[Europa]
Visão de que transexualidade não é doença avança na Europa
Uma das maiores bandeiras para o movimento transexual chega à Comissão Europeia. O representante de direitos humanos do órgão, Thomas Hammarberg, pediu que países da região e organismos médicos internacionais desconsiderem a disforia de gênero como doença. É apenas um início, mas transexuais já comemoram.

[Itália]
Transexual imigrante brasileira detida por não ter carta
Os Carabinieri do núcleo operacional da companhia Roma centro detiveram ontem à noite, na central via dei due macelli, um cidadão brasileiro, transexual de 28 anos por dirigir sem licença.
O incidente aconteceu à meia-noite de ontem, quando os militares, durante um serviço para controlar o tráfego rodoviário no âmbito da "movida" Capitoline, pararam o Peugeot conduzido pelo transexual.
O carro, pertencente a uma empresa de aliguer, tinha sido alugado por um amigo, também brasileiro, que não ia na viatura.
Depois de verificarem que nunca tinha obtido a licença, os Carabinieri acompanharam o condutor ao quartel onde o acusaram.
O carro foi devolvido ao seu amigo, legítimo titular.
CENTRO, GUIDAVA SENZA PATENTE CON AUTO NOLEGGIATA: DENUNCIATO TRANS

[Fiji]
Accept, support the transgender community, urges Adi Senikau
MISS RuPaul won the Yellow Tail Adi Senikau Pageant 2011 on Friday night.
The pageant, which showcases the transgender community talents, featured 11 contestants.
Miss RuPaul, 30, whose real name is Sheena Mainikiwai, said it was a great honour to win but all the contestants were winners in her eyes.

[Kuwait]
Cross-dressers held
The Hawalli Support Patrol Team apprehended two cross-dressers in Salmiya with the possession of cosmetics pills.
The officers were patrolling in Salmiya when they noticed the suspicious behavior of two ‘women’, so they approached them for routine inspection.
However, the officers discovered the two were actually men clad in women’s clothes. The cross-dressers were taken to a nearby police station for interrogation and other necessary legal action.

[Malaysia/South Korea]
S.Korean star declares love for all things Malaysian
TOUCHING down in Kuala Lumpur recently, South Korean entertainer Harisu declared her love for all things Malaysian.
"Malaysia is so good to me. Because I really hate winter and I don't like the cold. Apart from the weather being so nice, the food is delicious, especially nasi goreng and fried koay teow," the exuberant popstar enthused in an interview.

[CO, USA]
Family of Angie Zapata struggles to cope with a second attack
Three years after Angie Zapata was murdered in Greeley, her family is coping with a second attack. They believe this one was also motivated by hatred and rage sparked by the victim’s sexual orientation.

[DC, USA]
Off-duty D.C. cop arrested for shooting trans women
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray joined LGBT activists on Friday in expressing shock and outrage over news that an off-duty District police officer allegedly fired a pistol at three transgender women and two male friends while the group was sitting in a car on a city street.