[International]
State Dept. reports on LGBT life in nearly every nation
This year's U.S. State Department "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" looked at LGBT life in nearly every nation on the planet and did an excellent job of documenting anti-LGBT abuse across the globe, the Council for Global Equality said March 11.(...) Portugal - There were no reports of official or societal discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment, housing, access to citizenship, or access to education or health care. (...)

[España]
Asociación de transexuales pide que España instaure el genero neutro en la casilla de sexo
La presidenta de la Asociación de Identidad de Género de Andalucía, Kim Pérez, considera que es necesario instaurar un género sexual neutro en España, que "corresponde aproximadamente al 10 por ciento de la población", para aquellas personas que no se sienten "a gusto" como hombre o mujer.

[España]
Se realiza CRS por la Sanidad Vasca la Presidenta de Transexualidad Euskadi, Andrea Muñiz
Desde este Diario Digital Transexual, seguimos todos los procesos de huelgas de hambre de Andrea Muñiz en pro de que la Sanidad Vasca incluyera dentro de sus prestaciones el tratamiento completo de las personas transexuales, incluida la cirugía de reasignación sexual. Nos alegramos de que por fin se hayan cumplido sus sueños.
Soy Andrea Muñiz una de las personas que contribuyó para que se crease la Unidad de Género del Hospital de Cruces, y que en calidad de presidenta de TRANSEXUALIDAD-EUSKADI, trabajé desde el año 2004 hasta su aprobación en el Parlamento vasco en el año 2008.

[UK]
£60K F2M sex swap for Turkish migrant…
A turkish transsexual woman granted UK asylum is having at least £60,000-worth of NHS surgery to become a man called Dennis.
Turkish girl gets £60k sex swap on the NHS to become 'Dennis'

[UK]
Glamour model sister helped me make switch from rugby-playing man to woman
A sex swap patient who used to be a rugby player called David has told how her glamour model sister is helping her through the ordeal of becoming a woman.
Diane Neil, 46, said most of her 15 brothers and sisters "drifted away" as she came to terms with the fact she was a woman trapped in a man's body.
But stunning model Viki Neil was one of the few who stood by her.

[Turkey]
Discrimination will be banned, draft law says
A board to prevent discrimination is going to be founded according to a draft law that the Interior Ministry completed recently under the government’s move for democratization, the daily Milliyet reported Wednesday.

[South Africa]
Protection for transgender employees
All employees and applicants for employment are protected against unfair discrimination on several grounds, one of which is gender. A recent Labour Court case(1) shows how such protection applies to a transgender applicant for employment.

[Austrália]
Primeira pessoa do mundo sem género legal
A Austrália tornou-se o primeiro país do mundo a reconhecer uma pessoa sem género definido.
Sydneysider fights to retain ungendered status
Norrie backflip ‘a breach of rights’
Australian sexless loses official status
Oh man, now I'm a woman again...

[USA]
Estados Unidos informa en su Congreso sobre la situación de transexuales y homosexuales en Chile
El informe de cinco mil páginas que detalla ante el Congreso de Estados Unidos la situación de derechos humanos en 196 países, basó sus antecedentes sobre las minorías sexuales chilenas en estudios elaborados por el Movilh.

[USA] [Blog/Commentary]
CNN Documentary Depicts Sex Change as a 'Medical Necessity ... Done to Preserve Life'
CNN dished out a heavy dose of liberal bias last night with its two-hour long documentary "Her Name Was Steven." The documentary sympathetically followed the "gender reassignment" of former Largo, Fla., city manager Steven Stanton.

[USA]
Mystique of a Warhol superstar
A new film deconstructs a transsexual construct of '60s New York, writes Stephanie Bunbury.
(Photo: Supplied - Beautiful Darling: the Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar screens at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image on March 28 at 2.30pm.)

[WI, USA]
Hate crimes up from 2007 to 2008
Hate crimes in Wisconsin increased by 33.8 percent from 2007 to 2008, according to a report released Wednesday by the Office of Justice Assistance

[Cuba]
Sex Change Operations in Cuba
"Free, Legal Sex Change Operations Coming to Cuba" could have been a satirical news headline in U.S. papers during the Cold War years—and four decades later, it's still a pretty revolutionary concept. Last week, Cuba authorized gender reassignment surgery. And while it didn't make top headlines last week, it's been brewing for quite some time: the law was passed in 2008, and the country's first and only sex reassignment surgery dates back to 1988. Today, there are supposedly 28 people waiting in line for their state-funded sex change.

[Argentina]
Juez argentino cierra caso de la muerte de la transexual Pequeña P, en oposición a dos fiscales que no querían
El caso de Pequeña P vuelve a ser noticia, desde este Diario Digital transexual hemos informado desde el principio sobre todo su periplo. Parece que finalmente un juez lo cierra, aun en contra de la opinión de dos fiscales y la acusación. (Foto)