[UK]
Transgender TV star takes on Queen
Britain’s Channel 4 offers transgender Karen Gayle as alternative to Queen’s Christmas speech

[Jamaica]
Jamaican opposition leader backs gay rights
The Jamaican opposition leader has come out in favour of LGBT rights and reviewing the anti-gay buggery law during an election debate.

[Canada]
Trans woman files human rights complaint
Northwest Territories’ Finance Minister Michael Miltenberger is facing a human rights complaint for allegedly telling a transsexual student at Aurora College that she should leave the school because she had “spooked the Governor General.”

[Canada]
Testosterone shortage
A manufacturing delay that has created a shortage of the injectable testosterone drug Delatestryl has left many trans men scrambling to find alternatives.

[USA]
Lance Bass Apologizes For Using Transgender Slur
Lance Bass has apologized for using a transgender slur on national television.
Lance Bass’ Continues Celebrity Trend Of Using Twitter To Apologize For Slurs
[Commentary] Rhymes With Ass

[USA] [Commentary]
No One Needs to Watch ‘Work It’ in Order to Have Standing to Judge it
Lee Standish is a quick-witted and likable family man. His best friend, Angel Ortiz, is a hotheaded ladies’ man with no filter. The two of them worked at Pontiac — Lee as a top salesman and Angel as head mechanic — until the company went out of business. Out of work for a year, their job prospects don’t look too bright. They’ve learned the hard way that the current recession is more of a “man-cession” and their skills aren’t in high demand. Then the almost-broke Lee finds out that Coreco Pharmaceuticals is looking to hire sales reps — female sales reps. He takes a chance and goes into the interview dressed in heels, a skirt and make-up. The transformed Lee gets hired — as a woman.

[FL, USA]
Next Hearing Date Set for Bad Butt Injections Suspect
A hearing date was set Friday for a woman accused of injecting people with Fix-a-Flat and cement as part of a black market buttock-enhancing business.
Hearing for accused butt-boosting doc Oneal Morris moved to January

[OR, USA]
Gladstone fires police Sgt. Lynn Benton, who is implicated in murder-for-hire plot of spouse
Excerpt: Benton and Higbee Benton married in 2010 in what became a tumultuous relationship, prosecutors said. Benton, born Lynne Irene Benton, already had undergone a female-to-male sex-change operation and had legally become Lynn Edward Benton.