Transgender people will have to wait another year before their real identity is recognized, after Ireland's Gender Recognition Bill was delayed.

The Republic of Ireland's bill has been pushed back to 2014 and the Transgender Eqaulity Network Ireland (TENI) is calling for supporters to take action.

The bill is awaiting approval from the Irish parliament’s Heads of Bill. Pushing it back down the legislative agenda has been branded a breach of human rights.

A transgender person awaiting surgery to become a woman has complained to the Equality Opportunities Commission in Hong Kong how a nurse kept on calling her ‘Mr’.

Angel, a rights advocate in her 20s with Rainbow of Hong Kong, said the nurse’s loud use of the male honorific had drawn attention to her gender identity disorder, leaving her humiliated.

Around three hundred people attended a candle-lit vigil outside the office of the Daily Mail in London last night, to protest the newspaper's hounding of transgender primary school teacher Lucy Meadows, who was found dead a week ago today.

Campaigners Paris Lees, Jane Fae and Josephine Shaw and Labour MP for Bristol East Kerry McCarthy were at the vigil.

A court in Seoul has ruled that transsexual South Koreans can amend their gender on official documents without having to go through genital-altering surgery, Korea Times reports.

Five transmen filed the case in a district court. One of the five said he had had a hysterectomy but felt that there are medical problems that arise from removing sex organs. He has been living as a man for 23 years.

Legal experts have advised the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government in Canberra that gender options on official documents should be changed to suit the needs of intersex and transgender people.

Birth certificates should include the options male, female, intersex and indeterminate, ACT's Law Reform Advisory Council said, and transgender people should be able to chose their gender on official documents even if they haven't had surgery.

The Council's report, Beyond the Binary: Legal Recognition of Sex and Gender Diversity in the ACT, said:

Ellen DeGeneres got a Time magazine cover when she came out as a lesbian in 1997. A decade or so later, Lance Bass got a People magazine when he announced to the world that he was a gay man and so did Clay Aiken a short time after that.

But in 2o12, several high-profile celebrities came out as gay and didn't find themselves at the center of a media frenzy. Among them: CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Emmy winning actor Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory), and Broadway star-turned TV actor Andrew Rannells (The New Normal).

Transgender Day of Remembrance yesterday gave me time to reflect. And I find it amazing that in this day and age we still have prejudice and hatred towards trans people.

Yes you could bring sexuality into it too but I don’t want to focus on that as it would be going off topic.

I’m pretty lucky, the fact is I’ve never been attacked for being transsexual other than been verbally attacked and called names. It’s a pretty big contrast to these days when all I seem to get is guys shouting ‘nice tits’ at me!

An Indian gold medalist at the 2006 Asian Games has been accused of lying about her gender amid allegations that the female sprinter raped a woman.

Pinki Pramanik was charged on Monday (12 November) with raping and assaulting her female housemate in West Bengal, who claims the athlete is actually a man and broke a promise to marry her.

Indian police said results from a gender test proved she is biologically male.

The Bangkok post has made a touching video about a loving couple who both happen to be transgender.

Trans woman Sittichai ‘Pond’ Suafug and trans man Benhamaporn ‘Ben’ Rotjutakul met five years ago and on Valentine’s Day this year Ben proposed.

The couple are unusual among LGBT couples, because they are registered as opposite sexes on their birth certificates, they are able to legally get married in Thailand.

Depathologization. Sounds complicated: it’s not. For behind the fancy ideological word lies a stark reality. This is a campaign about power, and control and respect.

Who, in the end, will dictate the futures that trans people may choose for themselves? Will support for the transgender community always to be predicated on the basic, insulting premise that, at some level, we’re all a little bit mad? Or will, finally, the medical profession wake up to the fact the world has moved on – and it is no longer up to them to define and limit the trans experience?

A Minnesota university has sparked criticism for showing images of a transsexual's change from woman to man.

CampusReform.org is targeting U of M-Duluth for showing self-portraits by transexual activist Loren Rex Cameron in a show 26 September.

In an interview with FoxNews.com, Campus Reform spokesman Josiah Ryan said: 'UMD's administration has spent thousands of dollars in public resources this year to support a radical and divisive agenda'.