Trans people are still suffering from discrimination,  prejudice and persecution in Europe, a new report has found.

Published on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (17 May), it will expose the 'bleak' legal challenges trans people face across 49 countries in Europe.

Transgender Europe (TGEU) will show which of the countries require sterilization in legal gender recognition and which do not provide for any procedures.

The index will present an in-depth overview of the legal human rights situation for trans people.

In a landmark decision, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal has ruled that a transsexual woman can marry her boyfriend.

A Hong-Kong-born transsexual woman in her mid-30s, known only as 'W' in court, has won a five year battle to win the right to marry the man she loves.

Michael Vidler, a partner of the legal firm representing the case, called the judgment a 'resounding victory' and said he was 'relieved' and 'happy' with the judgement.

Out of the five judges on the bench, four accepted the team's arguments.

WorldPride, the international pride event, is calling for submissions for presentations at the 2014 human rights conference in Toronto.

The organizing committee want activists, artists, educators, journalists, policy-makers, students and others involved in sexual orientation and gender identity human rights work to submit presentations to be considered to be shown at The WorldPride Human Rights Conference 2014.

When confronted with Trans Media Watch’s evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into standards in the British press, Dominic Mohan (the editor of the Sun) said on oath to the inquiry: ‘I think we have improved our reporting in these matters ... we’ve raised our game in terms of transgender reporting.’

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.

Most of us live our lives in the confines of what is typically ‘male’ or ‘female’. Have you ever thought about who you really are, that perhaps you are beyond gender? Have you ever thought gender and sexuality as we know it, could actually be a spectrum, and there is no black and white?

As a transgender man, I reached a point in life where I had to re-evaluate myself and my gender, I had to explore my soul and comprehend that who I am isn’t my physical body. My true self was always there, but my biological sex and society caused me to doubt myself. Never doubt yourself!

The mainstream British media's hate of trans people has been sharply exposed in the last few weeks and the community is hitting back.

Sick of lazy media misrepresentation, vilification and outright hate speech, trans people and allies in the UK have, over the last two weeks, become visible.

Trans Media Watch, the charity who speak-out for fair representation of transgender and intersex people in the media, has responded to a column by controversial British journalist Julie Burchill in yesterday's Observer newspaper.

A columnist with the UK's Guardian newspaper has defended herself against accusations of transphobia.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) announced on Saturday that its manual would no longer list 'Gender Identity Disorder'.

But the new, fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V) will include 'Gender Dysphoria', which it describes as 'a marked incongruence between one's experienced/ expressed gender and assigned gender'.

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!