[Brasil]
AL: TJ mantém acusação sobre morte de travesti

A Câmara Criminal do Tribunal de Justiça de Alagoas negou nesta quarta, 09, o recurso apresentado pelo funcionário público federal Elias da Silva Torres, acusado de assassinar a travesti Érika, de 14 anos, em 2006. O desembargador-relator do processo considerou que existem provas suficientes para manter a acusação pela morte de Érika, com que Torres teria feito alguns programas.

[Brasil]
Jornal-laboratório da Unicsul publica matéria sobre realidade da comunidade trans brasileira

A edição 34 do jornal "Cidadão", veículo laboratório dos estudantes de Jornalismo da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, publicou uma matéria sobre a realidade de transgêneros no Brasil.

[España]
Las prostitutas denuncian una "caza de brujas"

Las prostitutas que ejercen en Barcelona han denunciado hoy ser víctimas de una "caza de brujas", han exigido su regulación y han reclamado participar en el desarrollo del Plan de Usos de Ciutat Vella para que reabrir los "hostales-meublés" y no tener que trabajar en la calle.

[España]
El tratamiento precoz de la transexualidad evita el desarrollo de trastornos mentales
El abordage psicológico de la transexualidad es imprescindible tanto antes como durante y después del cambio de sexo. El objectivo es que los afectados construyan una entidad social a través del aprendizaje de las conductas de rol que corresponden al otro sexo y puedan así enfrentarse a la sociedad.

[Italy]
Sex-change Choirmaster Sacked
A Catholic choirmaster who was sacked after changing sex says he's still waiting for an explanation from the cathedral in the southern Italian city of Lecce. (Photo)

[Lituânia]
Políticos lituanos querem criminalizar propaganda homossexual, denuncia entidade

A Anistia Internacional, entidade que luta a favor dos direitos humanos, denunciou planos anti-gays que vem sendo discutidos por políticos da Lituânia. Segundo a organização, o país estaria prestes a criminalizar o que eles chamam de "propaganda homossexual". O país, que já proibiu as escolas de abordarem o tema, estaria debatendo uma possível proibição a qualquer menção sobre homossexualidade em locais públicos.

Lituania estudia criminalizar “la promoción” de la homosexualidad

[Africa du Sud]
Semenya: "Lo veo todo como una broma"
Caster Semenya, la actual campeona mundial de 800 metros cuya feminidad está bajo sospecha e investigación, afirmó ayer que se toma el asunto "como una broma" y que está "orgullosa" de tal como es.
L’athlète Caster Semenya se fiche de passer pour un homme

La atleta Caster Semenya aparece en una revista luciendo un clásico look femenino
The Drag Racer
IAAF gender test claim adds to confusion in Caster Semenya case
[Sports/Commentary] Science And Sports: Conflicts In Genetics
Corredora sul-africana suspeita de ser homem deve manter medalha de ouro
Decisión posible de la IAAF sobre Semenya en noviembre
Jornal diz que sul-africana é hermafrodita
Secret of Semenya's sex stripped bare
Semenya to keep medal despite tests
Semenya won't be stripped of gold medal: reports

Semenya has 'internal testes'

[India]
Week-old baby undergoes sex change operation
Seven days after a boy was born to a city-based family, doctors have medically proved that the baby is a girl. The baby went through an operation on Wednesday for a sex change.
After a sonography, city-based doctor Dr Atul Hirani confirmed that it was a baby girl. The baby had male genital organs but female sexual organs inside the body.

[India]
Woman with rare medical condition operated
A 21-year-old woman with a rare disorder was operated at a hospital here following timely intervention by her family members which saved her from the clutches of eunuchs.
"The girl was suffering from a medical condition described as "ambiguous genitalia" and had developed a partially-grown male organ in her right scrotum adjoining a partially-developed urinary tract but otherwise had all the physical attributes of a female," Arshad Hafeez Khan, head of the plastic surgery department of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, said.

[India]
Transgender beauty pageant to debut in India
The first annual Miss India contest, a beauty pageant for transgender women, will be held on Dec. 19 in Chennai, the Times of India reported Sept. 2.

[USA] [News/Commentary]
Transgender & Transsexual Issues 101: 'The Top Five Silliest Questions to Ask a Transsexual Person'
When a transsexual person comes out, the non-trans people around him or her always have a bottomless well of questions — and this is not necessarily bad. It’s one way that non-trans people learn, and it can lead to greater understanding and acceptance.

[USA] [Sports/Books/People]
After Sex Change, Driver Wants Back On Racetrack
A rather compelling story comes to us from the Orlando Sentinel about former Sprints, Midgets and Karts racer J.T. Hayes, who in the early 1990s was a rather prolific driver and winner of over 500 races across those categories and others. He was also a hermaphrodite, a person born with reproductive organs of both a man and woman. (Photo)

[NY, USA]
Leslie Feinberg: New book, birthday celebrated
The 60th birthday of Workers World newspaper’s managing editor, Leslie Feinberg, was celebrated at an event on Sept. 5 in Syracuse, N.Y., that also served to launch Feinberg’s latest book, “Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba” (available at leftbooks.com). The internationally-known transgender activist and author’s latest work challenges imperialist propaganda against socialist Cuba by showing the trajectory of progress in LGBT liberation since the island nation’s 1959 revolution. (Photo)

[México]
Toda la discriminación en un solo cuerpo con el documental Prefiero morir de pie

Irina Layewska nació hace más de cuatro décadas con otro nombre y un género distinto al que su aspecto muestra. Otrora un activista de la causa cubana, hoy es una persona postrada en una silla de ruedas en los últimos días de su vida y la protagonista de Prefiero morir de pie, proyecto dirigido por Jacaranda Correa, parte del taller de documental impartido en la UIA la semana pasada y apoyado Ayuda en Acción y La Jornada de Oriente.

[Uruguay]
Avanza proyecto sobre cambio de sexo
Un proyecto de ley que autoriza el cambio de identidad en registros y documentos públicos a transexuales avanzó hoy en la Comisión de Constitución de Diputados en Uruguay y se espera sea tratado la semana próxima en la Cámara antes de que finalice el período legislativo.

Diputados uruguayos aprueban cambio sexo registral

[Chile]
Transexuales en desfile civico-militar
Cinco mujeres transexuales participaron ayer en la comuna de Cerro Navia en un desfile cívico-militar que celebró las fiestas patrias, tras una idea del alcalde Luis Plaza (ex RN).