[Brasil]
São Paulo terá programação de visibilidade trans
CRD de São Paulo sedia programação sobre visibilidade de pessoas trans

[Brasil]
Ariadna assume que é transexual e diz: "Sou uma mulher e ponto"
Os participantes do “Big Brother Brasil 11” se animaram na madrugada desta terça-feira (18). Os brothers e sisters falaram de tudo um pouco: votação, “Paredão”, e até teve casal que discutia a recente relação, a chamada “DR”.
Ariadna não poupou detalhes de sua vida fora do confinamento, e contou bastante coisa para Lucival e Daniel. Ela, inclusive, confirmou que é uma transexual.
Ariadna deve sair do BBB11 logo no primeiro paredão. Entenda os motivos
Ariadna é a primeira eliminada do BBB 11
Ariadna revela que quer posar nua no meio da rua

[Brasil]
USP passa a aceitar nome social de estudantes trans
Portaria da USP estabelece uso de nome social de estudantes transexuais e travestis

[UK]
Transsexual Mistress: Kelly Osbourne's Fiance Liked My Penis
A transsexual woman explains Kelly Osbourne's Twitter freak-out: Luke was in love with a woman with a penis. Rob Pattinson calls his own naked image "very pretty." Diddy hits the sauce. Monday gossip is full of surprises.

[França/Brasil]
Lea T, a top trans brasileira, aparece em capa de revista beijando Kate Moss
Transex made in Brazil, Lea T divide capa de revista com Kate Moss. E elas se beijam na boca.
Model misbehaviour: Kate Moss in passionate embrace with transsexual model Lea T for latest Love magazine cover
Kate Moss And Lea T Make Out On The Latest Cover Of Love
LOVE's Upcoming Spring 2011 Androgyny Issue Features Kate Moss and Transgender Model Lea T., Lips Locked (UPDATED)
Kate Moss, se besa con la modelo mujer transexual, Lea T, para la Portada de la revista Love Magazine

[Turkey]
Cashman: "Double Standards Lead to Double Misery"
LGBT rights advocator Cashman criticized that access to correct information on LGBT individuals was restricted. "This conveys the message of a second class life to young LGBT individuals", he argued. "The struggle for equality is a struggle for all of us".

[Moldova]
The defender of Moldovan transgenders’ rights was admitted to the ministry commission!
It seems like in our country human people start waking up. No matter how idiotic this word combination sounds, life shows that among people, especially those who have some power and influence, human and inhuman individuals appeared. The first want to improve life of some helpless, the second live according to the principle “I am a king, but you are a subordinate, which means I am clever, but you are stupid”.

[India]
Plan panel to hear out transgenders
For the first time in the history of the country’s planning process, the transgender community will be heard before the next five-year plan is firmed up.

[India] [Film]
The correct picture
Tamil cinema has long degraded transgenders, often depicting them as prostitutes and hecklers. “This should change. Such movies give the audience a wrong notion about us,” says Kalki Subramanian, a transgender rights activist.
(Photo: Indian transgender rights activist Kalki)

[New Zealand]
Call for gender option in census
A gender diversity group is calling on people to tick both boxes in the sex question in this year's census.
Spokesperson Maddy Drew says the '2 Ticks 4 Sex' campaign wants Statistics NZ, which runs the census, to add a gender option.
Census debate: Are you male or female?

[USA]
Lady Gaga recruta transexuais para o clipe de "Born This Way"
Lady Gaga prepara seu retorno ao mercado musical com o single "Born This Way" em fevereiro, e para o clipe da música a cantora recrutou transexuais, informa o blogueiro americano Perez Hilton.
Lady Gaga llenara de mujeres transexuales su próximo video tras un gran casting de las mismas

[USA]
Transgender's request a sign of the times
A Christian attorney and pro-family activist says the controversy surrounding a "transgender" student in Texas is a perfect example of what can be expected when the full weight of the new LGBT law is implemented in the military.

[USA] [Commentary]
ENDA Is Dead: Bury It and Move On
Attending the signing of the legislation that would enable the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" was incredibly joyful and exciting! As I watched the signing of the repeal I was ecstatic, but it was bittersweet as I thought about a friend, a decorated very senior NCO who, after two stints in Iraq, had only two weeks earlier been sent to Afghanistan, after she had secretly begun her gender transition. Think of the anxiety and fear!

[CA, USA]
Berkeley set to offer sex-change employee benefit
While other cities are slashing employee benefits, Berkeley is slated to add one more: paying for sex-change operations.
The City Council is poised to vote tonight to set aside $20,000 annually for city workers' gender-reassignment surgery. The procedure is not covered by the city's two health insurance providers, Kaiser and Health Net.

[Jamaica]
HOMO HOOKERS OUT & BAD - Brazen men take over New Kingston street
Animated and flamboyant gay men have taken over a street in New Kingston at nights, on the hunt for clients to sell sexual favours.
While prostitutes have long been associated with the area, this new generation of sex workers is by no means shy or ashamed of the profession. The cross-dressing men, who frequent a specific avenue, can be seen from as early as 9 p.m., drinking and smoking, exhibiting their acrobatic skills and leaving in posh vehicles.

[Honduras]
Transgender people killed in Honduras
Several transgender people have been killed in Honduras within the past month, with two of them being set on fire, according to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
UNAIDS condemns killings of transgender people in Honduras

[Brazil]
Brazilian gay group says 250 LGBT people killed in a year
A Brazilian gay group claims that 250 LGBT people were killed in hate crimes in 2010.
Grupo Gay da Bahia is part-way through compiling a report on the issue but says that the latest figures show that an LGBT person is being killed at a rate of one every day and a half.