[Portugal]
O 3º Sexo

Enquanto em Portugal voltam as notícias sobre agressões a transexuais no centro da capital, em Espanha foi este mês aprovada a Lei de Identidade de Género, que lhes permite mudar legalmente o nome sem recorrer à cirurgia de redesignação sexual.

[Iraq]
Danger at every turn

Excerpt: Hasan Sabeh was a happy, talented 34-year-old transgender fashion designer, affectionately known as Tamara. He lived in the al-Mansor district of Baghdad. Two months ago, he was tending his fashion accessories stall in a street market. Out of the blue, an Islamist death squad, wearing Iraqi police uniforms, seized Tamara. They stripped off his clothes in the street and, discovering that he was a man dressed as a woman, shot him dead.

[CO,USA]
Transgender surgeon has close connection to patients

Dr. Marci Bowers first tried making the transition from a male to female body when she was 19. Lacking the money and with little support from her family, she couldn’t complete the attempt.

Some 20 years later, with a strong support system in place, she fully transitioned in 1998.

[TX, USA]
Man is charged in transvestite slaying

A man already charged in connection with a 2004 slaying now stands accused of fatally shooting a transvestite six years earlier after learning that the victim, with whom he'd had a brief sexual relationship, was not a woman but a man.

[DC,USA]
Transgender Rights Group Denounces Radio Host Comments About Slain Woman

Less than a week after her murder, Ruby Ordenana, a Latina transgender woman, was called a "psychopath" and a "freak" by nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage. Savage went on to link the victim and transgender people generally with the Columbine, CO massacre, saying "kids shoot each other there with black raincoats" because its near the Biber Clinic of Trinidad, CO, "the capital of [sexual reassignment surgery]." The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition today denounced the radio host's remarks.

[WI,USA]
Transgender Wedding Stirs Media Interest in Wisconsin

Barbara Lynn Terry and Nicole Winstanley want to get married in Wisconsin - and that state's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is not proving to be a barrier. Barbara was born male and has not had gender reassignment surgery, so state Circuit Judge David Hansher decided on March 23 that he could perform the ceremony without violating the law.

[USA]
Hate crimes bill promotes ‘cross-dressing,’ critics say

Any thoughts that a transgender protection clause in the federal hate crimes bill would slip through Congress without controversy were put to rest last week as social conservative groups blasted the legislation as a pro-homosexual measure that would promote “cross-dressing” and “transsexualism.”

[TX, USA]
Discrimination in Insurance

Testimony on House Bill 247 began at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday morning, March 27th in the House Committee on Insurance. HB 247 would amend the Insurance Code to prohibit discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.

[TN, USA]
In Court, Man turns out to be Woman!

What a story from the Hamilton County, Tennessee courts building; a man charged with molesting a teen, is actually a woman!

[FL, USA]
Trans official may sue town that fired him

Attorney says decision violates Largo's anti-bias policy

[OPINION] Largo's Loss

In Largo, Florida, a common story is playing out in a very uncommon way.

[OPINION] The right man for the job is a woman

SURE IT’S SHOCKING. Some would say freakish: A man who wants to be a woman.