[Brazil]
Corpo de travesti é encontrado em matagal, em Aparecida de Goiânia
Segundo PM, ele tinha marca de corte no pescoço quando foi encontrado.
Colega contou que vítima era usuária de drogas e parecia 'atormentada'.
O corpo de um travesti, ainda não identificado, foi encontrado no início da tarde desta quinta-feira (11), no Bairro Nossa Senhora de Lourdes, em Aparecida de Goiânia, Região Metropolitana da capital. Segundo a Polícia Militar (PM), a vítima tinha uma marca de corte com faca no pescoço.

[UK]
NHS ‘discriminates against transgender people’ says mum of dead transgender child
The mum of a 23-year-old who died in July has accused the NHS of discriminating against transgender people.
Synestra De Courcy died after taking fatal amounts of cocaine and mephedrone.

[UK]
Patients 'waiting three years for gender identity clinic consultations'
Portrayal of transgender people in mainstream media triggered a surge in demand, experts say

[UK]
Transgender Tara Hudson 'forced to flash' at male prisoners
Transgender Tara Hudson has told of her horrific prison after being sent to a male prison.

[Singapore]
Mum, am I a boy or a girl?
On Tuesday, we reported on a woman who lived as a man and married two women. Her case came to light after she was found guilty of sexually assaulting an underage girl. Seow Yun Rong gets an insight into the struggles of transgender individuals here.

[Australia]
Victorian women's festival criticised for not allowing pre-operative transgender women to attend
A three-day women's festival to be held in March next year at Mount Martha, south-east of Melbourne, has been criticised for not allowing transgender women to attend unless they have undergone gender re-assignment surgery.

[USA]
Many still see Caitlyn Jenner as “a man in a dress”
In the interests of objectivity, I do look in on what right-wingers have to say about issues that pop up among more liberal-minded folks, such as the fallout over some of Caitlyn Jenner’s comments in a Time magazine article and Alex Rees’ Cosmopolitan article about them.
Caitlyn Jenner comes out as a transphobe!

[USA]
Decriminalize Transgender Sex Work, Urges New Report
Here’s what we learned from RedUP, NCTE & BPPP’s new report on trans sex work.

[CO, USA]
Transgender Larimer jail deputy retires
Being black in an almost all-white law enforcement agency was one thing. Being a transgender person and going through an emotional and physical change while commanding staff, working with inmates and running an arm of the Larimer County jail has been a struggle on a completely different level.

[IN, USA]
Indiana’s Limited LGBT Protections Under Fire By Lawsuit
The fight over LGBT discrimination in Indiana is far from over. Not only are Republicans considering one of the most anti-LGBT bills ever, a new lawsuit is seeking to overturn what limited protections exist in the state.

[NY, USA]
Transgender woman’s severe brain damage shows no improvement over a year after she was beaten in Brooklyn hate crime
The transgender victim of a Brooklyn hate crime is unable to speak coherently since her head was cracked open during a brutal assault, a friend of the victim testified Friday.

[NY, USA]
Registrar to allow students to specify preferred names for CUIDs, class rosters, public directories
Students who go by names other than their legal names—including transgender and international students—will be allowed by the University Registrar to use preferred names on University ID cards, CourseWorks, and class rosters beginning in January.

[OR, USA]
Multnomah University wants to ban transgender students
The school applied for Title IX exemption

[TX, USA]
Transgender rights a new frontier for children
The kindergarten teacher handed Marissa a pink folder, the same as the other girls got.

[VT, USA]
Making the change: A transgender tells her tale
Toni Maviki has lived as a soldier, cop and father — and now as a transgendered female who has lost her job, pension, home and family.