[Internacional]
SANTA SÉ: Papa Francisco contra aceitação de pessoas trans nas escolas
Numa transcrição lançada pelo Vaticano sobre o parecer do Papa Francisco sobre o género, pode ler-se que Sua Santidade não está feliz com a crescente aceitação das pessoas trans na sociedade.
Pope Francis Condemns Transgender People

[Brasil]
BIBIS / 40 ANOS / TIROS / RS, PORTO ALEGRE
Travesti Bibis de 40 anos assassinada na vila jardim em Porto Alegre, sábado às 16h, com 10 tiros, um no coração e nove na cabeça.

[Brasil]
Transexual é encontrado enterrado em terreno na zona leste de Londrina
O corpo de um transexual foi encontrado no final da manhã desta segunda-feira (8) em um terreno na avenida São João, zona leste de Londrina.
Segundo o perito do Instituto de Criminalística Fabio Mira, o corpo estava enterrado nu, na vertical, enrolado em um saco preto, e foi encontrado por um trabalhador que fazia uma rampa para embarcar uma máquina Bobcat no terreno.

[Brasil]
Travesti campo-grandense é assassinada logo após se mudar para o Paraná
Uma travesti campo-grandense de 24 anos foi assinada com uma facada na madrugada desta segunda-feira (8) na cidade de Maringá, no Paraná. A jovem identificada como Thiemy Oliveira, também conhecida como Joyce, morava na Capital e havia se mudado há cerca de três meses, de acordo com a mãe, Edivete Manoel João, de 47 anos.

[Brasil]
Travesti é achada morta com sinais de enforcamento em cidade de MT
Corpo de vítima foi encontrado na entrada de uma fazenda em Alta Floresta.
Polícia diz que Tiffany Rodrigues já havia sofrido uma tentativa de homicídio.
O corpo de uma travesti foi encontrado pela Polícia Militar na manhã desta segunda-feira (8), na entrada de uma fazenda localizada na região de Castanheira, em Alta Floresta, município a 800 km de Cuiabá. Segundo a polícia, Tiffany Rodrigues, de 23 anos, foi morta por asfixia.

[Brasil]
LARIISA LIIMA É ENCONTRADA ENFORCADA DENTRO DA PRÓPRIA CASA EM MANAUS
Larissa Liima foi encontrada enforcada dentro da própria casa em Manaus. Segundo informações do instituto médico legal, Larissa poderia ter se enforcado de Sábado para Domingo, porém o corpo só foi encontrado na manhã desda segunda-feira (01).

[Brasil]
Travesti morre no HUT após aplicar silicone industrial no corpo
A jovem Taciane Pires morreu na tarde de ontem (9) no Hospital de Urgência de Teresina (HUT) por causa de complicações na aplicação de silicone industrial por todo o corpo. O diretor do hospital, o médico Gilberto Albuquerque, informou que ela chegou ao hospital com um quadro grave de infecção generalizada.
"Ela chegou há cerca de 10 dias no hospital e há dois dias foi para a UTI [Unidade de Terapia Intensiva] por conta da sepse. Ela fez aplicação do silicone industrial em todos os membros, nos braços, pernas e até no glúteo. Isso é muito perigoso e o pior de tudo é que não há como retirar depois que é aplicado", informou.

[International]
Latin America presses gay and transgender protections despite public tension
United States and Latin America take different approaches to progressive change
Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay pressed the U.N. Human Rights Council to appoint special expert on gay, transgender issues
U.S. feels safer, but experts say the Orlando attacks demonstrate ongoing challenges around the world

[UK]
"I knew I was transgender at 10"
From a young age, Danielle Lloyd realised she'd been assigned the wrong gender at birth. When she finally told her parents, they were more supportive than she'd ever imagined...

[UK]
Transgender firefighter campaigns to extinguish discrimination
Firefighter Katie Cornhill doesn't just battle fires - she's also fighting against LGBT discrimination.

[UK]
REVEALED: Council to encourage school children to think if they are gay or transexual
Children as young as five will be encouraged to think about whether they’re gay or transgender as part of the Named Person scheme.

[UK]
Boarding school teachers told to address transgender pupils as 'zie' in guidance on gender neutral terminology
Boarding school teachers should address transgender pupils as ‘zie’ to avoid offence, according to official guidance aimed at “queering the education system”.
Boarding schools given new guidance on accepting transgender students

[Ireland]
First Trans Grand Marshal for Limerick Pride Parade
Limerick will host its first trans grand marshal at the annual LGBTI Pride Parade, which will also mark the one year anniversary of the passage of the Gender Recognition Act. TENI Chief Executive Broden Giambrone will lead the Pride Parade on 16th July.

[Pakistan]
Three LRH doctors removed from service for negligence
Taking action on recommendations of the inquiry committee formed to probe the alleged negligence of doctors that led to the death of a transvestite, the Board of Governors (BoG) of the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) on Thursday removed three doctors from service and censured two professors, orthopedic surgeon Dr Shahabuddin Khan and Dr Aamer Ghafoor, for their negligence in dealing with the case properly.

[Uganda/Europe]
TGEU condemns violent crackdown on Ugandan LGBTI pride
Transgender Europe (TGEU) condemns the violent crackdown on Ugandan LGBTI pride events and the brutal attitude of the Ugandan government towards LGBTI communities. Ugandan activists present at an event organised at Kampala’s Club Venom last week have told how the event was raided by the police, and people present were brutally treated.

[Canada]
Barriers to employment faced by transgender community
"My name is Genevieve Charles, I'm English and I am post-operative transgender."

[Canada]
'No justice, no peace, take it to the streets': St. John's Trans March focuses on equality
Members of the St. John's trans community took to the streets of downtown St. John's Friday to bring attention to issuing facing transgender people.

[Canada]
Vancouver city council approves trans equality action plan recommendations
On July 13, Vancouver city council unanimously approved five recommendations to support trans equality.

[USA]
Poll: Evangelicals differ from most Americans on transgender morality
A survey of 1,000 Americans by Nashville-based evangelical research firm LifeWay Research finds 6 in 10 Americans don’t believe it is morally wrong for people to identify with a gender different from the sex they were assigned at birth.
Shocking Poll Shows Most Americans Find Nothing Wrong With Changing Sexes

[USA]
One Month After Pulse Shooting, House Panel Hears Pro-Discrimination Bill
On Tuesday, the one-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, hateful politicians in Congress decided to spend their time conducting a hearing on the discriminatory so-called First Amendment Defense Act (FADA). At a time when the LGBT community continues to mourn, advocates once again found themselves fighting off a shameful attack bill.

[USA]
Trump picks VP candidate with long anti-LGBT history
Donald Trump has selected as a running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who has a long anti-LGBT history that includes signing into law a “religious freedom” bill enabling anti-LGBT discrimination.

[USA]
Hate Groups Attack Target’s Transgender Policy Without All The Details
An individual identifying as a transgender woman has been arrested on charges of trying to record video of a woman changing in a fitting room at a Target in Ammon, Idaho. Contrary to reports from various anti-LGBT hate groups, this incident had nothing to do with Target’s policy of welcoming transgender customers to use store facilities that match their gender identities.

[USA]
Web series released on YouTube about transgender and queer women gets Emmy nomination
The last two years have been a landmark for the visibility of transgender people on screens large and small -- including “Orange Is the New Black” actress Laverne Cox, Eddie Redmayne’s character in “The Danish Girl” and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner and her reality show “I Am Cait.”

[USA]
‘I Am Cait’ Canceled! Caitlyn Jenner’s Reality Show Over After Just Two Seasons
While Kris Jenner‘s creation Keeping Up with the Kardashians is going strong after nine years and 12 seasons, her ex’s reality series won’t live to see the same success.

[USA]
Bill Maher: #WhinyLittleBitch transgender boutique issues can wait
Bill Maher on real-time Friday in a segment titled “Priority Fail” said he’s making a sacrifice by not advocating for his “pet project”, legalized weed, until after the presidential elections. He then exhorted others to do the same and shelve the battle for he called a ’boutique issue’ ‘transgendered’ lives until after November.

[USA]
Business ridicules trans people with large reader board in high traffic area
UPDATE – August 8, 2016. Anyone knowing of the customers (paper mills, lumber mills, bark dust, etc.) of Pacific Fibre Product and Lemmons Trucking, please post in the comments section.

[CA, USA]
Transgender surgery in Thousand Oaks aimed at confirming identity
Farnaz Sabet swiveled his bare chest in front of a mirror, slowly rotating as he examined blue-sutured terrain that once carried breasts.

[CA, USA]
San Diego's only transgender police officer is prouder than ever this year
Officer Christine Garcia will take part in the San Diego Pride Parade

[DC, USA]
D.C. Woman Becomes 15th Trans Person Murdered in 2016
Deeniquia Dodds died Wednesday after having been shot July 4; police failed to disclose that a trans woman had been attacked for over a week.
Amid downpour, family and friends remember District 22-year-old shot on July 4

[DC, USA]
Police: Transgender woman stabbed in NE DC
Police are investigating after a transgender woman was stabbed several times in northeast DC Tuesday.
According to DC police, the stabbing happened around 12:05 p.m. near the 1500 block of West Virginia Avenue NE, right across from the east end of the Gallaudet University campus. Investigators say the victim may have been stabbed inside a car, and was either pushed out or jumped out after being stabbed several times in the neck and chest. She was found in the street.
Transgender Woman Stabbed, Injured in Northeast DC

[FL, USA]
From bathrooms to birth certificates: New front in battle for trans rights
Some Floridians petition to change names — and sex — in public record
Among recent applicants: Broward teen, prisoner serving life
With state taking stand, cases sometimes have become contentious

[GA, USA]
Denied his chosen name, transgender man fights on
Trying to hide how scared he was, Rowan Feldhaus clenched his fist underneath the table and waited on the judge.

[MT, USA]
Fort Peck Tribe rescinds transgender bathroom policy amid criticism
After coming under fire for its decision to limit transgender people to using the bathroom that matches their biological sex, the Fort Peck Tribal Council has voted to rescind its policy.

[NC, USA]
Alum Takes Fight for Transgender Rights to Political Conventions
Tune in to the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions and you’re likely to see an NC State alumna deliver a message targeted to viewers across the political spectrum.

[NY, USA]
Win on NYS Medicaid Paying for Gender Transition “Cosmetic Surgery”
A US district judge has granted summary judgment to four transgender plaintiffs on a claim that the New York State Medicaid program’s categorical ban on “cosmetic surgery” related to gender transition violates the federal program’s requirement to fund medically necessary treatment.

[OR, USA]
She loved her husband. Could she love her transgender wife?
After 18 years together, Kris Kachirisky watched the love of her life dress for dinner and knew.

[OR, USA]
Karma! Mocker of trans people, host of ‘Laughing at Liberals’ slapped with 21 gun and menacing charges
A Portland, Oregon man who pulled out a gun screaming “everybody get the hell back!” during a Black Lives Matter/Don’t Shoot PDX protest last month, was charged this week with 10 counts of unlawful use of a weapon (felonies), 10 counts of menacing and a disorderly conduct charge following from a grand jury decision.

[VA, USA]
Gloucester County School Board appeals trans bathroom case to Supreme Court
School board asks Chief Justice John Roberts to stay an order stopping it from enforcing its restroom policy
Supreme Court orders Transgender Student Gavin Grimm to use the wrong restroom, for now

[VA, USA]
School system weighs regulations that would protect transgender student rights
The Fairfax County School Board is weighing new regulations that spell out how schools should accommodate transgender students, rules that would affirm the students’ right to use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity and direct teachers to refer to them by their preferred pronouns.

[Brazil]
Rio Games begin with the erasure of Lea T by Brazilian TV
The Olympic athletes entered the stadium led by Lea T, a Brazilian transgender model, who was driving the bike. TV channel Globo presented all other delegations with the leading bikes, EXCEPT for the Brazilian one, erasing the known transgender personality. I believe we can say the reason for Globo didn’t show her is because she is a Brazilian transgender woman . Shame on them.

[Bolivia]
A surprising move on LGBT rights from a ‘macho’ South American president
Bolivia has a new gender identity law that might put it in Latin America’s vanguard on LGBT rights — but the story behind the measure reveals how far the Andean nation still has to go before ending homophobia. That’s according to Carlos Parra, aka Paris Galán, the country’s best known drag queen and a prominent gay rights campaigner.

[Colombia]
Encarcelan a detenidos por homicidio de mujer trans
Testigo presencial de los hechos le aseguró a la Fiscalía que la víctima fue asesinada por un atraco y no por piropear a dos hombres.
El juez promiscuo municipal de Galapa, Venancio García Solís, envió a la Cárcel Modelo a Deiber Augusto Acosta Espitia y Pedro Andrés Rivera Teherán, señalados de asesinar a Wilder Barón Castro, de 31 años y miembro de la comunidad LGBTI.