[Sida]
Maioria perde trabalho quando empresa descobre doença
Um grupo de apoio a doentes com Sida alertou hoje que quase todos os trabalhadores seropositivos que lhe pede ajuda acabam por perder o emprego quando a empresa sabe da doença, problema que se acentua com a crise económica.
Sida: Há profissionais de Saúde que recusam tratar infectados - Doentes do VIH discriminados

[Portugal]
Jovem envolvido na morte brutal da transexual atirada a um poço - Assassino de Gisberta anda à solta a roubar
Paulo Albino, mais conhecido por ‘Sombras’, é um dos jovens envolvidos no homicídio de Gisberta – transexual atirada ainda com vida a um poço, em 2006, no centro da cidade do Porto. Foi condenado a 11 meses de internamento por ter só 15 anos, mas, anteontem, acabou interceptado pela GNR de Penafiel, depois de, com um irmão mais velho, ter assaltado uma clínica de medicina dentária e ainda uma casa no concelho de Paredes. ‘Sombras’ é suspeito num total de 52 roubos.

[Brasil]
Pesquisa revela que travestis são o grupo LGBT que mais sofre preconceito no Brasil
Uma recém-divulgada pesquisa social do Núcleo de Opinião Pública (NOP), realizada pela Fundação Perseu Abramo em parceria com a alemã Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, revela que 93% dos brasileiros acreditam que existe preconceito contra as travestis no Brasil. O estudo mostrou ainda que 92% acreditam que existe preconceito contra gays e lésbicas e 90% contra bissexuais. Apenas uma média de 25% admitiu ter preconceito.

[Alemanha]
Mais jovem transexual do mundo conclui processo de redesignação sexual
Há alguns meses o Mix publicou uma matéria sobre Kim Petras, aprendiz de cantora e modelo alemã de 16 anos que seria a pessoa mais jovem do mundo a iniciar um processo de redesignação sexual. A candidata a estrela nascida Tim começou a fazer tratamento hormonal aos 12 e no mês de janeiro concluiu sua mudança.

From Tim to Kim: German pop star, 16, becomes world's youngest transsexual after sex change op
Pop singer Kim Petra has gender reassignment surgery at 16
Teen sex swap girl talks

[Finland]
Court rules consent of spouse needed for transsexual to change identity code gender

The Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that a married male-born transsexual cannot change his gender in the population register from male to female without the consent of the wife.

Tuesday’s decision involves a transsexual who has been married for more than ten years. Since the marriage, he has embarked on gender reassignment treatment.

The couple have an underage child.

[Finland]
Transsexual Identity Case May Set Back Gay Marriage

A precedent-setting court ruling declares that a marriage becomes void if one person is transsexual and applies for an official change of gender. In a decision likely to anger the gay community, the court said that marriage only applies to unions between men and women.

[Malaysia] [Blog/Commentary]
Transphobication Of The Day #2: Kenneth Zucker

Many of you would have heard of Kenneth Zucker and his amazing theories on how there is something wrong if a child is transgender, and tries to cure them in clinical reparative therapy style. I wrote an extensive article in regards to him last year on Ex-Gay Watch, when he was chosen as head of the work group for “Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders (GID) for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM. To put it bluntly, the minority pseudo-science he parrots can hardly relate to most transgenders, especially transsexual women. His stance devalues and also trivializes the quality of life of transgenders.

[USA] [Blog/News]
Ken Zucker nastygram to Lynn Conway threatening a libel lawsuit

On January 30, 2009 Lynn received a legal threat from Peter M. Jacobsen, an attorney representing Dr. Ken Zucker of the “Centre for Addiction and Mental Health” (CAMH, aka The Clarke Institute) at University of Toronto. The letter was also apparently sent to the University of Michigan’s Information Technology User Advocate, in an attempt to disrupt Lynn’s postings on the internet and defame Lynn amongst her colleagues and senior University officials as they heard about it… In doing so, Jacobsen claims that cross-website linkage is legally equated with website-inclusion, but Canadian case law says otherwise: Crookes v Wikimedia.... These facts suggest that Zucker is more interested in suppressing Lynn’s website than in addressing the underlying complaint asserted in Jacobsen’s letter.

[Blog/Commentary] Kenneth J. Zucker