[Europe]
Queer Spring: New LGBT Leaders Everywhere
Newly elected LGBT leaders step into positions of power in a shifting Europe.

[Brasil]
Vingança é a principal hipótese para a morte de travesti
Vingança é a principal hipótese pela polícia para o assassinato do travesti Josimar Ferreira Severino, 23 anos, conhecido como Safira. Ele foi morto a tiros na madrugada do último domingo, no cruzamento entre as ruas Borba Gato e Benjamim Constant, próximo à avenida Nações Unidas, região central de Bauru.
Militância pede investigação de morte de travesti em Bauru

[Brasil]
Travesti é morto a facadas
Um travesti foi morto na manhã de sexta-feira (23) à facadas no Jardim Paraíso, em Rio Preto. O crime aconteceu por volta das 6h, próximo a um motel. Raimundo Ferreira, conhecido como Natália, chegou a ser socorrido e encaminhado ao Hospital de Base, mas não resistiu aos ferimentos. Uma testemunha disse em depoimento à polícia que um motociclista desceu de uma Honda Twister prata e esfaqueou a vítima. A polícia não tem pistas do assassino e nem sabe a motivação do crime.

[España]
Reclaman registro casos trans ; y Doctora Esteva erre que erre con "la disforia de genero y el trastorno"
La Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición (SEEN) ha denunciado el "dispar" abordaje terapéutico que se ofrece en España a las personas que sufren disforia de género y tienen una contradicción entre su "sexo psicológico" y su "sexo biológico", como demuestra que "sólo" cuatro comunidades contemplen la realización de cirugía genitoplástica o de 'reasignación sexual'.

[España]
Euskadi ha aprobado a trámite Ley Integral Transexual con documentación provisional a Trans
Desde la asociación vasca para la defensa y la integración de las personas transexuales Errespetuz, queremos agradecer el apoyo recibido por Gobierno Vasco y que se refleja en la aprobación del PROYECTO DE LEY DE NO DISCRIMINACIÓN POR MOTIVOS DE IDENTIDAD DE GÉNERO Y DE RECONOCIMIENTO DE LOS DERECHOS DE LAS PERSONAS TRANSEXUALES, el cual se encuentra ahora en trámites parlamentarios.

[España]
La FELGTB, a la cabeza del poder alternativo según “El Mundo”
La Federación Estatal de Lesbianas, Gais, Transexuales y Bisexuales, FELGTB, está dentro del top 25 del poder alternativo que cada año elabora el diario El Mundo.

[España]
El 70 % de los transexuales no encuentra trabajo debido a los prejuicios
Los prejuicios son la causa de que cerca del 70 % de las personas transexuales no pueda acceder a un puesto de trabajo y, en el caso de los que sí pueden hacerlo, un 24,2 % asegura haber sufrido acoso laboral por parte de sus compañeros o jefes.

[UK]
Court told 'hired killers' raped terrified woman
A pair of Cambridge men terrified a woman by telling her they were hired killers and then forced her to have sex with them, a court heard yesterday.

[Sweden] [Commentary]
Swedish Government Should Stay out of its Citizens’ Underwear
Swedish citizens would not want their government to mess around in their underwear. You would assume all hell would break loose if the government would tell them: you won’t get a new passport or other identification document unless you have become irreversibly infertile.

[France]
Towards simplified regulations in France
Socialist MP Michèle Delaunay and the whole socialist parliamentary group submitted on December 22nd 2011 a bill that aims at simplifying legal gender recognition for transgender citizens.

[Pakistan]
Male or female? Transgenders will now have a choice
KARACHI - Following the orders of the Supreme Court, the Sindh Election Commission on Tuesday convened a meeting with representatives of the transgender community at the commission’s provincial head office in Karachi to ensure that the names of their community members are entered in the voters list ahead of the upcoming elections.

[China]
Busted prostitutes in Nanning turn out to be men
All 14 prostitutes caught by the police in South China's Nanning city in a recent raid turned out to be men, a police officer said on Tuesday.
"After investigation, we found some of the prostitutes underwent a sex-change operation, and some were homosexuals," said a deputy director of the Xingning branch of Nanning police bureau surnamed Huang, who declined to give his full name.

[Malaysia]
Malaysia fights to keep sexuality festival ban
Bid to repeal police ban on Seksualiti Merdeka sexuality rights event hits block from attorney-general

[New Zealand/Australia] [Commentary]
Libra advert doesn't get the girls
Explaining, they say, is losing - especially when it comes to humour. If you have to explain why something's funny, then whatever it is you're explaining, it isn't a joke.
[Commentary] Tampon Ad: Missing the Points
Retiran anuncio de tampones Nueva Zelanda por ridiculizar a las personas transexuales

[Australia/New Zealand]
Official Trust aims to protect Carmen's legacy
Close friends and family of the late Carmen Rupe are seeking feedback on their plans to create a trans-Tasman memorial trust, as concerns swirl in both nations about people with less sincere motives who may be trying to cash in on her name.

[USA]
‘Work It’ complaints bewilder ABC boss
ABC’s entertainment chief says he doesn’t understand complaints made by transgender people about the network’s new sitcom.
[Commentary] ABC’s Paul Lee Can’t Understand Why Transgender People Dislike ‘Work It’
[Commentary] Head of ABC ‘Doesn’t Get’ Why Work It Is History’s Worst Show
[Opinion] ABC’s “Work It” Says Transphobia is Puerto Rican

[FL, USA]
Former homecoming king, football captain runs for office as woman
Woman could become first transgender commissioner in Orange County

[MD, USA]
Balto. Co. to consider transgender anti-discrimination bill
A Baltimore County councilman plans to introduce a measure next week to prohibit discrimination against transgender people.

[MN, USA]
No Support for School District’s New LGBT Issues Policy
In a Minnesota school district, a proposed new policy on discussion of “controversial topics” such as homosexuality is apparently satisfying no one.

[NE, USA]
Bill would make discrimination rules a state issue
The state of Nebraska would have full authority to create a uniform employment discrimination policy under a measure introduced in the Legislature.

[America Latina]
Reacciones de la comunidad gay contra la visita oficial del Presidente iraní a Latinoamérica
Las reacciones de la comunidad LGBT ante la visita del Presidente de Irán Ahmadinejad no se han hecho esperar. Después que en 2007 dijera que “no hay homosexuales en Irán”, realiza estos días visitas oficiales a Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador y Venezuela.

[Ecuador]
Comunidad GLBT rechaza visita del presidente iraní Mahmud Ahmadineyad
La comunidad GLBT (Gays, Lesbianas, Bisexuales y Transgéneros) expresó su total rechazo a la visita a Ecuador del presidente de Irán, Mahmud Ahmadineyad, por considerarlo homofóbico.
La comunidad GLBT protesta en contra de la visita de Ahmadineyad al Ecuador
Grupo GLBT rechaza la visita del Presidente de Irán a Ecuador