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1 March 2013
London: Protest planned for trans woman allegedly mocked by police in Soho 13 Protest Transphobia are planning to stage a demonstration on Saturday at 2pm outside Charing Cross Police Station in response to the alleged unethical treatment of a trans woman who was arrested in Soho last week.
22 February 2013
Vietnam: Decision on trans woman’s official identity recognition awaits input from prime minister 6 A decision by Vietnamese officials to reverse the legal recognition of Pham Le Quynh Tram's female gender has been halted by the Justice Ministry while they await the input of the prime minister.
22 February 2013
London: Met police officers investigated for allegedly mocking transgender woman in Soho arrest + The Directorate of Professional Standards has launched an investigation after Metropolitan Police officers were accused of mocking a transgender woman during an arrest in Soho.
12 February 2013
Terrence Higgins Trust launches extensive online trans health service + UK HIV and sexual health charity, the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), announces its launch of a new health and wellbeing advice service for transgender people.
1 February 2013
UK: Housing association refuse to relocate trans woman away from phobic neighbours and say it is ‘lifestyle choice’ 33 A trans woman who was harassed by neighbours was told by a housing association that it was not a good enough reason to relocate her, as her gender identity was a "lifestyle choice".
28 January 2013
Vietnam: Trans woman to lose official legal recognition 6 Vietnam's only trans woman to have been officially recognised as female has been told she will once again be considered male after a local committee objected to the decision.
18 January 2013
Observer’s readers’ editor says ‘it was wrong’ to publish transphobic slurs 62 The Observer’s readers’ editor, Stephen Pritchard, has issued his full response into the paper’s decision to publish a transphobic article by Julie Burchill.
18 January 2013
Press Complaints Commission to investigate Julie Burchill’s transphobic article 8 The Press Complaints Commission is to launch an inquiry into the Observer's decision to publish a transphobic article by Julie Burchill.
16 January 2013
Maine: Transwoman receives honourable discharge from US Marines 3 A transgender woman who went absent without leave from the US Military 31 years ago has received an honourable discharge.
20 November 2012
US: Judge suspends gender reassignment order for trans woman prisoner, denies electrolysis 2 A judge has suspended a previous order made in September, which ruled that a trans woman prisoner should receive gender reassignment surgery in treatment for gender dysphoria.
13 November 2012
US: Transgender woman sues after taser incident 8 A transgender woman in California has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of excessive force after a taser was fired at her groin.
1 November 2012
Leicester: Trans woman assaulted in pub 16 A 46-year-old trans woman has been attacked just minutes after entering a pub in Leicester City Centre.
18 September 2012
Terrence Higgins Trust launches new transgender online resource 7 HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has launched two new support guides for the UK’s transgender community.
27 January 2012
US trans prisoner sues over hair treatments + A trans woman in Massachusetts, USA, has filed a claim against her prison over allegations that she has not been provided with medically required hair treatments.
3 January 2012
New Zealand company pulls “transphobic” advert 43 Libra, a company which manufactures feminine hygiene products in Australasia, has pulled an advert which provoked outrage among the trans community.
22 December 2011
Trans woman’s killer found guilty of manslaughter after Tube death 8 The killer of Sonia Burgess, a trans human rights lawyer who was pushed to her death under a Tube train in London last year, has been convicted of manslaughter.
13 December 2011
Trans woman ‘pushed to death’ by friend + A respected human rights lawyer and transgender woman was pushed to her death in front of a train by a friend she had been helping, a court heard today.
8 December 2011
Malawi says it will review anti-gay laws in light of “public opinion” 35 The Malawian Justice Minister has included the country's anti-gay laws in a list of legislation he wants reviewed, saying the rules may not reflect "public opinion".
16 November 2011
Topless US trans woman charged with indecent exposure as a man 36 Andrea Jones, who is treated as a woman by the federal government and a man by the state of Tennessee, was arrested by state police for bearing her breasts in public and charged as a man.
27 September 2011
Judge upholds 21-year sentence for trans woman’s killer 14 A man convicted for the second time of killing a transgender woman has had his original sentence upheld.

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