[SIDA]
Descobertas células capazes de barrar mutação do HIV

De acordo com os resultados de uma pesquisa divulgados na revista científica Nature Medicine, pesquisadores norte-americanos e ingleses conseguiram desenvolver em laboratório células que são capazes de neutralizar a mutação do vírus HIV no organismo.

[Finland]
Imatra Vicar Plans Gender Reassignment Surgery
A local vicar for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Imatra has announced his intention to undergo gender reassignment surgery.

[India]
Is being a transsexual a sin?

Discrimination, oppression, injustice, endless are the woes of transsexuals, who seek a fair deal from society. But their woes continue, as the tinsel world too has begun to tease them on the big screen to generate a giggle or two at their expense...

[India]
Conflicts surface over sex-change racket

Following the abduction of an adolescent in a sex-change racket last week, conflicts have sprung up at Dasarahalli where many transgender groups live.

[Malaysia] [Letters to the Editor]
Dear fatwa council and Malaysians...
ON 23 October 2008, the National Fatwa Council of Malaysia issued a fatwa saying that tomboyism, where a girl behaves or dresses in what is seen as a boyish manner, is forbidden by Islam. According to the council chairman, Datuk Dr Abdul Shukor Husin, this decision was made because — in their reasoning — young women who behave like men will engage in lesbian sex.

[Indonesia]
Indonesian transgendered find refuge in Islamic school
Heavyset and wearing the pink Islamic headscarf and matching flowing clothes of a pious Indonesian housewife, 48-year-old Maryani says her penis is a gift from God.

[México]
Transexuales arriesgan la vida por falta de protocolo
la Secretaría de Salud federal recomendó a la ALDF “una coyuntural legal”, que permita estructurar lineamientos que respondan a las “vicisitudes” que este sector de la población padece en la búsqueda de la modificación de su condición.

[TN, USA]
Transgendered abuse victim found dead
The shooting death of a transgendered woman won't stop a planned lawsuit over her February beating at the hands of police, one of her attorneys said Monday. (Photo: Duanna Johnson)

[Blog/Commentary] Duanna Johnson Found Dead

TransGriot Note: Remember Duanna Johnson, whose beat down by Memphis cops was caught on tape a few months ago and led to a lawsuit against the Memphis Po-Po's?

Transgender woman killed in Memphis
[Blog/Commentary] And now Duanna Johnson Is Dead
Duanna Johnson Murdered "Execution-Style" in Memphis
Transgender Victim of Police Beating Found Dead in Memphis

Duanna Johnson's Death Will Not Stop MPD Lawsuit

[EUA]
Las actrices se preparan para protagonizar la historia de Einar, el primer transexual de la historia.
La actriz Charlize Theron y Nicole Kidman serán pareja en la adaptación cinematográfica de la biografía de las artistas Einar y Gerda Gottileb. The Danish Girl, nombre que llevará el filme, será dirigida por Arand Tucker y la responsable del guión será Lucinda Coxon.
N.Kidman jouera le premier transsexuel

[USA]
Transgender Doctor Talks Sex Change Hospital
New reality series Sex Change Hospital (WE tv Tuesdays, 11 pm/ET) follows patients — from retired grandfathers to construction workers, businessman and office managers — as they undergo surgery to transition from one gender to another. We caught up with Dr. Marci Bowers (formerly Mark Bowers), who has performed over 550 male-to-female sexual reassignment surgeries, to find out more about the life-changing operations at her clinic in Trinidad, Colo., the compelling docudrama and the social stigmas involved with transgender patients.

[OR,USA]
Oregon town elects gender-queer mayor

Plenty of politicians reinvent themselves, but few do it quite like Silverton, Ore., mayor-elect Stu Rasmussen.

Mesmo vestido de mulher 24 horas por dia, prefeito de cidade americana se diz hétero

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Autogynephilia: The Infallible Derogatory Hypothesis, Part 1

In the Third Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980, the American Psychiatric Association explained the reasons for removing the diagnostic category of homosexuality: [1]
“The crucial issue in determining whether or not homosexuality per se should be regarded as a mental disorder is not the etiology of the condition, but its consequences and the definition of mental disorder.” [2]

[KS, USA]
KU activists to celebrate Transgender Awareness Day

Kansas University’s Queers & Allies will be celebrating Transgender Awareness Day on Wednesday with activist and educator Debra Davis.