Transgendered News

They remain anonymous, but their voices are out in force and bold print: a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women have braved law and social taboo in Lebanon with a little pink-and-white book.

New Zealand defense counsel will no longer be able to use the "gay panic" defense, known formally as the "Partial Defense of Provocation" that has seen several killers of gay New Zealand men get a lighter sentence of manslaughter instead of murder.

Voters in Maine took a step backwards when they approved a referendum that stripped LGBT couples of the right to marry.

Laura Meads is slim, sexy and very feminine. It's almost impossible to believe she was born a boy.

A year ago this month, Lateisha Green, a transgender woman, was shot to death as she sat in a car outside a house party in upstate New York.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's party-guy private life has dominated Italy's public discourse for more than six months.

Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons has received this year's Civil Liberties Award from the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre for a series of columns on Bill 44 and access to transgender surgery.

Thailand has issued rules making sex-change surgery more difficult - including a requirement that potential candidates cross-dress for a year - over fears that some patients are rushing into the operation.

More than 9,000 hate crime offenses -- more than half of them motivated by racial bias -- were reported last year, the FBI announced Monday.

Gay voters were again the center of the Atlanta mayoral campaign Wednesday as Kasim Reed pressed to clarify his position on issues important to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Rape victims are not believed by the police if they come from the wrong part of town, Sara Payne, the Government's Victims' Champion has warned.

The 27-year-old Thai cabaret dancer chats to nurses throughout the ordeal under the surgeons knife, numbed only by local anaesthetic.

Reports of hate crimes against gays and religious groups increased sharply in 2008, according to new FBI data released Monday.

West Hollywood unveiled the first Transgender Memorial Plaque in America last week during a commemoration of The Transgender Day of Remembrance at the Matthew Shephard Memorial Triangle in the Creative City.

When your rights and responsibilities as a parent come in conflict with the liberal education establishment, who wins? Parents in Ames, Iowa just found out, and it's not them.

Accused murderer Joel Allen said he acted in self-defense after the victim in the case struck him, threatened to kill him and demanded $250 from him.

Ken Keechl, who has sat on the Broward County Commission since 2006, is now the country's highest-ranking openly gay mayor.

A Brazilian transgender woman wrapped in a political scandal that took down a senior Italian politician was found burned to death in her home Friday.

Rita Hester was stabbed to death in her own home on Nov. 28, 1998 because the gender she identified with didn't align with what society thought she should be presenting.

New book by Patrizia D'Addario adds lesbian dimension to alleged escapades at home of Italian prime minister Patrizia Da TMAddario says in her new book that she met two lesbians at the home of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.