Some events of the year 2013: Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries.

Some events of 2012,  2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

This is just some of what happened in 2013.

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons.
Part 3: Spouses, lovers and Family, Trans Kids.
Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports.
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries.
Part 7: Dress Reform, Cis Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Performance.
Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal.
Part 10: Archives, Books.

Doctors & Sexologists

Thorkil Sørensen, the Danish psychiatrist responsible for the chapter on transsexuality in the psychiatric handbook used by medical students, Psykiatri. En lærebog om voksnes psykiske sygdom, has decided not to classify it as a disorder in the newest edition.

Laura Cameron interviewed Ray Blanchard. "How the Psychiatrist Who Co-Wrote the Manual on Sex Talks About Sex". Motherboard, April 2013. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/heres-how-the-guy-who-wrote-the-manual-on-sex-talks-about-sex#ixzz2SSORkDVM.

Joseph Berger, obscure Toronto psychiatrist, attempted to attract attention by testifying at the hearings for the Canadian trans rights bill by claiming that there is no such thing as a transgender. http://genderidentitywatch.com/2013/01/19/dr-joseph-berger-testimony-on-c%E2%80%90279-canada.

Jack Dresher, New York psychiatrist who has strongly spoken out against conversion therapy for gays, was invited by the New York Times to comment on the Coy Mathis case and pronounced : "Actually, no one knows whether Coy will continue to feel that she is a girl when her body develops further, since most children like her grow up to be gay, not transgender" as if Richard Green's Sissy Boy Syndrome, 1987 were the latest research in the field. Response by Kelly Winters

Dr Albert Yuen Wai-cheung of Ruttonjee Hospital, Hong Kong has done 70 sex correction surgeries since 1987, more trans men than trans woman.

Mohammad Saberi, the head of the Tehran Department of Forensic Psychiatry reported 8 times as meny mtf as ftm operations in Iran. In Iran, he says, one in every 50,000 to 100,000 people suffers from gender identity disorder. He added that sex change operations have a 30-year history in Iran, and of the 60 cases of the disorder reported each year, about 40 people are approved for sex change operations. operations are now well regulated after being brought under the supervision of the Department of Forensic Psychiatry, which has developed a strict protocol. He reported that in the past 18 years, the youngest person to undergo a sex change operation was 14 and the oldest was 53. He stressed, however, that under the new regulations, sex change operations are not approved for minors.

Richard Curtis, Russell Reid's successor, was under investigation.

New Gender Identity Clinic in Uptown Chicago. More.

New clinic in Brisbane, after previous clinic lost its funding. $20,000 was needed and was provided a member of PFLAG.

3 Vietnamese hospitals assigned to prepare for doing transgender surgery.

DSM 5. Comments: Kelly Winters, Andrea James.

UK General Medical Council agreed to examine 39 case histories involving alleged abuse of trans patients.

The relatively unknown John Dean was appointed to lead the UK NHS Gender Identity Services Clinical Reference Group.

NHS England will temporarily implement an edited version of the policies and protocols for trans patients used by the NHS in Scotland. The plan is then for the Clinical Reference Group under John Dean, to develop policies for England which address the equality concerns raised.

Damien Riggs & Clemence Due of Flinders University, Adelaide, published The Health Care Experiences of People whose Gender Identity Differs from that Expected of their Natally Assigned Sex, reported discrimination by health professionals. Full report.

Medicine & Genetics

• Brian Ginsberg. "Transforming Skin: Transgender Dermatology ". Huffington Post, 01/18/2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-ginsberg-md/transforming-skin-transgender-dermatology_b_4122712.html.
  
• Stephen Herzog. "Finding answers for transgender patients: Individuals see changing attitude, treatment from health care professionals". News-Leader, Sep 16, 2013. www.news-leader.com/article/20130916/NEWS01/309160022/Transgender-health-care?nclick_check=1.
  

Marcie Bowers and the Raelian Church ally to restore sexuality to victims of female genital mutilation.

The Human Rights Campaign and the National Center for Transgender Equality wrote calling on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to re-evaluate a discriminatory policy that denies cancer screenings to transgender women in that they are not considered women.

New US Affordable Care Act has extra hurdles for trans persons.

Ancestral societies that accepted trans members had evolutionary advantages.

Legal

• Dana Beyer. "LGBT Legal Progress: 1988 - 2038". Huffington Post, 08/26/2013. www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-beyer/lgbt-legal-progress-1988-_b_3817808.html.
  

Cis Obituaries

Jean Manford (1920-2013) co-founder of PFLAG.
Colin Wilson (1931 – 2013) prolific author who was Charlotte Bach's first biographer.
Lou Reed (1942 – 2013) singer-songwriter who had a trans lover in the 1970s, and wrote about other trans women.
Iain Banks (1954 - 2013) author of The Wasp Factory.

Killed by a trans person:

Reena Andrews, Spokane, Washington, shot Erin Bailey, a trans man and self.
Paris Green (when still Peter Laing), Glasgow, and 2 others brutally murdered Robert Shankland this last March over a bag of crisps, is now convicted and serving a life sentence, and has applied for gender re-assignment.

Trans Obituaries – other than being murdered

Betty Cowell (1918 – 2011) UK's first surgical trans woman. Her death two years ago only now reported.
José Sarria (1922 – 2013) San Francisco caterer, drag queen, activist.
Georgina Somerset (1923 – 2013) dentist, author of first book on transsexuality.
Yvonne Sinclair (1928 – 2013) London activist. More.
Joanne Marie Conte (1933 – 2013) council member in Arvada outed by political opponents, Colorado, state legislature candidate, reporter.
++Mario Montez (1935 - 2013) avant-garde actor.
Tobi Marsh (1938 – 2012) performer.
Joann Roberts (1948 – 2013) TGForum co-founder, from lung cancer.
PJ Torokvei (1951 – 2013) actor producer screenwriter.
++ Asha Devi (1952 - 2013) mayor of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, 2000-3.
Jazzie Collins (1958 – 2012) activist
++ Charl Marais (1958 - 2013) activist in Gender DynamiX. 
Melani Elaneke (1959 – 2013) Hawaiian-San Francisco activist.
Danielle Kaufman (1960 – 2013) California doctor, after publishing her autobiography. Article by Danielle.
Erica Andrews (1969 – 2013) performer, of a lung infection.
Chrisie Edkins (1980 – 2013) singer, ex-bodybuilder, performed at York Pride, suicide. Previously.
Amber Maxwell (1993 – 2013) revolutionary socialist.

Murdered Trans persons

238 murders of trans persons were recorded in 2013, and many more died without being recorded. These are but a small sample.

Ce Ce Dove (1992 – 2012) Cleveland, Ohio.
Cecilia Marahouse (? -2013) performer, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Lucy Meadows (1980-2013) schoolteacher, Accrington, Lancs, of suicide after Press harassment.
Domonique Newburn (1982 – 2013) star in YouTube series, Hollywood Houseboys.
Diamond Williams (1982 – 2013) Philadelphia, killed by a trick.
Eyricka Morgan (1987 – 2013) New Brunswick, New Jersey, killed by a neighbor.
Dora Özer (1988 - 2012) Aydin, Turkey. YouTube.
Evon Young (1991-2013) rapper, Milwaukee.
Islan Nettles (1992 – 2013) employee at H&M, New York, killed by a stranger she passed on the street.
Dasha Shtern (1991 – 2013) employee of Ekaterinburg municipality until fired after new Russian anti-gay laws. Suicide.
Dwayne Jones (1995 – 2013) Jamaica, killed at a party when read. Later Dwayne's house was firebombed.

Here is the best list of names for November 2011-November 2012
www.transrespect-transphobia.org/uploads/downloads/2013/TDOR2013english/TvT-TDOR2013PR-en.pdf.


Note the general increase: 162 in 2009
179 in 2010
221 in 2011
265 in 2012
238 in 2013 (which is slightly less bad than 2012)
the majority from Brazil (95, 126 in 2012), Mexico (40, 48 in 2012), the USA (16, 15 in 2012), Venezuela (15, 9 in 2011), Honduras (12, 8 in 2012), Colombia (12, 6 in 2012), and In Asia most reported cases have been found in India (8) and Turkey (5).

Of course most countries did not supply data.

The outrageously bad Wikipedia page called List of unlawfully killed transgender people lists a total of 3 trans persons being killed in 2013.

• David Badash. "Transgender People Being Murdered At A Rate Almost 50 Percent Higher Than Lesbians And Gays". The New Civil Rights Movement, August 26, 2013. http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/transgender-people-being-murdered-at-a-rate-almost-50-percent-higher-than-lesbians-and-gays/news/2013/08/26/73904.
  
• Cei Bell. "The hard lives and brutal deaths of minority transgender women". Philly Com, August 14, 2013. www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20130814_The_hard_lives_and_brutal_deaths_of_minority_transgender_women.html.
  
• John Aravosis. "Russians film brutal video of attack on transgender woman". America Blog, 8/18/2013. http://americablog.com/2013/08/5-russians-film-their-horrific-attack-on-transgender-woman-video.html.
  

Some Events of the year 2013: Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet

Some events of 2012,  2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

This is just some of what happened in 2013.

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons
Part 3: Spouses, lovers and Family, Trans & Intersex Kids.
Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports.
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries
Part 7: Dress Reform, Cis Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Performance.
Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal.
Part 10: Archives, Books.

Schools, Universities & Colleges

Cameron Partridge appointed Episcopalian chaplain at Boston University.

Economist Deirdre McCloskey given award by Competitive Enterprise Institute.

H. Adam Ackley, chair of theology and philosophy, taught at Azusa Pacific University for 15 years, asked to leave after starting transition.

Mark Krolikowski, teacher, sued school in Queens, NY, after being laid off after starting transition.


Walter L. Williams, author of The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, 1986, was arrested in Mexico, charged with sexual predation in the Philippines, and held without bail in Los Angeles.

++  Cambridge physicist Kate Stone gored by stag while on New Year's break in Scotland.

University of Arizona, Center for Critical Studies of the Body and a graduate degree program in transgender studies and Susan Stryker.

Imprisonment

Ashley Del Valle, in Savannah, arrested for exposing breasts, jailed with men.

Chelsea Manning sentenced to 35 years in a US Military prison.

Jesiah MacDonald, Nova Scotia, wanted to use the money from the marijuana to pay for his operation, spared jail time.

Paris Green , newly convicted for murder, has applied for gender re-assignment, but was moved after having sex with female inmates.

++ Kimberley Green, convicted wife killer, who does not choose to wear women's clothing, failed in suit to High Court to be allowed to wear a wig in prison.

Walter L Williams – see Universities section above.

Harris County, Texas, the 3^rd largest jail in the US, has adopted a policy of trans prisoners being houses according to gender identity, and addressing them accordingly.

New Zealand Ministry of Corrections announced that the New Zealand Cabinet is to change the corrections rules in order to allow prisoners to be placed in a prison which matches the gender they identify with, rather than their birth gender.

• Tracy Clark-Flory. "America’s prisons fail transgender inmates". Salon, Aug 23, 2013. www.salon.com/2013/08/23/americas_prisons_fail_transgender_inmates.
  
• Jillian Keenan. "Getting Hormones and Surgery for Transgender Prisoners". The Atlantic, Aug 23 2013. www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/getting-hormones-and-surgery-for-transgender-prisoners/278998.
  
• "Targets for Abuse: Transgender Inmates and Prisoner Rape". Just Detention International, March 2013. www.justdetention.org/en/factsheets/TransgenderFactSheet.pdf.
  
  

• Michelle Lynne Kosilek. Grace's Daughter. Smashwords, 2012. The autobiography of the Massachusetts convicted murderer who has sued for gender surgery.
  

Nemeses

RadFem 2013 was to have been held at the London Irish Centre but was cancelled after protests from trans and mens lib groups, and after the Centre investigated past comments by the proposed speakers.

Pacific Justice Institute claimed in October that a trans girl in Colorado was harassing other girls in the girls' rest room. This was repeated on Fox News and elsewhere until the school's superintendent explained that in reality the complaint was from one mother who objected to the trans girl on principle. As a result the girl in question became a national target for vitriol, harassment and death threats.

Frank Schubert recruited by US National Organization for Marriage to oppose California's new law allowing trans kids to choose their gender.

Todd Koncannon, Former Executive Director of South Carolina GOP, believes Transgender People Should Be 'Put in a Camp'.

Pat Robinson compared trans people to his castrated horse.

Herman Rowland, CEO of Jelly Bean Candy Co, donated $5,000 towards repealing California's School Sucess and Opportunity Act.

Mariam, on Pakistan reality show, “Living on the edge: Kon hai risk taker” , said that the one thing that she hated was Hijras. The television channel, ARV Musik, distanced itself from the contestant by running a disclaimer that said it did not support her views.

Matt Barber, described as a “pro-family attorney” claimed that parents who let their transgender children live according to their identity are committing “nothing short of child abuse".

Shock jocks Lex Staley and Terry Jaymes on Sirius XM joked about the shooting of Coco McDonald.

Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn defended what he wrote about Lucy Meadows, even after being criticized by the coroner.

Following the Twitter storm re Suzanne Moore's essay with a passing reference to " Brazilian transsexual" (see next section) Julie Burchill, wrote an in-your-face article for The Observer, which then took it down and it was reprinted in The Telegraph. The Press Complaints Commission said Burchill did not breach rules on discrimination as she did not single out any individuals, but referred to ‘transgender people generally’. The police have recorded it as a hate incident, but have decided to not take further action. Jennie Kermode, the Chair of Trans Media Watch, said she was not surprised by the MET’s decision: ‘Although many people feel strongly that hate speech in a newspaper should be treated the same way it is when it happens in the street, existing laws make it very difficult for that to happen."

2 articles in CounterPunch:

• Julian Vigo. "Transcending the Norms of Gender: The Left Hand of Darkness". June 7-9, 2013. www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/07/the-left-hand-of-darkness.
  
• Julian Vigo. "Gaslighting in the Age of ‘Misgendering’: Too Many Notes". July 01, 2013. www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/01/too-many-notes.
  

Internet

Twitter

Suzanne Moore wrote an excellent essay for The New Statesman making a lot of valid feminist points. She included the sentences: "The cliché is that female anger is always turned inwards rather than outwards into despair. We are angry with ourselves for not being happier, not being loved properly and not having the ideal body shape – that of a Brazilian transsexual. " She did not mention the high murder rate of Brazilian transsexuals , although the sentences can be reread with a slightly different meaning bearing that in mind. A subset of trans women cut her no slack at all and some used crude misogynist language which drove Moore to close her Twitter account.

#transdocfail produced 130 detailed cases of abuse, and 98 were presented to the UK General Medical Council.

#fuckcispeople, reportedly started by Laurelai Baile: “The message being that transgender people are systematically oppressed, trans women of color especially are at the highest risk of rape, murder and other forms of violence. We have every right to be angry about this and we have every right to express that anger.”

Chelsea Manning
Chelsea's was the most publicized transition of the year, coming as it did with her being sentenced to 35 years because of her brave act as a whistleblower. While most trans persons supported Chelsea, some decided that they had a stronger allegiance to to surveillance state than to other transsexuals: Kristin Beck, Diane Kearny, Autumn Sandeen. However 95,000+ nominated her for the Nobel Peace Prize and she was nominated as marshal at SF Pride.

• Abigail Brady. "Behind the Wikipedia wars: what happened when Bradley Manning became Chelsea: Abigail Brady, who edits the site as Morwen, explains the polite notes and not-votes behind the scenes.". New Statesman, 23 August 2013. www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2013/08/behind-wikipedia-wars-what-happened-when-bradley-manning-became-chelsea.
  

New blogs and Websites.

• Dana Taylor. "Birth of a Transsexual Separatist and then Born Again". The Transadvocate, July 5, 2013. www.transadvocate.com/birth-of-a-transsexual-separatist.htm.

Transgender Biography Books

Apparently discontinued blogs etc (but some such do return after a break):

An Iranian Transsexual
At Home She's a Tourist
Being Drusilla.
biologicaltheoriestrans.
Cindi Jones.
From Transgender to Transhuman
Intersex and the City
Laxmi's Inner Shadows
Leonalo.wordpress.com
Maple Centers
Moje Transpłciowe Bohaterki - My Transgender Heroines
Science and Sexuality: The Biology of Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Intersexuality
Southern Crossdressing
TS-AG - Deutsche
Transpedia

Websites changed:

Tima Thransen has reorganized her Vidensbanken om kønsidentitet

Z and the Universe moved to www.divamissz.com.

Web Videos
iiGethii posted a time-lapse video of her change over three years.

Some Events of the year 2013: Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports,

Some events of 2012,  2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

This is just some of what happened in 2013.

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons.
Part 3: Spouses, lovers and Family, Trans Kids.
Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports,
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment, Nemeses, Internet.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries.
Part 7: Dress Reform, Cis Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Performance.
Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal.
Part 10: Archives, Books.

Political Candidates

International:

Nikki Sinclaire, elected UK Independence Party Member of the European Parliament, left UKIP because of its homophobia, published her autobiography, and mentioned that she had transitioned 23 years ago.     Why she is not a role model.

National:

• Jason Buke. "Pakistan's once-ridiculed transgender community fight elections for first time: Hijras can vote and run for seats in polls following supreme court decision recognising them as 'third gender'". The Guardian, 9 May 2013. www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/09/pakistan-transgender-elections-campaign-trail.
  

Anna Grodzka, MP, nominated for Deputy Speaker, but MPs voted to keep incumbent, gave Kaleidoscope Trust Lecture on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

Bindiya Rana running for Pakistan Parliament.

Diane Rodriguez running for Ecuador Congress.

Georgina Beyer, NZ Labour MP 1999-2007, is suffering kidney failure.

Laura Calvo elected to US National Democratic Committee.

Naina Lal running for Pakistan Parliament.

Rianna Humble, in running to become Labour parliamentary candidate in Brighton.

Sanam Fakir running for Pakistan Parliament.

Valentina Verbal withdrew her candidacy for the conservative National Renewal Party of Chile rather than run under her birth name.

Jason Burke. "Pakistan's once-ridiculed transgender community fight elections for first time: Hijras can vote and run for seats in polls following supreme court decision recognising them as 'third gender'". The Guardian, 9 May 2013. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/09/pakistan-transgender-elections-campaign-trail.

Provincial:

Aslam Pasha running for Karnataka assembly,

Hazreen Daud, political secretary to Tanjung Bungah state assemblyman Teh Yee Cheu of Malaysia's Democratic Action Party.


Soumya running for Karnataka assembly for the Bahujan Samaj Party.

Tara Hewitt elected as Chair of Wirral Conservative Future.

Cities, towns and regions:

Jane Chaplin, 65, Conservative three years on Wellington town council in Shropshire, started transition after wife died.

Jenifer Rene, candidate for Houston City Council.
 
Jennifer McCreath to run for deputy mayor in St John's, Newfoundland.

Parveen Banu was elected to a city council office in Bellary, a city of a half-million southeast of Mumbai.

Penny Ellis, Leominster Parish Councillor, published a novel about a pre-op and then came out as a transvestite.

Sarah Brown, LibDem councillor Cambridge, in a polyamorous relationship. She also tweeted: "I had a misdiagnosis which led to surgery I regret, and which has caused long term problems. Will David Batty and @bindelj write about this". But press followup ceased as soon as she mentioned that she meant surgery on her hand.

Also: gay mayoral candidate Marco McMillan, Clarkesdale, Mississippi, was murdered. Wikipedia.

Celebrities:

Alex Jones: "I don’t want my daughters growing up in a country where some transvestite comes walking into the thing hopped out of their brain on drugs vomiting and crapping all over the place".

B. Scott sued BET Networks after being pulled from hosting for being in female clothing.

Cyndi Lauper: I am a "drag queen"

Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett disguised Diana Spencer in male drag in 1988 for a trip to the Vauxhall Tavern.

When asked in [a USA Today] interview how it was she looked so fresh after spending the previous night ‘partying’, Gwyneth Paltrow replied: “Are you crazy? I’m like RuPaul! I have so much makeup on. Foundation! Last night, I was literally a transvestite.” This was written up by Courtney O'Donnell, and reprinted on Wipe Out Transphobia Facebook where hundreds of trans people left comments attacking transvestites, cross dressers, drag queens and other fringe members of the trans community simply because they don't want to be associated with them, and the site moderator had to remove both article and comments and left an explanation. Courtney explained in an Huffington Post article. (Actually Paltrow in wearing much makeup, given that she is a woman, was a homeovestite not a transvestite).

Mister Cee, New York Hop Hop DJ, resigned (for less than a day) after a video was posted of him soliciting sex from trans woman Bimbo Winehouse.

Imelda Marcos made her husband's generals dress as women.

Jared Leto auditioned and stayed in role for trans part in Dallas Buyers Club.

Richard O'Brien discussed his gender with the BBC.

Sports:

Aeris Houlihan told by England Football Association that cannot play on women's team until two years after her operation.

Bobbie Lancaster, golfer, tried out for LPGA tour.

Cory Oskam got to skate with hockey star Cory Schneider.

Drew-Ashlyn Cunningham, of My Transsexual Summer is now UK's 1^st trans wrestler.

Fallon Fox, MMA fighter, came out in an interview with Outsports, and some challenged her right to fight females.

Harley Ryder, wrestler.

Taylor Edelmann, volleyball captain.

Tony Bias, school basketball player, Los Angeles.

Some Events of the year 2013: Part 3: Spouses, lovers and Family, Trans Kids,

Some events of 2012,  2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

This is just some of what happened in 2013.

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons.
Part 3: Spouses, lovers and Family, Trans Kids,
Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports.
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries.
Part 7: Dress Reform, Cis Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Performance.
Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal.
Part 10: Archives, Books.

Spouses, lovers and Family

This year we actually have some male spouses and lovers.

Diary of a drag queen's husband

• Thomas Matt. "Defeating Shame: My Story of Trans-Attraction". The Weave, 10/20/2013. Reprinted: "I’m attracted to trans women: After years of confusion and shame, I'm ready to stop hiding the truth about my desires -- and I'm not alone ". Salon, Oct 22, 2013. www.salon.com/2013/10/22/im_attracted_to_trans_women.
  
• Janet Mock. "How Society Shames Men Dating Trans Women & How This Affects Our Lives". http://janetmock.com/2013/09/12/men-who-date-attracted-to-trans-women-stigma.
  
• Matt Moir. "Straight men loving trans women". Xtra, Sep 26, 2013. http://dailyxtra.com/toronto/life/sex/straight-men-loving-trans-women?market=210.
  

Lou Reed, rock singer died, and it was remembered that his lover in the 1970s was a trans woman.

Robyn Walters & Emery Ford both previously married twice, both had four children, both transitioned. Then they married each other.

New Blog:

http://sheismyhusband.blogspot.com

Trans Kids

• "Irish transgender teens sent to the UK for treatment by desperate parents: UK options currently surpass anything on offer in Ireland". IrishCentral, Septemeber 1, 2013. http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-transgender-teens-sent-to-the-UK-for-treatment-by-desperate-parents-221990391.html.
  
• Dana Beyer. "Gender Transition in Children: A Dialogue Continued". Huffington Post, 07/01/2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-beyer/gender-transition-in-children_b_3530335.html.
  
• Kay Dibben. "Doctor calls for gender clinic plan as number of transgender children increases ". The Courier Mail, May 14, 2013. www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/doctor-calls-for-gender-clinic-plan-as-number-of-transgender-children-increases/story-e6freoof-1226641515015.
  
• Sophie Jane Evans. "The NHS clinic where children as young as 12 are receiving drugs to prepare them for a sex change". The Daily Mail, 17 November 2013. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2508704/NHS-Tavistock-Clinic-treating-transgender-children-therapies-prepare-sex-change.html.
  
• Jill Filipovic. "What's the problem if a boy wants to put on a dress or girls act masculine?: The trappings we put onto gender identity – the colors, the clothes, the assumed preferences – are all cultural, not natural". The Guardian, 22 November 2013. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/22/punish-kids-cross-gender-play-abuse.
  
• Leela Ginelle. "Op-ed: Why Are Americans Terrified of Transgender 6-Year-Olds?: Transgender first-graders aren't the problem. Uninformed adults are. ". The Advocate, October 29 2013. http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/10/29/op-ed-why-are-americans-terrified-transgender-6-year-olds.
  
• Gloria Hillard. " 'I'm Not The Only One': Transgender Youth Battle The Odds". National Public Radio, June 15, 2013. www.npr.org/2013/06/15/191772111/im-not-the-only-one-transgender-youth-battle-the-odds.
  
• Ellen Huet. "Awareness, laws help transgender youths flourish". SFGate, August 19, 2013. www.sfgate.com/lgbt/article/Awareness-laws-help-transgender-youths-flourish-4739711.php.
  
• James Nichols. "What It's Like To Be A Transgender Teen? " Huffington Post, 09/30/2013. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/huffpost-live-transgender-teens_n_4017102.html.
  

Arin Andrews and Katie Hill, Oklahoma, now 17 and 19, both transitioned and a couple.

Colorado's civil rights division determined that a school district discriminated in refusing to let Coy Mathis, a first-grader, use the girls' restroom.

Danielle Sheridan, 8, Richmond Hill, Ontario, in first Pride parade in the area, supported by Mayor.

Kaden, who was on Oprah when he was 11, is now in his 20s.

Leo Waddell, 12, Lowestoft.

Lulu, Argentina, 6, granted girl's identity card.

Jazz --- transgender at 11: I want boobs.


Harriette Dickens and her family.

Jake, a trans boy was on The Oprah Show in 2007. His brother Jason feeling ignored became anorexic. Now both brothers are in their early 20s and get on well. Jake is a psychology student and LGBT activist.

Tony Zamazal, Houston, 19, permitted to dress female at school prom.

Issak Wolfe, Pennsylvania, permitted to take his girlfriend to the school prom, however when ran for prom king, was listed under prom queen.

Nicole Maines, 14, Maine. Family sued over access to female restroom.

Nikki, featured in People magazine.

Tyler, Maryland.

William Copeland and his supportive family.

Family court of Australia judge gave permission for two trans teenagers to undergo hormone treatment, after it was revealed that both teens had self-harmed and contemplated suicide.

• Marsha Aizumi with Aiden Aizumi. Two Spirits, One Heart: A Mother, Her Transgender Son, and Their Journey to Love and Acceptance. Magnus Books, 2013.
  
• Michele Angello. On the Couch with Dr. Angello: A Guide to Raising & Supporting Transgender Youth. Philadelphia, PA: [S.n.], 2013.
  
• Lori Duron. Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son. Broadway Books, 2013.
  
• Jon & Luisa Edwards. The Boy Who Was Born a Girl: One Mother's Unconditional Love for Her Child. Arrow, 2013.
  
• Diane Ehrenshaft. Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children. Experiment LLC; 3rd edition, 2012.
  
• Paige Lucas-Stannard. Gender Neutral Parenting: Raising kids with the freedom to be themselves. Verity Publishing, 2013.
  
• Anne Smith. "Girl Nutz": The Epitome of Femininity: A Child's Transgender Journey From A Parent's Perspective. AuthorHouise, 2012.
  

Some Events of the year 2013: Part 2: Persons.

Some events of 2012,  2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

This is just some of what happened in 2013.

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons,
Part 3: Spouses, lovers and Family, Trans Kids.
Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports.
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries.
Part 7: Dress Reform, Cis Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Performance.
Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal.
Part 10: Archives, Books.

Persons

This is a general persons section. In additional there are sections below on transkids, trans and families, celebrities, show biz, political, sports, inmates, schools and universities, doctors, etc.

Africa:

Audrey Mbugua has been to court seeking to get the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to issue her with a KCSE certificate that reads Audrey and not Andrew.

Ngungu Nthungi – a Justice ruled that Nthungi's rights were violated when the police stripped her naked to ascertain her sex.

TDOR Zimbabwe remembered Naomi, AIDS activist who died in 2006.

Americas:

Aiden Kaplan documented transition on Facebook.

Armani Nicole Davenport, Dallas, a performer known for giving silicone injections turned herself in Wednesday after one of her clients landed in the hospital.

Charlotte, US Army, not transitioning, outed by a colleague, NCO ignores fact as long as gender normative.

Christine Hayworth, Stonewall Veteran, destitute in Puerto Rico and taken to a shelter by anti-gay preacher.

Daytona Bitch fired as TD Canada Trust Pride drag queen after a 'blackface' performance.

Del is a student at Harvard Business School.

Denise Brogan-Kator, Michigan Lawyer.

Devon appeared on Katie show after being Homecoming Queen.

Domaine Javier suing California Baptist University after expulsion.

Donnie Collins – fraternity raised money for his top surgery

Elizabeth Tremblay, Maine, arrested for deserting US Marines in 1980. Then received discharge papers in female name.

Enza Anderson ridiculed at Toronto Airport.

Erika Falls & Liz Kandziolka featured in Idaho Statesman.

Jennifer Blair sued for right to free breast cancer screenings.

Jennifer Pritzker, Illinois, military and scion of wealth, announced transition.

Jodie Jones, Iowa City, won a civil rights complaint against sheriff's deputy who ordered her to leave women's restroom. More.

Kadin Henningsen, Jesse Krikorian, Duncan McCullough and Leiah Moser converted to Judaism while transitioning.

Kelly Hamilton, co-editor of Alive magazine, featured in St Louis Beacon.

Kristen Beck, ex-US Navy Seals, came out as trans, published an autobiography, was filmed wearing CND/peace/antiwar earrings, and badmouthed Chelsea Manning.

Lynn Conway. “Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution: How a series of failures triggered a paradigm shift in digital design.” IEEE Solid-State Circuits,4,4, 2012. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/Memoirs/VLSI/Lynn_Conway_VLSI_Reminiscences.pdf; "The Many Shaded of Out". Huffington Post, 07/14/2013. www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-conway/the-many-shades-of-out_b_3591764.html. Also met Christine Burns, attended a White House reception and was featured in Windy City Times.

Mark Anderson/Sybil Barrington/Queen of Bermuda survived a car collision.

MoHagani Magnetek, Anchorage, ejected from bar after using ladies' room. Bar later apologized.

Morgan Wade, US navy diver, attempted to re-enlist without success.

Nikki Araguz married her second husband in Texas.

Nina Arsenault & Lexi Sanfino stripped on board a plane after inappropriate questions suggesting that they had been men.

Ophelia De’Lonta, serving a 73-year sentence in Virginia, won ruling that she should be assessed for gender change.

Rachel, Lou Reed's muse in the 1970s, is remembered.

Rohit Singh, Saskatoon, refused service at a bridal shop, which was later demonstrated against.

Rosie del Mar, 72, featured in The Advocate.

Sasha Fleishman was set on fire while sleeping on a bus in Oakland, California.

Savanna DeLong was dropped as a massage therapist at The Capital Club, Columbus, Ohio. The club pled no contest and paid a $1,000 fine.

Shannon Kearns ordained by Old Catholic Church.

Silas Hansen and his new name.

Sissy Goodwin, out transvestite in Dougals Wyoming.

Victoria Beltran, NY, arrested for phoning death threats to husband's mistress.

Vivian Diego, Hollywood, assaulted by 4 men who put her in hospital for a week. Two men later arrested.

Zoey Tur, Los Angeles helicopter-pilot-reporter, started transition.


US Changebacks:

Don Ennis, newsreader at ABC, announced start of transition in May, and in August, after a period of amnesia where he thought that it was 1999, no longer wanted to transition.

Philip Porter reverted after 32 years as a cheerleader and as a topless dancer.

Michael Wallent, Windows executive, after 6 years.

Asia:

Arizona, in Israel, married a man who had left his previous wife and 3 children to be with her.

Israeli robber had his sentence reduced from 15 to 10 months because he needs to be kept in solitary confinement.

Joanne Leung, Hong Kong, now has a computing degree.

Lakshmi Tripathi met the Indian Women and Child Development Minister in January and demanded policies for the inclusion of transgender and gender nonconforming people, as discrimination against them encouraged atrocities on the community.

Marina, Israeli highschool teacher fired for talking about herself.

Maryani, Yogyakarta, performed the female Haj.

Mathira and her sibling Bakhsh, Rajgarh, Punjab, being denied their inheritance.

Pham Le Quynh Tram, Binh Phuoc, has had her female gender revoked for no good reason.

Sameer Neelam, fled from Hyderabad when outed as a trans man. Now in Bradford, UK.

Sanam Fakir, social worker in Sukkur,

Srinidhi, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, who has an MA in Business Administration, has opened a garment shop.

66-year-old Hong Kong man told by doctors that he is a woman. Actually he has Turner syndrome and congenital adrenal Hyperplasia.

24-year-old trans woman in Kolkata refused medical treatment.

W, Hong Kong, who completed surgery in 2008, granted right to marry her boyfriend, but they will still have to wait an extra year.

Yuval Topper-Erez, the first Israeli transgender man to get pregnant, now legally recognized as the baby's father.

Europe:

Alexis, microbiology student at Leeds University, was shouted at and shoved in Student Union toilets. Security was called and supported Alexis.

Becci Allen, Exeter, 36, ex-football-hooligan, started transition.

Ben Smith wrote about transition in the Independent.

Bobby Barnes, Worcester, marrying his ex-babysitter.

Chris Wilson, Edinburgh, convicted of ‘obtaining sexual intimacy by fraud’, is now on the sex offenders register and facing jail time. Legal Opinion by Stephen Whittle.

Emma Chapman, Essex police, suing her force after having to come out because had male voice.

Fernanda Milan granted asylum in Denmark.

Helen and Felix Fenlon, a couple from Hull, together for 6 years, married and both transitioned.

Hinoi Tonkin, Middlesborough, lost 12 stone and is awaiting surgery.

Jamie Eagle and Louis Davies, students, South Wales, both transitioning.

Jenny Bowman sold her Cambridgeshire home to pay for facial feminization.

Joanne Cassar, Malta, finally allowed to marry.  ++ and awarded state honours. 

Katelyn Findlay, 18, convicted of robbery and assault.

Kirone McCaffrey's girlfiend paid for his breast reduction.

Katrina Harte, North Tyneside, phone payment of fine refused because she sounded like a man.

Kristina, from Lithuania, now in Germany, gave up her Lithuanian citizenship as there is no legal context in Lithuania to permit transition.

Lady Jane/Robert Clothier caught in a pedophile sting, sentenced to 26 months.

Laura Kate Dale was mocked and humiliated at an Xbox One Event in London.

Lewis Hancox, from My Transsexual Summer, reflects on the time since.

Luciano Lucia, Naples, testified at the Amanda Knox/ Raffaele Sollecito retrial that in fact it was her brother Antonio Aviello who killed Meredith Kercher.

Lucy Vallender, Wiltshire, ex-Army, now married Muslima.

Martina Castellana invested with a Cross of Malta.

Masha Bast, human rights lawyer, Moscow, made a public announcement that she is trans.

Nadine Williams, Neath, accused of rape.

Nathan Verhelst, used the Belgian euthanasia service to die after post-operative dissatisfaction.

Nemo remembers the 1960s.

Pammy Rose, finalist in Sunderland Echo Face of 2013.

Paris Lees, featured in Hate Debate on BBC Radio 1, number 1 in IOS Pink List and 1^st trans panellist on BBC Question Time.

River Song barred from womens' toilets in St James shopping centre, Edinburgh. The same happened to Hannah Leith at the Paisley Centre.

Roman Sorokin, from Russia, sought political Asylum in France,

Sarah Baker, in Elmley prison, transitioned.

Scott McNally, London, accused of rape.

Stephanie Lowther, Middlesbrough, asked to be rehoused because of neighbours and told being trans is a lifestyle choice. However after a complaint the housing association organized diversity training and Stephanie was part of the program.

Stephanie Smyth, accused of being a witch and forced to leave Johnstone, Renfrewshire.

Treva Askey, after 23 years in army, transitioned and stayed with wife.

Vanessa Lacey, health and education officer for Transgender Equality Network Ireland.

Oceania:

Ashley Tonga success on X Factor New Zealand.

Julie, Samoan fa'afafine with world-famous rugby-playing brother.

Stephanie Dixon, beauty therapist, Christchurch, NZ, was losing clients as rumours of her past circulated, but after an article in The Press in April, her business went up.

Some Events of the year 2013: Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation

Some events of 2012,  2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

This is just some of what happened in 2013.

Part 1: Organizations & Activists, Equal marriage, Other Legislation.
Part 2: Persons.
Part 3: Spouses, lovers and Family, Trans Kids.
Part 4: Political, Celebrities, Sports.
Part 5: Schools, Universities & Colleges, Imprisonment,Nemeses, Internet.
Part 6: Doctors & Sexologists, Medicine, Genetics, Legal, Obituaries.
Part 7: Dress Reform, Cis Surgeries, Fashion, Beauty Pageants, Performance.
Part 8: Art, Television & Radio, Adverts, Theatre, Cinema.
Part 9: Jargon, News Media, Journal.
Part 10:  Archives, Books.

Organizations & Activists

International:

Amnesty International published a Report on transphobic and homophobic Hate Crimes in Europe.

International Classification of Diseases met in San Francisco, February, advised by WPATH, Christine Burns and other trans persons and clinicians.

ProTrans is a project of Transgender Europe and aims to better protect trans people and their communities in Eastern and Southeastern Europe against violence and impunity.

Stop Trans Pathologization: Reflections from STP regarding the ICD revision process and publication of the DSM-5.

Transgender Europe met the EU Agency for Gender Equality.

Transgender Europe met in Berlin with ILGA-Europe at a roundtable on legal Gender Recognition ways forward.

Americas:

Asistencia Legal para la Diversidad Sexual de El Salvador organized a conference Felicidad y Diversidad Sexual como Derechos Humanos (Happiness and Sexual Diversity as Human Rights) 14-15 March at the University of Central America campus, a Jesuit school. Trans and intersex issues were a major part of the agenda.

Chicago House, 1^st transgender housing project, opened by Lana Wachowski, Mara Keising

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has shortened its name to GLAAD and vowed to prioritize trans issues. Jennifer Boylan became the first trans co-chair of GLAAD.

J-FLAG, included Whitney and Tiana in its We are Jamaicans video campaign.

Kathy Padilla and other advocated for Philadelphia to pass LGBT Equality Bill.

New York and elsewhere: The Name Change Project.

Outserve-SLDN director Allyson Robinson fired and then reinstated, and then stepped down.

San Francisco Pride: Bradley Manning was nominated by former Grand Marshalls to be honoured, but current Pride committee quickly rescinded the nomination.

Susan Gapka, Toronto activist.

Texas Two Spirit Society already has 150 members.

Toronto Pride again shut out the world's largest trans march.

Transgender Advocates of the Capital Region, Albany, New York.

Transgender Health Empowerment, Washington. DC, filed for bankruptcy.

TransSask in Regina.

T-Girls, Portland, Oregan, sued a bar that banned them, and were awarded $400,000.

Asia:

Bindiya Rana, president of Gender Interactive Alliance, Pakistan.

Jakarta: first seniors' home for waria, organized by Mami Yuli.

Kalki Subramaniam, of the Sahodari Foundation, worked with K Mahadevan of One Indian Road Safety Organization to recruit trans women to direct traffic.

Joanne Leung, chair of Hong Kong's Transgender Resource Centre.

Rina Natan (1923 - ?) Israel's 1^st known transsexual, researched by Dr. Iris Rachamimov, a historian at Tel Aviv University, and discussed as part of Gay Pride Week.

Europe:

New support group in East Lancashire.

Masha Bast, chairwoman for the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights.

Charlotte Goiar, Galacia, again won a ruling that she should have surgery, and again the province did nothing.

Karen Richards adviser to Board of Manchester Pride.

National Transgender Memorial, Sackville Gardens, Manchester. Dedicated volunteers had put hours of work into the garden, which is believed to be the only memorial to victims of transphobic hate crime in the world. It was unveiled as part of the Sparkle weekend. It was later vandalized.

Protest Transphobia demonstrated against the Guardian and the Telegraph following Julie Burchill's article, and then outside Charing Cross Police Station after Jose Dos Santos was abused in Soho.

Greek Transgender Support Association (GTSA) has condemned a series of violent attacks and murders against transgender women in Turkey and has called on the Turkish Government to respond.

Greek Transgender Support Association met with mayor of Thessalonika and he promised to talk to the police chief.

Transgender Equality Network Ireland met with President Higgins, started Talk Trans Tuesdays in order to push forward gender recognition legislation.

Trans-Fuzja co-organized an international conference in Warsaw re a future Polish Gender Recognition Law.

Intersex UK featured in The Independent.

Oceania:

Shelley Argent of PFLAG made a donation to that Brisbane can continue to have a transgender clinic.
Meetings in Brisbane to form an Australian trans health group, organized by Melody Moore.

Michelle Diamond is working with change.org to remove transexualism from the ICD.

Equal marriage & civil unions

A gala year for equal marriage legislation

Africa:

++Nigeria: parliament passed the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill

Americas:

Brazil – the Federal Court denied notaries of states who do not recognise same-sex marriage the right to refuse to perform same-sex marriages. Marriages began in May. Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Federal District, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraíba, Paraná, Piauí, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, Santa Rita do Sapucaí (MG), São Paulo, and Sergipe permitted equal marriages at an earlier date.

California – US Supreme Court rejected petition by backers of Proposition 8 to prevent state-wide marriages.

Delaware – passed by the Legislature.

Illinois – passed by both houses of the Legislature. Also permits opposite-sex civil unions, and recognizes out-of-state marriages and civil unions.

Hawai'i - passed by State Legislature.

Maryland – passed 2012, in effect 1/1/2013.

Minnesota – after state voters rejected a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, the Legislature passed a bill to allow equal marrieages.

New Jersey – court ruling that equal marriage required by State Constitution.

New Mexico – no state laws explicitly permit or prohibit same-sex marriage. 8 counties started issuing licences.  ++ in December its Supreme Court ruled that blocking same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.

Rhode Island – passed by the Legislature.

Uruguay – passed by Parliament.

++ Utah:   ban bon equal marriage ruled unconstitutional by US District Court.  Hundreds of same-sex couples quickly married.   The Attorney General's office was denied an emergency stay prevent licences being issued to same sex couples.

US: Defense of Marriage Act declared unconstitutional.

Aboriginal areas in the US:
Ceará & Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (Michigan),
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians (Michigan),
Santa Ysabel Tribe (California),
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Washington).

Asia:

Hong Kong, in the case of W, Hong Kong' top court granted her the right to marry her boyfriend – a right that has existed in the rest of China since 2003.

Abbygail Wu and Jiyi Wu of Taiwan, both trans women, had their marriage revoked when the second registered her gender as female, but then the authorities decided that the marriage would stand.

Europe:

Croatia will amend constitution to ban gay marriage.

France – passed by the National Assembly.

Ireland – a referendum has been announced.

England & Wales - an act was passed by Parliament permitting same-sex marriage but under different rules from those applying to heterosexual marriage. Peter Tatchell on the differences. Married trans persons will need spouse's permission before gender change. Opinion by Stephen Whittle. First wedding will not happen until March 2014.

Malta: government announced that it was dropping its objection to Joanne Cassar's marrying, and would amend the Marriage Act so that transsexuals may marry partners of their choice according to their acquired gender. Then appointed gay and trans members on council to advise re civil partnerships.

Scotland – passed second reading.

Oceania:

New Zealand – passed by Parliament.

Australian Capital Territory - passed but the Commonwealth challenged and nullified the law.

Other Legislation, Litigation, other government and corporate actions, etc

International: 

UN ministerial meeting warned that countries must protect LGBT citizens from violence or discrimination or they are breaking international law.

European Parliament asked the European Commission to step up its work against discrimination faced by transgender people when purchasing or accessing goods and services.

Council of Europe addressed for the first time bodily integrity of intersex children by adopting the Resolution on Children's Right to Physical Integrity. It also heard about and addressed transgender rights violations. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called in a Resolution on June 26 for equal access to health care for transgender persons. “The Assembly notes that inequalities in access to care, including mental health care, particularly affect vulnerable groups, including…transgender persons.”

The Fundamental Rights Agency published an opinion on the situation of equality in the European Union. The publication also explores the state of affairs for trans people under EU Equality and show for example that trans people in general are not aware of available discrimination protection.

Africa


++Uganda: Passed bill to increase penalties for even sexual touching from 7 years to life imprisonment, and up to three years for failure to report violators.  The bill was first introduced in 2009.

Americas:

Arizona: restroom restrictions protect business owners who bar trans persons from using their facilities, and Thomas Beatie lost his request for a divorce.

Boston police have issued new guidelines: police officers are to address transgender people by their preferred name, whether or not it is their legal name.

Mr & Mrs Crawford of South Carolina are suing over the damage caused by 'irreversible and medically unnecessary' surgery done on their child at age 16 months before they adopted him.

Canada: bill to add Gender Identity and Gender Expression to the Human Rights Code yet again passed the House of Commons, yet again stalled in the Senate – although got to third reading - and then died with all other pending bills when Prime Minister Harper prorogued Parliament.

California tg rights act; directed Insurance companies to provide transgender health coverage; name changes streamlined, students to use restrooms and be in sports teams according to their gender identity. Various right wing groups attempted to collect enough signatures to force a ballot initiative to reverse it.

Three transgender women of El Salvador shared their testimonies in the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights of the OAS (Washington), and in front of the Salvadoran government officials, about hate attacks they and their families suffered. The women were later received by a reception co-hosted by the Human Rights Campaign.

Guyana: Chief Justice Ian Chang said people cannot be found in violation of the law if they are cross-dressing “for the purpose of expressing or accentuating his or her personal sexual orientation in public.” He said police failed to inform the litigants the reasons for their arrests and awarded them compensation. The law survived constitutional reforms in 1966 and 1980, so Mr Chang argued that changes must come from the legislature rather than the judiciary.

Oregon directed Insurance companies to provide transgender health coverage.

Pinellas County, Florida added 'gender identity' to its human rights ordinance.

Macy in Maryland won a ruling that her civil rights under Title VII of the 1964 US Civil Rights act had been violated.

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued guidelines re trans students.

Saskatchewan will not include include gender identity in its human rights code.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority discontinued gender-marker stickers on weekly and monthly passes.

San Antonio, Texas, approved a law providing nondiscrimination protections against gay and transgender residents.

Washington, DC, dropped ban on trans women in its shelters for homeless women, and made it easier to get birth certificate re-issued.

US Social Security Administration has now made it easier to change gender in their records.

US Senate passed a trans-inclusive ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act).

US AFL-CIO labor federation amended its constitution Monday to add a provision banning discrimination based on gender identity or gender expression.

Asia:

++ India: Supreme Court reversed decrimalization of anti-gay laws.

South Korea: 5 trans men won court case that they can get gender change without genital surgery.

Gulf countries announced medical tests to detect and ban gay and trans persons.

Europe: 

Stephen Whittle discusses the disturbing implication of the conviction of Chris Wilson for not revealing his gender history.

Albania. Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg (Albanian) issued a paper Të Drejtat e Njeriut dhe Identiteti Gjinor (Human Rights and Gender Identity). http://tgeu.org/sites/default/files/Albania_Hammaberg_Issue_Paper.pdf.

Bosnia i Herzegovina: House of Representatives recently adopted hate crime legislation that is inclusive of gender identity and sexual orientation.

The European Parliament also called on the European Commission, in line with Court of Justice, to fully include discrimination on grounds of gender identity in future policy and legislation in the field of equality between women and men.

Germany – 3^rd indeterminate gender designation on birth certificates.

Greece. Without legislative change, police – particularly in Thessalonika and Athens – began systematically harassing trans women. They were charged with being sex workers, but the courts cleared them of all charges. A lawyer defending them was also arrested. This was justified by the Minister of Citizen Protection as to "improve the image" of the city.

Ireland launched new measures to protect gay and trans in school from bullying, and Gender Recognition Law promised for 2014.

Lithuania proposed a law to ban all transgender therapy and surgery, and to legalize hate speech.

Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust has launched a new Trans Support Service.

++ Netherlands Parliament passed a gender recognition law to take effect July 2014.

Paris Police regulations against women wearing trousers finally repealed. History.

Sweden – 142 transgender people who were forced to accept sterilisation, for legal recognition of their gender identity, under a now defunct law, have launched a lawsuit against the state.

UK. Passport Service rejected request for non-gender-specific passports. (this despite the fact that such did exist prior to joining the EU)

Oceania:

Australian Capital Territory: changed tabled for Births Deaths and Marriages Registration Act so that surgery no longer required before changing a birth certificate, and easier for intersex tochange their legal gender.

Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Amendment Bill 2012, extended legal protections on the grounds of gender identity and intersex status for the first time.

New Zealand Ministry of Corrections announced that the New Zealand Cabinet is to change the corrections rules in order to allow prisoners to be placed in a prison which matches the gender they identify with, rather than their birth gender.