http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=152470558

Argentina Gender Rights Law: A New World Standardby The Associated Press ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10630683

15 July 2010 Last updated at 04:40 ET

Argentine Senate backs bill legalising gay marriageArgentina has become the first country in Latin America to legalise gay marriage after the Senate voted in favour ( Read more... )

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2080/68/

"Buddies" Ease Transgenders' Hospital Visits in ArgentinaWritten by Marcela Valente ( Read more... )

On January 28th, 2009, a television news report showed an incident in which neighborhood watch patrols in the city of Tarapoto, Peru, chased and caught a travesti and her companion and then physically humiliated and insulted them. Neighborhood watch members cut their victims' hair and forced them to strip before subjecting them to a series of ( Read more... )

On October 24th, the Interamerican Human Rights Commission held - for the first time in its history - a thematic hearing on human rights violations related to gender expression, gender identity and sexual orientation. The hearing had been formally requested by the Ecuadorean group Taller de Comunicacion Mujer (TCM) on behalf of the Coalition of ( Read more... )

Mr. Juan Pablo Incocciati, the Health Sub-Secretary for La Matanza County in Buenos Aires Province, has rejected an ordinance requiring workers and professionals at hospitals in the county to respect gender identity by calling trans, travesti, or transsexual patients by their chosen names. The ordinance was unanimously approved by the La Matanza ( Read more... )

http://blabbeando.blogspot.com/2008/09/argentina-court-allows-transgender.htmlRead more... )

Belgian surgeons to perform Cuba's gender reassignment operationsThe head of Cuba's National Centre for Sexual Education, Mariela Castro, has revealed that 30 gender reassignment operations have been approved ( Read more... )

[This little snippet was the only news article I was able to find on the story, although the IGLHRC's website provides a little more background]

In other Colombian news, transsexual Darlyn Acevedo Ramírez, 19, was murdered in Cali on March 23, becoming the 13th transsexual to be killed in the city in the past two years ( Read more... )

Baby taken away from Brazilian gay couple11th January 2008 15:14 ( Read more... )