[Portugal]
Desenvolvimento do questionário de atitudes relativas à transexualidade: estudo exploratório na população portuguesa, uma perspectiva sistemica
Perante a constatação da inexistência de instrumentos para medir atitudes face à transexualidade traduzidos para a língua portuguesa, e a incapacidade dos existentes de dar pistas sobre os processos relacionais na interacção com pessoas transexuais, foi construído o Questionário de Atitudes Relativas à Transexualidade (QART), baseando o mapa conceptual da sua construção na junção e adaptação de três modelos conceptuais de natureza sistémica.

[Turkey]
Turkey's gay groups dismayed LGBT abuse not a hate crime
Gay rights groups in Turkey voiced dismay Friday that proposed legislation fails to make it a hate crime to target people because of their sexual orientation.
Turkey’s LGBT groups say government turns a blind eye to hate-driven murders

[Namibia]
NAMIBIA CELEBRATES PRIDE
What’s been billed as Namibia’s first LGBT Pride march took place without incident in Windhoek on Saturday morning.

[Uganda]
‘Kill the Gays’ bill back in the spotlight in Uganda
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill (also known as the “Kill the Gays” bill) is back in the spotlight this week as former Ethics and Integrity minister James Nsaba Buturo ups pressure on members of parliament to finally bring the law, which has been on the table since 2009, to a vote.

[Philippines]
Same-sex couple visa now available in Philippines
Transgender Americans can now petition for family-based visas on behalf of their Filipino spouses, fiancés and children as the United States Embassy in the Philippines has issued its first fiancé visa to a same-sex couple last Monday, December 2.

[NY, USA]
Man Gets Up to Life in Murder of Transgender Woman in Queens Apartment
A New York City man has been sentenced to prison for 29 years to life for murdering a transgender woman in her apartment after his lawyer disparaged the victim in court.
Hey, she was just a ho: Sick bid by killer’s lawyer
Man sentenced 25 years in transgender hate crime case
AVP denounces the anti-transgender statements of John Scarpa, defense attorney in Gonzalez-Andujar case; Calls for a public apology by Scarpa and a condemnation from the Queens District Attorney

[OH, USA]
Transgender community alarmed after two murders
Although there is no evidence connecting the two murders, the fact that both victims were transgender women is hard to ignore.

[Colombia]
Transgenerista denuncia que fue agredida y amenazada de muerte por un sujeto
Bleiner Correa, un joven de 20 años, quien se reconoce como mujer transgenerista, asegura que fue agredida y amenazada, junto a una compañera de oficio, por un sujeto en el sector de Chambacú, cerca de las 3 de la madrugada de este jueves.

[Argentina]
Balance positivo
Las beneficiarias del plan de capacitación laboral 2013 trans cerraron el año con certificado en mano