[España]
El fiscal mantiene la condena para el acusado de rajar a un travesti
La declaración de un testigo clave para la acusación que señala a un joven portugués como responsable de la agresión con una botella rota a una bailarina transexual a las puertas de un pub de Vigo fue uno de los argumentos utilizados por el fiscal para mantener su petición de condena, cuatro años de prisión y 30.000 euros de indemnización, en la última sesión del juicio, retomado ayer en la Audiencia.
´Me defendí, sino estaría muerto´, alega el acusado de apuñalar a una transexual en Vigo

[Poland]
Interview with Babs Siperstein
Monika: Today it is my pleasure and honour to interview Babs Siperstein with whom I would like to discuss the role of transgender women in the US politics. Hello Babs!

[Ukraine]
Despite interruptions, Kyiv holds first ever gay pride
There were a handful of minor disturbances, with around a dozen arrests, but Kyiv’s LGBT community managed to hold its first ever gay pride parade in the city on Saturday, May 25.

[Russia]
30 arrests made at Moscow Pride
Around 30 activists from both pro and anti-LGBT factions were arrested at Moscow Pride today, reflecting growing antipathy to perceived “homosexual propaganda” across Russia.

[India]
Brides for a day
My gender identity is fabricated and instinctive, illusionary and real, pivotal and irrelevant to the person I am. However, my identity crisis should be a non-issue to the people I work with, the political career I build or the social causes I work on. A revolution of sorts to challenge the social and economic exclusion of the transgender community is long overdue,” says Sowmya, a transgender person who contested in the recent elections in Karnataka.

[Thailand]
LGBT Thai teens forced to become monks by parents to turn them straight
Homophobic Thai parents have been forcing their LGBT children to become monks but they are taking to social media to assert their identity

[Singapore]
Reborn as a woman
She often tells people that she has two birthdays.
The first is in July when she was born. And the second is in November.
"That's when I was reborn into the woman I am now," said Miss Amy Tashiana Ali , 47, with a chuckle as she tossed back her long locks.

[Canada]
Transgender woman refused service at bridal shop
A Canadian transgender woman said a bridal shop in Saskatoon refused to let her try on wedding dresses because she looked like a man.
Transgender shopper to file complaint over bridal shop's refusal of service

[Canada]
Transgender beauty nabs reality show
Jenna Talackova Trump-ed pageant mogul
Transgender model Jenna Talackova gets reality TV gig
Transgender model Jenna Talackova to star in reality TV series

[Canada]
Exclusive: N.S. mother grateful for community support in gender identity debate
“My daughter’s her own person,” Emilie Siler Smith said with a laugh, as her 7-year-old child, Lola, fidgeted beside her.
At the onset of self-awareness, Lola thinks she’s a boy.

[Canada]
Edmonton man jailed 15 years for beating ex with toilet lid, torching suite and dragging girlfriend behind a car
An Edmonton man who used a toilet tank lid to attack a transsexual before torching her suite and dragged his girlfriend from a car was sentenced to 15 years Thursday.

[Canada]
Ten years of trans Pride at Sherbourne Health Centre
The Sherbourne Health Centre is preparing to host the 10th annual Trans, Genderqueer, Intersex and Two-Spirit Pride Day.

[USA]
Choose Your Sex: Transgenderism at School
Transgenderism is being addressed in American schools from elementary to university level. What was once an anomaly is becoming normalized with the help of compliant courts, governmental entities, complicit politicians, and spearheading organizations.

[USA]
NCAVP Deeply Concerned About Three Unsolved Homicides of Black Transgender Women in the Month of April, 2013; Calls for Thorough Investigation in all Cases
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) is deeply concerned of three unsolved homicides of transgender women of color that occurred during the month of April in 2013, which continues a trend of murders of transgender and gender non-conforming women and people of color in the past few years.
Three Black Trans Women Murdered in April

[OH, USA]
Cleveland City Councilman Says Trans Woman's Murder 'Likely a Hate Crime'
Joe Cimperman believes Cemia Dove's murder was motivated by bias against the 20-year-old transgender woman.
Cleveland city council member demands the murder of Cemia Dove be treated as a hate crime
Rally for Murdered Transgender Woman Demands Awareness

[TX, USA]
GetEQUAL TX activists released on bail, promise more actions
Cd Kirven and four other GetEQUAL TX activists were released on $1,500 bail each on Wednesday. They were charged with class-B misdemeanors.

[Costa Rica/Central America]
La nicaraguense Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo en protesta
La comunidad homosexual de Centroamérica pedirá hoy a los presidentes de la región, que se reunirán con el mandatario estadounidense Barack Obama, el reconocimiento de sus derechos humanos y que se combata la violencia contra sus activistas.
Ellos se encuentran en la capital costarricense participando en la I Cumbre Centroamericana de Organizaciones LGBTI (lesbianas, gay, bisexual, transexual e intersexual).

[Colombia]
Corte Constitucional ordenó segunda cirugía de cambio de sexo a transexual
La Corte Constitucional ordenó a la EPS Aliansalud que en un máximo de 48 horas autorice una cirugía de cambio de sexo, así como que convoque a una Junta Médica para que valore los procedimientos de feminización de la voz, feminización facial, depilación láser, liposucción a una persona transexual.

[Colombia]
Antioquia tiene la cifra más alta de homicidios de homosexuales en el país: Colombia Diversa
La comunidad colombiana de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Transexuales (LGBT) denunció que entre 2010 y 2011 han sido asesinadas 280 personas de su colectivo, "la cifra más alta desde 2006".

[Argentina]
La emocionante historia de Karla, la transexual que a los 41 se dio otra chance para estudiar
Vive cerca de Villa Amelia y no se cansa de decir que es su lugar en el mundo, de adolescente fue excluida de la escuela por su condición de género. Ahora empezó el secundario en una escuela para adultos.

[Argentina]
Victoria Alejandra Ironici tendrá hoy su reasignación de sexo
Es la primera transexual de la provincia de Santa Fe que accede a la cirugía, una vaginoplastia, en el sistema de salud pública, en el hospital Gutiérrez de La Plata. Afronta una controversia con Iapos sobre la cobertura social.