[Italia]
«Pizzo» ai colleghi: arrestati due trans

Taglieggiavano colleghi transessuali facendosi pagare ingenti somme per «poter lavorare» nella zona di Piazza dei Navigatori ma sono stati arrestati.

[China]
First penis transplant reversed

Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife.

[Australia]
Transsexual killer to remain behind bars

Transsexual killer Maddison Hall will remain behind bars for at least another 15 months after the NSW State Parole Authority today confirmed an order revoking her parole.

Taxpayers foot killer's jail sex-change bill

Transsexual killer Maddison Hall paid for her sex-change operation from public funds after winning a secret payout from the New South Wales Department of Corrective Services, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

[VA, USA]
Senate Passes Gender Blind Housing Bill

The Student Assembly Senate met with a packed house on Tuesday to debate three bills regarding gender blind housing, expanding the use of Flex Points and petitioning the City of Williamsburg regarding the future of the College Delly.

[USA]
TV's new year line-up: heavy on heteros

Broadcast network's 2006-2007 line-up will be shorter on queers and heavier on heteros, according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

[FL, USA]
Life Sentence For Florida Trans Woman's Killer

The family of a transsexual woman murdered in 2003 say they can finally rest easily with the sentencing of the man who killed her.

[USA]
Handbook for Parents is transphobic and homophobic

The Consortium for the Management of Disorders of Sex Development in Children has published a handbook specifically for parents of children born intersexed or as the Consortium prefers to call them – disordered in their sex development. It is very revealing that the consortium has published handbooks for doctors and for parents but nothing intended for the actual child. There is a reason for this. The Consortium serves the interests of the two groups just mentioned at the expense of the child being managed.

[NY, USA]
At issue: Gender and identity

A Batavia teacher has changed gender. The Sept. 5 essay, "Changing genders crosses the line," is an example of "crossing the line" into ignorance and intolerance.

[UK]
Dr Alan is also singer Elaine
A TOP surgeon leads a bizarre double life — as a transvestite singer.

[Australia]
Long live the queens
The idea of turning Stephan Elliot's high-camp hit The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert into a stage musical was floated many years ago.

[Brasil]

Governo estuda criar Centro de Saúde integral para transexuais

O Serviço vai oferecer tratamento hormonal e fará cirurgia de readequação genital.

[Brasil/SE]

Astra realiza treinamento para capacitar travestis e transexuais

O evento pretende também conscientizar seu público para uma vida social de respeito, livrando-o de situações de constrangimento em escolas, unidades de saúde e na própria família.

[Brasil/MA]

Campanha de Vidigal apóia transgêneros

O movimento Ação Mulher, da campanha Vidigal-Governador, participou na noite de terça-feira, da inauguração da Associação de Transgêneros, Travestis e Transexuais do Maranhão (Atrama).

[España]

Voto de los transexuales

Por otra parte, la Asociación Madrileña de Transexualidad Clínica aseguró ayer que el Ayuntamiento de Madrid permitirá a los transexuales utilizar su nombre social para votar y presentarse como candidatos a las elecciones como representantes vecinales que se celebrarán el 19 de noviembre.

[España]

Ayuntamiento: Vecinos sólo podrán votar con nombre del padrón

El director general de Inmigración del Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Tomás Vera, señaló a Efe que los votantes de las próximas elecciones vecinales del 19 de noviembre sólo pondrán ejercer el derecho al voto en las urnas con el nombre que aparezca en el padrón municipal.