[Brasil]
Vereador em Salvador, Léo Kret muda de nome com autorização de um juiz
"Leo Kret do Brasil" passa a ser o nome civil da dançarina e vereadora de Salvador desde a publicação da sentença no último dia 18 de novembro pelo Juiz Nelson Cordeiro, da Vara de Registro Civil da Bahia. O nome original de Leo é Alecsandro. Ele assumiu a identidade feminina a partir dos quinze anos, quando o apelido Leo Kret surgiu numa brincadeira de escola.

[Brasil]
Miss Gay Mato Grosso é destituída do cargo
O estado de Mato Grosso não terá mais representante no concurso Miss Brasil Gay. O organizador do Miss Gay MT, Menetti Griggi, resolveu destituir Thayla Brunni, eleita para o posto, alegando descumprimento de obrigações contratuais.

[Brasil]
Miss Brasil Gay desabafa para o Mix
Vencedora no Melhor Traje Típico, Melhor Traje de Gala, Voto Popular e coroada Miss Brasil Gay 2009, a candidata representante do Espírito Santo, Ava Simões, conversou com o Mix e revelou como foi sua preparação para o concurso. Claro que ela falou também sobre sua relação a Miss São Paulo, Taysa Shinayder, candidata que arrancou sua peruca no fim da noite. (Foto Sérgio Oliveira: Ava Simões)

[Brasil]

SP: Aprovado texto sobre atendimento médico a trans
O Conselho Regional de Medicina de São Paulo aprovou nesta semana uma resolução que normatiza o atendimento médico a travestis, transexuais e transgêneros. De acordo com o texto, o respeito ao ser humano e a integralidade da atenção serão as bases das ações adotadas por equipes de saúde quando atendendo pessoas trans.

[UK]
Transsexual's fight for a visa
A transsexual woman married to a Derby man could face 20 years in jail if she is forced to return to her home country after being turned down for a visa.
Fatine Young, 36, who was born a man, has lived with her husband, school caretaker Ian Young, in Spondon for six months.
Ian first met her in a coffee shop in Malaysia and did not realise she was transsexual.
But despite Fatine's revelation and her refusal to have sex-change surgery, Ian says he is still in love and "can't contemplate his life without her''.

[UK]
Transvestite students allowed to cross line
Cross-dressing students at The University of Sheffield are to be allowed to join the women's committee - after the union passed a motion to treat 'self-defining women' as females.
The decision means membership of the women's committee will be open to all students who consider themselves to be female - even if they are transvestite males.

[France]
changements de sexe en retransmission mondiale
Deux transsexuels ont été opérés hier à Nice. Les interventions ont été retransmises dans le monde entier et suivies par plus de 700 médecins.

[Itália]
Trans brasileira envolvida em escândalo é encontrada morta em Roma
A transexual brasileira conhecida como Brenda foi encontrada morta em seu apartamento em Roma na última sexta, 20. Brenda era o pivô de um escândalo que derrubou o governador da região de Lázio, Piero Marrazzo. O político entregou o cargo depois de ser filmado por policiais fazendo sexo com transexuais brasileiros e consumindo cocaína.

[Turkey]
Soul-Searching in Turkey After a Gay Man Is Killed
For Ahmet Yildiz, a stocky and affable 26-year-old, the choice to live openly as a gay man proved deadly. Prosecutors say his own father hunted him down, traveling more than 600 miles from his hometown to shoot his son in an old neighborhood of Istanbul.

[South Africa]
Has media glare caused Semenya to run away?
South African Caster Semenya blazed across the world's headlines earlier this year when she won the world 800 metres championship in Berlin, but later was revealed to have exceptionally high levels of testosterone caused not by performance-enhancing drugs, but by a genetic abnormality that meant she was - to put it crudely - in some parts a man.

[Pakistan]
Eunuchs Being Treated Worse Than Animals in Pakistan
Eunuchs in Pakistan have claimed that they are treated worse than animals in the country, highlighting that there is a Government department for wildlife and animals, but no department yet exists for eunuchs.

[Thailand]
Alleged ladyboy killer nabbed in Phuket Town
The suspected killer of a ladyboy found dead in Wichit on Saturday morning was caught early Wednesday morning at a short-time hotel near Saphan Hin.
A Phuket City Police press release identified the suspect as 22-year-old Phichai ‘Muk’ Lakkor.

[Canada]
Is your child a) male b) female or c) transgendered?
The Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board is drawing heat for sending parents an H1N1 vaccine consent form that includes an option to indicate if their children identify as "other, unknown or transgender."

[CA, USA]
Veteran Times sportswriter Mike Penner dead
Mike Penner, the veteran Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made international headlines in 2007 when he announced he was transsexual and began working under the byline "Christine Daniels," has died. (Photo)
Veteran Trans Sportswriter Dies
Pioneering Trans Sportswriter for Los Angeles Times Has Died

[CA, USA]
Plaque dedicated at transgender memorial
A plaque honoring victims who were murdered for being transgender was unveiled Nov. 20 at the Matthew Shepard Triangle in conjunction with the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

[NY, USA]
Woodside men indicted in transgender attack: DA
Two Woodside men have been indicted on hate crime charges for allegedly assaulting a transgender woman in Jackson Heights this spring, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. (...)
At 4:20 a.m. June 19, Leslie Mora, 31, a transgender woman, was walking near 72-11 Roosevelt Ave. when Tapia and Ortiz, who perceived Mora to be gay, allegedly hit her on the head with a metal belt buckle, the DA said.
(Photo: Leslie Mora, the victim.)

[Colombia]
"They love us at night, they hate us the rest of the time": the story of Colombian transgender Pamela
Her name is Pamela. She is one of the dozens of transgenders selling their bodies in what the locals call "Calle del Pecado" (The street of the sin") near the historical centre of Cali, Colombia's third largest city.
(Photo: 'Pamela' is a transgender and sex worker in the centre of Cali. Pamela is also an activist helping other transgenders, very much involved in HIV prevention. She also distributes free condoms to other sex workers.)

[Argentina]
Tiene un hijo adoptivo Una transexual es "la mujer del año" en Argentina
El Congreso argentino premió a la transexual Marcela Romero luego de librar una batalla judicial para conseguir un documento de identidad con nombre femenino. La ganadora es una reconocida activista de los derechos del colectivo LGBT.