[UK]
Sex-swap soldier joins police force

Ex-paratrooper Captain Ian Hamilton will become Scotland’s first transsexual police officer training as a woman PC.

[India]
Transsexuals participate in a weeklong festival in Tamil Nadu

Transsexuals from across the country are participating in a weeklong "Koovagam" festival at Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu.

[Canada]
Manitoba rejects funding for trans surgeries

Manitoba's NDP government refused a proposal to fully fund sex reassignment surgeries for trans people, Xtra.ca has learned. The policy would have brought the province in line with British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec by covering the costs of hormone therapy as well as procedures like chest reconstruction and clitoral release.

[CO, USA]
Andrade gets life plus 60 years for death of transgender woman

Allen J. Andrade, convicted last month of the murder of a transgender Greeley woman, today was sentenced to life in prison plus 60 years.
His sentenced was handed down by Weld District Judge Marcelo Kopcow.
Andrade beat to death Angie Zapata with a fire extinguisher last July 17 after discovering that she was biologically male.

Andrade sentence grows by 60 years
Man gets more prison time in transgender slaying