[International]
Instrumentaran nuevo metodo de control del sexo
La Federación Internacional de Atletismo (IAAF) estudiará desde la semana próxima criterios para establecer un método que permita determinar con exactitud el sexo de los competidores, como consecuencia del caso Semenya.

[International]
Campaña “Stop trans patologización 2012"
MANIFIESTO
STOP PATOLOGIZAÇÃO TRANS 2012
Organizaciones españolas comprometidXs con la despatologización de transexualidad
Más de 35 ciudades, entre ellas Oviedo, reivindicarán la desclasificación de la transexualidad como enfermedad
Bruxelles 17 octobre 2009 : Manifestation contre la pathologisation desTrans’, GenreS fluideS et IntersexeS

35 ciudades reivindicarán que se desclasifique la transexualidad como enfermedad

[Europe/USA]
U.S. speaks up for gays at Euro conference
The U.S. government has defended gay people at an important European human-rights conference, the Council for Global Equality reported Oct. 8. The move was believed to be the first such action by the U.S. in a European context.

[Portugal]
To Die Like a Man -- Film Review
Bottom Line: Lisbon drag-queen drama has moments that drag and others that soar.

[Brasil]
PI: Sancionada lei sobre uso de nome social de trans
O Piauí acaba de se tornar o primeiro Estado brasileiro a ter uma lei específica para permitir o uso do nome social de travestis e transexuais em documentos.

[Brasil]
Transexuales brasileños podrán cambiar nombre en registro civil de nacimiento
Los transexuales brasileños podrán alterar su nombre y género en los registros civiles de nacimiento, después de someterse a una cirugía de cambio de sexo, según una sentencia proferida hoy por el Supremo Tribunal de Justicia (STJ).

[España]
La Científica de Madrid coopera para resolver el crimen de Linsy Acosta
Miembros de la Brigada Análisis Científicos de la Comisaría General de la Policía Científica en Madrid recogieron esta sábado pasado diversas muestras en la vivienda donde apareció el cadáver de Linsy Acosta Carmona, un transexual colombiano de 40 años asesinado a principios de esa semana y cuyo cuerpo fue encontrado el jueves. Los especialistas, que permanecieron en el piso -ubicado en el edificio con el número 5 de la calle de los Alfareros- hasta las dos de la tarde, se llevaron la pruebas recogidas para su análisis en los laboratorios de la capital de España.

[Ireland] [Blog/News]
Irish Greens stay in government, win policy concessions
Excerpt: Among the other concessions Greens won are ... a civilpartnership bill and legal recognition of transsexuals ...
Switching programmes -- what the Green Party got

[France]
Marche transsexuelle et transgenre à Paris
Environ 600 personnes ont participé samedi à Paris à la 13e édition des "Existrans", la marche des personnes transsexuelles et transgenres, entre le métro Jourdain (XIXe arrondissement) et la place de la République.

[Itália]
Rechaza parlamento italiano iniciativa de ley contra homofobia
Redacción Anodis.- Se trata de la llamada “Ley Concia”, que pretendía tipificar cualquier agresión por motivos de orientación sexual. La iniciativa tendrá que esperar un buen rato para ser debatida. Activistas LGBT se mostraron decepcionados.
El colectivo gay italiano denuncia "una caza de brujas desde las instituciones"
Nueva agresión homobia en Italia
Italy Rejects "Sexual Orientation" in Hate Crime Legislation

[Germany/UK]
Transexual Sues Health Insurer for Refusing to Cover Breast Implant Surgery
A British transexual living in Germany is taking her health insurer to court after the company refused to pay for breast implants. She argues that the operation should be covered as part of gender reassignment procedures.
(Photo: "This is just how I am," said former British soldier Sarah Jane Smith.)

[Uganda]
Uganda pode ter lei que pune homossexualidade com morte
Uganda, país africano conhecido pela homofobia de Estado, pode ganhar uma lei que pune atos homossexuais com a morte. O crime vem sendo chamado de "homossexualidade agravada" e se caracteriza pela relação sexual entre pessoas do mesmo sexo em que uma delas é menor de 18 anos, deficiente físico ou quando o "criminoso" é soropositivo.
Rights Groups Challenge Uganda’s New Same-Sex Proposal

[SudAfrica]
Caster Semenya : la championne vit mal son hermaphrodisme
D'après ses proches, Caster Semenya vivrait très mal la polémique autour de son vrai sexe.
Un problème de définition
Deporte intersexual: el sexo y el género de las deportistas
Caster Semenya too traumatised to sit exams as gender test remains unresolved

[China]
Jin Xing launches appeal over debt
JIN Xing, China's most famous transsexual dancer and entertainer, lodged an appeal in a city intermediate court yesterday over a debt of more than 500,000 yuan (US$73,256).

[Canada]
Transgender teacher case goes to conciliation
The Alberta Human Rights Commission has accepted a complaint made against a local Catholic school board by a substitute teacher who says he was dismissed from teaching for changing his gender.

[USA]
Opinion: Hate crime brings new bond with transgender child
Early on, l knew my son Michael was different. While my three other sons begged me to buy them G.I. Joe figurines and were obsessed with football, Michael preferred playing with My Little Pony and taking tap dance lessons.(Family photo - Bonnita Spikes and her daughter, Michelle.)

[USA]
Lesbian student in Miss. fights for tuxedo photo
Everyone at Wesson Attendance Center knows 17-year-old Ceara Sturgis is gay because she's never tried to hide it.
But when Sturgis — an honor student, trumpet player and goalie on the school's soccer team — wanted her senior photograph in a tuxedo used in the 2009-10 yearbook, school officials balked. Traditionally, female students dress in drapes and males wear tuxedos.

[CO, USA]
Panel discusses transgender issues
The transition from one gender to another is difficult, according to Cici Eberle, but well worth it for transgender people engaged in identity crisis.

[IL, USA]
Transgender Man Posed as 15-Year-Old Boy, Cops Say
He is known as Jack Stones on his Facebook page, and authorities said he used that alias last Friday when he tried to enroll as a 15-year-old freshman at Marion High School in Illinois.
But by the following Monday, suspicious school officials had called the FBI and learned that Jack was born Jennifer May, and was actually 24-year-old Jack Jay Kaiser, a California woman in the midst of switching her gender to a man.

[GA, USA]
What not to wear to school?
Nothing in the North Cobb High School student manual bans students from wearing opposite-gender clothing, but one recent arrival from Miami says he was told not to report to school unless he was dressed as a boy..(Photo by Matt Schafer - Jonathan Escobar, 16, withdrew from North Cobb High School after administrators said his clothing was causing a disruption among his classmates.)

[GA, USA]
Ga. legislative counsel calls employee’s gender transition ‘unsettling’
Depositions filed in the case of a transgender woman who was fired from her job as an editor for the Georgia General Assembly are shedding new light on the causes for her dismissal as she attempts to regain her job.
(Photo by Washington Blade - Vandy Beth Glenn, a transgender woman suing Georgia legislative leaders after being fired from her job as a legislative editor, testified last month before a congressional committee on the need for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.)

[México]
Acusan a De Nigris de haber matado a transexual
Hace un par de semanas, la revista de espectáculos TVyNovelas, dio a conocer un escándalo más del ex Big Brother, Alfonso De Nigris, al entrevistar al travesti Dense, quien aseguró haber tenido un encuentro sexual con el líder de la agrupación 'Piel Caliente' durante una gira por Nuevo León:

[Uruguay]
Podrán trans cambiar nombre en documentos oficiales
Este lunes legisladores del país aprobaron una iniciativa que hará posible a las personas transexuales cambiar sus datos de acuerdo al sexo con el que eligieron vivir. Activistas aseguran que esta ley les dará mejores oportunidades de trabajo.
Uruguai deve aprovar mudança de sexo e nome para trans
Cambio de nombre y sexo para uruguayos
Uruguay Approves Historic Transgender Law
Uruguay : les trans pourront changer d'état civil
Uruguay passes landmark gender identity law

[Argentina]
Volver a empezar
Esta nota también podría titularse “Cuando la identidad no afecta la dignidad ni la capacidad de la persona”.
Es el caso de Alejandra Portatadino, quién todos en el ambiente conocemos cariñosamente como Ale, o La Portata, incansable luchadora por los derechos humanos y más incansable cuando se tratan los derechos GLBT.
Fue despedida de su trabajo como Gerente en una importante Petrolera, cuando regresó a Argentina del extranjero para luchar por los derechos a la intervención quirúrgica de las personas que necesitaban la cirugía de adecuación sexual y la reasignación del nombre en todos los documentos públicos y privados. (Foto)