[Portugal]
Compromisos políticos tras la Conferencia LGBT organizada en Lisboa por Ilga Portugal
El pasado fin de semana tuvo lugar en Lisboa una conferencia ‘Política Integrada contra la discriminación de las personas LGBT’, organizada por ILGA Portugal.

[Brasil]
Motorista transexual de Itu pede R$ 156 mil de indenização por danos morais
Nilce afirma que foi impedida de dirigir ambulâncias vestida de mulher. Ela é concursada há 13 anos; Prefeitura de Itu nega discriminação.
Transexual é afastada de trabalho por usar vestido e batom

[Cyprus/EU]
Cyprus fingered again over negative attitude to gays

CYPRUS was one of the countries highlighted for its negative attitudes to gay people in a new report published yesterday by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA).

[México]
Transexual é detida por atentado à moralidade no México
Uma transexual candidata a deputada federal no México foi detida hoje pela Polícia em Ciudad Juárez acusada de atentado à moralidade e sofreu ameaças de morte, denunciou hoje a vítima, do Partido Social-Democrata (PSD).
México: detienen a una transexual candidata a diputada porque “vestía de mujer”

[Chile]
Transexual chilena puede cursar sin modificar su identidad
El Centro de Formación Técnica Santo Tomas de Temuco dio un giro a favor de la igualdad al permitir que una estudiante transexual, Andrea de 28 años, pudiese ingresar a clases sin necesidad de modificar su identidad de género, pese a que ello había sido exigido en un comienzo.
“Desde la semana pasada que puedo estar en las aulas sin problemas y eso me tiene muy feliz”, declaró Andrea, quien en diciembre pasado se matriculó en la carrera de cocina internacional, tras rendir la Prueba de Selección Universitaria (PSU) y haber sido beneficiada con el 100 por ciento de aval del Estado.

Instituto permite que transexual asista a clases sin modificar su identidad

[Australia]
Humiliation for cops who revealed girlfriend's gender
Two policemen’s lives “cannot get any lower” after privacy breach convictions for telling a man his girlfriend used to be a male and he had been “rooting a bloke”.
Police face sacking over sex change disclosure

[FL,USA]
Gay Florida High School Student Sent Home for Drag Activism

Justin Reynolds, a junior at Dunnellon High School in Dunnellon, Florida, wanted to raise awareness about gender identity, gay students, and freedom of expression, so he told his teacher he would be wearing drag to class the next day. He did, and was sent home by 11 am.

[USA]
Top Model Contestant Isis King Gets Engaged on TV

Isis King may not have won America's Next Top Model when she was a contestant on the show's 11th cycle, but she scored an even bigger prize when she appeared on The Tyra Banks Show Monday – a marriage proposal!

[ID, USA]
Transgender Woman Says Police Mistreated Her And Mate

A transgender woman in Idaho says police mistreated her and another transgender woman while in jail, reports the Times-News.
Twenty-six-year-old Antonia Lara, who briefly shared a prison cell with Majid Kolestani, a 43-year-old transsexual Iranian refugee accused of murder, has charged the Twin Falls County Jail with mistreatment of transgender people.

S. Idaho transgender woman balks at jail treatment

[MI, USA]
BCBSM speaks about cutting gender reassignment coverage

As reported last week in Between The Lines, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has announced it will eliminate coverage of gender reassignment surgery in its single payer insurance program, effective immediately. That decision has the Coalition for Gender Equality calling for a re-examination of the decision.

[Commentary] Coverage for gender reassignment surgery is a necessity
Blue Cross defends decision to end coverage for gender reassignment