[Portugal]
Associações 'gay' querem memorial a Gisberta no Porto
Vestido de mulher, Fernando Mariano reproduz gestos da vaidade feminina. Finge que pinta os lábios, afaga o cabelo e calça uns sapatos de tacão alto que lhe acentuam a silhueta já coberta por um vestido em tons laranja. Encena uma saída para o exterior, onde é agredida por uns e ignorada por outros, incapazes de lhe prestar auxílio.
O cenário é a rua de Santa Catarina, no Porto, onde o movimento Panteras Rosa - Frente de Combate à LesBiGayTransfobia, organizou, ontem ao final do dia, a intervenção "Gisberta: Morrer Invisível".

No dia 18 de Fevereiro saiu uma reportagem no Notícias Magazine com o tema central "Ele Ela Ele". Contém reportagens com pessoas que conviveram com a Gisberta, nomeadamente transexuais. Depois de se ler, e depois de tudo o que se tem falado sobre transexualidade, nota-se DEMAIS como o repórter estava mal preparado. Fica-se com a impressão de que não fazia ideia do tema que tentava retratar, continuando a chamar "travestis" a quem é transexual e insistindo na temática transexualidade/prostituição. Desculpem pelo atraso mas foi devido a só agora ter tido acesso a esta revista. Mau trabalho apesar de ser tema de capa. Também não tenho link nem foto da dita.

[UK]
‘Transphobic’discrimination claim lost at appeal
In the course of his employment with the respondent council the claimant, who was born a female, began to identify as a transsexual, effecting a change of name in December 2002, and subsequently underwent gender reassignment. In December 2002 the temporary post he held ceased to exist due to lack of funding and his appointment was extended to the end of January 2003 to allow him to apply for an alternative post.

[Italia]
ASSEMBLEA CON IL TRANS AL LICEO LEOPARDI
È finalmente arrivato il giorno della sospirata assemblea d'istituto del Liceo "Leopardi" con Alessia Bellucci, che tante polemiche e discussioni ha suscitato nei mesi scorsi.

[Cuba]
Sex-changes in Cuba will be no-cost, like all health care
Cuba’s National Assembly of Popular Power has agreed to discuss making sex-reassignment surgery free of cost to all “transexuales”on the island who request it.

[New Zealand]
I bit off more than I could chew - Beyer
Transsexual former MP Georgina Beyer pulled out of a Dunedin play after realising she "bit off more than she could chew".

[FL,USA]
E-Mail Hints At Reaction To Largo Official's Sex Change
If e-mail and faxes sent to city hall are any indication, reaction to City Manager Steve Stanton's announcement he is changing his sex has been overwhelmingly positive - except among city residents.

[USA]
AMC casts transgender actors, including Jennifer Boylan
A cast of six real transgender people will appear as a support group for a new character's recent coming-out as transgender on ABC's daytime soap All My Children.

[CA, USA] (Science&Health)
Panel to explore gender in sciences
Excerpt: One of the speakers, Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary biologist and professor at Stanford, will address the changing concepts of sex and gender in biology from the perspective of a transsexual.

[HI, USA]
Edgy drag revue comes to Hula's
It takes more than wigs, makeup and on-stage glam to flesh out a drag show, says Heklina. Try humor.
Heklina is the founder-emcee of the legendary San Francisco-based "Trannyshack" drag show for the past decade. So she knows.
"I'd say ours is a new school of drag — an alternative," said Heklina, who admits to being 39 ("for the last five years"). She's bringing her somewhat naughty show, in which boys will be girls, for a four-performance, two-night run at Hula's Bar & Lei Stand tonight and Saturday.
PHOTO: Heklina, of the drag show "Trannyshack. "

[FL, USA]
Transgender alum works for equality
Fear of insults or attacks convinced Ivana Black to hide her transgender identity when she enrolled at UF in 2004. Black had faced discrimination before and did not want to be targeted again, she said. She used her long hair and convincing curves to pass as a woman. But when she noticed that other transgender students were reluctant to embrace or reveal their own identities, she felt compelled to come out.

[FL,USA]

Florida city manager begins sex change

The city manager of a small Florida town received the support of the mayor and other city officials on Thursday to undergo a sex change to become a woman while remaining in his job.