[France]
L'ancien marin bien dans sa vie au féminin

Victoria la transsexuelle a littéralement « coupé les amarres ». Étonnant voyage que celui de cet ancien marin de Saint-Malo.

Photo: Victoria, l'ancien marin malouin, a bien bourlingué et a essuyé quelques coups de chien dans la vie, avant de s'affirmer sous l'identité de femme. : Ouest-France

[France]
Quand le cinéma se met en « trans »…

Paris possédait déjà son festival de films gays et lesbiens, et un festival plus spécifiquement destiné aux lesbiennes, Cineffable. Désormais, la capitale accueille également un festival de cinéma ayant pour thème les identités transgenres et transsexuelles, rarement abordées au cinéma et à la télévision - si ce n'est sur le mode pathologique et lacrymal.

[Turquie]
Les transsexuels turcs sur scène pour défendre leurs droits

Des transsexuels devenus comédiens et ovationnés debout: fait insolite cette semaine à Ankara à l'occasion d'une représentation de théâtre contre la discrimination dont la communauté homosexuelle fait l'objet au sein de la société turque, foncièrement conservatrice.

[Kuwait] [PR/News/Commentary]
Repressive Dress-Code Law Encourages Police Abuse

Authorities should immediately release more than a dozen persons jailed under Kuwait's new dress-code law, Human Rights Watch said today. The law, approved by the National Assembly on December 10, 2007, criminalizes people who "imitate the appearance of the opposite sex."

Kuwait urged to free cross-dressers from jail

Human Rights Watch urged the Kuwaiti authorities on Friday to release from prison 14 men jailed in recent months for having dressed as women in public.

[New Zealand]
Human rights for all humans, not just angry extremists

The Green Party entirely supports the Human Rights Commission's call for better recognition of the rights of transgender people, Green Party MP Metiria Turei says.

Resources needed to back transgender findings

PPTA president Robin Duff welcomes the release of the Human Rights Commission's transgender inquiry and hopes government resources will be provided to help implement its findings.

Transgender report meets mixed reaction

A Human Rights Commission report which calls for greater recognition of the rights of transgender people has met a mixed reaction.

NZ First opposes transgender law changes

New Zealand First has strongly rejected recommendations for law changes to help transgender people.

Arthur Or Martha? Let The Commission Decide!

The Human Rights Commission's latest nonsense on the rights of so-called 'transgendered' people is another example of the creeping insanity of social and sexual engineering, says New Zealand First Deputy Leader Peter Brown.

[Canada]
Cross-dresser gets second shot at refuge

A transgender Mexican who claims he'll be killed in his homeland for dressing like a woman is getting a second shot at refugee status in what may be the first case of its kind in Canada.

[GA,USA]
Midtown crime sparks action from neighbors

Excerpt: Neighborhood group leaders have a habit of moving next to well established gay clubs and then complaining about noise and crime until the clubs are forced to close. The members seem to use the most pejorative descriptors available - "bum," "gang," "infestation" - and even make up new ones like "transvestitutes, " which they use to describe transgender prostitutes.

[IL,USA]
Transgender woman seeks name fee waiver

A transgender woman who wants to change her legal name from "Donald" to "Daunn" asked the state Supreme Court Thursday to order Will County's chief judge to waive about $450 in court fees because of her low income.

Illinois County Accused Of Thwarting TS Name Change

The Illinois Supreme Court has been asked to compel a county court to follow state law and allow a low-income transgender woman with the means of changing her name.

[USA] [Commentary]
Don't Forget Transgender Day of Rememberance

Originally, I was going to write a column reviewing the events of 2007, just like so many other writers. But then something happened in Kansas City. Well, to be honest, it's more like something didn't happen.

[UT, USA] [Film/Events]
Sundance film documents Iranian culture mysteries

When Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced to a heckling Columbia University audience that there were no homosexuals in his country, he neglected to add the punch line: they all get sex-change operations instead.