[Brasil]
Travesti platinense atropelado e morto a pauladas
Kesley Luiz Dos Santos Arruda(fotos), de 26 anos,foi assassinado nesta madrugada de quarta-feira,dia nove,perto da OuroCar(concessionária Chevrolet),às margens da BR-153, em Santo Antônio da Platina. Após ser atropelado por um Fusca de cor amarela ou branca,recebeu golpes de madeira no rosto e tórax.
Jovem travesti é atropelado e morto a pauladas em rodovia de Santo Antônio da Platina
TRAVESTI É ATROPELADO E EM SEGUIDA MORTO PAULADAS EM SANTO ANTONIO
Travesti é atropelado e assassinado a pauladas
Travesti é atropelado e morto a pauladas em Santo Antonio da Platina

[Germany]
German Experts demand urgent Action for Trans Rights
An independent expert commission of the German Equality Body presented today its final report [1] on how to improve gender equality. The commission made substantive recommendations on the rights of trans and intersex persons alongside the issues of gender pay gap and sexual harassment.

[Turkey]
2 trans women in Tarlabasi and Findikzade districts of Istanbul were attacked last night (09.12.2015)
Berna, a trans woman, is stabbed in the street in Tarlabasi last night. The knife was targeted onto her chest which damaged her cardiac valve. Berna remains yet to be kept in intensive care although she overcome the risk of life.
Trans activist Selin Amac announced the attack on Aysu, a young trans woman in Findikzade, being kidnapped and raped around 3 am last night. The perpetrators kidnapped Aysu in a white van and raped her. She was left trembling and traumatized next to the highway in Bayrampasa district, 14 hours after being kidnapped.

[China]
Trans Nationals
Poor awareness of transgender issues has left this group struggling for support even as China opens up to other sexual minorities

[Hong Kong]
From Beavis to Beatrice: Hong Kong woman says sex-change surgery helped her overcome gender identity struggle
The 35-year-old’s operation from male to female ushered in new confidence

[Australia]
Transgender rights focus of SA forum
Transgender and intersex people continue to battle stigma despite recent strides in gay rights, South Australia's equal opportunity commissioner says.

[Canada]
NDP re-introduces transgender rights bill in the House of Commons
Third time lucky for transgender people in Canada?

[Canada]
Reassignment surgery not necessary to change gender markers on ID, ruling says
Provincial government said in July it would amend Vital Statistics Act to allow change in gender markers

[Canada]
Transgender woman from Corner Brook led human rights case
The true impact of being able to change the gender designation on her birth certificate goes well beyond simplifying identification for Savannah Burton.

[Canada]
This amazing mom updated her tattoo to reflect transgender teen's transition
'As our oldest child Ace is FTM transgender we need to update the tattoo to fully represent who he is in his happy new awesome life'

[USA]
Remembering Holly Woodlawn, Muse To Lou Reed's 'Wild Side'
Woodlawn, the transgender woman who inspired the first verse of Reed's 1973 hit "Walk on the Wild Side," died of cancer Sunday. She was 69. Originally broadcast in 1991.

[USA]
Rubio: No more transgender-obsessed Justice Department under my presidency
Florida U.S. senator and GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio pledged to reverse President Barack Obama's 2014 gender ideology executive order should he be elected president.

[USA]
Ted Cruz's boys showering with girls claim False, but transgender student rights are unsettled
We found False a Ted Cruz claim that the federal government has been trying to force schools to let boys shower with little girls.

[AZ, USA]
Tucson VA main campus to offer clinic for transgender veterans
The Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS) main Tucson campus will be opening a Transgender Clinic on Dec. 16, according to a news release.

[CA, USA]
Fresno doctor filling the medical void for the transgender community
A Fresno doctor is filling a void in medical care for the Valley's transgender community.

[CA, USA]
Former TLC board chair Lisa Dummer dies
Lisa Dummer, a transgender woman who served as board chair of the Transgender Law Center, died Monday, December 7. She was 68.
Her sister, Mary Jo Clark, told the Bay Area Reporter that the cause of death was pancreatic cancer. She died at her home in Occidental, in Sonoma County.

[IA, USA]
911 Call Suggests Meagan Taylor Was Arrested at Iowa Hotel for Being Trans
'No, seeing a transgender person is not a reason to call the police,' writes the American Civil Liberties Union when releasing audio of the Drury Inn & Suites manager's 911 call after two black trans women checked in.
Audio of 911 call leading to transgender woman’s arrest released

[KS, USA]
Transgender waiver for Tabor hints at larger issues
Mennonite branches work to define responses to LGBT community issues

[NC, USA]
Transgender Bathrooms May Become Election Issue
A few years ago, the idea that a boy had a constitutional right to use the girls’ restroom or that a girl had the right to use a boys’ bathroom would have been considered crazy. But that is what the Obama administration is supporting in a lawsuit.

[NE, USA]
NSAA Board Votes 6-1-1 to Advance Gender Participation Policy
The NSAA held their monthly board meeting in Norfolk Wednesday. On the agenda was a proposed gender participation policy.
A new policy in the works could help transgender students play sports
NSAA board to discuss draft policy on transgender students' participation in sports

[NY, USA]
RPD trains for transgender safety
The Rochester Police Department is one of the few in New York State that has protocols for interacting with the transgender community, says City Council member Matt Haag.

[NY, USA]
Transgender New Yorkers Want Access to Jobs and Workplace Protections
Transgender and gender non-conforming New Yorkers need access to jobs and job readiness programs and it's up to the city and the private sector to make that happen, activists and bankers said at a forum Tuesday night.

[NY, USA]
Parents thwart transgender bathroom ruling in New York school district
A school board has delayed a vote on allowing students to use restrooms of the opposite gender.

[NY, USA]
Hamburg schools adopt bathroom policy for transgendered
When the Hamburg School District on Tuesday adopted a new policy allowing transgender students access to restrooms and locker rooms for the gender that they identify with, it very well may have been the first district in Erie County to do so.

[NY, USA]
A facility that aims to set a standard for transgender-friendly health care
On her second run as executive director of the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in Chelsea, Stark is looking to grow the center to help underserved LGBT New Yorkers

[OH, USA]
Cincinnati council passes ban on LGBT conversion therapy for minors
Cincinnati becomes first city in nation to ban the controversial therapy

[OR, USA]
A Portland University Wants Federal Permission to Ban Transgender Students
Earlier this year, the president of a religious university in Northeast Portland wrote a letter dripping with contradiction.

[TX, USA]
Even without transgender protections, voters oppose HERO
Houston's next mayor can decide whether to propose a revised anti-discrimination measure.
Houston Mayoral Candidate: HERO Was 'Entirely About the Bathrooms'

[TX, USA]
SA school praised for open support of transgender student
St. Luke's Episcopal School takes embracing stance on issue

[VA, USA]
Federal appeals court to hear transgender student's lawsuit
An appeal filed by a 16-year-old transgender student who is suing the Gloucester County school district over its restroom use policy will be argued before a federal appeals court next month.

[VA, USA]
Va. family's emotional struggle after husband transitions into transgender woman
A Virginia family shared their experience of heartache, pain and transition after their husband and father told them he wanted to lead his life as a woman. FOX 5.FOX 5's Shawn Yancy has their story.