[Italy]
Transgender MP in toilet row
Italian parliamentary bickering reached new heights on Friday as a row broke out over the rights of a transsexual lawmaker to use the female toilets.
That's Life: Weighty debate -- Toilet trouble
Which bathroom should a "transgender" politician be using in parliament? The thorny question rocked Italy's lower house, home to Europe's first transvestite MP, yesterday.
Right Wing Wants Trans Lawmaker Banned From 'Ladies Room'
A long simmering dispute over the use of the women's bathroom by a transsexual member of Italy's Parliament erupted into a full scale battle on Friday.

[USA]
New "Voter Guide" Released to Educate Transgender People About Their Right to Participate in Upcoming Election
The upcoming General Election on November 7th is poised to tip the balance of LGBT-supportive policymakers in office. To increase the number of LGBT-supportive policymakers, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) released a new Voter Guide this week to educate and empower transgender voters about their rights to access the polls. Trans people may find voting to be an intimidating process for many reasons.

[NY,USA]
NYPD Must Investigate Response to Alleged Assault of Transgender Woman at McDonald's, Says Amnesty International
Amnesty International called on the New York Police Department to investigate possible human rights violations by its officers in their handling of the case of Christina Sforza, a transgender woman involved in an altercation at a McDonald's restaurant in Manhattan.

[NY, USA]
He Wants to Be a Woman but Reality Gets in the Way
Size plays a major role in "20 Centimeters, " a brash, vivacious concoction of dark comedy, light drama and musical performance written and directed by Ramón Salazar. For starters, the title refers to the length of its main character's penis, nearly eight inches. Marieta, né Adolfo, a pre-op transsexual narcoleptic (convincingly played by Mónica Cervera), wants those inches to vanish, and nothing can come between her and the surgery that will make it happen, not even a hunky fruit-stocker who likes her as is.