[Japan]
Rikkyo lectures to examine gender identity disorder issues
A freelance writer who underwent sex change surgery to become a male launched a series of lectures on gender-related issues at Tokyo's Rikkyo University at the start of the new academic year.
Masae Torai, who underwent a sex change operation to become a male, addresses students at Rikkyo University in Tokyo earlier this month to start a series of lectures on gender-related issues. KYODO PHOTO

[Canada]
Boys will be girls
On the morning of Mar 29 a group of trans activists crashed a celebration honouring Susan Bradley, the founder of the Child And Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic at Toronto's Centre For Addiction And Mental Health

[TX, USA]
QSA tackles politcal lobbying, intersex issues
Humans have a natural desire to be seen and acknowledged for who they are, said Jake Holbrook, a radio-television- film senior and one of the organizers for the Queer Texas Conference that took place for the first time last weekend at the LBJ library.

[CA, USA]
Transgender softball player a conundrum for recreation district
An avid athlete and a transgender person, Tedra Thomsen wants to play coed softball -- as a woman.
But the softball league she plays on won't allow that.
Transgendered Man Wants to Play Softball as a Woman
Should a transgendered person be allowed to play coed softball as a woman? The Chico Area Recreation and Park District (CARD) says,"No." Tedra Thomsen was born a man, Ted Thomsen, but she dresses as and describes herself as a woman.

[USA]

Social Security and the Transgender Community

"The Social Security program… represents our commitment as asociety to the belief that workers should not live in dread that adisability, death, or old age could leave them or their familiesdestitute." – Jimmy Carter

[MI,USA]
Trial opens in Canton transvestite killing

Andre Marcel Adams accompanied transvestite Robert Lee Armstrong to his trailer on the night of Armstrong's death, but he didn't bludge on him to death, defense lawyers said at the start of Adams' trial today.

Killing called hate crime

Wayne County prosecutors described the sexual assault and murder of a transvestite father of two as a hate crime as a trial began Monday for a Ypsilanti man accused of the killing.