[Brasil]
Travesti é estrangulada com cordão da blusa no Paraná
Uma travesti foi estrangulada com o cordão da própria blusa em Praia Leste, Pontal do Paraná, na madrugada de terça-feira. A delegacia de Ipanema investiga o assassinado da trans, chamada Emanuelly Colaço Taborda, de 39 anos.

[Brasil]
Empresário alega legítima defesa em caso de travesti
Acusado de matar travesti em Curitiba alega legítima defesa contra assalto
Travesti baleada contesta versão de empresário

[UK]
Ann Widdecombe: I won't dance as a transvestite
Ann Widdecombe planned a Priscilla Queen of the Desert routine for Strictly Come Dancing but pulled out when she realised it was about drag queens, according to her dance partner Anton Du Beke.

[Kuwait]
‘She’ men in theft
Police have arrested four cross-dressers for stealing jewelry from a store in Salmiya, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.

[Canada]
Trans student protests school gender policies
Michelle Rayner’s first day of classes at Fredericton’s St Thomas University (STU) was meant to be a new beginning. Instead, she started her first year off, on Sep 13, with a punch in the face after entering a women’s washroom on campus. The alleged assailant thought she was a man.

[USA]
Kye Allums has little impact on GW's season-opening loss
History was made on Saturday afternoon at the University of Minnesota's Williams Arena, although hardly anyone took notice.
Transgender player scoreless for George Washington
Allums opens new doors

[USA]
Cruelty as Camp?: 'Ticked Off Trannies with Knives'
Somewhere around the late ‘90s, drag kitsch went from agreeable taboo to television mainstay. With noted female “illusionist” RuPaul ruling Logo with his various impersonator enterprises and the “tran” prefix moving from the once scandalous “vestite” to dating show obvious “sexual” in pop culture commonality, the time seems ripe for a queer-ccentric horror romp where gay humor and genre contrivances go head-to-head. The result? Something called Ticked off Trannies with Knives. While the title is relatively self-explanatory, the film itself is somewhat schizophrenic. On the one hand, it has enough glam girlfriend diva dishing to support such hilarious homo-witticism. On the other hand, the I Spit on Your Grave-like revenge-angle is very nasty indeed, turning everything campy into something quite cruel.

[USA] [Commentary]
Transgenders of Color - Why Many Aren't In The TG Movement
One of the questions that I get asked as a TG activist of color wherever I go is why has it been so difficult to get POC's involved and active in the TG movement. As a middle-class African-American who grew up in the 'hood this is my assessment of why many POC's prefer to not publicly identify as transgendered or get involved in the T-civil rights struggle.

[MT, USA]
Missoula Transgender Day of Recognition seeks acceptance, safety
Megan Quigley felt most lonely on the day she chopped off her hair for work.
Quigley, a transgender woman who worked in food service, had just started to live as a female and grow her hair long. Then, she got the edict to bring it up above the collar. In an emotional fit – “It wasn’t my best moment in life” – she hacked off six inches of locks, even more than needed.
Misconceptions, answers about transgendered people

[Argentina]
LGBT Argentines push for Gender Identify Law
Although many LGBT Argentines have been celebrating the passing of the Same-Sex Marriage and Adoption Law earlier this year, the transgendered members of this community know that there is still much work to be done towards full equality in Argentina.