Não compre, adopte!

[Brasil]
Travesti foi preso por tentativa de assalto em Madureira
A travesti Alessandro Martins, mais conhecida como Jéssica, 22 anos, foi presa acusada de cometer assaltos em Madureira, na Zona Norte do Rio.

[UK]
Facing life as a woman
Her birth certificate says she is a woman. Her passport states she is female.
And she has had the operation to ensure that physically she is no longer a man.
But Gina Philbin, who calls herself cross gender, says she still suffers physical and verbal abuse from people who refuse to accept who she is. (Photo)

[Poland]
Poland to create transsexual law?
Poland’s Ombudsman for human rights has appealed to the justice minister to change the legal situation of Polish transsexuals, so they do not have to seek permission from their parents in court in order to legally change their gender.

[Indonesia]
Indonesian Transvestite Jailed for Marrying Man
A transvestite arrested for forging documents to marry a man has been jailed for eight months after the court ruled that he had promised to “become a real man as nature intended.”

[Australia]
New Mardi Gras includes intersex
New Mardi Gras (NMG) members unanimously adopted two resolutions at the organisation’s annual general meeting (AGM) on Saturday that included explicit intersex inclusion in its charter and to adopt a plan that will protect its intellectual property.

[USA] [Commentary]
Transgender People Should be Barred from Restrooms
I was recently made aware of a disgusting revival of some of the same Raymondiod fallacies that has been used against trans people since the 1970s. This time the TS Separatist, Dana Lane Taylor has, in a stunning display sycophantic credulity, hopped onto the Raymondism bandwagon saying:

[CA, USA]
Transgender TSA Agent Who Was Forced to Pat Down Men Wins Settlement
Managers at Los Angeles International Airport commanded a woman, who was originally male before undergoing hormone therapy, to pat down male passengers and use the men's restroom.

[MA, USA] [Commentary]
Goodbye husband, hello wife
He had come to the realization he was a woman with clarity and joy. I reacted with confusion and despair.

[MD, USA]
Teen pleads guilty in ‘McDonald’s’ trans beating case
A 19-year-old woman who was charged with the April 18 beating of a transgender woman inside a McDonald’s restaurant in a Baltimore suburb pleaded guilty Thursday to one count each of first-degree assault and a hate crime.

[NM, USA]
Petition Seeks To Heat Up Cold Cases
An online campaign is under way to breathe life into three unsolved murders of transgender individuals.
From 2004 to 2009, three transgender individuals were beaten to death in Albuquerque. To this date, no arrests have been made.

[WI, USA]
Federal Court Favors Transgender Inmates
A federal court in Wisconsin Friday overturned a state law barring access to hormone therapy for transgender inmates.
Federal Court Upholds Transgender People’s Right to Access Medical Treatment in Prison
[Commentary] Incarcerated Trans Prisoners Entitled To Medical Care

[Barbados]
Gay beauty contestant drops dead in Barbados
"Miss Bahamas" was leading the Miss Galaxy World contest, a transgender beauty contest at a dinner theatre spot south of here.
But he never lived to find out he had won.
"Miss Bahamas" — real name Shawn 'Bubbles' Waterman, 27, — complained of feeling unwell backstage. Moments later, shortly after midnight Sunday he collapsed, according to media reports.

[Colombia]
Dos jóvenes muertos en Maicao
El récord que estaba llenando de orgullo a las autoridades maicaeras culminó abruptamente ayer, cuando en horas de la madrugada dos jóvenes miembros de la comunidad Lgbt fueron asesinados en el barrio Mareigua.
Masacran a dos estilistas en la puerta de su casa