[International]
WPATH announces new standards of care for transgender and gender nonconforming people
There were champagne toasts and rounds of applause as the World Professional Association for Transgender Health released on Sunday its newest Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People at a symposium at the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta.

[España]
Colectivo transexual catalán lamenta que acuerdo del PP y CIU comience a dar frutos envenenados
Desde la Asociación Catalana por los derechos de las personas transexuales, inmigrantes y sus familiares, TranZ&People, Marta Salvans, su Presidenta, lamenta profundamente que el acuerdo entre Alicia Sánchez Camacho presidenta del PP de Cataluña y el grupo de “Convergència i Unió” empiece a dar frutos envenenados a las personas transexuales y sus familiares.

[Nepal] [Commentary]
Recognizing the rights of third gender
Last week, Australia made significant progress toward recognizing transgender rights. The country now makes it easier for its citizens to apply for passports that reflect a third gender - neither male nor female. Importantly, the government will no longer require citizens to present proof of gender reassignment surgery in order to change the gender on their passport from the gender on their birth certificate. India has included a third gender category on its passport application since 2005, however the label “E” for eunuch has been controversial. Bangladesh just added a third category this year as well, using the term “other.”

[Pakistan]
Sex change procedure: Teen dies mysteriously 3 years after operation
A teenage girl who had a sex change operation nearly three years ago died on Saturday morning.
According to the family, B block resident Muhammad Saeed’s daughter Ruqqaiya had a sex change operation a few years ago and had been living as Faislur Rehman for the past three years.

[China]
Transexuais na TV? Não, obrigado!
Jin Xing, a famosa bailarina chinesa, uma das principais figuras da dança contemporânea, afirma que foi excluída como juíza de um concurso de talentos televisivo por se ter submetido a uma cirurgia de correcção de sexo.
Autoridades chinas expulsan a famosa transexual de televisión, Jin Xing, por "causar malas influencias"

[Australia]
Transman wins new birth certificate
Sydney transsexual man Conor Montgomery has won his fight to have his birth certificate changed from female to male after a battle with NSW Births Deaths and Marriages, who had initially refused to issue an amended certificate.
Montgomery, 51, a member of lobby group Sex And Gender Education (SAGE), applied to have the recording of ‘female’ on his birth certificate changed to ‘male’ in April last year but his application was refused on the grounds that he had not had any kind of genital surgery.

[USA] [Petition]
End discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity/expression
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans experience unnecessary and inhumane discrimination every day. Whether it's the risk of being deported because our marriages aren't recognized by the federal government, denied a job or fired from a job simply for who we are, bullied to death in schools, refused full parenting rights, or denied adequate and appropriate health care/coverage, LGBT Americans do not have access to the same civil rights as non-LGBT Americans.
Our country is better than this, and we ask the Obama Administration to take any and all steps necessary in order to make LGBT Americans fully equal in all matters governed by federal civil law in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
This petition is supported by GetEQUAL (www.getequal.org)

[GA, USA]
Niño transexual, es defendido por su padre también trans, en su derecho utilizar baños chicos en escuela
Niño transexual es defendido por su Padre, también transexual, en su derecho a usar el Baño de Chicos en Escuela de Georgia, EEUU. Reciben más de 40,000 Firmas de Apoyo
Un padre del Condado de McIntosh, Georgia, EEUU ha solicitado a la Junta Escolar que permita que su hijo transexual utilice el baño de chicos como le corresponde.

[KS, USA]
Q and A: City’s proposed gender identity ordinance
There are bound to be some questions at Lawrence City Hall next week.
City commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting will consider an ordinance that will make it illegal for employers, landlords, merchants and other business owners to discriminate against people who are transgendered.

[KY, USA]
Fairness ordinance supporters take to the streets
Members of the Eastern Kentucky University Alphabet Center stood Friday afternoon in front of The Paddywagon encouraging passersby to sign a petition and gain information about fairness.

[MN, USA]
Supporters rally for Chrishaun McDonald, demand “Free CeCe! Drop the charges!”
A young African American transgender woman was attacked by a group of white men outside of the Schooner Tavern on Lake Street in South Minneapolis, early on the morning of June 5, 2011. Chrishaun (CeCe) McDonald and her friends were on their way to the grocery store when they were attacked by patrons of the bar with transphobic and racist slurs, and one person bashed Ms. McDonald’s face with a glass beer mug. Although Ms. McDonald was the target of a hate crime, she was singled out and charged with second degree murder after one of the attackers was killed.

[NC, USA]
Hagan announces support for federal LGBT employment protections
North Carolina Democrat Kay Hagan will sign on as co-sponsor to Employment Non-Discrimination Act

[Ecuador]
Transexuales se capacitan de forma profesional para salir de las calles en Ecuador
Los cursos de belleza son abiertos al público, pues también asisten madres de familia
“La vida es muy difícil para nosotras por el rechazo de la gente, ya que eso nos empuja al trabajo sexual en las calles”, dijo Michelle, mujer transexual de 31 años que ha decidido dejar esa actividad para dedicarse a cuidados de belleza.