[Brasil]
Família de modelo vítima de anorexia espera que morte sirva de exemplo
A família de uma modelo brasileira, que morreu vítima de anorexia, espera que o seu caso sirva de exemplo para outros jovens, enquanto que a agência que a representava garante que se preocupa com a saúde dos manequins.

[USA]
National Transgender Remembrance Day to honor lost lives
BrianKate and Jamie ducked behind a parked car. After dodging beer bottles to the head and hearing "faggot" echo beneath the Long Island, N.Y., sky, the two friends weren't sure they would make it out alive. "I felt pretty scared," says BrianKate, 30, a transgender and intersex person who doesn't identify as a male or female.

[OH,USA]
Student organization reflects on past killings of transgenders
A solemn atmosphere surrounded Transcendence' s fourth annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

[CA,USA]
Speaking For Our Dead By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Raven Kaldera speaks for the dead. Specifically, the FTM, transgender, intersexual spiritual leader says he communicates with those memorialized November 20 on the Transgender Day of Remembrance. "Our dead are angry, " Kaldera says. " And they want this to stop. Being as I talk to them, I can guarantee you this: there are too many of them."

[PA, USA]
Activist takes stand against trans violence
During grade school, when her classmates began to call her derogatory names, Gwen Smith knew what was bound to happen next.

[CA, USA]
Event to remember transgendered
An event to remember people who have been killed for expressing their gender identity will be held Sunday at Oakland's Preservation Park.

[Germany]
Gender Activists Seek More Rights, Wider Acceptance
New York recently set forth a plan that would allow people to more easily change the gender on their birth certificate. Gender activists in Germany say there is room for improvement their country, as well.

[Australia]
Guilty plea in Melbourne transsexual bashing
A Melbourne man has pleaded guilty to causing serious injury to a transsexual after discovering her true gender.

[China]
50-year-old Chinese farmer undergoes sex-change operation
A 50-year-old Chinese farmer, yearning to be a woman, has undergone the first stage of a sex-change operation in a hospital in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.

[Turkey]
No transgender singer allowed!
Pop Bitch today reported that Kemal Shahin has been in negotiations to represent Turkey at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. esctoday.com contacted Kemal, a former Big Brother contestant in theUnited Kingdom, and former editor on esctoday.com. Kemal confirmed that TRT had ended negotiations and explained the disappointment about the reasons given for being discounted from the running.

[WA,USA]
Transgendered woman battling Border Patrol to save job
A Spokane woman who does computer work for the federal government is fighting for her job. And she says it's because she's had a sex change.
Photo: Tracy Sturchio, who is battling the federal government to keep her job. The Border Patrol has accused her of faxing materials that had disparaging remarks about herself.

[UT,USA]
Trapped in the wrong body
He kissed little girls. He begged for a football. And he dressed up as a soldier, Dracula and the Lone Ranger. "Tom" wasn't a little boy. He had girl parts and had a girl's name. But as early as 6 years old, he remembers wanting to be a boy. By age 12, when he got his period, he thought God had made a mistake.

[GA, USA]
Midtown safety meeting addresses trans prostitutes
Members of the Midtown Ponce Security Alliance got a lesson in the discrimination faced by transgender people during the group's Nov. 13 monthly meeting.

[USA]
Film explores treatment of trans prisoners
Shot over three years, "Cruel and Unusual" explores the decision of prisons to place inmates based on their genitalia, not their gender identity. Dan Hunt, along with two other filmmakers, set out to tell these transgender women's stories of being incarcerated in male cells.

[GA, USA]
UGA designates gender-neutral restrooms

Two single stall restrooms located next to the UGA campus LGBT Resource Center lost their male and female sex designations, and are now simply designated as "restrooms."

[MA, USA]
Open letter to trans community

Excert: "The Transgender Day of Remembrance is not a place to put on your party hat, it is not a celebration of life, nor is it an opportunity for your organization to fundraise."