myung/Photography Editor - Emory faculty Michael Shutt, Tim Downs and Ben Perlman enact Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5.")

[América Latina]
Comisión Interamericana tratará discriminación a transexuales y homosexuales en la region
La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) analizará en su próximo periodo de sesiones, que inicia el 2 de noviembre, casos sobre los derechos de los homosexuales, la discriminación a indígenas y la crisis política en Honduras.

[Cuba]
Abre sus puertas centro de información para Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Transgeneros
"Este centro ha sido creado para el publico heterosexual y el objetivo fundamental del mismo es educar a aquellas personas que no se han enterado de que las diferencias sirven para que tengamos una identidad y que la identidad no es para destruirnos si no para ser diversos" ,aseguraba Leannes Imbert Acosta, directora del proyecto LGBT.

[Honduras]
Condenan asesinato de activista LGTB en Honduras
Organizaciones de derechos humanos de Centroamérica denunciaron la muerte de la activista Monserrat Maradiaga (Elder Noe Maradiaga), promotora de los derechos de las personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transexuales y transgénero (LGBT) de Honduras.
Honduras: reclaman justicia por los asesinatos de 9 transexuales
Transexuales demandan respeto a sus derechos (Foto: Los travestis demandan de la sociedad y las autoridades que les respeten sus derechos como personas.)
Comunidad “Gay” pide agilidad en investigación de homicidios

[Dominican Republic]
En noviembre habrá concurso de belleza de homosexuales en La Romana
La Romana, una ciudad con bellezas excepcionales en la explotación turística se prepara para la celebración de un concurso de belleza para homosexuales, el cual se desarrollará en noviembre, pero que desde ya está siendo repudiado por periodistas y otros sectores moralistas.

[Argentina]
Por primera vez en Argentina transexual masculino cambia nombre y sexo sin cirugía genital
Llevado por la abogada transexual Mariana Casas, con fecha 22/10/2009, el Juzgado Nacional en lo Civil de la Capital Federal Nº 76 dictó sentencia en autos “W.F.M s/ información sumaria” un caso de transexualidad masculina, otorgándole su cambio de sexo y nombre, adaptándolo así a su realidad social y familiar. Que se tenga constancia es el primer caso en que la Justicia de Argentina concede un cambio de nombre y sexo a un transexual masculino sin necesidad de cirugía genital. Solo hay un antecedente en una mujer transexual. En Argentina no existen leyes especificas para el cambio nombre y sexo, teniendo que ser un juez quien autorice las operaciones de reasignación genital y los cambios registrales.

[Natureza/Fotografia]
Lobo-ibérico caça prémio mundial de fotografia
Um lobo-ibérico foi a grande estrela dos prémios fotográficos Veolia Environment Wildlife, entregues pela BBC e Museu Nacional de História Natural de Inglaterra. (Foto de topo)

[International/Portugal]
Campaign launched to end classification of transsexualism as ‘illness’
A campaign that aims to end the classification of transsexuals as individuals who suffer an ‘illness’ as well as educating the general population that sexual diversity not limited to the male and female genre was launched in Lisbon this week.

[España]
Osakidetza asume el cambio de sexo desde el próximo año
El consejero de Sanidad del Gobierno vasco, Rafael Bengoa, anunció ayer que, a partir de 2010, Osakidetza asumirá las operaciones de cambio o reasignación de sexo, aunque no pondrá en marcha una unidad específica, sino que se dará el tratamiento hormonal, psicológico y la intervención quirúrgica «coordinando todos los servicios necesarios».

[España]
Polémica en España por un calendario con vírgenes transexuales
Es una creación de una organización gay de Madrid que busca que la OMS deje de calificar a la identidad transexual como una patología médica. Grupos cristianos lo consideran ofensivo con la Iglesia. "Es blasfemo y pornográfico", dicen.
Lío por anuario de vírgenes transexuales

[UK]
Sex-swap 'strangler' in court
A 42-YEAR-OLD man has been charged with murdering sex-swap prostitute Andrea Waddell.
Man in court over prostitute murder
Woman murder suspect is charged
Andrea Waddell 'had sweetest soul ever’

[UK]
Transvestite stole £120,000 in M&S lingerie
A Coventry accountant who has a “sexual fetish for women’s clothing” has been jailed after shoplifting more than 6,000 items of lingerie from Marks and Spencer.

[UK]
Dad-of-two driver changes gear in sex swap
Burly Nigel Weston has shocked trucker pals by telling them: "Call me Nikki-Jane."
The lorry driver left workmates stunned when he revealed his sex swap - but insists they are supportive.

[UK/South Africa]
British sex-change coach appointed as high performance manager by Triathlon South Africa
A Briton who has had a sex-change operation has been appointed by Triathlon South Africa (TSA) as the high performance manager to oversee preparations for the London 2012 Olympics, it was announced today.

[Itália]
Detenidos 4 carabineros por chantajear a dirigente del PD con vídeo erótico
Cuatro carabineros fueron detenidos hoy por haber chantajeado supuestamente al presidente de la región del Lazio (capital Roma), Piero Marrazzo, del opositor Partido Demócrata (PD), con un vídeo en el que aparecería, al parecer, en actitud íntima con un transexual, informaron los medios italianos
Nuevo escándalo en Italia: filman a un gobernador con un transexual
Police held for blackmail in Italian political sex row
Italian pol Piero Marrazzo resigns after police attempt to blackmail him with video of transsexual
Scandal hits Italy leftist party

[Germany]
Court rules insurance must pay for ex-soldier's breast surgery
A transsexual has won a lawsuit against her German health insurance, which will now have to pay for the former British soldier's re-constructive breast surgery, news magazine Der Spiegel reported late on Wednesday.
Sanidad pública pagará operación de pechos a ex soldado británico transexual
Sex-swap aquaddie gets free bazookas

[Uganda]
Homosexuality Bill Rejected
Some rights activists have described the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a violation of human rights and want it to be withdrawn immediately.

[South Africa]
The Sex of Athletes: One Issue, Many Variables
Track and field’s world governing body has begun trying to devise new rules about who can compete as a woman. This comes nearly two months after being presented with the case of Caster Semenya, the South African runner whose sex was questioned when she won the 800-meter world championship.
Athletics: Caster Semenya the latest female athlete suspected of being biological male

[Russia] [News/Film]
Is Russia ready for a film about drag queens?
Resplendent in pink satin and ostrich feathers, a drag queen runs through a tumbledown Russian village, miming to Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive.
(Photo: STV/AFP Veselchaki is the first mainstream Russian film about drag queens, in a country where homophobia is still common.)

[South Korea]
Social Ostracism Stifles Sexual Minorities
On Fridays and Saturdays after the sun goes down, both Korean and foreign gay residents begin to trickle into Itaewon from all over Seoul and parts beyond. They are businessmen and university students, English teachers and soldiers, mostly but not exclusively young men.

[Canada]
Sex reassignment surgery funding debate heats up
Alberta’s finance minister doubts the province will reverse its decision to drop sex changes from its list of publicly-funded surgeries, despite advice from a gay rights group.

[Canada]
Transgendered teacher, Catholic school in a legal duel
A complaint has been filed by a transgendered substitute teacher against a Catholic school board in Canada.

[Canada]
Finish sex change or no job, Forces tells applicant
Chris already has manly muscles, facial hair, a baritone voice and was accepted years ago by family and friends as a man.
But he's been told he cannot work for the Canadian military until he also gets a penis.

[USA]
VICTORY: Hate Crimes Bill Passes - First Federal Bill to Protect Transgender People
In an historic move, the United States Senate joined the House of Representatives in passing The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which will be the first federal law to include gender identity and transgender people. Once signed by the President, this law will add sexual orientation, gender identity, gender and disability to the categories included in existing federal hate crimes law and will allow local governments who are unable or unwilling to address hate crimes to receive assistance from the federal government. President Obama has indicated that he will sign the bill into law.
Congress extends hate crime protections to gays
Senate sends gay hate crimes bill to Obama
Hate Crimes bill passes Senate
U.S. Senate approves hate crimes measure
Senate passes measure that would protect gays
[News/Commentary] Trans-inclusive hate crimes legislation on way to president's desk
"Love conquers hate": inclusive hate crimes statute passes
Gay hate-crimes bill could punish Christians, foes say
[Blog/Commentary] Guest Post: The Message Of A Fully Inclusive Hate Crimes Bill

[USA]
Federal job bias bill gets its second House hearing
The full House Education and Labor Committee heard testimony on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act on September 23.
The bill prohibits businesses with 15 or more employees from using sexual orientation and gender identity as the basis for discrimination in employment.

[USA]
Housing regs to add protections for gays
Federal housing officials said Wednesday they're developing regulations to ensure that gays and lesbians aren't denied access to federally subsidized housing based on their sexual orientation.

[USA]
Gay Organizations Tackle Homo and Transphobia in Sports
I'm a glass-half-empty girl. Give me solid proof that things are looking up and I might start to refill that drink. That being said, my hat's off and my glass is raised for the efforts of the people I mention here in this story. They give me hope that things are going in the right direction for the LGBT sports community.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Horror! Transvestites may be 'profiled' in terror investigations
We simply must prevent the harrassment of transgender males, and transvestites who will be in for closer scrutiny as a result of male terrorists dressing as women to avoid detection.

[USA]
Chaz Bono Taking The Final Steps Of His Sex Change Operation
Chaz Bono, an American musician and LGBT rights advocate has been in the limelight for his much publicized sex change operation. Chez was born Chastity Sun Bono and is the only daughter of legendary American singing couple Cher and Sonny.
Chastity/Chaz Bono before and after pics; Cher lugubrious, Sonny tolerant

[NY, USA] [News/Law]
NYC transgender man wins right to name change
A court in New York City has reversed a lower court's decision rejecting a transgender man's application to change his name because he didn't provide medical documentation.
Ruling Eases Transgender Name-Change Process (Photo: Olin Yuri Winn-Ritzenberg, 26, was asked to provide documentation when he sought to change his name.)
Transgender name-change victory in New York
Victory! Appellate Court Strikes Down “Doctor’s Note” Requirement for Transgender Name Changes
Judges barred from demanding doctor's notes in transgender name change cases
NY Court: Trans People Don’t Need Dr.’s Note for Name Change
N.Y. Court Slams Doctor’s Note Requirement for Name Change

[NY, USA]
Trans Dad Wins Right to Contest Custody Due to "Extraordinary Circumstances"
A Brooklyn, New York, trial judge has ruled that due to "extraordinary circumstances" a mother may not object to the standing of her transgender spouse in a custody dispute pending in Kings County Supreme Court. K.B. v. J.R., 2009 Westlaw 3337592 (Oct. 14, 2009). As a result of this ruling on a motion by the mother, J.R., to disqualify the father, K.B., from seeking custody, Justice Esther M. Morgenstern will proceed to determine whether the father’s petition for custody should be granted in the best interests of their son, K.B. Jr.

[FL, USA]
Video Voyeur Fought Trans Restroom Rights
A Florida man who took a role in an attempt last year to deny transgendered people restroom access confessed to spying on women using the lavatory in the store where he worked, according to an Oct. 20 article published in the Gainesville Sun and posted at Gainesville.com.

[VA, USA]
Transgender homecoming queen a first for College
Jessee Vasold ’11 made history at the College of William and Mary Wednesday when ze was announced as the school’s first transgender homecoming queen, representing the Class of 2011.

[CA, USA] [News/People]
The Weekly Profiles Theresa Sparks, SF's First (Potential) Transgender Supervisor
Our guest Day-Around-the-Bay aggregator Chris Daly pointed you to this cover piece about Theresa Sparks in the new issue of SF Weekly last night, but having just read it ourselves during a long F-Market trip last night, we thought we'd encourage you again. It's a compelling profile by Lauren Smiley of the woman who could be our next District 6 Supervisor (should she officially decide to run), and the main photo by Frank Gaglione (at right) makes Sparks look downright Lorraine Bracco-ish, no?
(Photo: Frank Gaglione/SF Weekly)

[WI, USA]
Transgendered woman reaches settlement with Park Central over discrimination
Sierra D. Broussard, 28, appeared in Outagamie County Court on Friday in her civil lawsuit against Concepts Unlimited Inc., which does business as Park Central, 318 W. College Ave.
Broussard said she was twice denied entrance to the nightclub complex and said an employee told her if she "used either bathroom it would cause confusion for the other patrons," and that she should go to a club that caters to "her kind."

[Jamaica]
Drag queen stirs excitement in May Pen
A male cross-dresser (photographed here) who police said was caught in a compromising position in a car with another man early Friday morning, created a lot of chatter in May Pen yesterday as news of the incident spread throughout that town.
The police took both persons to the May Pen Police Station where it was discovered that the 'woman' was actually a man dressed in drag.
Police say they suspect that the cross-dresser is a prostitute and had sought to sell his wares to the unsuspecting male customer, who was riding a bicycle on Manchester Avenue when he was approached by the prostitute.

[Honduras]
Condenan asesinato de activista LGBT
Organizaciones de derechos humanos de Centroamérica denunciaron la muerte de la activista Monserrat Maradiaga (Elder Noe Maradiaga), promotora de los derechos de las personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, transexuales y transgénero (LGBT) de Honduras.

[Honduras]
Transexuales de Honduras exige respeto a la vida tras nueve asesinatos en cuatro meses
Miembros de organizaciones transexuales se plantaron frente al Ministerio Público (MP) para exigir que cesen las agresiones de que son objeto. Los manifestantes denuncian que en los últimos cuatro meses fueron asesinadas nueve transexuales, además de que son objeto de hostigamientos. (Foto)
Transexuales exigen respeto a la vida

[Ecuador]
Los trans combaten el discrimen a través del arte
Con el eslogan “PARE, la transexualidad no es enfermedad” se inició en Quito el Octubre Trans Ecuador 2009. Una campaña que se realiza a nivel mundial para detener la fobia contra este colectivo conformado por los transexuales, transgénero, travestis, intersexuales, bisexuales, o en resumen: “trans en el cuerpo, trans en el género y, sobre todo, trans en la cabeza”; como aseguró Ana Almeida, miembro del proyecto Transgénero.
(Foto: Carlos Pozo/ El Telégrafo - En la zona de la Michelena, un transeúnte aceptó maquillarse y peinarse como mujer durante la jornada, para experimentar cómo se siente un trans ante las miradas ajenas.)

[Colombia]
Travesti murió por inyecciones de silicona que se aplicó para aumentar el tamaño de sus glúteos
Fáber Laguna, 'Andrea' o 'Lolita', de 24 años, ahorró dinero, producto de su trabajo como estilista de una peluquería de Neiva (Huila), y viajó a Bogotá, para someterse al tratamiento estético.

[Peru]
Homosexual muere tras inyectarse solución dudosa en los glúteos
Un homosexual de 22 años murió luego que un amigo gay le inyectara una sustancia desconocida en los dos glúteos, en San Martín de Porres.
Arístides Alvarado Pizango, era natural de Tarapoto y vivía en un cuarto alquilado de la prolongación Zarumilla, junto con sus tres hermanas.

[Argentina]
Autorizan a transexual a operarse para convertirse en mujer
Un transexual fue autorizado por la Justicia a realizarse todas las operaciones necesarias en la zona genital para convertirse en mujer y a que se le cambie su nombre en el documento de identidad, partida de nacimiento y títulos que posee.

[International]
U.N. Terrorism Report Cites Transgender Prejudice
A report to the U.N. expressing concern that transgendered persons might be caught up in security measures designed to catch terrorists have been lambasted by conservatives.
[Commentary] Roadblock in the War on Terrorism: Transgender Politics

[Brasil]
Cerca de 70 mil participam de Parada de Uberlândia
A Parada do Orgulho LGBT da cidade mineira de Uberlândia foi realizada no último domingo, 18, registrando número recorde de participantes. De acordo com estimativas da organização do evento, cerca de 70 mil pessoas acompanharam o desfile. (Foto)

[España]
Gays de Madrid crean un calendario laico con vírgenes transexuales
Organizaciones cristianas lo consideran ofensivo con la Iglesia y hablan de "inquisición rosa"
Protagonizan transexuales Calendario Laico 2010

[Spain/Germany] [Blog/People]
Kim Petras, Norman Spack, Carla Antonelli on trans youth
Kim Petras was interviewed on Telecinco (TV5) in Spain yesterday. Someone has posted video on Youtube of the entire interview and subsequent discussion in three parts (about 27 minutes total.).
It appears she was wearing an earpiece, hearing translations of the talk show host’s questions and answering in English. Her answers are voiced-over by a Spanish translator, but with a little effort (and by following her lips) you can understand her responses. Brief comments by Norman Spack and Carla Antonelli are included in Part 1, and Kim performs a song in Part 2.
Part 3 includes a discussion of the issues and advantages of early transition. The overall effect of the interview is a profound demonstration of the advantages of early transition.

Part 1

Part 2



Part 3

[UK]
Hate Crimes In Brighton
The seaside UK city of Brighton is the scene of two recent GLBT hate crimes – the murder of a woman whose body was found strangled after a fire at her flat, and the assault of a lesbian couple on the street.

[UK]
We will never stop loving Andrea Waddell
Tributes have been paid to a former Reading School student whose strangled body was discovered in a flat fire in Brighton.

[South Africa]
Caster saga 'because of Zola Budd'
Athletics SA has once again rallied around its embattled president Leonard Chuene, defending his handling of the Caster Semenya saga and denying he lied about knowledge of sex tests conducted on the athlete.
On Tuesday, the body also took a swipe at the International Association of Athletics Federations, accusing it of laying sex-test "landmines" aimed at damaging young women athletes who looked different.

[Iran]
Iranian transgenders are not secure in Iran
Iranian transsexuals in fact experience humiliation, assault and abuse, if not outright death - and not just by government agents, but also by neighbours, family members, and those considered friends.
We have received reports very recently from our contacts in Iran exemplifying the torment endured by transgendered persons. On Saturday October 10, members of Basiji forces fired a gun at Sahar, an Iranian transgender, in the Abbasabad Street of Tehran. Sahar was hit in the shoulder and was taken to hospital by her friends. Once she is out of hospital, however, her safety is not assured.

[India]
2 eunuchs found killed, jewellery & cash missing
Two eunuchs were found murdered inside a three-storey house in C Block of Shaheen Bagh near Jamia Nagar on Tuesday. The police said the bodies of Vimlesh (47) and Meena (31) had started to rot when they found them around 10.30am on Tuesday, suggesting they were killed at least two days ago. Their throats were slashed and the house was ransacked, with cash and jewellery worth several lakhs missing.

[Canada]
Prostitute gets 30 days in jail for hitting man
A transgendered prostitute who punched a Kanata man in the face after meeting him on a telephone chat line was sentenced to 30 days in jail Tuesday.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Broad expansion of “paraphilia” planned for 2012
Ray “man without a penis” Blanchard has set his sites on further pathologizing crossdressers as well as other sorts of trans people in the 2012 American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Transgender Shoplifting Story Inspires Absurd Corrections
NBC Washington shows what happens when news outlets fail to confirm the correct gender identity of their subjects before publication. The outlet has just posted another story about the two shoplifting suspects who were shot by police near the University of Maryland last Friday. Here’s the absurd lede:
Upon closer review, it appears two shoplifting suspects shot by a Prince George’s County police officer weren’t men, as originally reported, or cross-dressers, as was later reported, but transgender women.

[USA]
Gay hate crimes awaits Senate vote
Supporters and opponents of legislation that will expand hate-crimes protections to homosexuals continue to wait on a Senate vote on a defense authorization bill that includes the controversial measure.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Protect Us From The Male, CVS Managers Who Support Keeping Trans Women Out Of Women's Restrooms
It's a bit hypocritical when that group was allegedly putting the petition on the ballot to protect women in bathrooms and then the manager of the store who was allowing the petition gathering was in fact preying on women in bathrooms.

[USA] [Blog/Science]
Can a man talk like a woman?
When men try to imitate the voice of a woman, they typically raise their voices to a higher pitch, and in the end, sound like men imitating women. Actually training a man to "sound" like a woman is enormously difficult and doesn't have much to do with pitch, according to a paper by James Dembowski, a researcher at Texas Tech University in San Antonio.

[NY, USA]
Kings County Supreme Court rules transsexual father has standing to petition for custody of child
In a complex decision released yesterday, the Supreme Court of Kings County ruled that a transsexual father has standing to petition for custody of a non-biological child.

[GA, USA] [Blog/News]
Gender Bending Student Too Wild for Atlanta Returning to Miami
All 16-year-old Jonathon Escobar wanted was a better education, and apparently that meant getting the hell out of the Miami-Dade school system. So he moved in with his sister in Atlanta to attend North Cobb High.

[MA, USA]
Murderer wants taxpayers to pay for removing hair
A cross-dressing wife murderer who is suing the state to pay for a sex-change operation now wants a federal judge to force taxpayers to pay for hair-removal treatments.

[México]
Comienzan consultas para reglamentar trabajo sexual en DF
El gobierno local dio luz verde para realizar mesas de análisis y discusión con representantes de trabajadores y trabajadoras sexuales de toda la ciudad, a fin de diseñar una ley, o en su caso, un reglamento que ordene el ejercicio de esa actividad.

[International]
Trans de Lima exigieron dejar de ser considerados enfermos
Tal como se había anunciado, organizaciones trans de Lima realizaron una intervención en las calles de la ciudad exigiendo que la transexualidad, trangeneridad y travestismo dejen de ser considerados enfermedades mentales en el nuevo manual de diagnóstico de trastornos Mentales de la Asociación Americana de Psiquiatría (DSM-IV), que se publicará en 2012. (Foto)

Entidades pedem fim da transexualidade como doença

[Europe]
Euro Commission tells EU applicant nations to respect GLBT rights
GLBT rights are a prominent topic in the European Commission’s Oct. 14 progress reports on the seven countries that are planning to join the European Union: Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia and Kosovo.

[España]
A golpe de calendario

De pequeño me enseñaron que estaba muy feo ofender a los demás. Y que más rechazable todavía era hacerlo de manera gratuita y contra alguien que no va a contestar a la ofensa. Claro que yo recibí una educación cavernícola, donde me inculcaron valores como el respeto al prójimo, la disciplina, el sacrificio y el orden. Será por eso que he sentido indignación y pena viendo el ‘calendario laico’ con el que la Federación de Gays, Lesbianas, Transexuales y Bisexuales de Madrid representa de manera irreverente escenas de la iconografía cristiana. Coronas celestiales con forma de pene, transexuales medio desnudos/as suplantando a la Virgen María, preservativos a modo de brocados sobre túnicas de santos son algunas de las escenas con las que este colectivo pretende la sustitución de las festividades religiosas por celebraciones sociales. Entre otras ‘genialidades’ proponen que el 25 de diciembre, Navidad, se coma turrón por el Día Internacional de la Democracia.

Calendário espanhol traz fotos de transexuais como santas católicas

[UK]
Mother of dead Brighton prostitute pays tribute to her "harmless and beautiful" daughter
The devastated mother of a university graduate who was strangled to death before the killer set fire to her flat has spoken of her shock after discovering her daughter worked as a prostitute.

[USA]
Bill targets hate crimes
When people hear about hate crimes happening, they normally picture it in another state or city, not anywhere close to home.
Kent State, however, was the location of a hate crime about three years ago.
In February 2006, former PRIDE! Kent president Angela Wicks was assaulted when she was walking on front campus to a friend's apartment between 2 and 3 a.m., said PRIDE! Kent vice president Trae Ruscin at their meeting Thursday.

[USA]
American 8-year-old child becomes world's youngest transsexual
Josie Romero, an eight-year-old American girl, then called Joseph, knew at the age of four that she was the wrong sex and even often said: 'I am really a girl.'
8-year-old boy has "sex change"
Fresh Controversy Surrounds 8-Year-Old’s Gender Identification

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The Washington Post Cross-Dressing Shoplifting Story Misfires
Yesterday, the Washington Post published a story about two shoplifting suspects who were shot over the weekend by a Prince George’s County police officer. The suspects were shot after they attempted to drive away with the officer’s arm lodged in the door of their getaway car. But the Post story was not concerned with the facts of this botched escape—the newspaper had already covered the particulars of the incident a day earlier. The follow-up amounted to a lengthy correction of one fact: the gender of the wounded suspects.

[GA, USA]
Student who wore female attire to North Cobb school returning to Miami
Jonathan Escobar challenged gender norms, sparked nationwide controversy

[NY, USA]
U.N. Report Says Counterterrorism Measures 'Risk Unduly Penalizing Transgender Persons'
A report by U.N. Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin that is awaiting approval by the United Nations General Assembly says that security measures taken to detect terrorists "risk unduly penalizing transgender persons whose personal appearance and data are subject to change.”

[MA, USA]
Killer plucks at judge’s heartstrings
A cross-dressing killer suing to make the state pay for his sex-change operation refuses to brush aside a federal judge’s denial of taxpayer-funded hair removal.

[Chile]

MOVILH en Chile inicia plan orientar a comunicadores y periodistas sobre transexualidad

La idea es ampliar el debate para retirar a la transexualidad de la lista de trastornos de la OMS y la APA, contribuyendo con ello a aminorar a la discriminación. Se sensibilizará a comunicadores sociales y estudiantes de esa área, así como a la ciudadanía en su conjunto. El 19 por ciento de los casos de discriminación contra la diversidad sexual, han dañado en Chile a transexuales.

[Uruguay]
Victory for Transpeople in Uruguay
On Oct. 12, the Senate in Uruguay unanimously passed a bill permitting transsexuals to change their names and genders on all official documents, including birth certificates. President Tabare Vasquez is expected to sign the bill into law shortly.

[International]
La transexualidad no es una enfermedad…
En 38 países ayer, activistas salieron a las calles para exigir que la transexualidad deje de ser considerada como una enfermedad y se elimine de la lista de patologías de los libros de la Organización Mundial de la Salud y la Asociación Americana de Psiquiatras. La Red Internacional contra la Patologización Transexual — a la cual se une Puerto Rico Para Tod@s — está luchando porque se logre ese cambio en el 2012, que es cuando procede la revisión del V Manual Estadístico y Diagnóstico de Desórdenes Mentales de la Asociación Americana de Psiquiatras.

[Brasil]
Brasil integra a los presos gays
Minas Gerais abre el primer módulo carcelario para homosexuales y travestis

[España]
'Vírgenes' transexuales
Coronas de virgen con forma de pene. Preservativos a imagen y semejanza de brocados sobre túnicas de santos. Mortales con el trasero al aire arrodillados ante apariciones divinas...
Esta es parte de la escenografía empleada en la elaboración de un "calendario laico", un documento gráfico reivindicativo con el que, pese a lo paradójico de su temática, un grupo de transexuales solicita la sustitución de las festividades religiosas por celebraciones sociales. Donde siempre ha puesto que el 25 de diciembre es Navidad, que se coma turrón por el Día Internacional de la Democracia, con la provocación como catalizador del cambio.
Calendar features transgender models posing as the Virgin, controversy follows

[España]
Detienen en Vigo a un hombre por violencia de género hacia su ex pareja mujer transexual
La Policía Local de Vigo detuvo a un hombre de 31 años de edad, A.C.D. tras agredir con una navaja a su pareja después de mantener una discusión en una cafetería de la ciudad.

[UK]
Trans woman found murdered in burnt-out flat
A graduate who was found strangled in her Brighton flat was a trans woman, police have confirmed.
Andrea Waddell, 29, a graduate of Durham University, was found dead on Thursday night. She had been strangled and her bedroom set on fire.
Man held in fire murder inquiry
Strangled graduate was hooker
Man held for murder of transsexual prostitute
Arrest over Brighton prostitute death
(Photo: Ms Waddell studied social and political thought in Brighton.)

[South Africa] [Commentary]
The word ‘hermaphrodite’ is inappropriate for people
Move over Usain Bolt. Bring on a new superstar, the most talked about runner this past summer, a female. Or is she?
South African runner Caster Semenya leapt into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Albeit an excellent runner, it was not her running prowess that put her under the microscope (literally). It was that she was a freak.
ANC demands new Caster sex tests

[India]
Transgenders in Chennai launch their own marriage website
Transgenders in India's Chennai city have launched their own marriage website through which they hope to find like-minded suitors.
One can often see them dancing at weddings or at the blessing ceremonies of newborn babies. They appear uninvited to seek money. And it is not easy to turn them away without paying a hefty sum.

[Vietnam]
Hanoi welcomes back transsexual models
The Pattaya group’s five transsexual models made an appearance at a special fashion show held at the Dong Son Restaurant in Cau Giay district on October 15. (Photo)

[USA]
Trans-Parenting
One mom shares her journey of becoming a mother ... and the woman she always knew she should be

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Why ENDA Matters: True Stories of Anti-LGBT Employment Discrimination from the ACLU
To illustrate why Congress must pass the Employment Non Discrimination Act (ENDA), a federal law that would ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the workplace, we will be posting the firsthand accounts of people from across the nation who have been fired, refused a job, or harassed in the workplace because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. This summer the ACLU put out a call for stories, and these are just a fraction of stories they received.

[MD, USA]
Off-duty officer shoots two while being dragged by car Friday
Excerpt: Initial reports indicated the suspects were women, but police have since identified Bright and Bailey as transgender; both were wearing women’s clothes.
“We’re still obviously investigating, but it appears they are transgender,” Lipsey said. “As we get further into the investigation, we’ll find out if this is their lifestyle — which we believe it is — or if it was a disguise.”
Two Men Shot by Pr. George's Officer Were Dressed as Women

[MS, USA]
Girl in tuxedo denied a place in school yearbook
Veronica Rodriguez describes her daughter, 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis, as "a perfect child": a straight-A student, a goalie on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in Students Against Destructive Decisions.
(Photo: Ceara Sturgis wears a tux in her preferred yearbook photo, which officials won't run.)

[HI, USA]
Man who stabbed cross-dresser declared mentally fit to stand trial
Question: Whatever happened to the man charged with murder for fatally stabbing a man dressed as a woman in his car under the Keeaumoku Street freeway overpass last summer?
Answer: The murder trial of Joel C. Allen is scheduled to begin next month after a judge last month declared him mentally to stand trial.

[Dominican Republic]
Prostitución homosexual en calles de Santo Domingo
Cuando salimos a dar un paseo por la ciudad siempre estamos mirando todo el movimiento que los citadinos producen en sus diferentes obligaciones en sociedad. Pero nos detenemos en un aspecto que consideramos inusual y hasta raro por que no entendemos como en una sociedad tercer mundista aparecen en varios puntos de Santo Domingo Homosexuales (mujeres en cuerpo de hombre) que se dedican al trabajo de la prostitucion homosexual durante las noches.

[Internacional]
Los transexuales quieren dejar de ser 'enfermos'
La OMS habla aún de patología, como hizo con la homosexualidad hasta 1990
Inician campaña para despatologizar a transexuales
Stop Trans Pathologization
Asociaciones piden que se desclasifique la transexualidad como una enfermedad
Unas 35 ciudades reivindicarán que se desclasifique la transexualidad como enfermedad

[Internacional/Portugal]
Chega a Portugal campanha para retirar transexualidade da lista de doenças mentais
Ideia é influenciar a revisão das listas da Organização Mundial de Saúde e da Associação Americana de Psiquiatria
«Não há só homens e mulheres»
Protesto Transexuais contra rótulo 'doença mental'

[Brasil]
Transexuales brasileños podrán cambiar su nombre en el registro civil de nacimiento
Los transexuales brasileños podrán alterar su nombre y género en los registros civiles de nacimiento, después de someterse a una cirugía de cambio de sexo, según una sentencia proferida hoy por el Supremo Tribunal de Justicia (STJ).
Court says transgender individuals have the right to changetheir name and gender on civil records
Transexuales de Brasil podrán cambiar su nombre en Registro Civil

[España]
Un niño se transforma en niña legalmente a los ocho años
A los cuatro años insistía a sus padres: "Soy una niña". A los cinco se negaba a cortarse el pelo y a los seis ya había sido diagnosticado como transexual. Joey Romero, ahora Josie, se ha convertido en un caso insólito de cambio de género con sólo ocho años de edad.
(Fotos: The Sun. Josie, a los cinco y a los ocho años.)
Cambiará de sexo niña transgénero de ocho años
Canal britânico exibirá documentário sobre transexual de oito anos

[UK]
Sex-change graduate working as a prostitute strangled before killer set fire to her flat
The 29-year-old student's body was found in a burnt-out flat in Brighton. Tests showed she had been strangled.
Fire murder inquiries continuing
Strangled Girl's Secret Life Of Vice
Murdered prostitute had undergone sex change operation

[France]
Changer de sexe, encore un tabou
Ils seraient 30 000 en France, mais les chiffres fluctuent tellement qu’il est difficile de savoir s’ils reflètent la réalité. La réalité des transsexuels, hommes enfermés dans un corps de femme ou femmes dans une enveloppe masculine, est celle qui est exposée dans un colloque organisé jusqu’à ce soir à Montpellier : de grandes difficultés d’accès aux soins, au travail, à une nouvelle identité. Au bout, il n’y a ni victoires, ni défaites. On est loin des caricatures, qui les assimilent aux travestis. Loin de la confusion, qui confond transsexualité et homosexualité. Le genre n’est pas qu’une question de sexe. Et quand les frontières bougent, la société est ébranlée.

[Itália]
Homosexuales denuncian “caza de brujas” en Italia
Excerto: Ciudadanos de segunda. Los manifestantes, entre los que había unaveterana transexual que reclamaba que su ficha policial como travestisea destruida por las autoridades, han denunciado que los homosexualesen Italia son tratados como ciudadanos de segunda clase, han acusado alos políticos de seguir las directrices del Vaticano para laestigmatización de los gays y han calificado de “caza de brujas” la“persecución a los inmigrantes y homosexuales avalada, sino promovida,desde las instituciones italianas”.

[Turkey] [Blog/News]
Murderer of Melek K sentenced to life imprisonment?
As far as I can tell from running this report (via Bianet) through Google Translate, the third hearing in the trial of the murderer of Melek K took place in Ankara on 15 October. The attempted trans panic defence was rejected and the accused, Tayfun P.’nin, sentenced to life imprisonment.

[Uganda]
Human rights groups oppose Uganda's proposed death penalty for homosexuality
Seventeen human rights groups have called for proposed new laws on homosexuality in Uganda to be scrapped immediately.
Parlamentar de Uganda sugere pena de morte para algumas práticas homossexuais

[Ghana] [News/Commentary]
A Ghanaian Woman Trapped In A Man's Body
Could it be that there are monsters born to human parents? Like for example, children born with abnormal features, abnormal gifts, or even super-natural abilities, which set them apart from the rest? Or let's say children, who seem to mature way faster than their own peers for no apparent reason? Most naturally, it's expected of a woman to deliver a healthy child into this world after her nine months pregnancy.

[South Africa]
Nullify Caster's test results, say ANC
The ANC wants the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) to declare null and void the results of athlete Caster Semenya's gender verification tests, it said on Friday.
Suspectée d'être un homme, Caster Semenya est traumatisée
Ce que le sport peut pour Caster Semanya, par Emmanuelle Jappert et Annie Sugier
[Commentary] Guest Commentary: Gender politics play out in Caster Semenya controversy
Homme ou femme ?
L'affaire Semenya en finira-t-elle un jour?
Mensonges et mea culpa, la saga Semenya continue
"Llamada al orden" de género
Le président de l'ASA sur la sellette
Deporte intersexual: el sexo y el género de las deportistas

[India]
Transgenders spend days on cleaning brass, copper utensils every Diwali
Diwali cleaning at any household might need a couple of maids, some floor cleaner and brooms. But at a transgender's house in the city, the requirement is of 10 maids, around 20 kgs of tamarind, a lot of fine riverbed clay dust and three days of effort. And all this merely to clean utensils!

[China]
Transvestite stabbed in Baoshan
A transvestite prostitute was stabbed while looking for customers in the early hours of yesterday in Baoshan District.

[Australia]
Transgender male on ladies bowls team
Queensland's first transsexual bowler has been accepted as a full playing member of the conservative Edge Hill Ladies Bowls Club in Cairns.
(Photo: Jake Nowakowski - One of the gang: Robyn Stott (centre) has been accepted as a member of Edge Hill club and enjoys a laugh with (from left) Margaret Noble, Agnes Gascoyne, Pat Burke and Vi Thomson.)

[Canada]
Case of Gender-Confused Teacher against Catholic School Board Accepted by HRC
The Alberta Human Rights Commission has accepted a complaint brought against an Edmonton-area Catholic school board by a substitute teacher who was let go after she announced she was 'becoming' a man.

[USA] [Commentary]
A tale of two stories
Given increased press coverage trans issues have garnered over the past five years, I remain skeptical regarding the media’s ability and/or desire to report fairly and objectively. Any fiction that much of the collective press desires objective reporting or that it isn’t exhibitionistic is destroyed in the wake of the contrast between these two stories. As to ability, the misuse of pronouns and nomenclature by various and sundry publications is rampant. This is either ignorant (AP and other stylebooks have been updated for some time now), or a flagrant disregard for human dignity.

[CA, USA] [Commentary]
Schwarzenegger Creates Harvey Milk Day While Rejecting Trans Rights
You may have heard that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed into law a bill that will create a Harvey Milk Day, honoring the slain gay politician and icon. It’s the first time that any LGBT person has been honored in such a way, so obviously people are excited about the symbolism.

[OH, USA/Nicaragua]
The Struggle for Sexual Rights and the Transgender Community at the University of Cincinnati
Transgender, transsexual, and transvetites are constantly combating gender and sexual-identity discrimination. These issues become particularly nuanced within a Latin American context. This event will dissect the issues and experiences transgender, transsexual, and transvetities experience in Nicaragua as they organize for health care coverage, HIV/AIDS prevention, and employment non-discrimination. Silivia Martinez, coordinator of the Trans Network of Nicaragua (REDTRANS), will be speaking at the event.

[International]
Instrumentaran nuevo metodo de control del sexo
La Federación Internacional de Atletismo (IAAF) estudiará desde la semana próxima criterios para establecer un método que permita determinar con exactitud el sexo de los competidores, como consecuencia del caso Semenya.

[International]
Campaña “Stop trans patologización 2012"
MANIFIESTO
STOP PATOLOGIZAÇÃO TRANS 2012
Organizaciones españolas comprometidXs con la despatologización de transexualidad
Más de 35 ciudades, entre ellas Oviedo, reivindicarán la desclasificación de la transexualidad como enfermedad
Bruxelles 17 octobre 2009 : Manifestation contre la pathologisation desTrans’, GenreS fluideS et IntersexeS

35 ciudades reivindicarán que se desclasifique la transexualidad como enfermedad

[Europe/USA]
U.S. speaks up for gays at Euro conference
The U.S. government has defended gay people at an important European human-rights conference, the Council for Global Equality reported Oct. 8. The move was believed to be the first such action by the U.S. in a European context.

[Portugal]
To Die Like a Man -- Film Review
Bottom Line: Lisbon drag-queen drama has moments that drag and others that soar.

[Brasil]
PI: Sancionada lei sobre uso de nome social de trans
O Piauí acaba de se tornar o primeiro Estado brasileiro a ter uma lei específica para permitir o uso do nome social de travestis e transexuais em documentos.

[Brasil]
Transexuales brasileños podrán cambiar nombre en registro civil de nacimiento
Los transexuales brasileños podrán alterar su nombre y género en los registros civiles de nacimiento, después de someterse a una cirugía de cambio de sexo, según una sentencia proferida hoy por el Supremo Tribunal de Justicia (STJ).

[España]
La Científica de Madrid coopera para resolver el crimen de Linsy Acosta
Miembros de la Brigada Análisis Científicos de la Comisaría General de la Policía Científica en Madrid recogieron esta sábado pasado diversas muestras en la vivienda donde apareció el cadáver de Linsy Acosta Carmona, un transexual colombiano de 40 años asesinado a principios de esa semana y cuyo cuerpo fue encontrado el jueves. Los especialistas, que permanecieron en el piso -ubicado en el edificio con el número 5 de la calle de los Alfareros- hasta las dos de la tarde, se llevaron la pruebas recogidas para su análisis en los laboratorios de la capital de España.

[Ireland] [Blog/News]
Irish Greens stay in government, win policy concessions
Excerpt: Among the other concessions Greens won are ... a civilpartnership bill and legal recognition of transsexuals ...
Switching programmes -- what the Green Party got

[France]
Marche transsexuelle et transgenre à Paris
Environ 600 personnes ont participé samedi à Paris à la 13e édition des "Existrans", la marche des personnes transsexuelles et transgenres, entre le métro Jourdain (XIXe arrondissement) et la place de la République.

[Itália]
Rechaza parlamento italiano iniciativa de ley contra homofobia
Redacción Anodis.- Se trata de la llamada “Ley Concia”, que pretendía tipificar cualquier agresión por motivos de orientación sexual. La iniciativa tendrá que esperar un buen rato para ser debatida. Activistas LGBT se mostraron decepcionados.
El colectivo gay italiano denuncia "una caza de brujas desde las instituciones"
Nueva agresión homobia en Italia
Italy Rejects "Sexual Orientation" in Hate Crime Legislation

[Germany/UK]
Transexual Sues Health Insurer for Refusing to Cover Breast Implant Surgery
A British transexual living in Germany is taking her health insurer to court after the company refused to pay for breast implants. She argues that the operation should be covered as part of gender reassignment procedures.
(Photo: "This is just how I am," said former British soldier Sarah Jane Smith.)

[Uganda]
Uganda pode ter lei que pune homossexualidade com morte
Uganda, país africano conhecido pela homofobia de Estado, pode ganhar uma lei que pune atos homossexuais com a morte. O crime vem sendo chamado de "homossexualidade agravada" e se caracteriza pela relação sexual entre pessoas do mesmo sexo em que uma delas é menor de 18 anos, deficiente físico ou quando o "criminoso" é soropositivo.
Rights Groups Challenge Uganda’s New Same-Sex Proposal

[SudAfrica]
Caster Semenya : la championne vit mal son hermaphrodisme
D'après ses proches, Caster Semenya vivrait très mal la polémique autour de son vrai sexe.
Un problème de définition
Deporte intersexual: el sexo y el género de las deportistas
Caster Semenya too traumatised to sit exams as gender test remains unresolved

[China]
Jin Xing launches appeal over debt
JIN Xing, China's most famous transsexual dancer and entertainer, lodged an appeal in a city intermediate court yesterday over a debt of more than 500,000 yuan (US$73,256).

[Canada]
Transgender teacher case goes to conciliation
The Alberta Human Rights Commission has accepted a complaint made against a local Catholic school board by a substitute teacher who says he was dismissed from teaching for changing his gender.

[USA]
Opinion: Hate crime brings new bond with transgender child
Early on, l knew my son Michael was different. While my three other sons begged me to buy them G.I. Joe figurines and were obsessed with football, Michael preferred playing with My Little Pony and taking tap dance lessons.(Family photo - Bonnita Spikes and her daughter, Michelle.)

[USA]
Lesbian student in Miss. fights for tuxedo photo
Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she's never tried to hide it.
But when Sturgis — an honor student, trumpet player and goalie on the school's soccer team — wanted her senior photograph in a tuxedo used in the 2009-10 yearbook, school officials balked. Traditionally, female students dress in drapes and males wear tuxedos.

[CO, USA]
Panel discusses transgender issues
The transition from one gender to another is difficult, according to Cici Eberle, but well worth it for transgender people engaged in identity crisis.

[IL, USA]
Transgender Man Posed as 15-Year-Old Boy, Cops Say
He is known as Jack Stones on his Facebook page, and authorities said he used that alias last Friday when he tried to enroll as a 15-year-old freshman at Marion High School in Illinois.
But by the following Monday, suspicious school officials had called the FBI and learned that Jack was born Jennifer May, and was actually 24-year-old Jack Jay Kaiser, a California woman in the midst of switching her gender to a man.

[GA, USA]
What not to wear to school?
Nothing in the North Cobb High School student manual bans students from wearing opposite-gender clothing, but one recent arrival from Miami says he was told not to report to school unless he was dressed as a boy..(Photo by Matt Schafer - Jonathan Escobar, 16, withdrew from North Cobb High School after administrators said his clothing was causing a disruption among his classmates.)

[GA, USA]
Ga. legislative counsel calls employee’s gender transition ‘unsettling’
Depositions filed in the case of a transgender woman who was fired from her job as an editor for the Georgia General Assembly are shedding new light on the causes for her dismissal as she attempts to regain her job.
(Photo by Washington Blade - Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman suing Georgia legislative leaders after being fired from her job as a legislative editor, testified last month before a congressional committee on the need for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.)

[México]
Acusan a De Nigris de haber matado a transexual
Hace un par de semanas, la revista de espectáculos TVyNovelas, dio a conocer un escándalo más del ex Big Brother, Alfonso De Nigris, al entrevistar al travesti Dense, quien aseguró haber tenido un encuentro sexual con el líder de la agrupación 'Piel Caliente' durante una gira por Nuevo León:

[Uruguay]
Podrán trans cambiar nombre en documentos oficiales
Este lunes legisladores del país aprobaron una iniciativa que hará posible a las personas transexuales cambiar sus datos de acuerdo al sexo con el que eligieron vivir. Activistas aseguran que esta ley les dará mejores oportunidades de trabajo.
Uruguai deve aprovar mudança de sexo e nome para trans
Cambio de nombre y sexo para uruguayos
Uruguay Approves Historic Transgender Law
Uruguay : les trans pourront changer d'état civil
Uruguay passes landmark gender identity law

[Argentina]
Volver a empezar
Esta nota también podría titularse “Cuando la identidad no afecta la dignidad ni la capacidad de la persona”.
Es el caso de Alejandra Portatadino, quién todos en el ambiente conocemos cariñosamente como Ale, o La Portata, incansable luchadora por los derechos humanos y más incansable cuando se tratan los derechos GLBT.
Fue despedida de su trabajo como Gerente en una importante Petrolera, cuando regresó a Argentina del extranjero para luchar por los derechos a la intervención quirúrgica de las personas que necesitaban la cirugía de adecuación sexual y la reasignación del nombre en todos los documentos públicos y privados. (Foto)

[España]
Al menos 176 personas solicitan cada año en España un cambio de sexo
Desde que abrió la primera unidad para transexuales, la Seguridad Social ha atendido a 1.588 pacientes.
Se han practicado 333 cirugías de cambio de identidad.
Hay 195 en lista de espera.

[UK]
Transsexual wants out after two years of abuse
A transsexual from Egham who has suffered abuse from local youths for two years is hoping to be relocated by Runnymede Council.
Rachel Maton, 54, of Holbrook Meadow, Pooley Green, became a council tenant just over two years ago. But soon after moving in found herself the subject of consistent abuse from youths in the area.
Ms Maton has been given 28 crime numbers by Surrey Police following the incidents she has reported in the last two years, which vary from verbal abuse in the street, to having her home pelted with stones and eggs. (Photo)

[UK] [Television]
"Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change"
As experts consider a review of UK guidelines for treating transgender children, this film follows a number of children in the US who told their parents they were born in the wrong body.

[South Africa]
IAAF president keen to broker meeting with Caster Semenya to explain gender test results
Lamine Diack, the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, plans to travel to South Africa for a face-to-face meeting with Caster Semenya to explain the results of her gender verification test.

[Australia] [Film]
Trans stories on screen
Perth-bred transperson Col Cruise started the inaugural London Transgender Film Festival last year because he saw a need for greater understanding of the diverse group of people that is the trans community. Buoyed by the positive response from London audiences, he’s now bringing a selection of the festival’s best films on a three-city Australian tour, taking in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

[Canada]
Candles glow for fire victim
A fire that tore through the upper floor of a Winnipeg bathhouse Sunday morning killed two men, including a flamboyant drag queen.
Steven Yablonski, 23, a popular gay performer at alternative-entertainment pageants across the city, died in the fire at Aquarius Men's Bath, 457 Notre Dame Ave. Police have not yet identified the second victim.
(Photo: Boris Minkevich/Winnipeg Free Press - Vigil for the men that died in a fire at Aquarius bathhouse on Notre Dame.)
Devastated friends, fans to honour Yablonski

[Canada]
Regina woman marks National Coming Out Day
A transgender Regina woman marked National Coming Out Day with a public call for awareness and understanding of the issues faced by transgender people.
“It’s something that you’re born with,” said Mikayla Schultz, who grew up in the Regina area. Schultz and three of her friends gathered over the weekend for National Coming Out Day, an internationally-observed day for discussion and awareness around lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues.
(Photo: Troy Fleece, Leader-Post - (left to right) Mirtha Rivera, Mikayla Schultz, Zakaery Gudmundson and Jean Hillabold sit at Mikayla's house on Monday. Mikayla is transgendered.)

[USA]
Gay Rights Marchers Press Cause in Washington

Impatient and discouraged by what they see as a certain detachment by President Obama on their issues, gay rights supporters took to the streets Sunday in the largest demonstration for gay rights here in nearly a decade.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The Day After: Where Are We On ENDA Now?
The National Equality March is over, and here we are waking up on a long holiday weekend. Now what? What next?

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Artificial Breasts for Transsexuals on Someone Else’s Dime May Be a Human Right
In exchange for real rights as enshrined in the US Constitution, such as our rights to free speech, to bear arms, and to own property that’s ours and not the government’s, moonbat authoritarians offer their own version of “rights” — i.e., special goodies that it’s your right to force someone else to pay for. The latest “right” Airstrip One may offer its subjects is the right for transsexual freakazoids to have artificial breasts affixed with taxpayers’ money:
[Blog/Commentary] Should The Government Pay for a Boob Job? How About a Transexual's Boob Job?

[USA] [Commentary]
Why Hate Crimes Bill May Be Doomed
The House passed a bill last week aimed at offering federal protection to gay and transgender victims. Is it unconstitutional? Maybe. But either way, it’s a lousy bill.
Hating the Hate Crimes Bill

[USA] [Commentary]
'The emperor' has no power
Last weekend Obama spoke to homosexual activists at the Human Rights Campaign who are working to undermine the foundation of our civilization: marriage between one man and one woman, and whose agenda threatens our freedom to express biblical beliefs against a dangerous lifestyle.

[NY, USA]
Advocates Want Hate Crime Law to Include Transgenders
LGBTQ advocates are pushing the state legislature to amend New York's hate crime law to include gender identity. Under the current state law, prosecuters can classify assault as a hate crime if it stems from the victims' sexual orientation, but crimes against transgender victims do not necessarily qualify. One of the leading advocates for reform is Carmella Etienne, 23, who was attacked in Queens in July by two men shouting anti-gay slurs and threatening to cut her throat.(Photo: Carmella Etienne)
Transgender Provision Is Sought in State Hate Crimes Law
Trans Inclusion Urged for NY Hate Crimes Law

[USA]
Honolulu Equality March draws more than a hundred in protest around state Capitol
More than 100 people marched around the state Capitol this afternoon to protest the lack laws ensuring the civil rights of gays and lesbians.
They toted signs and shouted chants urging the equality of all in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender community in all 50 states. Their purpose was to raise community awareness to their fight toward equality. Put on by the Pride Alliance Hawaii, the march was timed to coincide with the National Equality march and National Coming Out Day.

(Photo: Andrew Shimabuku, The Honolulu Advertiser - The Honolulu event coincided with equality rallies around the country.)

[MA, USA]
Boston jobs march highlights fired Hyatt workers
Excerpt: In an historic first, Ethan St. Pierre, a laid-off transgender Verizon worker, was one of the speakers. “When I was laid off, I lost my health insurance that I desperately needed for my gender reassignment surgery!” he exclaimed.

[FL, USA] [Blog/News/People]
Florida transgendered man speaks at National Equality March in D.C.
In the current issue of CL, we reported on the National Equality March, which took place in Washington D.C. yesterday.
On Saturday night, President Obama addressed the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay rights group, where he said he has urged Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act. (Photo: Tobias Packer)

[CA/USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The Transgender Law Center Responds to Gov Schwarzenegger's Vetoes
In the Governor's veto message regarding the LGBT Prisoner Safety Act, he stated, "This bill is unnecessary because CDCR already considers these factors when determining where to house inmates." We are disappointed by the Governor's failure to codify this purported existing policy into law.
[Blog/Commentary] Governator Vetoes California Bills Affecting Trans People

[Mexico]
DF: marchan lesbianas para exigir respeto a derechos y a la diversidad sexual
La protesta se realizó en el marco del 13 de octubre, Día de la Rebeldía Lésbica en América Latina y el Caribe, que se conmemora desde 2007.
Lesbianas tachan el rechazo
(Foto: AP - Las féminas pidieron no ser excluidas de las políticas públicas.)

[Uruguay]
Uruguay congress legalizes sex changes
Uruguay's congress Monday approved a sex change law, the latest liberal move by the tiny South American nation which has also given the nod to civil unions for gays and adoptions by gay couples.
Uruguay approves sex change bill
Senado uruguayo aprueba una ley que permite el cambio de identidad a transexuales
Cambio de nombre y sexo para uruguayos

[UK]
Cross dressing like Alex Reid is a lot more common than people think
Some boys simply grow up with the feeling this is something they want to do, which comes often from a fascination with women. It is often a form of fetishism - in the same way some men have a fetish for shoes.
What is mostly misunderstood is that the majority of men who cross dress are not homosexuals.
He's done it since he was a boy.. his parents know

[Itália]
“Libres e iguales en dignidad y derechos” Marchan gays italianos contra la homofobia
Con una gran manifestación que recorrió las principales calle de la capital italiana, activistas por los derechos LGBT exigieron un alto a las agresiones por orientación sexual. Entre sus peticiones: una ley que tipifique la discriminación como delito.
(Foto: AFP. En las calles, con pancartas.)

Protestan en Roma contra homofobia

[Turkey]
Prosecutor Claims 6 Different Charges against Melek K.'s Murder
The murder case of transsexual Melek K. who was killed in her home in Ankara was continued. The prosecutor claimed to try defendant T.P. under six different charges such as murder, plunder, theft and further allegations.

[Canada]
Popular drag queen dies in Winnipeg bathhouse fire - Police are calling the blaze "suspicious"
An early morning fire at a Winnipeg bathhouse has killed two people, including a popular local drag queen.
Steven Yablonski, also known as Kerri O'Kee, died when a fire broke out at Aquarius Bath just before 7am on Oct 11. The other victim of the blaze has not yet been identified.

[USA]
Transgender Suicide Prevention
Two brochures are now available addressing the issue of transgender suicide. These may be downloaded via the links below, or from the MTPC office.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
What Barack Obama really said about transgender rights
It seems like each time I write something about Barack Obama some variant of the following sentence is included in the first paragraph: The man knows how to deliver a speech.
Le piden cuentas Se reúne Obama con gays

Obama respalda demandas de la comunidad homosexual

[USA] [Blog/Law/Commentary]
Arguments Against ENDA: Inquiries Into Employee Sexual Orientation
Some are concerned that ENDA will require employers to begin inquiring into their employee's sexual orientation and gender identity, in order to avoid lawsuits alleging discrimination if there are few LGBT employees in the workplace. This concern is misplaced for several reasons. However, it has led some legislators to express concern about ENDA, including Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. Senator Lugar seemed supportive of ENDA in the past, but recently released a letter expressing his reservations. One of his concerns was that ENDA will lead employers to probe their workers.

[DC, USA]
Thousands Descend On D.C. To Support Gay Rights
In the words of Barney Frank it was an enormous “emotional release” Sunday as thousands of gay rights activist took to the streets of Washington D.C. to press lawmakers to act on gay rights legislation.
The marchers were squarely aiming for President Barack Obama, who renewed his promise to end the military's ban on open gay service in a speech to 3,000 gay activists at Saturday's Human Rights Campaign (HRC) fundraiser in Washington. (Photo)
Thousands march in Washington for gay rights
Marchan miles por la igualdad de los derechos homosexuales

Legislador cree que marcha gay en EEUU es una pérdida de tiempo

Miles de personas marchan en Washington por la igualdad de los derechos gay

[MA, USA]
Marching for transgender rights
More than 70 activists congregated in Lampron Park here on October 11 for the New England Trans United march.
The first Trans United march was held last year, after protection for transgender people was dropped from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). This year's march was organized by New England Trans Unity with the goal of uniting diverse transgender and gender-variant communities and allies.

[UT, USA]
Utah equality rally is tied to national march
Nineteen-year-old Jeff Morgan traces his activism in the gay community to last November, when voters in California passed Proposition 8 banning gay marriage.
"I didn't even know that gay people couldn't get married until that night," the West Jordan man said. He recently came out to his mother, and on Sunday, National Coming Out Day, he brought six of his friends to a rally supporting the National Equality March in Washington, D.C.
(Photo: Rick Egan / The Salt Lake Tribune - Jeff Morgan, of West Jordan, waves a flag as he marches down 400 West in Salt Lake, along with about 100 others, as they marched to Club Sound, in conjunction with a Washington, D.C. rally to support equal rights for gays.)

[NV, USA] [Blog/Health/Events]
Transgender Health Fair Comes to Las Vegas on the 31st
Something very important is coming to Vegas on Halloween. And no, it isn't scary. Rather, it's something that will save plenty of lives and improve the health and well-being of many in our community. The Center will be hosting Southern Nevada's first ever transgender health fair, and you're cordially invited.

[México]
Se hacen visibles ante la sociedad Exigen lesbianas respeto a sus derechos
La protesta se realizó en el marco del 13 de octubre, Día de la Rebeldía Lésbica en América Latina y el Caribe, que se conmemora desde 2007. El contingente se manifestó en las inmediaciones del Ángel de la Independencia.
(Foto: Denunciaron el machismo que impera en la sociedad mexicana.)

[Uruguay]
Uruguay aprobó el Derecho a la Identidad de Género
La Cámara de Senadores de Uruguay dio sanción definitiva a un proyecto que habilita el cambio de nombre y sexo, a partir de los 18 años, y ahora deberá ser promulgada por el Poder Ejecutivo para convertirse en ley.

[Uruguay]
In Every Kiss a Revolution
With fireworks, music and dancing ‘nuns’, on Friday 25 September Montevideo was host to the March for Diversity, Uruguay’s equivalent of Gay Pride.
Part of a year long-programme of activities organized by the Uruguayan Government called Actúa Montevideo: Más igualdad, más diversidad (Act Montevideo: more equality, more diversity), it took place in September, a month that this small but open-minded country has dedicated to sexual diversity for the second year running.

[International]
’Stop Trans Pathologization’ campaign kicks off Oct. 17
The Trans Depathologization Network, a group committed to the removal of ’gender identity disorder’ from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases, has been joined by seven international networks and 161 trans groups in the two weeks leading up to its campaign kick-off on Oct. 17.
Manifestation contre la pathologisation des Trans’, GenreS fluideS et IntersexeS

[UK] [Blog/Commentary]
London trans activists call for boycott of sham demo on October 17th
We are a group of trans activists who wish to make known our concerns about a demo, claiming to support the depathologisation of trans people, in London on 17th of October.

The facebook group for the demo can be found here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147494409183

The description of the event reads:
"Being transgendered is not a mental illness. We are simply part of the diversity of humanity. Gender Identity Disorder is therefore not a valid diagnosis. Homosexuality we removed as a mental health diagnosis diagnosis in 1987. For us to achieve true liberation and recognition we need to throw off this unjust stigma. We are not ill, just different"

A large number of people were invited by the demo organiser, a non-trans man by the name of Dennis Hambridge, and some of us were initially concerned by the rationale for the demo. In particular, we were worried that campaigning for the removal of Gender Identity Disorder as a medical diagnosis without proposing an alternative mechanism by which transsexual people would be able to access medical transition resources was premature and dangerous, especially in a climate where NHS primary care trusts need only a minimal excuse to deny funding for our hormonal and surgical procedures. We do not support the labelling of our gender identities as disordered, and realise that our relationship with the medical community is far from ideal, but do not wish to support a movement which may give the impression that we seek complete divorce from the medical community.

These concerns were put to the Facebook group by a number of trans activists. Rather than address them, Mr Hambridge entrenched his position, making claims that gender dysphoria was an artefact of society and the medical community, and that removal of any form of classification of gender dysphoria by the WHO was "non-negotiable".

In moves more reminiscent of the actions of transphobic radical feminists than supposed allies of trans people, Mr Hambridge started deleting some of the comments from those trans people who were concerned about our future access to hormones and surgery. Subsequently he banned a number of those trans people from the group, silencing them in that space.

To reiterate - Mr Hambridge, who is organising a demo which is allegedly supporting the rights of transsexual people is using his position as a group organiser to silence and shut out the voices of the very people he claims to support.In light of Mr Hambridge's intransigence and refusal to listen to the voices of actual transsexual people, we are calling on all activists who support the concept of transsexual people having a say in our own medical care to boycott this demo.

We further call on Mr Hambridge, who is not trans himself, to stop claiming to speak on our behalf when he is ignoring our protestations and silencing our voices, and to call off his demo.
[Blog/Commentary] Important Community News
[Blog/Commentary] Please Stop Being On My Side!

[España]
Jefe de Unidad Genero Barcelona; Dr. Mañero: "Transexuales ....se trata de una Enfermedad"
Hace escasos meses incidía en lo mismo. Por lo que la Coordinadora del Area Transexual de la FELGTB y Presidenta de ATA, Mar Cambrolle, emitió una carta publica en contra de tal manifestación caduca y fuera del contexto de lucha actual. Cuestión que hoy volvemos a ver en la segunda noticia de este Diario Digital Transexual, donde ATA se suma a la Campaña de la Despatologización . En plena campaña hacia el 2012, a favor de la despatologización de la Transexualidad -es cuanto menos preocupante- que quien mantenga semejantes tesis, sea el jefe de la Unidad de Género del Hospital Clínico de Barcelona. La homosexualidad dejó de ser considerada una enfermedad en 1990 por la OMS, es lamentable que aun hoy en día desde algún sector se sigan considerando a las personas transexuales como trastornado mentales.
La operación de cambio de sexo es mejor antes de edad adulta, según cirujano

[España]
La Policía investiga el homicidio de una transexual en un piso de Alfareros
El cadáver de Linsia C.C., de 40 años y origen sudamericano, fue encontrado tendido en el suelo del salón, con evidentes signos de violencia pese a su avanzado estado de descomposición.
Investigan la muerte de una transexual en su domicilio de Burgos

[France]
Marche transsexuelle et transgenre à Paris
Environ 600 personnes ont participé samedi à Paris à la 13e édition des "Existrans", la marche des personnes transsexuelles et transgenres, entre le métro Jourdain (XIXe arrondissement) et la place de la République. (Photo: APF)
L'ExisTrans a réuni à sa marche 2000 transsexuelles à Paris
13e marche « Existrans » : alors que le ministère de la santé propose enfin des avancées, la lutte pour faire aboutir les revendications des trans continue
Une loi pour respecter l’identité de genre !
13e marche Existrans: «Un psy, non merci!»

[UK] [News/People/Books]
New book tells extraordinary tale of sex change nurse
A 76-year-old ex-soldier who underwent a sex operation before becoming a nurse has had her life story published.
Miranda Ponsonby’s remarkable story follows her journey from mixing with royalty as a son of one of the UK’s oldest familes, to being female nurse of 20 years’ standing - via a stint in the military, a marriage, and fathering two sons. (Photo)

[Bermuda]
Sybil paints the streets pink for charity
The Bermuda Cancer and Health Centre rearranged its Wednesday night annual fundraising walk due to high winds and the threat of rain.But Bermuda's very own drag queen was ready and raring to go and refused to change his plans. Determined Sybil, aka Mark ­Anderson, did his own thing and walked the 3k route around Hamilton.
(Photo: Pretty in pink: Despite the threat of high winds and rain, Sybil Barrington, aka Mark Anderson, dressed head to toe in pink and did the postponed 3k charity walk in Hamilton to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month.)

[Italy]
Italy's gay rights pledge as hate crimes rise
As tens of thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Italians prepared to demonstrate tomorrow against a string of homophobic attacks, Silvio Berlusconi's government announced a ground-breaking €2m media campaign against discrimination.

[Nepal]
Nepalese mark 15th National Condom Day
Nepalese transgender activists with inflated condoms take part in an AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases awareness rally organized to mark the 15th National Condom Day in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, Oct. 10, 2009. (Photo)

[Vietnam]
Gender-bending the rules
Like many young people, Lam Thi wanted nothing more than to walk the stage at a glamorous beauty contest.
But the options are limited for gay men such as Thi, who identifies herself as a woman.
So when Thi heard about Miss Angel, a beauty contest strictly for gay men, she did everything she could to compete, and win.
But it was more than self-interest that inspired her, she also wanted to bring greater acceptance to the gay community.
(Photo: Pre-game jitters: Contestants prepare backstage at Miss Angel, one of many gay beauty contests becoming increasingly popular in Ho Chi Minh City. Though not officially licensed by local authorities, such events have heightened the sense of dignity in the gay community, organizers say.)

[Australia/New Zealand]
NZ's top drag queen celebrates 74th birthday
She's been in drag for 60 years, living in Sydney for 30, and today Carmen Rupe, the most recognised New Zealand queen, came back home to celebrate her 74th birthday.
Impossible to ignore and never one to shy away from a grand entrance, Carmen came back to Wellington in style.
It's a style that came from trying on her mother's dresses as a kid, and honed where you'd least expect it - military training school. (Photo)

[Canada] [Blog/Commentary]
Toronto hosts pro-surgery conference with Ex-gay researcher, Dr. Kenneth Zucker
The Organisation Intersex International wishes to express its disappointment that the City of Toronto is hosting a conference which will further stigmatise and promote non-consensual surgery and hormonal treatments for intersex children. This conference gives no real representation from intersex people themselves and it treats us as “disorders” of sex development, a very offensive way of speaking about us.

[Canada]
Firing "blindsided me": trans teacher
When Alberta substitute teacher Jan Buterman told his public school board employer that he had been diagnosed with gender identity disorder, their response was to treat it as a medical issue and file the appropriate paperwork. It did not affect his employment with them in any other way.
(Photo: Speaking up. Jan Buterman at an Edmonton rally earlier this year, protesting the province's cuts to gender reassignment surgery funding. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAaVsnwE7LA))

[USA]
Gays question Obama 'don't ask, don't tell' pledge
Excerpt: He expressed strong support for the HRC agenda of ending discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people but stopped short of laying out a detailed plan for how to get there.

Obama apoia reivindicações dos homossexuais nos EUA

[USA]
House Approves Hate Crimes Provision in Defense Bill
The House voted Thursday in favor of expanding hate crimes protection to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. The bill was attached to the 2010 Defense Authorization bill.

[USA] [Commentary]
Rights Still to Be Won
The civil rights struggle for legal equality in America today is no less necessary, nor worthy, than a similar struggle fought by blacks several decades ago. Now, as then, Americans are denied rights simply because of who they are. When lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans gather in Washington on Sunday for the National Equality March, they will invoke the unfulfilled promise in our Constitution that they, too, are due equal protection under the law.

Miles de personas marchan en Washington por la igualdad de los derechos gay

[USA]
Social Conservatives Mount Last-Ditch Effort to Stop Hate Crimes Bill
Social conservatives opposed to a hate crimes bill that would extend federal protection to gay and transgender victims and nearing passage in Congress are mounting a last-ditch effort to defeat it.

[USA] [Blog/Religion]
Trans Faith Links
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. -- Genesis 1:27
I talked about faith in a recent post. If you're wanting to get your praise on and be part of a welcoming and inclusive faith community, here are some links to find them.

[IL, USA]
Police: Woman tried to enroll as boy at school
Police in the southern Illinois city of Marion say they've arrested a 24-year-old woman who tried to enroll in the local high school as a 15-year-old boy.

[OR, USA] [Blog/News]
Basic Rights Oregon Takes Up Trans Issues In Health Care Debate
The hot topic of health care reform hits everyone differently. From the perspective of Basic Rights Oregon, one ignored group is transgender people, so BRO announced this week that it’s building a campaign for transgender people to get better health care coverage.

[Blog/News] [GA, USA]
Facebook supporters rally behind Cobb County cross-dressing teen
Jonathan Escobar may have chosen to wear wigs, skinny jeans and make-up as a form of expression. But the administration at North Cobb High School wants him to go express himself somewhere else.
According to the AJC, Escobar recently relocated from Miami to the Atlanta area to live with his sister. After attending the Cobb County school for only three days, the school’s assistant principal told him he should dress more “manly” or consider home schooling.
Escobar refused to compromise his personal style and withdrew from the high school.

[KS, USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Kansas State Diversity Fail
The Student Senate at Kansas State University at Salina has rejected a request to fund a transgender speaker.Transgender male speaker Ryan Sallans was to speak at the university Nov. 23. But the university's Student Governing Association on Tuesday rejected a request for $1,000 to pay Sallans' fees and expenses.

[OH, USA]
Ohio makes it easier to change gender on licenses
Excerpt: The change does not affect the prohibition on correcting Ohio birth certificates. Ohio remains one of only three states, with Florida and Idaho, that will not change a birth certificate or issue an amended one, even for post-surgical transsexuals. To do that would require an act of the state legislature.

[México]
Alfonso De Nigris negó tener secuestrado al travesti
Apenado por las declaraciones niega conocer a Dennis y espera presentar una demanda por difamación.

[Brasil]

Porto Alegre ganha exibição de filme sobre transexuais

Será exibido gratuitamente nesse sábado, 10, às 17h, na sala P.F. Gastal, da Usina do Gasômetro, em Porto Alegre, o filme iraniano “Transexuais no Irã”, do cineasta Bahman Motamedian. (Foto)

[Brasil]

AL: TJ mantém acusação sobre morte de travesti

A Câmara Criminal do Tribunal de Justiça de Alagoas negou nesta quarta, 09, o recurso apresentado pelo funcionário público federal Elias da Silva Torres, acusado de assassinar a travesti Érika, de 14 anos, em 2006.

[España]
La Policía investiga la muerte violenta de un transexual en su piso de Alfareros
La Policía investiga la muerte violenta de un transexual, de nacionalidad colombiana, cuyo cadáver se encontró ayer en el salón de la vivienda del cuarto piso del inmueble con el número 5 de la calle de los Alfareros, en el barrio de San Pedro y San Felices. El cuerpo, que presentaba heridas de arma blanca, pero que falleció casi con toda seguridad por asfixia, llevaba varios días -de entre tres y cuatro, según fuentes consultadas por este periódico-, en la vivienda. La fallecida, cuyo nombre se corresponde con las iniciales Linsia C. C. y de unos cuarenta años de edad, vivía sola en el piso y se dedicaba a la prostitución.
Aparece un cadáver con signos de violencia en la calle Alfareros

[España]
COLEGAS acusa a Sanidad de trato de favor a la FELGTB, Fundación Triángulo, Coordinadora Gai Lesbiana, Stop Sida y Gais Positius
La Confederación COLEGAS ha emitido un comunicado de prensa en el que acusa al Ministerio de Sanidad de “trato de favor” hacia otras organizaciones LGTB por recibir menos financiación que ellas para los diferentes proyectos relacionados con la prevención del VIH y la atención a las personas seropositivas con cargo al Plan Nacional sobre el Sida. El comunicado está redactado en un lenguaje especialmente incendiario, y no detalla los proyectos para los cuales cada organización ha pedido subvención ni el trabajo que cada una lleva a cabo en ese campo concreto del activismo.

[España]
Institutos de Lugo piden la colaboración de Xega
La asociación Xega, colectivo de lesbianas, gais, transexuales y bisexuales de Asturias hizo ayer balance del proyecto para la erradicación de la homofobia y la transfobia en el ámbito educativo del curso pasado.

[UK]
Transsexual in court appeal for breast enlargement
A transsexual refused breast enlargement surgery on the NHS is to take her case to the High Court, at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the hospital's budget.
Transsexual turned down for breast enlargement claims sex discrimination in case that will cost taxpayer thousands
Trans woman goes to court after being denied breast implants

[UK]
'Drag queen' fighters recount brawl
Two cage fighters who went on a night out in fancy dress as drag queens have told how they sorted out a pair of drunken thugs who came looking for a brawl.
Off to the USA for cross-dressing cage fighters

[France]
13ème marche Existrans ce samedi 10 octobre
''Ministère de la Santé, que fais-tu pour les Trans et intersexué.e.s ?'' interrogent les organisateurs qui dénoncent précarisation, psychiatrisation, pathologisation, violations de droits etc...

[France]
Les transgenres français refusent la stérilisation forcée pour obtenir un changement d’identité
Depuis le début de l'année, la justice a refusé le changement d’identité d'une enseignante et d'une militaire transgenres, au motif qu’elles n’avaient pas apporté la preuve qu’elles avaient été stérilisées chirurgicalement. L’association Trans Aide refuse cette obligation et demande l'ouverture de discussions avec le gouvernement.

[France]
La reconnaissance des intersexes passe-t-elle par la judiciarisation ?
Vincent Guillot, fondatRICE du mouvement intersexe en Europe francophone, revient sur les derniers développements de l'affaire du Distilbène, hormone de synthèse que l'on donnait aux femmes qui avaient des grossesses difficiles et qui s'est révélée très dangereuse pour les enfants, engendrant entre autres des enfants intersexes.

[Sudafrica]
Casper Semenya y su asignación genética
La ganadora del Mundial de Berlín, de quien se duda sobre su género, debe esperar los análisis de noviembre para definir su futuro deportivo.

[News/Commentary] Semenya needs backing

[USA] [PR/Commentary]
Support for Our Troops, Not Homosexual Groups
Excerpt: Authoritative descriptions of "sexual orientation" have included criminal acts such as necrophilia and pedophilia.
[Blog/News] House Approves Hate-Crimes Measure as Part of Defense Funding
Congress acts to extend hate crimes to cover gays
House Votes to Expand Definition of Hate Crimes

House Passes Defense Authorization Conference Report, Including Hate Crimes Provision

Breaking news: Hate Crimes Bill Moves Forward

[US]
Barack Obama to address gay rights group
Gay and lesbian voters grow impatient with the president's failure to act on campaign pledges to end discrimination
Chicago Activists Plan Picket of Obama's LGBT Address in Washington

[USA] [Blog/Law/Commentary]
Arguments Against ENDA: Flood of Litigation
An often used argument against proposed legislation is that it would unleash a flood of litigation that will overwhelm courts and businesses. This argument has been raised against ENDA. However, the available evidence suggests that ENDA is unlikely to cause a flood of litigation.

[KS, USA]
Funding rejected
K-State at Salina Senate denies request for $1,000 to bring in transgender speaker
College group nixes funds for transgender speaker

[GA, USA]
Cobb teen told he can't dress like a female at school
Jonathan Escobar says he chooses to wear clothes that express himself.
Skinny jeans, wigs, "vintage" clothing and makeup are the staples of his wardrobe.
"I don't consider myself a cross-dresser," he said. "This is just who I am." (Photo)
[Blog/Commentary] Georgia's North Cobb HS Sees Gender Conformity As More Important Than Educating Students
[Blog/Commentary] Trans Teen Has High School Dress Code Issues In Cobb County, GA

Teen Jonathan Escobar told to “dress more manly” or leave school

Georgia high school tells cross-dressing student, Jonathan Escobar, to dress 'manly' or leave

[GA, USA] [Blog/News]
Ga. legislative counsel explains why he fired transgender employee
A recently filed deposition is shedding new light on the discrimination lawsuit filed against legislative leaders by a transgender woman who was fired from her job as an editor for the Georgia General Assembly.

[NY, USA]
Anti-transgender violence topic of NYC forum
A forum on hate crimes against transgender people will be held in New York City.
The forum Wednesday at Brooklyn Law School comes nearly three months after the state's first hate crime conviction for the killing of a transgender person.

[IL, USA]
Woman Arrested for Posing as 15-year-old Boy
A Marion woman is in police custody for lying to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Court documents show a 24-year-old female told DCFS she was a 15-year-old boy who had been abandoned.

[México]
Logran estudiantes gays del ITAM realizar II Semana de Diversidad Sexual
Alumnos del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México indicaron que salir del closet en esa universidad no es conflicto y como en muchos lugares no pasa de alguna “mala mirada” y agregaron que no es tan complicado que parejas gays se tomen de las manos o expresen su cariño dentro de la institución.
(Foto: Especial: Por segunda vez, una persona trans expuso en el ITAM, en la foto la activista Gloria Hazel Davenporth.)

[México]
Ratifican denuncia contra Poncho De Nigris
En la acusación, el afectado asegura que su hijo Ramón Corona, quien se hacía llamar Ericka Denisse, despareció el pasado 1 de septiembre, un día después de que declaró ante una revista que a Poncho De Nigris sí le gustaban los homosexuales y transexuales.

[Puerto Rico/República Dominicana]
Filme dominicano "Hermafrodita" gana premio en PR
El largometraje dominicano "Hermafrodita", dirigido por Albert Xavier, ganó el premio "Ricardo Alegría" a la Mejor Película Caribeña en el Festival de Cine Internacional de San Juan, informaron hoy los organizadores.
"Hermafrodita", mejor película en festival de Puerto Rico
"Hermafrodita", mejor película en festival de Puerto Rico
Filme dominicano "Hermafrodita" gana premio a Mejor Película en festival
Filme dominicano Hermafrodita ganó premio a mejor película en Festival de San Juan
Hermafrodita: Award winning film by Albert Xavier

[España]
Homenaje a la transexual asesinada hace 18 años en Barcelona
Diversos colectivos han rendido esta tarde un sentido homenaje a Sonia, la transexual asesinada hace hoy 18 años a manos de un grupo de skins neonazis. El Front d'Alliberament Gai de Catalunya (FAGC) y el Observatorio contra la Homofobia se han reunido en el parque de la Ciutadella, donde ya existe una placa en recuerdo de la víctima.

[UK] [Blog/Commentary]
Reclaim The Night (For Cis Women Only) and the London Cis Feminist Network
My previous post (link here) has drawn me into looking further back along the organisational chain of command, and the results are as depressing and predictable as one might expect; as much for the failure of would-be allies as for the actual transphobia of the organisers.

[UK]
Sex-swap squaddie’s battle for boobs
This is sex-swap ex-squaddie Sarah-Jane Smith, who served as Pte W E Smith wearing lingerie under his uniform.
Sarah-Jane, now 50 and living in Hanover, Germany, is suing DAK health insurers who refused to pay £6,000 for breast implants. She said: "I need to have t*ts."

[UK]
Drag Queen Floors Thugs in Swansea
These amazing pictures show a pair of drag queens flooring a couple of thugs during a night out in Swansea city centre.
In the video, which is becoming an internet phenomenon, the drag queens, who are believed to be cage fighters, end up giving their attackerssomething to think about.

[Belgium/Australia] [News/People/Entertainment]
A question of identity
Andrew Shaw talks to a woman with an extraordinary life story to share.
Vanessa Van Durme was – is – Belgium’s first transsexual. In 1975, at a time when most people were consolidating the sexual ‘freedoms’ of the sixties, Van Durme travelled to Casablanca, where she had a sex change operation.

[Turkey]
Access Denied to LGBT Social Networking Sites
Access has been blocked to LGBT social networking sites galibe, haydigayri and shemaleturk under accusations such as prostitution, obscenity or child abuse according to law article 5651. The site administrators were no informed about the decision and spoke of a "homophobic mentality".

[South Africa]
Public should rally for Semenya - ANC
The African National Congress has established a task team to support athlete Caster Semenya and her family, the party announced in Johannesburg on Monday.
Winnie, Manto to help Semenya
Le mystère Caster Semenya

[Belarus]
Gay rights conference staged in Belarus
More than 100 people from nine Belarusian cities and 10 other countries gathered at the Crowne Plaza in Minsk, Belarus, on Sept. 26 for an LGBT rights conference, GayRussia.ru reported. (Photo)

[Pakistan]
Pakistan Recognizes Transgenders
"In their greed to gain our votes the politicians are now willing to listen to our demands," said Sapna, 24, a transgender, dressed in a fitted printed woman's shalwar kameez (Pakistani dress) with a scarf slung around her neck. Her freshly shaved and slightly made-up face barely hid the telltale stubble.

[India]
Eunuchs be recognised as handicapped: RVP
The Rashtriya Vikalang Party (RVP) has demanded keeping eunuchs in the category of handicapped people.

[India]
Urban poor stand up for transgenders
It's not the usual `roti-kapada-makaan' demand. This time, the urban poor of Bangalore want something different. They have taken up the cause of transgenders who are HIV positive.

[Malaysia]
Transvestite: A straight life from now for me
A transvestite has resolved to start life anew away from prostitution after a painful fall left him bedridden for a few months.
The 30-year-old, who called himself Farisha, was with a group of transvestites at the Jalan Petani flats here early Saturday morning when a parang-wielding man ran amok.

[Australia]
Anti-harassment project launched
A new project which aims to reduce the incidence of homophobic harassment in Victoria has been launched by an amalgamation of community groups.
The ALSO Foundation, with partners TransGender Victoria (TGV), Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (VGLRL) and Anti Violence Project (AVP), announced the commencement of the first stage of the initiative last week.

[Canada] [Blog/News]
Activists get behind fired trans teacher
Activists are rallying behind a substitute teacher who was fired from an Alberta Catholic school board because he is transgendered.
Fired transgendered teacher launches human rights complaint
Teacher, Dismissed from Catholic School After "Sex Change," Files Human Rights Complaint
Un enseignant transsexuel licencié porte plainte
[Commentary] Sex change teacher as equal as anyone
[Commentary] School board wrong to drop teacher

[USA] [Commentary]
The beginning of the ENDA
For the first time since 1994, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) may have a chance of passage by Congress. Religious conservatives have reason to fear it.
[Blog/Commentary] Catholic writer unsuccessfully tries to refute my ENDA post

[USA] [Blog/News]
Obama to Address Gay Rights Organization
President Obama will speak to a gathering of gay rights activists this weekend, a day before thousands of people are expected to march on Washington in a demonstration calling for greater legal protections for gays, lesbians and transgendered Americans.

[GA, USA] [People/Commentary]
Monica Helms, transsexual Navy veteran
Editor’s note: First Person is a series of commentaries that give voice to those not commonly heard in Atlanta media.
After growing up a “typical boy,” marrying “the one” and fathering two children, Monica Helms finally acted on a lifelong desire to become a woman.
(Photo: Joeff Davis - BECOMING HERSELF: Monica Helms spent four decades as a man before switching sexes — and finding true confidence.)

[KS, USA]
Salina group asks to host transgender speaker
Two weeks ago, a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students at the K-State Salina Campus requested the Salina Campus Student Governing Association bring a transgender speaker in to address the student body. The motion was tabled for a week, then tabled again. It is scheduled to be discussed again on Tuesday.
If approved, the group of LGBT students willhave permission to bring in Ryan Sallens, a female to male transgender who currently lives in Nebraska, to present in November during National Coming Out Week.
[Commentary] Societal exposure important
Transgender speaker denied funding at Salina campus

[GA,USA]
Cross Dressing Teen Drops Out of Cobb County School
A Kennesaw high school student has dropped out of school because of the dress code. He was not wearing pants so big and baggy that he needed to hold them up to keep them from falling to the ground, and he was not wearing a “wife beater” tank top. What was Jonathan Escobar wearing that violated the school’s dress code according to school officials?...Girls Clothes.

Cobb teen told he can't dress like a female at school
[Opinion] All dressed up and nowhere to go to school. Let student wear feminine attire
Jonathan Escobar, Cross-Dressing Student, Kicked Out Of Georgia High School

[Argentina] [Opinión]
La diversidad en los medios: otra mirada al proyecto de ley de radiodifusión

Escribe MARÍA RACHID. Presidenta de la Federación Argentina deLesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Trans (FALGBT).

[UK] [Theater]
'He's a natural': Torchwood star John Barrowman delights audiences as he takes to the West End in drag
Torchwood star John Barrowman releases his inner diva as he takes to the West End stage as a drag queen.
The actor is barely recogniseable as he dons several revealing dresses to play Zara in comedy La Cage Aux Folles.
(Photo: Transformation: Torchwood star takes to the West End stage as drag queen Zara in La Cage aux Folles.)

[South Africa]

Semenya case is still pending: IAAF
The ruling athletics body IAAF is still examining the results of Caster Semenya's gender test and has called for co-operation from the 800m world champion's home country of South Africa.

ANC to Support South African Athlete Semenya After Gender Row

[Lebanon] [Blog/Commentary]
Finally A Campaign To Depathologize Transsexuals

Ever since the world was created, transsexuals have always existed and history cites many examples, such as the Great Queen Tenhinane. Tenhinane has left her marks in the touareg civilization of Algeria, and yet, the last analyses done on some of her skeleton sample has certified she was a biological man. More recently, under the less merciful reign of the Roman Church in the Middle Ages, Joan of Arc, a transsexual FTM warrior, led many battles like the man she was and ended up condemned and burned alive for being different.

[Saudi Arabia]
Gender correction surgeries up
The number of “gender correction” operations conducted at hospitals in the Kingdom has risen markedly in recent years, according to specialists in the field.
Al-Watan newspaper reported Sunday that a 2008 Saudi study showed that in one year 60 such operations were carried out compared to only 300 in the previous 25 years.

[India] [Film/People]
The Third Sex
The camera is ready. The stage is set. Kaushik Ganguly, the director of Aarekti Premer Golpo, has sent a crew member to fetch his film’s “heroine”, Rituparno Ghosh, from the vanity van. “Just wait and watch. Rituda will walk in like Rekha!” Kaushik smiles. (Photo)

The film is not about me

[New Zealand] [Theater]
Wellington drag queen will confess at BATS
The creator of a new show for BATS Theatre next month says audiences can look forward to a night full of "colour, style, laughs, maybe some tears and lots of glamour and fun."

[Australia] [News/Entertainment]
Celebration of diversity
The Feast program launched last night pays particular attention to local talent, but balances it with some star attractions from interstate and overseas.

[Canada] [Blog/Commentary]
The Sports Dilemma
The sports world is currently struggling with a question: what to do about transsexual athletes? Is it fair for a MtF (Male-to-Female) individual to be competing with the genetic ladies? Or a FtM (Female-to-Male) with the genetic males? I'm not going to name any names, because I don't want to single anyone out.

[USA]
How the Gay Community Is Complicit in Trans Violence

The first article in this series took a general look at the growing problem of violence against transgendered persons, both in the U.S. and abroad. In the second part, Joe Erbentraut looks at how the media and even many gay organizations ignore or downplay these crimes and what is being done to remedy that.

[USA] [People/Film/Religion]
Upcoming Film Follows a Transsexual's Ordination Journey

The journey of a transsexual woman seeking ordination in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has been documented on film, which is set to release next year.

[USA] [Blog/Law/Commentary]
Arguments Against ENDA: The Bathroom (Part IV)

A major objection to gender identity protections in ENDA is that it will cover transgender people, and where will they go to the bathroom?

[UK] [Blog/Commentary]
Cis Feminism in London 09
Next weekend sees the Feminism in London 09 event. There are various workshops and discussions on a range of subjects: for example, racism and sexism, self-defence and assertiveness training, activism training, etc – and nearly 30 speakers scheduled. Any self-identified woman, whether cis or not, would surely find something of interest there.

[South Africa] [Commentary]
Redeeming Caster Semenya
I saw the women’s 800 meters in Berlin. This young thing was facing the cameras before the race started, pretending to brush a few specks of dust off her shoulders because that’s what the other runners were to her, just dust she was gonna leave behind.

[Malaysia] [Commentary]
My journey
I realized I was “different” when I was six. I hated wearing dresses, I didn’t play with dolls, except to perform surgery on them. Nope, I’m not a psychopath. I have a normal day job, I send money to my mum, and I have a loving partner and a dog named Boo.
Talking straight
Trans-terminology
‘Sick’ definition
A question of sex

[Canada]
Un enseignant transsexuel licencié porte plainte
Un enseignant canadien, licencié après que son employeur, une école catholique, eut appris qu'il avait changé de sexe, a porté plainte auprès de la Commission des droits de l'Homme de l'Alberta, dans l'est du Canada, a rapporté vendredi la télévision publique CBC.
Teacher's sex change firing 'wrong message': expert

[USA]
Compelling data at ENDA hearing (Gathering supports trans athletes)
The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee held a full committee hearing Sept. 23 on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would bar workplace discrimination, preferential treatment and retaliation on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in companies with 15 or more employees.
Legal Analysis of ENDA: Section 3(a)(3) and 3(a)(4): Government Workers

[USA] [Health/Medicine/Commentary]
Trans Health Care Reform - It's About Life and Death
Controversy over the "true" sex of South African 800-meter world champion Caster Semenya displays the anxiety many still have over gender. People that do not line up neatly as male or female face social ostracization, as well as outright hostility or violence. This can become a matter of life and death for those that decide to physically transgress the gender binary, not just due to physical attacks, but from the need for basic medical care. For transsexuals, trying to access health care can be an impossible ordeal, as it can result in being denied assistance by medical professionals, or being written off as having psychological issues. Writer Eleanor Bader looks at one facility, the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Atlanta, that decided to break this trend. The Center offers a model for other medical facilities to proactively care for the trans community and prevent any more needless deaths due to ignorance and fear.

[USA] [Commentary]
Bad Language
Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has released his latest "Oh my God there's a secret conspiracy and you can find the clues all over the place" book. In this one, The Lost Symbol, his Harvard expert of symbology takes on masons, Washington, D.C., and presumably anything else that he can spin into a story.

[USA] [Blog/People]
Lee Brewster (1943 - 2000) retailer, activist
Lee was raised in the coal mining areas of West Virginia. As a young man he worked in finger-printing for the FBI, but was fired when it was suspected that he might be gay.

[MA, USA] [News/Events]
Saturday, October 3, 2009 Join MTPC at New England Trans United Pride March and Rally in Northampton
We would love for folks to carry signs in support of the legislation that we have! Come by our table or help at the table - volunteers are needed!

[América Latina]
Premian a la RedLacTrans por su labor en Latinoamérica

La REDLACTRANS (la red para personas travestis transexuales y transgeneros de Latinoamérica y Caribe), que preside la reconocida activista Marcela Romero, recibió el Premio Clarence H. Moore (Premio al Servicio Voluntario), por el trabajo en el avance de la aceptación de los derechos de las personas trans en toda la región de América Latina.

[México]
Exigen derechos para transexuales y transgéneros
Angie Rueda informó que la nueva versión de los manuales de salud mental aparecerá en el 2012 por lo que consideró necesario “profundizar nuestras acciones y difundir nuestros puntos de vista en un tema trascendental para nosotros y nosotras”.

[Nicaragua]
Convocan a caminata por la reivindicación de los derechos trans
Marvin Mayorga, encargado de capacitación de la Iniciativa Desde la Diversidad Sexual por los Derechos Humanos (IDSDH), informó que se llevará a cabo una caminata en Managua en contra de que la transgeneridad siga siendo considerada un trastorno de la identidad sexual en los manuales de salud mental.

[Brasil]
Desfilaron 120 mil personas en Marcha Gay de Curitiba
La 12a edición del Desfile de la Diversidad LGBT en Curitiba, la tarde del pasado domingo, convirtió la Avenida de Cándido Abreu en una gran pista de baile, con música electrónica a todo volumen y mucha diversión.

[Chile]
Denuncian transfobia de fiscalía investigadora
Francisco Esteban Gaete Barra, conocida como “Malva”, y Jonathan Luis Pozo Ramos, alias "Jenny", acusadas de homicidio, así como David Leonardo Parada, alias "Silvia", quien es señalada por presunto abuso sexual a menores de edad, denunciaron ante el ministerio público chileno la conducta homofóbica y transfóbica de la fiscal que dirige la investigación en su contra.

[UK]
Sex change rape victim applauds prison sentence
A Llanelli rape victim has spoken of her happiness after her attacker was jailed for eight years.
The victim, a male awaiting a sex change operation, who can not be named for legal reasons, said she felt the sentence was adequate to the crime and she was glad her ordeal was over.

[South Africa]
Teach Nedbank 'a lesson', says Malema
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has called on society to "teach Nedbank a lesson" for withdrawing its sponsorship of Athletics South Africa.
‘No such word as hermaphrodite in Sepedi’ - Malema
Del LaGrace Volcano
'What is hermaphrodite in Pedi?'

[Kuwait]
Cross-dresser arrested
Police have arrested an Asian cross-dresser. He was caught walking along a beach off the Arabian Gulf Street, reports Al-Rai daily.
The daily did not give more details.

[India]
Success for India's 1st trans beauty parlour
India's first-ever Queer Beauty Parlour in Delhi is proving a runaway success with Delhi's transgender citizens, reports The Times of India.

[Thailand/Nepal]
Life Getting Easier for Gays in Thailand
Excerpt: The triumphs of Nepali GLBTs may have a social and political impact in the region, including Thailand, not least since Sandhya Lama--Miss Gay Nepal--will be present when Thailand hosts the fifth "Miss International Queen" pageant.

[Canada]
Transgendered teacher files complaint over firing
An Edmonton teacher has filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission after he was fired by a Catholic school board for telling it he was changing his gender.
(Photo: CBC - Jan Buterman has gone to the Alberta Human Rights Commission after he was fired by a Catholic school board for telling it he was changing his gender.)
[Blog/Commentary] Alberta Teacher Fired For Gender Change
Activist backs Buterman; but warns of long legal challenge Transgendered Edmonton teacher files a human rights complaint
Transgendered teacher speaks out
Transgendered teacher fired from Catholic school board in Alberta

[Canada]
A peek into Toronto's tranny stroll
Xtra.ca reporters Michael Pihach and Robin Pierro investigate the ongoing tension between sex workers and residents in the Homewood and Maitland area of Toronto.

[USA]
Transgender Day Of Remembrance Vigil Announced
Local and statewide organizations announce the 11th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil.
[Blog/News] Ethan Needs 2009 TDOR Info
IGA announces 11th Annual TDOR in Chicago - Nov. 14, 2009

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The Four Transitions of a Transsexual
There has been a lot of talk lately about transsexuals and the procedure known as “transitioning.” However, it seems that the only segment of a person’s transition which many want to focus on deals with just one part of this intense process, the physical transition.

[USA] [Blog/News/Books]
New book: Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not

Trans author and philanthropist Joanne Herman has published a new book called New book: Transgender Explained For Those Who Are Not:

[NY, USA/Portugal] [Film]
NYFF: Day 6 – Transvestites and Trash Humpers…’nuff said.
Excerpt: A simple synopsis is hard to convey since no real story ever truly emerges throughout the excessively long 2 hours and 15 minute film. Though not necessarily a fatal length, the fact that “To Die Like a Man” not only lacks a narrative drive but also likeable characters, tolerable actors, and even a central theme proves the running time to be beyond bearable. Add onto that a serious tonal identity crisis in a failed attempt at mixing the conventions of the musical genre with that of melodrama just results in something more akin to soap opera. And for a story centered on a transvestite just living (about as specific as the ADD-riddled screenplay ever becomes), a constant tone is required to follow such an erratic life.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
The Bathroom Battleground: gender variant kids and the call of nature
A few school systems, both public and private, have dealt with the issue of a transgendered child by notifying the school’s parents that a child, heretofore one gender, is now coming to school as the other. This is often met with howls of confusion and protest.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Family Research Council head misrepresents credible information to hurt ENDA
Recently, Family Research Council head Tony Perkins submitted testimony to Congress in opposition of Employment Non-Discrimination Act.The bulk of his testimony were anecdotes of supposedly how ENDA would hurt free speech.

[Blog/Commentary] ENDA Hearing - Did We Not Expect A Conservative "Christian" Eruption?

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
How much do you want hate crimes legislation to pass?
Just as I warned in June, the fate of hate crimes legislation is tied to the defense bill. We're now put in the uncomfortable position of advocating for our allies to authorize more money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[OR, USA] [News/People/Religion]
Minister Reveals That He is Transsexual
A Methodist minister has announced that he was born female.
The revelation came in the course of a homily that the Rev. David Weekly, a Methodist minister, gave to his parish, reported CBS News in an Oct. 1 story.
Minister Reveals Transgender Secret

[Peru]
Bloque Trans de Lima emite pronunciamiento sobre "Perú País Diverso" y futura articulacion con lesbianas y gay
A través de listas de correo electrónico el Bloque Trans de Lima y Callao dio a conocer un pronunciamiento en el cual reconocen la importancia de la negociación realizada con el MINSA en torno a la campaña "Perú País Diverso" pero desconocen a Belissa Andía como "representante del movimiento trans" y anuncian que designaraá a quien las represente en este espacio de negociación política.

[UK]
Sex change op rapist is jailed
An eight-year jail sentence has been handed to a Llanelli man who orally raped a male awaiting a sex change operation.
Kiron Singh Chand carried out the sex attack after beating up his victim in a lane in Llanelli.
Welsh man who raped trans woman jailed for eight years

[UK] [News/Law]
Gender reassignment – Prisoners’ rights – Right to respect for private and family life
R (on the application of AB) v (1) Secretary of State for Justice (2) Governor of Manchester Prison: QBD (Admin) (David Elvin QC): 4 September 2009
The claimant (B), a pre-operative transgender prisoner, applied for judicial review of a decision of the defendant secretary of state refusing to transfer her from a male prison to a female prison.

[South Africa]
Teazers boss pays Semenya R20,000

Teazers owner Lolly Jackson will pay athletics world champion Caster Semenya R20,000 because of a row over a Teazers 'gender testing' billboard, reports a Johannesburg newspaper.

The Loneliness of the Intersex Runner
Boate é multada por ironizar sexualidade de Semenya em anúncio

[Pakistan]
Eunuchs unite to demand 'third sex' rights

Eunuchs in Pakistan have formed a group to highlight their plight in a bid to fight for rights for the "third sex".

[India]
Transgenders get their own beauty parlour

Like most beauty parlours in Delhi and NCR, Simmy is preparing for the big rush during the Karvachauth festival on October 7. The beautician's diary is already brimming with appointments for the special day. But unlike other parlours, Simmi's clients are all men.

[Canada] [Film]
Cinephile Catnip
Excerpt: The Portuguese-language To Die Like A Man, by João Pedro Rodrigues, was the most striking movie I saw in Toronto. It tells the heartbreaking tale of a transsexual cabaret artist, her junkie boyfriend, and her emotionally unhinged son.

[USA] [News/Commentary]
Obama’s Homosexual OPM Chief Calls ENDA Top Priority, ‘Keystone’ that Will Propel Rest of ‘Gay’ Legislation
John Berry, President Obama’s openly homosexual director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, says that once the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is “enacted and signed into law, it is only a matter of time” before the rest of the administration’s sweeping homosexual and transsexual activist agenda will become law.
[Commentary] Last Chance to Stop Hate Crimes Bill

[OR, USA] [News/People/Religion]
Congregation Embraces Transgender Minister
Rev. David Weekley Reveals to Congregants of Oregon Church. He Was Born a Girl

[CA, USA]
Trans Latina group loses funding
A San Francisco program that helps transgender Latinas with HIV prevention and other services is looking for new funding since the city contract that provided most of its money has been awarded to another agency.

[OK, USA]
Transgender lawyer announces candidacy for Oklahoma House
Transgender lawyer Brittany Novotny of Oklahoma City officially announced her candidacy on Sunday to represent House District 84.

(Photo: Oklahoma City lawyer Brittany Novotny formally declared her candidacy to unseat incumbent state Rep. Sally Kern [R-Oklahoma City] on Sunday.)

[Brasil]
Travesti é torturada e morta em motel de Jundiaí
A Polícia Civil de Jundiaí, na Grande São Paulo, está investigando a morte da travesti de 28 anos Samara, nascida Mauro César da Silva e natural da cidade paulista de Santa Bárbara D’Oeste. Samara foi torturada e morta no Motel Diamond, na Estrada de Itatiba, em Jundiaí, na última quinta-feira, 24.

[España]
Osakidetza cede a cambiar de sexo a la transexual en huelga de hambre
Comunicará en dos días la fecha de su operación
La afectada agrecede todas las muestras de solidaridad recibidas
La transexual Muñiz deja la huelga de hambre tras reunirse con Osakidetza

[España]
El primer transexual embarazado de gemelos del mundo vuelve a intentar ser padre
Rubén Noe Coronado Jimenez, 26, fue el primer transexual en el mundo que esperaba gemelos. Este hombre, que nació mujer, sufrió un aborto natural en la semana 17 de gestación. Tras sufrir el aborto, manifestó su intención de volver a someterse al tratamiento para ser padre. Ahora, Rubén vuelve a someterse al tratamiento de fertilidad para intentar ser padre.
(Foto: Telecinco - Rubén visitó el programa de Ana Rosa cuando aún estaba embarazado de gemelos.)

[Turkey]
Transsexuals Take Position against Chief of Police Hüseyin Çapkın
About 100 people protested in Istanbul's district of Beyoğlu, claiming that the pressure on tansvestites and transsexuals has increased ever since Hüseyin Çapkın became Chief of Police. (Photo)

[Africa del Sud]
Ni lo uno lo otro
La intersexualidad, el trastorno genético de la atleta Caster Semenya, refuta la idea de que en el mundo sólo hay hombres y mujeres.
Caster Semenya victime de la raison d’Etat
[People/Health/Commentary] Dr. Myron Genel Says Hermaphrodite Caster Semenya Should Race
[Commentary/Sports/Health] Cast into controversy: the dilemma of Caster Semenya

[Thailand]
Beach Crackdown
In an effort to clean up Pattaya and improve the image of the city by ridding the streets of beggars, and undesirable people such as prostitutes causing a nuisance to tourists, (Photo)

[USA] [PR/Commentary]
Testimony in opposition to H.R. 3017, "Employment Non-Discrimination Act"
By Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council
Submitted to House Education and Labor Committee
September 29, 2009
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA; H.R. 3017), which would prohibit employers from considering "sexual orientation" and "gender identity," is based on false premises and is wrong in principle. Those are reasons enough to oppose it, regardless of its practical consequences.
The false premises are that homosexuals are "born gay" and "transgender" people are "born in the wrong body." Pro-homosexual activists would have us believe that makes "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" immutable characteristics that are therefore worthy of civil rights protection, just like the immutable characteristic of race. However, the evidence does not support the theory that homosexuality is biologically determined,[1] while "transgender" people have a mental illness ("gender identity disorder") which can and should be treated using gender-affirming therapy, not self-mutilating surgery.[2]
[Blog/Commentary] ENDA: Why state discrimination matters
(The bold and italic phrases underlined are mine, as an example of the self-inflicted ignorance existing due to prejudice and bias. Also the phrase about race reveals the evident racism of the writer, as we are ALL human beings.)

[USA/Film]
‘Boxer’ Wrestles With Transvestism
Excerpt: In the film ‘Beautiful Boxer,’ director Ekachai Uekrongtham approaches the controversial issue of transvestism in a very unique way. Based on the true story of legendary Muay Thai boxer Prinya Charoenphol, the plot follows the journey of a sensitive young man named Nong Toom (Asanee Suwan) who ends up literally and figuratively fighting to fulfill his dream for a gender reassignment surgery.By playing with paradoxical motifs, Uekrongtham pushes the limits of contradictions while leaving the audience with no choice but to question the concept of sexual identities

[USA] [News/Health/Medicine]
Patient guide to endocrine treatment in transsexuals
The hormone foundation and endocrine society have published a patient’s guide to the endocrine treatment of transsexual persons. Published in the September issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, the patient guide is based on the clinical guidelines for physicians, which were published in June this year and reported by Endocrinology Update.

[USA]
Personas LGBT de pueblos nativos de América y el mundo se reunirán en USA.
Personas gays, lesbianas, bisexuales y transgéneros pertenecientes a los pueblos nativos de América del Norte (Estados Unidos y Canadá) y otras regiones del mundo se reunirán para intercambiar conocimientos, educación e información cultural y para reafirmar su herencia Indígena común y su identidad como personas LGBT dos-espíritus.

[ID, USA] [Blog/News]
RS: Nampa’s Transgender Wannabe
Not that the end result necessarily will be much different, but one of Idaho’s most unusual candidates this year – Melissa Sue Robinson, running for mayor of Nampa against incumbent Tom Dale – is creating a larger stir than you might have expected.
[Blog/News] The Nampa mayoral

[Mexico]
Sentencian a joven que asesinó a homosexual (Transexual)
José Alberto Alcalá España, de 18 años de edad, fue notificado de la sentencia que le resolvió el juez segundo penal de Monterrey.

[Cuba]
En Cuba el cambio de sexo es un servicio gratuito: Mariela Castro
En el exterior, los problemas de discriminación y homofobia en Cuba se han sobredimensionado para desacreditar a la Revolución, afirmó Mariela Castro Espín, directora del Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual de Cuba (Cenesex).

[Puerto Rico]
No es él, es ella…
No es la primera vez, pero sí espero que sea de las últimas. Cuando se presentan los temas acerca de la transexualidad, hay que tener mucho cuidado. Educar al Pueblo es una de las misiones fundamentales de los medios de comunicación. Es por esto que los periodistas deben cuidar, al máximo, cada detalle.
El pasado martes, Jaime Torres Torres de El Nuevo Día publicó una historia sobre Samantha Love, una mujer transexual y artista reconocida. Bajo el título “Sobre todas las cosas, Dios me ama”, Torres no tan sólo utilizó el nombre legal de Samantha para tratar de establecer falsamente que no es una mujer, sino que usó pronombres masculinos a través de todo el escrito.

[Argentina]
Prostitución y VIH: la población trans, la más sensible al contagio
En la ciudad de Rosario hay alrededor de 500 travestis y transexuales. El 80% ejerce el trabajo sexual y se estima que poco más de un 30 por ciento convive con el virus del sida
La calle es el laberinto sin salida de casi todas para poder sobrevivir.
Una de cada tres travestis tiene el virus del sida en la Argentina.

[Portugal]
Triunfa película gay española en el Queer Lisboa 2009

Se trata de Ander, ópera prima de Roberto Castón que narra el romance entre campesino vasco y un inmigrante peruano. El festival de cine portugués proyectó 95 cintas de temática LGBT procedentes de los cinco continentes.

[Spain]
First man to become pregnant with twins to start IVF following miscarriage

The world's first man to be pregnant with twins is trying again for a baby with the help of an IVF clinic following his miscarriage.

Man who become first in world to become pregnant with twins seeks newround of IVF treatment
Primeiro transexual a engravidar na Espanha sofre aborto e perde gêmeos. Novo tratamento já começou

[Sweden]
Swedish cross-dresser wins final battle to be named Madeleine

A male cross-dresser from Luleå in northern Sweden has won his legal struggle to go by the name Madeleine.

[Singapore]
Female-born transexual: I'd rather die as an ugly man

They live on the fringes, shunning attention, like this Singaporean transsexual.
Jack (not his real name) was born more of a Jill.

[USA]
Violence Against the Transgendered Only Getting Worse

Nearly a month has passed since the Aug. 26 murder of Ty’lia "NaNa Boo" Mack, a 21-year-old transgender woman, in Washington, D.C. But the violent crime remains on the top of the minds of transgender advocates nationwide.

[USA]
Gay Rights Supporters Push Anti-Bias Bill

Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., both openly gay, are pushing a bill in Congress that will give gays and transsexuals federal protections from bias in the workplace.

[Blog/News] ENDA should be top priority - Berry
[Blog/News/People] Ga. trans woman brings 'human face' to ENDA fight
[Blog/Commentary] ENDA is Justice Long Overdue
How Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Is Supporting ENDA

[USA] [Commentary]
Death Of The West: Our Sexual Identity Crisis

Perhaps you’ve heard the tragic story of David Reimer. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1966, David was the victim of a botched circumcision that left his penis charred beyond surgical repair. His parents Ron and Janet, no doubt beside themselves, were confused about the best way to proceed. Then, one day, they saw a man named Dr. John Money on television.

[OK, USA]
Transgendered attorney to oppose Kern

A state lawmaker who described homosexuality as a greater threat to the United States than terrorism will face a transgendered attorney in her next race for the state House.

Controversial Candidate Running Against Rep. Sally Kern

[IN, USA]
Transgender child, job are focus of complaint against TSC

Tippecanoe County's Human Relations Commission is investigating a discrimination complaint involving the Tippecanoe School Corp. and a transgender student.

[Colombia]
En Medellin, una semana de diversidad sexual

Con una discusión en directo sobre diversidad sexual y estrategias de seguridad, arrancó 'Telemaratón por la Diversidad Sexual'.

[Chile]
Demuestran chilenos el Orgullo Gay

Cientos de personas LGBT salieron a las calles de la capital chilena para exigir respeto a sus derechos. Durante el acto se pronunciaron contra los abusos a estudiantes gays y demandaron a los políticos crear leyes a favor de la diversidad sexual.

[Portugal]
Filmes brasileiros estão em festival de cinema gay em Lisboa
O 13º Festival de Cinema Gay Queer Lisboa exibe filmes de temática homossexual originários dos cinco continentes -- muitos dos quais não chegam ao circuito comercial -- e desperta a atenção de exibidores e representantes de distribuidoras.

[Brasil]
Ela ou ele? Transexuais que participam de programas populares falam sobre preconceito e estigmas
Não é de hoje que programas populares investem na imagem de travestis e transexuais em seus quadros, seja para performances musicais, brincadeiras ou pegadinhas. Mas será que tal participação contribui para a quebra de preconceitos ou reforça o estigma da chacota?

[Brasil]
Parada de Curitiba reúne público recorde promovendo direitos humanos.
Mesmo com o céu anunciando chuva, a Parada da Diversidade de Curitiba foi realizada neste domingo, 27. Segundo a organização, cerca de 150 mil pessoas participaram do evento. O número é o maior já registrado nos 12 anos da Parada curitibana. (Foto Allan Johan)

[Brasil]
Parada G