[Brasil]
AS BUSCAS QUE DERAM CERTO: PARABÉNS lEO BEBEL
Essa semana o Estamos Ligados vem parabenizar a mulher trans, Leo Bebel, pelo seu exemplo de dignidade e doação ao próximo. Leo Bebel mora na Itália, e a mais ou menos 15 dias, encontrou pelas ruas de Milão, uma outra travesti. Suja e mau trapilha, a travesti que se chama Izabelly, estava morando á mais ou menos 6 anos pelas ruas da cidade européia.

[España]
Cifuentes deja fuera a los colectivos trans en la elaboración de la Ley Integral de Transexualidad de Madrid
Las asociaciones trans de Madrid denuncian que el Partido Popular ha elaborado un anteproyecto de ley paralelo al que este colectivo ha estado trabajando conjuntamente con el resto de fuerzas políticas y los colectivos de personas transexuales, sin que haya contado con su opinión y respaldo.
En su presentación, Cifuentes ha vetado a dos colectivos de padres y madres de niñas y niños transexuales de reconocida trayectoria.

[UK]
Transgender beauty pageant under fire for offering gender surgery as a ‘prize’
A transgender beauty pageant hosted by Kellie Maloney is under fire, after offering the winner all-expenses-paid gender reassignment surgery in India.
Surgeons slam trans beauty pageant for giving gender surgery as top prize

[UK]
Brighton student named first ever Miss Transgender Brighton
A university student has been crowned the first ever Miss Transgender Brighton.

[India]
UP cops harassing us for helping US transgender, allege LGBT activists
On Tuesday, the high court had granted police protection to Shivy, who was born female but identifies as a male.

[India]
'Transgender' NRI girl says parents wronged her; cops mull action
Four days after TOI first reported about an NRI father filing an FIR with Agra police about his 19-year-old missing "lesbian" daughter who he alleged had been kidnapped, Agra police said they might take action against the parents who misled them about her kidnapping. On Tuesday, the Delhi high court had granted police protection to the girl who claimed she was a "transgender" studying neurobiology at a prestigious college in California, when she was forcibly sent to India by her parents to study in Radha Soami's Dayalbagh College so that she could be "reformed". When TOI spoke with the girl on Wednesday, she said, "I identify myself as a male. When I revealed this to my parents in California, they tortured me and said I had to dress up and behave like a woman." She said she was happy with the Delhi HC order and would never go back to her parents.

[India]
State comes together to express solidarity with transgenders
The fundamental right of an individual is being violated through Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, said CPM leader M A Baby. He was speaking at the convention to express solidarity with transgenders, held here on Wednesday. He attended the meet with wife Betty, newly-married son Ashok Nelson and daughter-in-law Sanidha Antony.

[China]
Transsexual shines in China pageant
Transsexuals are recognized in China and Liu Ting, 28, is more than ample living proof of this not-too-frequent, but refreshing tolerance.

[New Zealand]
Ministry of Health Release Information About GRS Funding
The Ministry of Health this morning responded to an Official Information Act request made in August by A.D Tait requesting “any correspondence, briefings, summaries or presentations related to changing the current level of funding for Sexual Reassignment Surgery (SRS)” as well as “any assessments, briefings or correspondence between the Ministry of Health, DHBs and overseas providers of Male-to-Female SRS, in regards to sending patients overseas for treatment,” as discussed in the Ministry’s response to another OIA request in April.

[Canada]
No province-wide transgender policy for schools says Alberta government
The Alberta government won't pursue a province-wide transgender policy for schools, says Education Minister David Eggen.
Education minister meets with Edmonton Catholic trustees over transgender policy
Catholic board looks to public system for transgender policy
Alberta education minister responds to Catholic transgender debate

[Canada]
Why transgender people can't get surgery approval in Thunder Bay
Access to sex reassignment surgery a 'huge problem' in Ontario

[CA, USA]
Report released on suspect in trans woman's killing
What's likely one of the final notes in a San Francisco transgender woman's February killing came last week as the medical examiner's office released its report on the suicide of the suspect in the case.
Taja Gabrielle de Jesus, 36, died February 1 after being stabbed at her Bayview district home.

[IN, USA]
Transgender activist shares personal struggle with gender identity
Saint Mary’s department of gender and women’s studies and the psychology department hosted Meghan Buell, a transgender woman who shared her experiences at Dalloway’s Clubhouse on Wednesday.

[MD, USA]
Judges Rules Against Jail Whose Staff Systematically Sexually Harassed Trans Inmate
Sandy Brown, who is transgender, spent 66 days in administrative segregation (solitary confinement), during which time she was repeatedly harassed by the staff at the Patuxent Institution, a mental health assessment correctional facility in Jessup, Maryland. She filed a complaint, and an administrative law judge has found that her rights were violated under the protections of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA).
Judge: Maryland Prison Mistreated Transgender Inmate

[MI, USA]
WMU Begins New Academic Year With Preferred Name Policy
Just in time for the 2015 academic year, Western Michigan University has adopted a preferred name policy that allows students to be identified by a chosen name rather than their legal name in a wide range of campus settings and activities.

[MO, USA]
First ever transgender lingerie line to open in Kansas City
A Kansas City entrepreneur is opening the first-of-its-kind lingerie line which is specifically for transgender customers.

[NM, USA]
NMAA to discuss transgender high school athletes
Sports association seeks feedback from other schools, organizations

[NY, USA]
Trans activists to rally at Stonewall on the eve movie’s release #NotYourProp
The real Stonewall Riots weren’t Roland Emmerich’s and Jon Robin Biatz’s whitewashed and classist fiction, it was a rebellion against transphobia, homophobia and police brutality.

[OR, USA]
Oregon Court of Appeals upholds civil rights decision, $400,000 judgment against Portland bar that banned transgender customers
In a ruling based on a landmark civil rights law, the Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a $400,000 damages award against a North Portland bar that turned away a group of transgender patrons.
North Portland bar owner loses appeal of $400,000 judgment for banning transgender customers
Banned transgender customers to get $400,000 from Portland bar
Oregon court upholds civil rights of transgender bar customers

[PA, USA]
Pa. Improving Policies for Housing Trans Prisoners
Transgender inmates in Pennsylvania will no longer be sent to solitary confinement based upon gender identity alone, and will be allowed to shower privately.

[SC, USA]
For S.C. transgender students, school bathroom issue more than inconvenience
For transgender students in South Carolina, the school bathrooms are a major issue, creating anxiety, even serious illness for some.

[TN, USA]
Vanderbilt works to better include trans community
Amid controversy about gender neutral pronouns at the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt makes strides to accommodate transgender students