[Portugal]

Mais de 50% dos portugueses contra casamentos entre homossexuais
Quanto à adopção de crianças por casais homossexuais a oposição é ainda mais clara, 66 por cento está contra.

[Brasil]
RJ: Concurso elegerá trans como Garota Prevenção

Nesta sexta, 30, o bloco carioca Boêmios da Senado vai atiçar a comunidade LGBT do Rio de Janeiro com o concurso para escolher o Garoto e a Garota Prevenção para o Carnaval 2009.

[España]
La FELGTB denuncia que las Fuerzas Armadas siguen vulnerando los Derechos Humanos con el veto a un hombre transexual

Pese a las promesas del Ministerio y al compromiso con los Derechos Humanos anunciado por la ministra Chacón en su discurso en la Pascua Militar, Aitor G.R. sigue siendo discriminado por carecer de pene

[Belgium/Honduras]
MEPs Request the European Union to Act in Protection of Transgender People in Honduras

Sixteen members of the European Parliament have today sent a Parliamentary Question to the European Commission and the European Council expressing their concerns about recent murders of transgender people in Honduras and particularly the human rights defender Cynthia Nicole Moreno.

[Thailand]
Activist urges end to sex change rules

A transgender advocacy group is calling on the Public Health Ministry to revoke the draft Medical Council of Thailand regulation on sex change surgery, saying it violates human rights.

[CA, USA]
Man receives 12-year prison sentence for sexual battery, robbery of three

A Chula Vista man who pleaded guilty to sexual battery and robbery of three transgendered persons was sentenced Jan. 22 to 12 years in state prison and ordered to repay $990 to them.

[CO, USA]
Man accused in transgender killing faces riot charge

The charges against a man accused of killing a transgender woman last summer continue to mount.