[International]
WPATH issues important new statement: no one should have to undergo surgery as a condition of identity recognition.
The Board of Directors of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), in the interest of the health and well-being of transgender and transsexual people world-wide, issued today, 16 June 2010, the following identity recognition statement:
No person should have to undergo surgery or accept sterilization as a condition of identity recognition. If a sex marker is required on an identity document, that marker could recognize the person’s lived gender, regardless of reproductive capacity. The WPATH Board of Directors urges governments and other authoritative bodies to move to eliminate requirements for identity recognition that require surgical procedures.

[España]
"La derecha mediática intenta sacar tajada del veto a Israel en el Orgullo"
Antonio Poveda, el presidente de la Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales (FELGTB), que organiza junto a COGAM el desfile del Orgullo Gay de Madrid del próximo 3 de julio, aclara que el veto es exclusivo a la carroza patrocinada por el Ayuntamiento de Tel Aviv y no a los homosexuales de Israel. Poveda arremete además contra la 'derecha mediática', que 'insulta e intoxica' sin importarle los derechos de la comunidad LGTB.

[España]
La Casa de la Caridad acoge a la madre con su hija transexual para que puedan dormir juntas
La petición parecía sencilla: Una habitación doble en un albergue para que Adriana Turuelo -transexual de 24 años- y su madre, Mari Paz Argüera, pudieran dejar de dormir en al calle. Sin embargo, madre e hija han tardado tres meses en conseguir su objetivo. Adriana prefería pernoctar en la estación de autobuses antes que compartir habitación y aseo con otros hombres ya que en su DNI figura su nombre original (Juan Daniel) y en los albergues municipales separan a las personas por sexos. "No estoy dispuesta a que me vejen otra vez. No quiero dormir en un albergue de hombres", manifestó la joven a Levante-EMV.

[UK]
A transgender journey: 'I was looking for a trans counter-culture'
In the second instalment of her fortnightly column, Juliet Jacques describes how she came out as transgender, entered counselling, and searched for like-minded people.

[Francia]
Dificultades para una mujer transexual francesa para cambiar su situación registral… por tener los pechos pequeños
Continúa la odisea de Delphine Ravisé-Giard, una mujer transexual francesa, para conseguir la modificación de su situación registral y adecuarla a su identidad femenina. Tras la anterior negativa de la justicia, motivada por el hecho de que Delphine se negara a aportar un certificado que demostrara que se había sometido a cirugía de reasignación, ahora se le exigen… ¡unos pechos más grandes!

[Turquía]
El Orgullo LGTB de Estambul congrega a unos 300 activistas
Alrededor de 300 activistas marcharon este domingo por las calles de Estambul, la principal de las ciudades de Turquía, para conmemorar el Orgullo LGTB. Un Orgullo marcado este año por el recuerdo de las personas LGTB asesinadas en ese país. Especial mención merecen las ocho personas transexuales asesinadas desde el inicio de 2009, y que le fueron recordadas al primer ministro turco, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, en una carta dirigida por los colectivos LGTB el pasado febrero.

[Swaziland]
Don’t discriminate children with male and female organs
The National Children’s Coordination Unit (NCCU) has urged people not to discriminate against children who are hermaphrodites.
According to Macmillan English dictionary, hermaphrodite is a person, animal, or plant that has both male and female sex organs.
Speaking during this year’s Manzini Region Day of the African Child commemoration that was held at Kukhanyeni Inkhundla, NCCU’s Ncane Dlamini said parents were hiding their children who have two private parts.

[Uganda]
Gay Uganda is one of the most popular blogs advocating gay rights in Africa
African gay activists in Africa and in the diaspora are increasingly using the Internet to have their voices heard, while still trying to figure out how to advance homosexual rights on the continent.

[India]
Transgenderism in India: 'People just use us for sex'
In India, kothis are men who dress and live like women, who are not necessarily homosexual but often take partners who conform to a typically masculine gender role. Edged out by society they meet in the city's dangerous 'cruising areas', where they are targeted by criminals and police alike; in a culture that outlaws same-sex practices they are easy prey for blackmailers who threaten to expose them as homosexuals. Mintu says that he is fed up with seeing his friends come to harm.

[New Zeland]
Transgender group left with few options
An attempt to help young transgender sex workers find new jobs outside the sex industry has been hit by the axing of a Government job scheme.
Five young sex workers aged 18 to 24 were employed by the Mangere East Family Service Centre in November under Work and Income's Community Max scheme, which paid non-profit groups the full costs of employing young people for 30 hours a week for six months at the minimum wage.
(Photo/Steven McNicholl - Isles Posimani (left), Briannah Swift and Mama Tere, who has been taking food to the pair and the family who have taken them in since the work scheme finished.)

[USA]
Transgender Need Not Apply: A Report on Gender Identity Job Discrimination

[USA]
Warren Beatty's wants transgender surgery & What lifeform is Perez Hilton?
Warren Beatty and Annette Benning's Daughter wants to undergo transgender surgery like Chaz Bono who used to be Chastity Bono did. Their daughter Katherine is attending college as Stepen and Warren and Annette are devastated.

[USA]
How should agencies manage transgender offenders?
An interview with Jail Risk Management Consultant Donald L. Leach

[CA, USA]
Transgender woman leads race for judge
Victoria Kolakowski, who's running for Alameda Count Superior Court judge in a November runoff election, declares on her campaign Web site that she hopes to make history.
"If I am elected, I would be the first openly LGBT superior court judge elected in Alameda County, the first openly LGBT person elected countywide, and the first transgender trial court judge in the United States," it states. (Photo)
Transgender Judge Could Make History

[ME, USA]
Transgender Woman Sues Auburn Denny's
Transgender rights groups are following a case in Maine in which a transgender woman has been banned from using the woman's restroom at the Denny's in Auburn. Brianna Freeman of Lewiston is suing the owner of the Denny's franchise, Realty Resources Hospitality, in Androscoggin County Superior Court.

[NY, USA]
Vandals Deface LGBT Homeless Shelter For Youth
The attack came two days after a New York State Senate bill that would have outlawed discrimination against transgender and gender-bending people was defeated.

[Puerto Rico]
Repudia agresión contra joven transgénero
El activista de derechos humanos Pedro Julio Serrano reclamó el lunes nuevamente la acción de las autoridades gubernamentales para que tomen acción contra la homofobia y los delitos cometidos contra las mujeres y las personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transgéneros.

[Puerto Rico]
Mucho colorido en la octava Parada de afirmación gay del oeste 2010 en Boquerón
Las calles del poblado Boquerón en Cabo Rojo, nuevamente resultaron pequeñas, cuando la comunidad gay, lésbica, bisexual, transexual y transgénero, celebró en la tarde de hoy, domingo, la Octava Parada de Afirmación Gay del Oeste 2010.

[Mexico]
Tijuana`s 1st Annual GLBT Festival to Be Held June 19–20, 2010
From 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on June 19 and 20, 2010, three square blocks of downtown Tijuana will be transformed into a haven of queer culture and togetherness, as over 10,000 members of the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender) community are expected to take part in Tijuana`s first-ever Gay Pride Festival, which will feature not only art, food, and entertainment, but also social services, seminars, and various other educational opportunities. Festival admission is free for all attendees.

[Mexico]
Gays anuncian Marcha del Orgullo en Cancún
"Construyendo ciudadanía de libertades y justicia” será el lema de la Séptima Marcha del Orgullo y Dignidad de la Diversidad Sexual y de la Segunda Semana Cultural en Cancún, Quintana Roo, informó a esta agencia, Roberto Guzmán, uno de los organizadores del evento.

[Ecuador]
Diane, y su lucha porque la Ley de Ecuador la reconozca como la mujer que es
Diane Rodríguez es una joven transexual guayaquileña que se encuentra en pie de lucha para que las autoridades judiciales autoricen que en su cédula de identidad se marque como “femenino” en el espacio de género. (Foto)

[Colombia]
La comunidad Lgbt exige igualdad de condiciones en el campo laboral
“No nos dan trabajo”
La población Lgbt de Medellín, en especial los transgeneristas, aún consideran que en la ciudad se les discrimina en el campo educativo y laboral, asegurando que la falta de oportunidades en este último los obliga, en la mayoría de casos, a la prostitución.

[Peru]
sex work or school?
In the city of Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, attitudes towards gender roles and sexual orientation are comparatively relaxed. But despite the thriving gay and transvestite scene, members of the cross-dressing community, known as chivas, still face prejudice and violence. Sixteen-year-old Rober has been working as a transsexual prostitute since he was 12. Donning his girlish clothes and wig every night, he says that he's happier on the streets than at school, despite the risks to his safety