A partir de vendredi 11 janvier, la 1ère Edition du Festival de Films Trans de Paris, à découvrir sur trois jours, un programme réjouissant fait quasi exclusivement de raretés et d'inédits pour aborder d’importants enjeux : la construction de l’identité, le lien entre genre, corps et sexe, l’appartenance à une minorité, l’identité trans au sein des luttes queer et féministes, l’accès à l’emploi, l’immigration, l’activisme identitaire…

Au cinéma L'Archipel (17 bd de Strasbourg, Paris 10ème M° Strasbourg St-Denis) avec en invitée d'honneur Bambi.

Le Festival identit est né de la volonté de combler l’absence de représentations respectueuses de l’identité et de la culture trans.

Toutes les infos disponibles sur www.festivalidentit.org

Télécharger la grille & le programme sur www.festivalidentit.org/images/prog.pdf

[Japan]
Man sacked over gender disorder settles lawsuit

A man with gender identity disorder whose work contract was not renewed has settled his lawsuit against the employer for ¥1.8 million, his lawyer said Thursday.

[CA,USA]
Tense meeting with HRC over ENDA

The transgender president of the San Francisco Police Commission bluntly returned the Equality Award she received from the Human Rights Campaign during what was described as a tense meeting last weekend between members of the Bay Area trans community and HRC President Joe Solmonese.

[Blog/Commentary] The HRC outreach effort to the transgender community

Donna Rose is a former member of the HRC Board of Directors. As the only transgender member on the board, she resigned over the HRC's 2007 change of position regarding transgender inclusion in ENDA.

[MA, USA]
New trans legal clinic kicks off Jan. 16

Massachusetts Transgender Legal Advocates, a new legal clinic serving low-income transgender people, kicks off with a celebration at JRI Health headquarters Jan. 16. The following evening the clinic holds its first session at the offices of Cambridge Cares about AIDS (CCA), and the clinic will hold regular sessions the third Thursday of every month. The clinic is a collaboration between CCA's TransCEND (Transgender Care and Education Needs Diversity) program, which does HIV prevention and health education work in the transgender community, the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC), and AIDS Action Committee.

[NM,USA]
First Albuquerque homicide of 2008 marked by gender confusion

Police took some time to decide whether the person found shot to death at an apartment complex near Gibson and San Mateo boulevards was a man or a woman.