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[TTurkey] [Commentary]
A critical moment for Turkey’s LGBT community
Amnesty International pushes for much-needed protections in new constitution — and you can help

[USA]
Transgenders to Adam Carolla: Come Hang With Us
Adam Carolla still has a shot at making friends with the transgender community -- because TMZ has learned, a prominent transexual dating website has offered to help the radio host redeem himself after his anti-LGBT rant.
[Commentary] Adam Carolla: His Penis Talks to Him!?

[USA]
New Health Guide Breaks Barriers for Transgender Men of Color
The Brown Boi Project, a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and allies committed to transforming privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving racial and gender justice, released a groundbreaking health guide created by and for transgender men of color and masculine-identified women of color. Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois serves as a “tool for empowerment, as transgender men and women on the masculine spectrum continue to face a health sector in which they are largely invisible.”

[USA]
'America's Next Top Model': Cycle 11's transgender Isis King gets her own promo -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
As you probably know, Isis King — the memorable, self-identified transgender contestant from cycle 11 of America’s Next Top Model — is a part of the cast coming back to be judged by Tyra Banks and Co. for the show’s All-Stars edition premiering Sept. 14 on The CW.
Transgender Top Model Contestant Isis King Promotes the ‘All Stars’ Season in Epic Fashion
America’s Next Top Model Transgender Video

[IA, USA]
Former Johnston student begins new life as man
Charlie Poulson remembers the moment vividly. He was Chloe Coulter then, and Chloe was a student at Johnston Middle School.
Chloe had told her mother that she was gay and one night blurted out the question that had been on her mind for quite some time: “Mom, is there an operation that can turn me into a boy?”
Poulson remembers feeling elated upon learning there was a way to change. (Photo)

[MA, USA]
Mass. judge apologizes for delays in ruling on murder convict’s demand for sex-change
A federal judge has apologized to a transgender inmate who has waited years for a ruling on whether she can get a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation.
Judge apologizes for delayed ruling on sex change
[Letters to the Editor] Prevent lunacy of state paying for sex change

[NE, USA]
Anti-bias ordinance to be revived
Omaha City Council member Ben Gray is making plans to revive a controversial proposal to ban discrimination against homosexual and transgender people in the city.

[PA, USA]
Lambda Legal Reaches Settlement with Philadelphia Youth Detention Facility That Tormented Transgender Girl
"The resolution of this case means that transgender youth in Philadelphia have one more safe space where they won't be abused and discriminated against but respected and kept safe."
[Commentary] Philly Abused This Trans Teen, Until She Got Even… And Then Some

[Cuba]
Trans wedding in Cuba highlights growing tolerance
In a development considered unthinkable just a few years ago, a transgender woman and a man identifying himself as gay were married in a public wedding in Havana on Aug. 13, with family members, friends and newly emerging gay activists attending the ceremony.

[Cameroon]
Cameron men arrested for ‘looking feminine’
The lawyer for two men facing trial in Cameroon for homosexuality offences says they were arrested for looking feminine.