[España]
Un transexual se inscribe como padre de un menor por primera vez en Alicante
Un registro civil es un espejo que devuelve un fiel reflejo de la realidad social de su época. Puede servir perfectamente como barómetro de las transformaciones que se suceden con el devenir del tiempo. Sus archivos dan fe de los momentos más importantes en la vida de cualquier ser humano: el nacimiento, la unión sentimental con un semejante, la muerte...Varios de esos cambios que estos organismos están constatando guardan relación con el modelo de familia tradicional. Aunque éste sigue imperando de forma mayoritaria, otras formas de relaciones entre personas están comenzando a consolidarse en España, sobre todo en los últimos años, paralelamente a las reformas en materia de derechos civiles emprendidas por el actual Gobierno de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero para dar cobertura legal precisamente a situaciones que ya existían por la vía de los hechos.
(Foto: IVÁN FRANCO/ EFE/Una mujer sostiene una pancarta en una manifestación de transexuales ante un Registro Civil.)

[España] [Blog]
Levantando ampollas
Retomando parte de lo que escribí el pasado veinte de agosto sobre transexualidad y orientación sexual, y en concreto sobre como viví y vivo todo mi proceso transexualizador, el cual no doy por terminado, y visto el alcance “mundial” que ha tomado estos últimos días desde que escribí algo, he estado dándole vueltas al monotema y voy a explicar algunos mitos y leyendas, verdades y mentiras sobre lo que es un proceso transexualizador y lo que puede implicar comenzarlo, y siempre partiendo de la base de mi propia experiencia como mujer transexual.

[España] [Comentario]
Transexualidad, derechos humanos y medios de comunicación
A mediados de agosto se hizo público -en España- el caso de una adolescente transexual que pidió permiso para una reasignación quirúrgica de sexo. Se trata de una persona que fue asignada como varón al nacer, que es en realidad una mujer y que ya ha comenzado el tratamiento necesario para cambiar de sexo. Ahora, apoyada por sus padres quiere someterse a cirugía. Como tiene 16 años, que pueda o no someterse a esa cirugía, depende del juez al parecer.

[España]
Alba ya puede volver a la Guardia Civil
El Gobierno modifica el reglamento militar para que los transexualespuedan ingresar en el Ejército y la Benemérita.
(Foto: TONI LOSAS /PIONERA. Alba Romero, guardia civil transexual de Castellón.)

[Italy]
Will they learn to live and let live on the Lido?
No one in Lido di Classe can remember why transsexuals first chose to migrate to their town 20 years ago, but their nocturnal activities are starting to worry the village's increasingly elderly residents. Michael Day reports

[Germany] [Blog/News]
Demonstration against violence towards trans sex workers in Berlin, Friday 4 September
A demonstration is planned in Berlin on Friday 4 September, to protest the increasing violence against trans sex workers. Last month a trans woman was hospitalised after being attacked and stabbed. Since then the violence from neighbours has increased and some trans people have been severely injured. The trans sex workers of Frobenstraße, a street in Berlin, are facing attacks from neighbours as well as transphobic media coverage.

[Malta]
Malta first EU state with all candidates for equality pledge
Malta is the first EU state to have all its elected MEP candidates sign ILGA-Europe’s 10-point pledge, committing themselves to promoting equality and combating discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

[South Africa] [News/Commentary]
The girl whose genes are public property
The world's attention has been focused on Caster Semenya's victory in the 800-metre Athletics World Championship. Her moment of triumph was instantly transformed into despair when another competitor began to question her physique and husky voice.
Caster Semenya: la inquietante incertidumbre del sexo
Hermafrodita: ¿más hombre o más mujer?
Androginia: el complejo mundo intersexual

[India]
Portal to bliss
Sudha introduces herself as “Mrs. Sudha Sridhar” with a hint of pride. Married to a gentle and loving man for five years, Sudha has now set her mind on having a child. “I want to have a child through a surrogate mother,” says Sudha, a transgender (TG).
Inde: un site de rencontre pour transgenres

[India]
Now, a Miss India beauty pageant for transgenders in city
About 150 beauties with a difference will congregate in the city when it hosts the first Miss India contest for transgenders on December 19, 2009.

[Canada]
Bail granted in manslaughter case
A transgender man accused of manslaughter in connection to the death of a Chilean Winnipegger in April has been granted bail.

[USA] [News/Television]
Transphobia on America’s Best Dance Crew?
Fans of Vogue Evolution, the only openly gay team of dancers on MTV’s hit reality show competition America’s Best Dance Crew, are livid at comments made on last night’s show by judge Lil Mama.
Lil Mama Makes Controversial Critique on America’s Best Dance Crew
Hot drama: Lil Mama's criticism offends some as Leiomy stresses out as''the face of transgender' ' on ''ABDC''

[USA] [News/People/Religion]
Transgender United Methodist minister comes out
Yesterday in Portland, Oregon the Rev. David Weekley shared his personal history with his congregation.

[USA] [Blog/People]
The Trans Man Who's Making Trans Men Less Scary on Capitol Hill
You'll want to remember Diego Sanchez's name, because he's the transgender fella who's going to get a back slap from Rep. Barney Frank when Congress finally passes a trans-inclusive ENDA. It helps that Sanchez is one of Frank's senior policy advisers and has been squirreling away at the anti-discrimination bill. (Photo)
Diego Sanchez: trans man on Capitol Hill works for passage of inclusive ENDA

[USA] [Commentary]
Time for a national transition
Although I firmly believe the gay community as a whole is misunderstood, there is one group that tends to stand out as most misrepresented. The transgender community has not experienced the exposure and acceptance of the rest of the queer community. Most of the gay community has had their "gay icons," if you will, since the 1990's.

[USA] [News/Commentary]
Tyli'a Mack - Another hate crime, another murder, another day without full equality in America
A 21-year-old transgender woman who went by the name of Tyli'a Mack was stabbed to death in DC on August 26th, 2009. Tyli'a and a second transgender victim were found by police at 2:30 p.m. about two blocks away from the offices of Transgender Health Empowerment (T.H.E.), a social services organization that offers drop-in services to transgender people. Mack was pronounced dead at the Howard University Hospital approximately 30 minutes after being found. The second victim was also taken to a hospital. She was in stable condition and expected to recover. (Photo)
Trans. stabbing shocks D.C.’s LGBT community
[Blog/News] Who Botched the Gender Identity of a D.C. Homicide Victim?
[Blog/Commentary] Always A Learning Experience: The DC Media Just Can't Seem To Get Gender Identity Right
UPDATE: Vigil Held to Mourn Death of Transgender Woman in D.C. Draws SupportFrom Community and National Organizations

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
Legal Analysis of ENDA, Section 3 (a)(4)(A): Employers
This is part two of a series of posts analyzing ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, known as H.R.3017 in the U.S. House of Representatives, and S.1584 in the Senate.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
“Man’s ’secret love’ of transsexual women
The Examiner has a two-part article (link to Part 1 here, link to Part 2 here). It’s about the increased use of so-called ‘transsexual porn’ by cis men and contains so many wrong ideas it’s hard to know where to

[CO, USA]
'Ariel Attack' charged over Dem. HQ vandalism
A person accused of smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters last week was formally charged on Monday.

[Uruguay]
Uruguay lanzó el “Mes de la Diversidad Sexual”
Montevideo lanzó hoy el "mes de la diversidad sexual" con un amplio programa de actividades enfocadas en el respeto por las preferencias sexuales en Uruguay donde se considera inminente la sanción de una ley que permitirá la adopción a parejas de igual sexo.