[Brasil]
Travesti morto com facada no peito
LOBA / TRANS* – 18 ANOS / FACADAS / PE, IGARASSU (CRUZ DE REBOUÇAS)

[France]
Les transsexuels sont-ils emprisonnés dans la prison pour femmes ou pour hommes ?
Bonne réponse du riverain Zirghapok : c’est l’état civil qui détermine la prison (hommes ou femmes) dans laquelle sera détenue une personne transsexuelle. S’il est inscrit sur ses papiers qu’elle est un homme, elle sera incarcérée parmi les hommes – peu importe s’il a une poitrine de femme, des attitudes de femmes, et se sent femme. (Il peut même avoir un sexe de femme, les procédures de changement de l’état civil sont longues.)

{Turkey]
Transgender actor's family stands behind his decision
The mother of Rüzgar Erkoçlar, an actor who underwent gender reassignment surgery, has said the family supports Rüzgar in every decision he makes as do those who are close to the family. “Rüzgar did not do anything bad. We have always supported him. However, some of the news has damaged us a lot. Rüzgar never received death threats. But some people are making that up,” Erkoçlar’s mother Sema Erkoçlar told Hürriyet.
Turkish trans actor’s mother denies death threat rumours and says family supports him

[USA]
BREAKING: U.S. House approves anti-violence law with LGBT protections
House Republicans raised the white flag Thursday on extending domestic violence protections to gays, lesbians and transsexuals after months of resisting an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act.

[CA, USA]
Transgender student sues California Baptist University for expulsion
A transgender nursing student has filed a lawsuit against California Baptist University after being expelled from the school.
RIVERSIDE: Expelled transgender student sues Cal Baptist
Expelled for Being Transgender, Student Says

[CA, USA]
Unique challenges for transgender player
When the Mission College Lady Saints tip off their playoff game Friday night, 51-year-old Gabrielle Ludwig will mostly be worried about her injured ankle and how it might affect her team's winning streak.

[CO, USA]
Parents sue school district for not allowing 6-yr-old son to use girls restroom
A couple in Colorado has sued their local school district for not allowing their six-year-old boy to use the girls’ restroom at his elementary school, because he believes he is a girl.
Experts: Gender awareness comes at early age
School's transgender ruling: fairness or discrimination?

[DC, USA]
DC Trans Coalition Calls Task Force a ''Publicity Stunt''
With assessment yet to be completed, DCTC alleges group analyzing police response to hate crimes is biased

[MA, USA]
Hearing in sex change request of Massachusetts inmate Michelle Kosilek to be held by federal appeals court in Boston
A federal appeals court will hear arguments in April in an appeal of a judge’s ruling granting a taxpayer-funded sex change for a Massachusetts transgender inmate.
Fed court to weigh sex-change appeal

[MA, USA]
At 59, New Bedford woman still fights the bigotry
Amanda Medeiros, 59, poised and dressed to the nines, sipped lemon tea by the front window in Lydia's Bakery on The Avenue Thursday afternoon. If she was noticed, fine with her. But getting noticed isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Medeiros says she has been bullied, taunted and shunned, even by family members, since she arrived in this country from the Azores at the age of 15.

[NE, USA]
UHC lacks convenient, affordable healthcare for transgender students
For some transgender students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University Health Center lacks accommodating healthcare.

[NY, USA]
Transgender Woman Sexually Assaulted at Gunpoint in Midtown Hotel: Police
At least three men sexually assaulted a screaming transgender woman at gunpoint after a fight erupted over money in their Midtown hotel room early Thursday morning, police said.