>Two Turkish delegates to the Third European Transgender Council in Malmoe, Sweden, were attacked as they left a restaurant Sept. 30. They were physically assaulted… Read More »Participants Attacked at Third European Transgender Council
> www.TCrime.net info@gires.org.uk The Home Office has awarded GIRES a grant to fund a national system for reporting transphobic crime. Appended below are examples of… Read More »New Service to Report Trans Hate Crime
>Sparkle! The biggest trans event in the world is held this weekend in Sackville Gardens, Manchester. For full details go to www.sparkle.org.uk. Chief sponsors of… Read More »Sparkle Manchester This Weekend
>The work of the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES) has been acknowledged in The Queen’s Birthday Honours list, published on 12 June 2010.… Read More »Trans Support Group Gets a Gong
>Yes, according to Natacha Kennedy. Writing in the Guardian’s Comment is free section, Kennedy claims that Tiwonge, who lives as a woman when at liberty,… Read More »Is the Malawi Couple Sentence a Trans Issue?
>You probably have heard about the perceived gay couple in Malawi (Tiwonge identifies as female) who have just been sentenced to 14 years in jail… Read More »Protest for Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga
>The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation presents the first person documentary Middle C, in which Tristan R. Whiston chronicles his year-long gender transition from woman to man… Read More »Middle C: A Year-Long Transition from Woman to Man
>The Greek National Council for TV and Radio has fined a programme for interviewing a trans woman and demanded that Tv does not upset and… Read More »Greek TV Watchdog Fines Show for Interviewing Trans Woman
Barbara Burford 1944 – 2010 The poet, writer and equality and diversity expert Barbara Burford died on 20 February. She was much loved and will… Read More »Barbara Burford Dies 1944 – 2010
> France has become the first country in the world to remove gender identity disorder, also known as transexualism, from its list of officially recognised… Read More »France Strikes Transexualism from List of Mental Illnesses
