[Canada]
Man posing as woman sent back to U.S.
A man who came into Canada posing as a woman is being sent back to the United States after pleading guilty to using a phony passport.

[Bulgaria]
Protection Against Discrimination Measure Includes “Gender Expression"
A `National Plan' for Protection against Discrimination was passed today on a Council of Ministers' session. What is extraordinary in the National Plan is that apart from all the grounds of discrimination featured in the Bulgarian law for protection against discrimination, which includes sexual orientation, the new Plan also features "gender expression".

[MD, USA]
State correction officials not sure where to house transsexual inmate for faking death
Maryland Division of Correction officials say they have no set policies to deal with transsexual inmates — though they now have one ordered to their custody.

[CA, USA]
CA's First Openly Transgender Administrative Law Judge to be Sworn-In

Transgender Law Center Board Member and long-time civil rights advocate, Victoria Kolakowski, will be sworn in as the state's first openly transgender Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) today when she will be among eight new ALJs sworn-in by Angela K. Minkin, Chief Administrative Law Judge of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)

[TX, USA]
Former cop sentenced to 24 years for assault

A former San Antonio police officer learned today that he will spend the next 24 years of his life in prison for using his position to sexually assault a transsexual.