A transgender woman has been named Miss Portugal for the first time in the history of the national beauty pageant. Marina Machete, a biological male, was crowned during a ceremony in the southeastern city of Borba on Thursday. Machete is 28 years old and worked as a flight attendant for five years. She previously won the Miss Palmela competition. “Proud to be the first trans woman to compete for... 

The 18-year-old woman charged in an attack on a transgender woman at a Rosedale McDonald’s, which was captured on video that went viral on the Internet, will face an additional hate crime charge after being indicted Monday by a Baltimore Countygrand jury. Activists for the gay, lesbian and transgender community had expressed concern that hate crime charges weren’t initially filed by police...