[Kuwait]
Transgender accuses officer of sexual assault
A policeman who was asked to take a transgender male to the Criminal Evidence Department for a blood sample on suspension of being drunk, fell into his antiques and committed an indecent act with the suspect, according to the latter.

[India]
Indian universities edit application forms to include trans students
The Universities Grants Commission in India has created a separate category to include trans students in applications for scholarships and fellowships

[Australia]
VICTORIA POLICE APOLOGISE FOR TASTY RAID
Acting Chief Commissioner, Lucinda Nolan, has apologised on behalf of the Victoria Police for the events that happened during the 'Tasty Raid' in 1994.

[Canada]
Iranian transgender refugee struggles for acceptance
Eight months ago transgender woman Tannaz Mehraban came to Canada to start a new life

[Canada]
Gender identity not a choice: University of Alberta professor
A Globe and Mail opinion piece is calling out the transgender movement.
Margaret Wente said in the piece “Almost everyone is biologically born either female or male, a fact that neither surgery nor self-declared identity can change”.
She also wrote “Transgenderism is a fad that has been spread by social media and embraced by individuals (and families) as the explanation for their confusion, loneliness and dysfunction”.

[AS, USA]
First trans football player: FIFA’s lack of trans guidelines is unfair
The first transgender football player to be recognised by FIFA has spoken out about the governing body’s lack of guidelines for trans people.

[DC, USA]
Transgender teenager stabbed on Metro train
A 15-year-old transgender girl was stabbed in the back by a male attacker on board a Green Line Metrorail train about 4:40 p.m. on Wednesday shortly before the train arrived at the Fort Totten Station in Northeast D.C., according to a statement released by Metro.
Reginald Anthony Klaiber charged with bias-motivated assault with deadly weapon in stabbing of transgender teen on Metro

[FL, USA]
Arrest made in transgendered woman's murder, burning
Police have made an arrest in the case of a transgender woman whose burned body was found behind a Fowler Street business in June.
Terry Lynn Brady, 45, of Panther Lane in Fort Myers, is charged with killing 31-year-old Eddie James Owens.
Arrest made in Fort Myers homicide of transgender woman
Fla. Police Arrest Man Suspected of Burning Trans Woman to Death

[IL, USA]
Wachowskis host TransLife Center benefit at film studio
The award-winning sibling filmmakers Lana and Andy Wachowski held a very unique benefit, TransReelization, for Chicago House's TransLife Center Aug. 2. The event took place in their North Side Chicago film studio, Kinowerks.

[MI, USA]
HRC Takes on MichFest
The Human Rights Campaign has weighed in on the trans-exclusionary 'womyn born womyn' intention of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and festival organizers may not like what the national group has to say.

[Colombia]
El drama de ser 'trans' en la cárcel de Villahermosa
La comunidad LGBT logró un pabellón como reivindicación de sus derechos. Hoy, se siente vulnerada.