[Canada]
Trans Athletes Fight To Have Medal Returned To Runner Who Failed Sex Test

A Canadian transgender athlete who hopes to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics has written IOC president Jacques Rogge a pair of letters criticizing how an Indian runner was stripped of her medal after failing a gender test during the Asian Games in December.

[Pakistan]
Eunuchs demand reserved seats in legislatures

Pakistani eunuchs have demanded that they be allowed to play a role in national politics through reserved seats at all legislative forums, but the government has refused by saying that eunuchs have the same status as any other citizen of the country.

[Turkey] Italian trans-gender MP to champion gay rights in Turkey, Muslim world

Vladimir Luxuria, Italy's first trans-gender member of Parliament, told Israeli newspaper Haaretz that she intends to champion gay rights in the Muslim world and become an Italian diplomat in the Middle East.

[UK]
News in Brief (Transsexual's claim )
Jessica Bussert, a transsexual who claimed that she was forced to quit an £88,000 per year job at Hitachi Data Systems after having surgery to become a woman, has lost her £500,000 claim. An employment tribunal in Reading ruled that she had left "of her own free will".

[CA,USA]
Awareness Day Informs Students About Transgender Community
As a way to promote inclusion of transgender issues at City College, the HIV/STI prevention office held its 3rd Annual Transgender Awareness Day on November 20 at City College

[NJ, USA]
Police charge transsexual with impersonation
When Butler police thought they pulled over a man named Kashon Williams for driving without a valid license, the person behind the wheel, police say, lied to them, giving them the name Shonda Williams, a woman.