[Portugal]
Projectos de alteração de nome e género discutidos dia 29
De acordo com a agência Lusa, será no dia 29 deste mês que se irão discutir e votar as propostas do governo e do Bloco de Esquerda que visam a alteração de nome e género para as pessoas transexuais.
Foi em conferência de líderes parlamentares que a decisão foi ontem (21) tomada.
Mudança de sexo discutida no Parlamento no dia 29

[Turkey] [Commentary]
Turkey: another woman murdered in her own home
Hürriyet reports on the murder of another woman, known as Irem, yesterday (20 September) at her home in Bursa, Altiparmak.

[China]
Man pays 230k yuan for magic sex change
Hoping that he could turn into a woman and go abroad, a 55-year-old man was cheated out of 230,000 yuan ($34,201).
Two women who allegedly sold him magic transsexual capsules were arrested and will be prosecuted said Haidian prosecutors Monday.

[USA]
Candis Cayne as Diana Ross
Candis Cayne channels her inner Diana Ross in a new photo shoot for Mike Ruiz.
Cayne, who became the first trans actress to appear in a leading role, in the series Dirty Sexy Money, slips into a beaded gown and black wig for the shoot. (Photo)

[ME, USA]
Panel: Maine school discriminated against student
The Maine Human Rights Commission has ruled that a middle school discriminated against a sixth grader by not letting the male-to-female transgender student use the girls' bathroom.
Human Rights Commission Will Wait On Transgender Guidelines
Panel rules against Orono school in transgender bathroom access

[PA, USA]
Where does Montco put trans-gender inmates?
Transgender inmates at Montgomery County Prison are afforded protection and kept out of the general prison population for their own safety, according to a prison official. But even if a biological man identifies as a woman, she is still housed with male inmates.

[Costa Rica - Central America]
Gays y lesbianas de Centroamérica denuncian discriminación y agresiones
Activistas por los derechos de los homosexuales, lesbianas y transexuales denunciaron este lunes discriminación y agresiones en países de Centroamérica y abogaron por conseguir un acceso igualitario a la salud y a otros servicios.

[Honduras]
Honduran policeman sentenced for stabbing trans woman
Honduran police officer Amado Rodríguez Borjas will spend 10 - 13 years in prison after being convicted Sept. 9 in a stabbing attack on a transgender woman in Tegucigalpa.

[Perú]
Estrangularon a un gay en su cuarto
Amarrado de pies y manos junto a su cama fue hallado el cadáver del director de una Organización No Gubernamental (ONG), quien presuntamente fue estrangulado por el sujeto con el que, durante la noche, había tomado media botella de ron, en San Martín de Porres.

[Perú]
Susana Villarán dialogó con gays, lesbianas y trans de Lima
Susana Villarán se reunio hoy a la 1:30 PM , con gays, lesbianas, bisexuales y trans limeños (LGBT).
En la reunión , realizada en el local central de Fuerza Social en Jesus María, la candidata a la Alcaldía de Lima Metropolitana leyó los manifiestos de apoyo a su candidatura que le hicieron llegar las organizaciones LGB tras lo cual expresó su firme compromiso de trabajar desde la Alcaldía por una ciudad donde lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y trans no seamos discriminados.