[International]
Preliminary TVTP Transgender Violence Report for Transgender Awareness 2014
As we enter Transgender Awareness 2014 and the International Transgender Day of Remembrance the Transgender Violence Tracking Portal has been working hard to collect and investigate the data of violence transgender individuals suffer across the world and report out what we are finding. This report details out preliminary findings as to the incident reports that we have received so far this year.

[UK]
Family accused of forcing daughter out of company for being transgender
A Lancashire transgender woman is suing her parents and brother claiming she was forced out of the family business due to her gender identity.
Transgender woman in £300,000 legal battle with parents and brother over claims she was forced out of family business after undergoing sex change

[Russia]
Russia lawmaker moves to close gay marriage loophole
Transgender woman married her girlfriend last week
Russia: Anti-gay lawmaker preparing bill to close same-sex marriage ‘loophole’

[South Africa]
The long walk to a transgender catwalk career
Overseas, models like Lea T and Andreja Pejic are much in demand, but SA still seems too wary of transgendered SA women, writes Sandiso Ngubane.

[Thailand]
Thailand launches world's first transgender modeling agency
Bangkok-based agency has 18 girls in its trans division

[Malaysia]
New Muslim legal group formed to counter landmark transgender judgment
The Malaysian Shariah Lawyers Association (PGSM) has set up a Lawyers for Islam group to assist the government following a landmark ruling by the Court of Appeal that quashed a Shariah law ban on cross-dressing.
Negri Sembilan MB urges halt of action against transgenders pending appeal

[Japan]
Osaka host club first in Japan to employ gals dressed as guys
When it comes to innovation in Japan’s sleaze industry, Tokyo is hard to top.

[Australia]
Transgender woman Robyn Thorne talks about the hardships of transitioning from male to female
Walking through the low gate and down the side of her rented Gundaroo property, Robyn Thorne pauses at the steps of her weatherboard cottage.

[USA]
New Federal Plans Take Modest Step On Trans Health
The National Center for Transgender Equality expresses our disappointment that virtually every Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) plan has failed to update their coverage to stop excluding medically necessary healthcare for transgender federal employees. Disregarding OPM’s June 2013 invitation to insurance companies to drop discriminatory trans health exclusions, the majority of FEHB plans that were announced have retained these outdated and wrong trans health exclusions.

[FL, USA]
Transgender discrimination ban prevails in Miami-Dade panel, despite opposition
Raw emotion and invocations of biblical damnation over a proposed ban on discrimination against transgender people dominated Wednesday what was perhaps the fiercest debate Miami-Dade County Hall has seen this year.
Transgender discrimination ban prevails in Miami-Dade panel, despite fervent opposition

[MI, USA]
Trans In Michigan? The ACLU Wants To Hear From You
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan is seeking support for its advocacy in changing State policy regarding gender markers on State IDs.

[OH, USA]
Phil Burress: Nondiscrimination Laws Let 'A Mentally Disturbed Person' 'Be Around Women And Girls'
Phil Burress, head Citizens for Community Values, the Ohio affiliate of the Family Research Council, told Religious Right activist Molly Smith this week that a proposal to expand Cleveland’s nondiscrimination ordinance to include protections for transgender people would allow “mentally disturbed” people to “be around women and girls in a women’s restroom.”

[Mexico]
Mexico City lawmakers approve trans rights bill
Mexico City lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill that would allow transgender people to legally change their gender without a court order.