[Brasil]
Dançarina travesti da barraca de praia 'Axé Moi' é encontrada morta
Um rapaz que a travesti estava se relacionando há dois dias a esfaqueou e fugiu com o carro da vítima
A travesti Delmar Bittencourt, conhecida como 'Lady Butterfly', de 35 anos, que dançava na barraca de praia 'Axé Moi', em Porto Seguro, foi encontrada morta na madrugada desta segunda-feira (18). O crime aconteceu na rua do Coqueiral, no bairro de Taperapuã.

[Brasil]
Adolescente transexual do DF teme preconceito e sonha com mudança de sexo
Ele tem 16 anos de idade. Desde os cinco tinha consciência de que não estava satisfeito com seu gênero biológico. Aos nove, incomodado com a aparência, ele já se vestia com roupas masculinas. Na escola, Francisco afirma que seus amigos não sabem sobre o fato de ele ser transexual e que tem medo de que eles se afastem caso fiquem sabendo que ele é um menino em corpo de menina.

[UK]
Former UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire: ‘I was accepted as a lesbian in UKIP’
MEP Nikki Sinclaire says she was “accepted as a lesbian in UKIP” – despite having won a discrimination case against the party in 2010.
The MEP, who came out publicly as transgender yesterday, told The Sun: “I was accepted as a lesbian in UKIP. By contrast, some of the worst homophobia I’ve seen in politics has come from the Liberal Democrats.”

[France]
Support Transgenre Strasbourg COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE Transgender Day of Remembrance 2013
Support Transgenre Strasbourg appelle à un rassemblement à l'occasion de la 15e Journée
internationale de la Mémoire Transgenre (International Transgender Day of Remembrance,
TDoR), le samedi 23 novembre 2013 à 15 h place Kléber à Strasbourg.

[Tunisia]
Tunisia’s Mohammad Ali Is Transgender Against Muslim’s Societal Odds
Tunisian female footballer Fatima Maleh announced on national radio that she is now a man, legally registered in civil records as Mohammad Ali. One not-small step for this man; and a giant leap for Tunisia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Ground Zero for the Arab Spring, Tunisia may be trailblazing other human rights as well.

[Canada]
Transgender Day of Remembrance – November 20
November 20 is designated as the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), to remember those who have died due to transphobia – the hatred, or fear of transgendered people – and brings attention to the continuing violence against the transgendered community.

[USA]
National LGBT Health Education Center’s Webinar for Transgender Medical Care Providers
The National LGBT Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute will host the webinar, “Transgender Medical Care: Advanced Case Discussion,” on Dec. 10 from 3-4 p.m. ET.

[CA, USA]
Santa Clara sheriff’s office releases sketch in De Anza College sexual assault
The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office on Thursday, November 14 released a sketch of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a De Anza College student on campus.

[MI, USA]
Transgender support community speaks out after increased violence
Members of the transgendered community say, after losing another member to violence, they are ready for the violent acts against them to stop.

[MI, USA]
Transgender Woman Found Murdered in Detroit
The victim's body was found in a trash can behind a bar; her identity remains unknown.
A murder victim whose body was found in a trash can in Detroit November 8 has not been identified, but both LGBT advocates and police say the victim was a transgender woman.

[MN, USA]
International Transgender Day of Remembrance held in Winona
JamieAnn Meyers came out as a transgender woman before an entire lecture class she taught as a geoscience professor at Winona State University.

[NE, USA]
NSAA: There is no transgender policy
A communications mixup about whether or not the Nebraska School Activities Association established a policy for transgendered students to be allowed to play on the sports team they identify with drew the issue front and center in the state.

[NY, USA]
Group to Protest DA's Handling of Transgender Woman's Beating Death
An anti-discrimination group is planning to protest prosecutors' delays in bringing hate charges against a man who was accused in the fatal beating of a transgender woman in Harlem this past August.

[TX, USA]
Remembering the victims of trans violence
No one knows how many transgender people are assaulted and killed. Not all the violence is reported. Brazilian authorities, for example, reported 28 deaths last year, but no one is certain of the actual number. Since 1998, 238 transgender people have been reported killed worldwide.

[Mexico]
Muere una flor
Ha muerto Kenia Cruz Paz, reina mexicana de la Fiesta de las Intrépidas Buscadoras del Peligro. No sabemos cómo estaba, qué tenía, qué le pasó y qué no le pasó. La despedimos.