[CA,USA]
Mother Of Murdered Trans Teen Pleads With Calif. Senate To Pass 'Gay Panic' Bill
(Sacramento, California) The mother of Gwen Araujo made a passionate plea Tuesday before a California Senate committee for support of legislation curbing the so-called gay panic defense.

[CA, USA]
Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act Advances in CA Senate

California took another step towards becoming the first state to meaningfully respond to strategies that blame transgender people for their own murders. The Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act (AB 1160), authored by Assembly member Sally Lieber and sponsored by Equality California, passed through the Senate Public Safety Committee on a 4-2 vote yesterday afternoon.

[China]

'I want to be a man, again'

A man who had a sex-change operation three years ago recently turnedup at a Guangzhou hospital asking for surgery to become a man again.

[India]

Beaten up eunuch takes back police complaint

They're very much a part of society, yet they're treated as pariahs. Last week, Upasana Amre, a eunuch working as an AIDS awareness volunteer with HumSafar organisation, was arrested and beaten up mercilessly by the Santacruz police. Upasana claimed to be creating awareness among prostitutes on the Santacruz-Juhu Link road.

[South Korea]

Transsexuals and Their Rights

Recently, the Supreme Court made it legal for transsexuals to change their registered sex on the family registration records, or "hojok." It is a decision that should be welcomed.

[Egypt]

Lifting the veil on transvestites

Two M2F transgender Kuwaiti visitors registered by Egyptian immigration as men...

[CA, USA]

Trans March draws crowd

An enthusiastic crowd estimated at 7,500 turned out for the third annual Trans March held Friday, June 23, which started out in San Francisco's Dolores Park and ended at Civic Center.

[CA, USA]

Historic SF riot remembered

Nearly 100 transgender activists and allies turned out in the Tenderloin on Thursday, June 22, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1966 riot at Gene Compton's Cafeteria.

[MI, USA]

Camp Trans enters 14th year

A group of transgender activists from around the country is planning to protest this August's Michigan Womyn's Music Festival for its refusal to admit transwomen.

[USA]

Economic justice for trans-people

Cecelia Chung, Deputy Director of Transgender Law Center, will be honored this summer as one of San Francisco's LGBT pride grand marshals, and she's quite deserving of the tribute.