[Ireland]
‘Transphobia’ accusation after councillor’s surgery remarks
An accusation of "transphobia" has been levelled by Sinn Féin at a Labour councillor after he questioned the HSE’s funding of sex reassignment surgery.
Galway Labour county councillor Colm Keaveney has stated that the HSE should not pay for public patients to undergo sex-change operations abroad when cuts are being made to frontline services for children.

[France]
Lea T, Latest Brazilian Supermodel, Not Like Rest
Givenchy's Transgender Star Model Is Undergoing a Sex Change.

[Kenya]
Myths About Transgender People
On 30 July 2010, a transgender woman (who I shall refer to as Storm) was arrested in Thika District in Kenya's Central Province. She was arraigned in court for intent to commit crime and remanded thereafter in a female remand facility. It was discovered she didn't possess 'female genitalia' the day after. She was thoroughly whipped by a warden for 'causing the confusion'.
She was transferred to a police station and placed in isolation. While the senior officer was absent, one of the police officers transferred her to a male cell where she suffered sexual assault on top of being 'baptised' with a bucket full of urine. Her food was grabbed by some inmates. When she reported the matter to the senior officer, she was beaten up by the officer. Three weeks later a law court released her on a personal bond.

[Israel]
Rights groups: Doctors discriminating against sex-change patients in Israel
Members of Israel's transgender community are protesting what they see as discriminatory treatment by the Israeli medical system, including doctors' demands for a psychological evaluation before providing hormonal treatments for people who want to undergo sex changes.
A project promoting the right to high-quality health care for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered will be kicked off at today's gay pride parade in Jerusalem.

[India]
We have transgender among human beings. Are there transgender among animals?
In animals gender identity is a sense of identification with either the male or female sex, as manifested in appearance, behavior, and other aspects of a individual’s life. It is very strong in mammals since sex is determined genetically on the basis of sex chromosomes called allosomes (X and Y chromosomes). In man the gender identity emerges by the age of two or three and is influenced by a combination of biological and sociological factors reinforced at puberty. Once established, it is generally fixed for life.

[India]
KUD, UAS considers admission to transgenders
Taking a cue from Bangalore University which issued application forms to give admission to transgenders in `Others' category, now the Karnatak University and University of Agricultural Sciences of Dharwad, are also planning on giving special attention to transgenders while taking admission from next academic year.

[Indonesia]
Jakarta, wave of fatwas against transsexuals, temporary marriages, gossip and sperm bank
In Indonesia the MUI (Indonesian Ulemas Forum) has issued a new wave of fatwas. After the controversy over civet Coffee, the MUI yesterday declared "haram" (forbidden in the religious sense) sex changes, temporary marriages, gossip and the sperm bank. However, it remains halal, allowed, the breast milk bank.

[Canada]
Transgender N.S. woman to seek refugee status
Chester business owner says she'll be target of hate if returned to native Ireland.
A transgendered Nova Scotia woman who is originally from Ireland said she will claim refugee status if immigration officials try to send her home.
Tanya Bloomfield says being transgendered makes her a target for hate in Europe.
Bloomfield has been in Canada since 2006, but immigration officials are now asking her to leave. (Photo)

[USA]
Study recommends normal breast screening for transsexual women; sex expert disagrees
Breast screening habits for transsexual women shouldn’t differ from those of biological women, according to a recent European study. However, a human sexuality expert disagrees, saying screening for transsexual women should depend on when the patient started estrogen therapy and not age alone.

[CA, USA]
LA's Transgender Film Festival
The second annual TG Film Fest will be held at the Renberg Theater on August 28th 2010 with four ninety minute screenings. The TG Film Fest continues to showcase entertaining, poignant, and intriguing visions from the queerest part of the LGBT spectrum.

[CO, USA]
Sex-Change Capital Loses a Doctor
A doctor known for her expertise in helping transgender people is leaving the so-called sex-change capital of the world for the San Francisco Bay area.
Marci Bowers told KMGH News that she was planning on leaving her Trinidad, Colo., practice by October 1 to help more people and to unite with a first-year surgical resident in San Francisco with whom she is in a relationship. (Photo)

[TX, USA]
Firefighter's Ex-Wife Comments on Transgender Battle
Accompanied by her attorneys at a Thursday news conference, Heather Delgado left no doubt she has little regard for Nikki Araguz, the transgendered woman who married Delgado's former husband.
"She's all about publicity and it's been all about her from the beginning. And basically, she needs to understand it's not only about her," Delgado said.

[Argentina]
Político travesti se casará
El concejal de la ciudad argentina de Bella Vista Rody Humano será el primer político travesti en casarse en Argentina, el 3 de agosto.
Esto se da tras la entrada en vigencia de una reforma legal que permite el enlace entre personas del mismo sexo. (Photo)