[NY, USA]
Long Island Commemorates Trans Violence Victims
More than 100 people filled the sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Huntington to remember transgendered victims of hate at the Transgender Day of Remembrance memorial service held there on Sunday evening.

[CA, USA]
Oakland hosts TG remembrance
The Tri-Valley Health Center's TransVision program held a Transgender Day of Remembrance event at Preservation Park in Oakland Sunday, November 19.
Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland

[MA, USA]
Trans memorial draws 150
Addressing the crowd gathered at Arlington Street Church for the Transgender Day of Remembrance Nov. 19 one speaker, an FTM and recent transplant to the Boston area who asked Bay Windows not to use his name, described how about a year and a half ago another transman, whom he described as his mentor, had been brutally attacked and beaten by a group of muggers.
PHOTO: About 150 people, including (l. to r.) Steven Juncosa, Damian Dudley, and Raven Hayze, gathered outside Arlington Street Church at the start of the candlelight vigil for the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Photo: Marilyn Humphries

[UK]
Sex change patient claims he was demoted after beginning surgery
A transsexual who moved from the US to Britian because of its 'liberal attitude' was demoted after having a sex change operation, a tribunal heard.
Sex swap op got me the chop
An IT executive was forced out of a job with a top firm after having a sex change, an industrial tribunal heard.

[Canada]
Dressing up in women's clothing is no laughing matter for some
For some people, dressing up is a bit of a lark. You couldn't turn on the TV last week without seeing some gaudily-costumed clown hamming it up in Winnipeg for Grey Cup week.

[India]
Probe into death of transgender ordered
The Madras High Court yesterday ordered a probe into the "suicide" of a transgender inside a police station here, allegedly due to sexual harassment by the personnel there.

[CO, USA]
Firm settles sex-change suit
An Englewood company has settled a case of alleged discrimination against a worker who claimed she was fired while preparing to undergo sex-change surgery, her attorneys said today.

[MI, USA]
Transgender: a woman’s struggle for acceptance
As she brushes her brown bobbed hair away from her wiry gold frames, Karen Liedigk admits something that few would expect on first meeting: Liedigk is transgender.
PHOTO: Karen Liedigk, 66, is a transgender activist in Michigan Courtesy of Karen Liedigk

[NY, USA]
Being transgender no longer about surgery in NY
Jay Kallio knew at age 4. For Justine Nicholas, the revelation came in kindergarten. Nature had dealt them a confusing anatomy. The genders they were assigned at birth were all wrong.

[CA, USA]

Suspect says rage drove him to kill

A Pittsburg man who claims he was wrongly convicted of rape 12 years ago told authorities he took out his rage on a transvestite in Antioch over the weekend by stabbing the man to death after the two had sex, police said Tuesday.

[CA, USA]

Family waits for break in trans murder case

With Transgender Day of Remembrance events taking place throughout the Bay Area last weekend, the alleged murder of a transgender woman in San Francisco more than two years ago has stymied law enforcement officials, who need witnesses to come forward in order to gather more evidence in the case.

PHOTO: Minister Donald Seastrunk leads friends and family members of Tony "Delicious" Green in a prayer of remembrance during a vigil outside her home in August 2004. Photo: Rick Gerharter