[UK]
Sex change op rapist is jailed
An eight-year jail sentence has been handed to a Llanelli man who orally raped a male awaiting a sex change operation.
Kiron Singh Chand carried out the sex attack after beating up his victim in a lane in Llanelli.
Welsh man who raped trans woman jailed for eight years

[UK] [News/Law]
Gender reassignment – Prisoners’ rights – Right to respect for private and family life
R (on the application of AB) v (1) Secretary of State for Justice (2) Governor of Manchester Prison: QBD (Admin) (David Elvin QC): 4 September 2009
The claimant (B), a pre-operative transgender prisoner, applied for judicial review of a decision of the defendant secretary of state refusing to transfer her from a male prison to a female prison.

[South Africa]
Teazers boss pays Semenya R20,000

Teazers owner Lolly Jackson will pay athletics world champion Caster Semenya R20,000 because of a row over a Teazers 'gender testing' billboard, reports a Johannesburg newspaper.

The Loneliness of the Intersex Runner
Boate é multada por ironizar sexualidade de Semenya em anúncio

[Pakistan]
Eunuchs unite to demand 'third sex' rights

Eunuchs in Pakistan have formed a group to highlight their plight in a bid to fight for rights for the "third sex".

[India]
Transgenders get their own beauty parlour

Like most beauty parlours in Delhi and NCR, Simmy is preparing for the big rush during the Karvachauth festival on October 7. The beautician's diary is already brimming with appointments for the special day. But unlike other parlours, Simmi's clients are all men.

[Canada] [Film]
Cinephile Catnip
Excerpt: The Portuguese-language To Die Like A Man, by João Pedro Rodrigues, was the most striking movie I saw in Toronto. It tells the heartbreaking tale of a transsexual cabaret artist, her junkie boyfriend, and her emotionally unhinged son.

[USA] [News/Commentary]
Obama’s Homosexual OPM Chief Calls ENDA Top Priority, ‘Keystone’ that Will Propel Rest of ‘Gay’ Legislation
John Berry, President Obama’s openly homosexual director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, says that once the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is “enacted and signed into law, it is only a matter of time” before the rest of the administration’s sweeping homosexual and transsexual activist agenda will become law.
[Commentary] Last Chance to Stop Hate Crimes Bill

[OR, USA] [News/People/Religion]
Congregation Embraces Transgender Minister
Rev. David Weekley Reveals to Congregants of Oregon Church. He Was Born a Girl

[CA, USA]
Trans Latina group loses funding
A San Francisco program that helps transgender Latinas with HIV prevention and other services is looking for new funding since the city contract that provided most of its money has been awarded to another agency.

[OK, USA]
Transgender lawyer announces candidacy for Oklahoma House
Transgender lawyer Brittany Novotny of Oklahoma City officially announced her candidacy on Sunday to represent House District 84.

(Photo: Oklahoma City lawyer Brittany Novotny formally declared her candidacy to unseat incumbent state Rep. Sally Kern [R-Oklahoma City] on Sunday.)