[Portugal]
Problemas nos cartórios para alteração de nome e género
Pedidos de alteração de nome e género estão a ser devolvidos ou sujeitos a diligências por a Ordem dos Médicos não enviar os nomes necessários para as Conservatórias.

[Brasil]
19º homossexual é encontrado morto na beira da lagoa
O travesti José Severino da Silva, 32 anos, morador das imediações da Lagoa Mundaú, sumiu na última quarta-feira. Uma irmã da vítima, que preferiu não se identificar, informou que estava preocupada com o sumiço de Severino. “Eu ligava várias vezes para ele e só dava desligado. E hoje recebemos essa notícia trágica”, informou. O presidente do Grupo Gay de Alagoas (GGAL), Nildo Correia, já contabilizou 18 homicídios contra homossexuais somente em 2011. Este seria o 19º caso.

[Brasil]
Homossexual é assassinado na zona rural de Campcim
Um crime cercado de mistério envolve um assassinato ocorrido na noite desta Terça-Feira, dia 29 de Novembro na localidade de Jacarandá, zona rural de Camocim. Populares infromaram à PM, por volta das 23 horas, que um rapaz conhecido por Sarita, teria sido esfaqueado e morto por três homens ainda desconhecidos.

[España]
Fiscal pide 21 años de cárcel para el acusado de asesinar de 31 puñaladas a mujer transexual en Burgos
La Fiscalía pide una condena de 21 años y medio de cárcel para el acusado de matar de 31 puñaladas y robar a una persona transexual, de nacionalidad colombiana, en el domicilio de la víctima, en Burgos en septiembre de 2009, mientras la acusación particular eleva la petición de pena a los 25 años. La vista oral se celebrará mañana en la Audiencia provincial de Burgos.

[España]
La FELGTB denuncia la vulneración de los Derechos Humanos de las y los transexuales
755 personas transexuales han sido asesinadas desde 2008, y en algunos países con intenciones genocidas

[España]
Transexualidad en España: Análisis de la realidad social y factores psicosociales asociados
Un equipo de investigadores de la Universidad de Málaga, coordinado por el profesor, Juan Manuel Domínguez, ha realizado a petición de la FELGTB (Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gays, Transexuales y Bisexuales) un estudio para dar a conocer la situación de las personas transexuales en nuestro país. De este modo, desde una perspectiva psicosocial se abordan aspectos como la inserción laboral, situaciones de victimización, apoyo social o satisfacción con la vida entre otras cuestiones.

[UK]
How a Bond girl inspired Welshman to start a new life - as Debbie
A NORTH Wales grandad has revealed transsexual Bond girl Caroline Cossey made him realise he was really a woman.
Tony Roberts, a 5ft 11in tall, 14-stone dad of two, said the famous transsexual shock story of the 1980s brought it home that he had been living a lie.
Tony was stunned when he read that the Bond girl had been born Kenneth Cossey and just thought “Wow! There are others like me out there.”
Yet it took Tony nearly 30 years, two marriages, two children and two grandchildren before he decided to reveal to the world that he was really Debbie in July this year.

[India]
Party names transgender as CM candidate, to field 50 eunuchs
There is nothing new in transgenders fighting elections these days but in a first, a political party has now decided to field 50 candidates from this marginalised and stigmatised community in the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.

[India]
Transgender quota in BU unlikely to be filled this year
As the excitement over the Bangalore University setting a quota for transgenders in its 52 post-graduate disciplines ebbs, the quota is likely to be unused, given the community's low rate of enrollment at the undergraduate level.

[India]
Eunuch's election as mayor annulled
For the second time in Madhya Pradesh, the political ambition of eunuchs received a massive jolt after a court on Friday annulled the election of a mayor on grounds of gender. Kamala Kinnar (57)-- a eunuch-- was elected mayor of Sagar town in November 2009. She won the mayoral election as an independent candidate with a margin of over 43,000 votes defeating her nearest BJP rival Suman Ahirwar.

[India]
Her trauma from ‘Ramesh to Rose’
Beautiful sandy beaches, hospitable people and the peaceful environment brought Rose to Sri Lanka,the destination which she selected to film her latest music album ‘Chocolate Roses’.

[Australia]
Tony Briffa Of Australia's City Of Hobsons Bay Becomes World's First Intersex Mayor
Tony Briffa has become the world's first openly intersex mayor.
Australia town believed to have elected world’s first intersex mayor

[USA]
Led by the child who simply knew
The twin boys were identical in every way but one. Wyatt was a girl to the core, and now lives as one, with the help of a brave, loving family and a path-breaking doctor’s care.
(Photo: Nicole Maines, 14, her twin brother, Jonas, and their parents have traveled a long, trying road.)

[AK, USA]
Legal protections for LGBT people headed for ballot in Anchorage in 2012
The sponsor group of an initiative to extend legal protections prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ people has collected 13,515 signatures from Anchorage registered voters in support of putting the measure on the city’s April 2012 ballot.

[FL, USA]
Pumping party customers are not ignorant, accused accomplice says
He knew what he was doing. Corey Eubanks admits that much.
When he climbed onto a massage table 12 years ago so the person he knew as "Duchess" could inject mineral oil into his buttocks, Eubanks knew he was not being treated by a real doctor.

[MD, USA]
Chrissy Polis arrested on disorderly conduct charge
A 23-year-old transgender woman who became the subject of international news in April when she was attacked and beaten in a hate crime at a McDonald’s restaurant outside Baltimore was arrested at her nearby apartment on Dec. 3 in an unrelated incident on a charge of disorderly conduct.

[MO, USA]
Columbia, Mo., becomes sixth Missouri community to outlaw gender discrimination
The city of Columbia has become the sixth Missouri community to outlaw discrimination based on gender identity.

[NJ, USA]
Woman Arrested After Injecting Man's Penis With Silicone At 'Pumping Party,' He Dies
Bigger isn't always better, especially for a New Jersey man who died after being injected with silicone during a botched penis enhancement procedure.

[Republica Dominicana]
Transexuales, Transgéneros y Travestis realizan debate sobre violencia de género hacia personas TRANS en la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo
Como parte de los dieciséis días en contra de la violencia de género, un panel sobre Violencia de Género enfocado en la población de Transexuales, Transgénero y Travestis en la República Dominicana se llevó a cabo el día Viernes 9 de Diciembre a las 5:00 de la Tarde, en el Paraninfo de Medicina de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo.

[Republica Dominicana]
El Segundo Ferstival Internacional de Cine GLBT Santo Domingo OutFest 2011 cierra excitosamente con el estreno mundial del documental "Everybody, toditos" de Henry Mercedes Vales
El pasado sábado 10 de diciembre cerro con gran éxito el Segundo Festival Internacional de Cine GLBT Santo Domingo OutFest 2011, en su segundo año consecutivo el festival superó las expectativas en cuanto a asistencia de público, el cierre del festival conto con el estreno mundial del documental dominicano “Everybody, toditos” del actor y director Henry Mercedes Vales, dicho documental muestra a Un hombre Gay de 46 años que va contando su historia desde 1982, a los 16 años, cuando por primera vez ingresa al ambiente gay dominicano y coincide con la aparición en el mundo del primer caso de VIH y su vinculación con la comunidad Gay y Trans en todo el mundo. Esta historia se va entremezclando con testimonios de otros miembros de la comunidad Gay y Trans de diferentes generaciones, así como también de otros actores claves del sector salud, educación y de organizaciones promotora de los DDHH.

[Guatemala]
Nuevo asesinato de una mujer transexual en Guatemala ante la indiferencia prensa del País
Una mujer transexual y/o transgénero de 29 años y cuyo nombre se desconoce se convirtió en la tercera víctima asesinada recientemente en el área azucarera de Escuintla, Guatemala, sin que la policía aporte mayores datos acerca de los crímenes y ante la indiferencia de la prensa guatemalteca que apenas las menciona y se refiere todo el tiempo a ellas en masculino llamándolas travestis.
TERCER TRAVESTI ASESINADO

[Chile]
Deirdre McCloskey: Sorprendente biografía en pro del libre mercado y el cambio de sexo
En su reciente visita a Chile, la economista de la U. de Illinois abordó tanto su crítica al enfoque que impera en el capitalismo como las lecciones a partir de su cambio de género, ámbitos que explican tanto su obra intelectual como su campaña antidiscriminación.