Este domingo (12/Nov), às 17h e às 22h, o canal Odisseia apresenta o documentário "Transexuais Hoje". O programa tem repetição na segunda-feira 13 às 11h.

[Spain]
Estado Espanhol - nova legislacao TS+Les remetida ao Senado
Aprueban la ley que permite cambiar su DNI a transexuales aunque no se operen
- Deben acreditar que han sido tratados médicamente durante al menos dos años
- Se incorpora la enmienda para que las lesbianas puedan ser madres de los hijos 'in vitro'
Spanish lawmakers approve bill to let transsexuals change gender without surgery
The lower house of Spain's parliament in Madrid has approved a bill that would let transsexuals change their officially registered gender from male to female or vice versa without undergoing sex-change surgery. The bill was approved Tuesday and must now go before the senate for a final vote.

[UK]
Female classification under Gender Recognition Act gives transsexuals early access to pensions
Some 122 transsexuals are set to cash in five years early on state pensions after being classified as women under the Gender Recognition Act.

[UK]
Dilemma In Fight For Back Pay
It was by far the happiest day of Bill Parry's life. But one sex change operation later and the honeymoon is well and truly over for Bill - now known as Dian.

[Italy]
Italy in a flush on merits of unisex toilets
A parliamentary row over the use of the ladies' washroom by a transgender lawmaker has spilled over into a nationwide debate on the merits of unisex toilets in Italy.

[South Africa]
Gender identity and socialisation
During childhood, the child's gender identity starts to take shape. Gender identity is largely determined by social and environmental factors.

[Russia]
Man changes his sex being jealous of women’s idle social role
An unusual and even extravagant reason made the other day an ordinary male from Moscow change his sex. The man risked to stand a sex-change operation to change his sex because of envy and unwillingness to maintain his family. What is more, his ex-wife states that the man decided to become a woman not to pay alimony to his child after the divorce.

[USA]
Transsexuals Push Sports to Think Anew: Who Is Male, Female?
John Harper was his high school valedictorian and Male Athlete of the Year. In college, he became an All-Canadian cross-country runner and earned advanced degrees in physics. Yet he carried a gnawing secret.

[NY, USA] [News/Commentary]
S/he
Remember when your little league coach (or dad) used to tell you to grow a pair and be a man? Well, now you can march right up to `em (provided all that deep psychological damage didn't stick) and say you don't need to.

[GA, USA] [Films]
Transgender bias
Excert: "Unlike Transamerica, which used the road-movie comedy genre to explore transsexuality, the more personal, incisive documentary Boy I Am is the real-life story of three women transforming into men."

[HI,USA]
Kim Coco Iwamoto is the First Openly Transgender Person Elected to a State-Level Office in the US
Yesterday's mid-term elections marked a historic first in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) movement for equality and civic engagement. With a comfortable victory garnering 81,532 votes, attorney Kim Coco Iwamoto was elected to Hawaii's state-level Board of Education (Oahu-at-Large), a non-partisan office.
Oahu elects highest ranking transgendered person in U.S.
After an aggressive campaign, Kim Coco Iwamoto earned a seat on Hawaii's statewide Board of Education and, according to national advocacy groups, a place in history as the country's highest-elected transgender official.
Groups across U.S. hail isles' election of transgender
Kim Coco Iwamoto's successful run for a Board of Education seat is being hailed by transgender groups here and on the mainland, with one organization calling her the top transgender elected official in the nation.