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[Brasil]
Documentário sobre transexual surpreende Festival de Gramado
Documentários sobre transexuais marcaram a noite da quarta-feira, 10 de agosto, no 39ª Festival de Cinema de Gramado. O brasileiro Olhe Para Mim De Novo, de Kiko Goifman, foi a grande surpresa da noite, podendo despontar como favorito no festival. Na mostra internacional foi exibido o uruguaio El Casamento.

[Brasil]
Cliente é morto durante programa sexual e namorado de travesti é suspeito
Um homem foi morto à pauladas e golpes de faca quando fazia programa com um travesti. O crime ocorreu no Centro de Anastácio, no Mato Grosso do Sul.

[UK]
Warrington Golden Gates housing bosses raise awareness of transgender
Golden Gates Housing Trust staff enjoyed a ‘Trans Learning Lunch’ to raise awareness of issues surrounding transgender.

[Philippines/Switzerland] [Film]
Cebuano film "Señorita" premieres in Locarno Switzerland filmfest
A transgender sex worker who gets entangled with local politics and leads a double life. Such is the premise of "Señorita," a feature film by Cebuano filmmaker-actor Vincent Sandoval.

[Fiji]
Transgender network seeks empowerment
The transgender community lives as the opposite sex to that assigned at birth, says reigning Adi Senikau winner Rani Ravudi.

[USA]
HRC Releases New State Toolkit for Hate Crimes Prevention Laws
HRC is releasing a new toolkit for states to support their efforts around hate crimes prevention. The guide provides state-specific data on current hate crime laws, highlights where laws could be stronger and offers feedback about improvements that could be made.

[USA]
2011 Has Been a Huge Year for Transgender Equality: Mara Keisling on OutQ’s Derek and Romaine Show
On July 25th, NCTE Executive Director Mara Keisling joined the Derek and Romaine Show to talk about victories and upcoming challenges in the transgender equality movement.

[USA] [Commentary]
44% of all LGBT Murders are Transwomen
That is right 44%
A report released in July by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAPV) shows transgender women make up 44 percent of all LGBTQ murder victims. The study also reported a troubling 13 percent rise in anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in 2010.
[Commentary] Hate Crimes Against Transgender Women Raise Questions

[USA] [Commentary]
Transgender, Inc. And Their Refusal To Address Real Concerns
Everyone knows the biggest thing that kills bills, when it comes to public accommodation protections for transsexual and transgender communities, are bathroom fears. This is real. Everyone knows it. So, why then, does the transgender community refuse to actually discuss it in a civilized manner? You think yelling and screaming at those people who are concerned about it is going to work? Attacking them in ways where you try to demonize them? Sure, keep doing that and see how well it works out. The transgender communities’ lack of actually discussing the fears, and trying to come up with something more palatable to the general public (especially women) isn’t helping one bit.

[CA, USA]
King Again Blamed in McInerney Trial
The increasingly bizarre murder trial of California youth Brandon McInerney continues, with the defense again pointing the finger of blame at 15-year-old victim Lawrence King — this time, by having McInerney's friend testify that King stared at him in the locker room.
Trial continues over gay school shooting
Oxnard school's handling of gay student's behavior comes under scrutiny

[DC, USA]
Police Praised for Investigation of Transgender Shooting
One D.C. organization said they have been somewhat pleased with the police investigation of two shooting incidents—one fatal—involving transgendered women in Northeast D.C. in July.

[DC, USA]
D.C.’s Mayor Commits to Trans Employment Improvements
After meeting with members of the LGBT community and local transgender activists last week to discuss employment issues, Washington, D.C. mayor Vincent Gray made a commitment to decrease employment barriers and improve conditions for trans workers.

[NY, USA]
NYC LGBT Community Plans Vigil Against Anti-Transgender Violence
GLAAD in partnership with the greater New York City lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community will host a vigil to raise visibility around the recent anti-transgender murders and attacks that have taken place in both New York and Washington, D.C. Just last week, Camila Guzman, a transgender Latina woman, was found murdered in her apartment in East Harlem.
Denuncian en NY muerte de chilena transgénero

[PR, USA]
Acusado de agredir a transexual Francheska se declara culpable
José Alberto Ortiz Castro hizo alegación de culpabilidad por agredir a la transexual Francheska González.

[WI, USA]
Inmate Right to Hormone Treatment, Surgery Upheld
A three-judge federal appeals court panel has unanimously ruled that a Wisconsin law banning hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery for transsexual prison inmates is unconstitutional.

[Cuba]
Cuba frente al primer matrimonio de un gay y una transexual
Wendy Iriepa e Ignacio Estrada tienen todo listo para casarse: el permiso de las autoridades, el vestido de la novia, la madrina...
Aunque parecen una pareja típica cubana, tienen una particularidad: ella es una transexual que se operó en 2007 y él es gay.

[Colombia]
Travestis y marihuaneros generan malestar en la comunidad caleña
Con preocupación, vecinos de los barrios aledaños al cementerio metropolitano del norte han visto como un grupo de travestis se han aposentado desde hace aproximadamente dos meses en las inmediaciones del campo santo, convirtiendo las zonas verdes en su nuevo sitio de trabajo.

[Venezuela]
Saúl se convierte en Michelle con cirugía de cambio de sexo
"Yo le dije que si llegaba a morir, al menos estaría muriendo por mi sueño. Toda la vida no iba a estar pensando en lo que pudo ser y no fue. Si triunfo, tendré la satisfacción de haberlo logrado todo"