[UK]
ITV Cymru Wales' Y Byd ar Bedwar win transgender coverage award
ITV Wales' current affairs programme made for S4C, Y Byd ar Bedwar have been presented with a Transgender Television Award for their coverage of the transgender community in Wales.

[Ireland]
Gender Recognition: The Debate So Far
Tomorow, Tuesday 3rd February, members of Seanad Eireann will advance to Committee Stage debate on the Gender Recognition Bill 2014.
At Committee Stage, Senators have an opportunity to offer amendments to the current Bill. They also have the opportunity to raise issues with the Bill in more detail.
It has been an interesting debate so far, as Senators from across the house have almost unanimously raised the same three problems:

[Poland]
Transgender privacy is no privacy – a few notes on a right-wing attack on Anna Grodzka
January 27th, my co-worker and the Vice-President of Trans-Fuzja Foundation, Lalka Podobińska, receives an email from Andrzej Potocki, a right-wing journalist working for a semi-political semi-tabloid paper “Wsieci”. The content of the message leaves us laughing for days and makes a terrible Tuesday at the office quite bearable.
(Photo: The cover of today’s issue of “W sieci”. The text reads “A transsexual in the Parliament, privately lives with a straight woman”)
Poland trans lawmaker to run for president
Two new presidential candidates in the running

[Turkey]
MEHTAP CANSIN, SUICIDE OR “I COULD NOT DO IT!”
Trans woman Mehtap [Eylül] Cansın committed suicide by jumping off the Bosphorus Bridge on January 5, 2015. Death has become so ordinary in this society that I have no doubt this suicide will be brushed aside like the other suicides. It will be completely forgotten since the person who is dead is not one of “us” due to her sexual preference. I do not know if I should either say “what a pity!” or “such a shame!” Mehtap Cansın was only 24 years old. She recorded a video right before she committed suicide. At her last moment and with her last breath she voiced her complaint, trying to explain her situation one last time and to reach out to others:
“THE DEATHS OF TRANS PEOPLE DRIVEN TO SUICIDE BY SOCIETY ARE HATE CRIMES”

[Turkey]
Turkish Bath owner, who did not let a trans woman in, receives a 3,000 TL fine for discrimination
The owner of a Turkish bath who did not let a trans woman enter the establishment was charged and fined for discrimination. Lawyer Eren Keskin stated that this is the first time a punishment was given under this article related to trans individuals and said “I think that this verdict will give confidence to trans individuals on this matter. If the Supreme Court approves this verdict, they may live life a bit easier.”

[Turkey]
Free Health Support for Trans Guesthouse from Beşiktaş Municipality
Taking the lead, the Beşiktaş Municipality [in Istanbul] has begun offering free health service support to the Trans Guesthouse. As part of the support, trans women lodging at the guesthouse underwent a medical check-up on 30 January.

[India]
Drafting transgenders for social defence
Voluntary service wings of the police such as the Tamil Nadu Police Traffic Wardens and the Home Guards are taking efforts to draft transgenders into the force.

[Vietnam]
Vietnam bans trans women from national football championships
Official says the ban will 'ensure fair competition'

[USA]
STUDY: Transgender Kids Are Not 'Confused' About Their Gender Identities
Stony Brook University researchers say we can do away with the social narrative depicting trans kids as 'pretending' or unclear about their gender identities.

[USA]
Transparent creator Jill Soloway apologizes for anti-trans Bruce Jenner joke
Keeping Up with the Kardashians star is reportedly transitioning to a woman
The creator of Golden Globe award-winnng TV series Transparent has apologized for an anti-trans joke about Bruce Jenner that drew fire from the transgender community.

[USA]
To The FDA, Everyone Transgender Is a Gay Man
There's a secret in the federal blood donation policy: it treats all transgender people — male or female — like they're gay or bisexual men.

[USA]
‘He Redeemed My Life': Man Who Lived as Woman for Years Now Shares Christ With Transgenders
A California man who obtained a sex change operation in the 1980’s to live as a woman and later reverted back to his biological gender is sharing his story of how God redeemed his life and gave him hope.

[CA, USA]
Candlelight Vigil Held For Transgender Woman, Boyfriend Arrested
A man reportedly has turned himself in to police for the murder of a 33-year-old transgender woman in Van Nuys.
LAPD has identified him as 25-year-old Ezekiel Dear and say he was the victim’s boyfriend.
Man Turns Himself Into Police After Van Nuys Fire, Fatal Stabbing Death of Transgender Woman
Person of interest in murder of transgender woman in Van Nuys turns himself in
L.A. Trans Woman Found Fatally Stabbed in Burning Apartment

[NY, USA]
AVP learns of an anti-transgender hate violence assault in the Bronx
AVP has learned of a brutal anti-transgender hate violence incident that occurred on that occurred on January 18th at the corner of Davidson Avenue and West 192nd Street in the University Heights neighborhood of the Bronx. According to a local media report, Jocelyn Diaz, a transgender woman, was approached by a man in a group asking her for a cigarette before attacking her with a bat and using derogatory slurs about her gender. Jocelyn Diaz’s arm was broken in the attack, which is currently being investigated as a hate crime.