[Natureza]
Greenpeace: Governo faz «vista grossa» à pirataria pesqueira

A responsável pela «campanha dos Oceanos» da Greenpeace, Beatriz Carvalho, justificou o bloqueio feito hoje a quatro navios no Porto de Aveiro com a «falta de medidas do governo português contra a pirataria da pesca».

[Portugal]
Serviço Nacional de Saúde comparicipa a 100 por cento das cirurgias - Mudar de sexo é grátis

Desde 2003, foram apenas 36 as pessoas que receberam a autorização legal necessária para fazer uma cirurgia de mudança de sexo em Portugal. Este número reduzido de pedidos explica-se pela complexidade de todo o processo.

[Brasil]
Transexuais ganham ambulatório no interior paulista
Nesta quarta-feira, 29, foi inaugurado em São José do Rio Preto, interior de São Paulo, um Ambulatório de Saúde Trans. Funcionando dentra da Unidade Básica de Saúde, o ambulatório é fruto de meses de batalha da ARTTS (Associação Rio Pretense de Travestis e Transexuais) junto com o Centro de Referência de Combate à Homofobia.

[Cambodia]
Ladyboys face crackdown

Gay male prostitutes have solicited on Pursat Bridge for a decade, but a police crackdown has forced them into more dangerous parts of town.

[Australia] [Blog/Commentary]
Transsexual "gene"?

It seems that every year or two there is an article somewhere that some scientist or doctor has identified a biological "cause" for being gay or transgender. These kinds of things seem to get a significant amount of attention and then fade into obscurity until the next bombshell discovery is made. In 1993 there was much fanfare over an article published in Science magazine about the discovery of a "gay gene." Did that settle the question of whether or not sexuality is biological or learned? Of course not. That investigation continues today.

[Blog/Commentary] New study links genetics to transsexuality

[WA, USA]
Students rally against hate

The goal of the rally was to make administration aware of what's happening on campus.

[USA] [Blog/Health/Commentary]
Doctors, Healthcare Givers and Transsexuals: Discrimination Happens Part One

Given their high degree of education, you would think that doctors, and healthcare givers in general, would be quite forward thinking and accepting of the transgendered. I have not always found that to be the case. In the years of my transition and since I have had two less than ideal experiences with healthcare givers. One I would simply call curiously educational. The second one I found genuinely troubling.