[Brasil]
Travesti é encontrado morto na Zona Leste de Manaus
Valdir Conceição estava desaparecido desde sexta-feira (12). Há suspeitas de que tenha sido vítima de crime de latrocínio (roubo seguido de morte). Vizinhos relataram também que Valdir era querido no bairro e que raramente levava amigos para sua casa

[España]
IU reitera su compromiso con las personas transexuales en Andalucía en respuesta a un artículo de “El Mundo”
Polémica en torno al tratamiento informativo que el diario El Mundo dio a una moción que el grupo de Izquierda Unida en el Ayuntamiento de Málaga, junto a la Asociación de Transexuales de Andalucía (ATA), presentó precisamente a favor de las personas transexuales. El artículo de El Mundo reprochaba a este grupo que sin embargo “mirara para otro lado en San Telmo [sede de la Junta de Andalucía]“, donde IU es socio de Gobierno.

[Canada]
Transgender woman gets 12 years for stabbing friend to death
A transgendered woman who stabbed a male friend to death will have to spend 12 years in jail before she can apply for parole.

[Canada]
New birth certificate rules for transgender people in Ontario
Transgender people in Ontario can now amend their gender on their birth certificates without first having to undergo gender confirmation surgery.

[NY, USA]
Becoming Jacob
With a little help from friends—and a budding Internet fan base—a twenty-year-old woman from Queens becomes a man.

[PA, USA]
Local orgs to launch innovative trans project
Two local organizations are collaborating to bring a first-ever national transgender-focused HIV-prevention effort to Philadelphia.

[PA, USA]
Transwoman shot in NoLibs
A transgender woman remains in critical condition this week after a shooting that claimed her mother’s life.
The incident took place Sunday night in Northern Liberties.
The 41-year-old woman, whose name had not been released as of presstime, was shot in the face, and her 65-year-old mother, Stephanie Freeman, was shot in the chest.

[TX, USA]
Dallas hospital tells trans woman it added LGBT policy, but did it really?
Green Oaks Hospital is establishing an LGBT policy after a transgender woman sent hospital administration a complaint about her time there.
Green Oaks, a mental health and addiction services facility in Dallas, recently received a complaint from Shawna Brooks after her experience in the hospital. The complaint led to a new trans policy, but the hospital has refused to provide any documentation of this policy or comment on its creation.

[Centro America]
Exigir respeto para las mujeres transexuales en Centroamérica, objetivo de la campaña “Lo Soy”
Fundación Triángulo, en colaboración con el Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres y la organización lésbica Cattrachas, promueve el proyecto “Lo Soy” para reivindicar la imagen de las mujeres trans en Centroamérica y exigir respeto para las mismas. El certamen creado por dicho proyecto para dar a conocer su problemática ha tenido como ganador al cortometraje Noticias Grandes, de Ceci Fernández.