Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 05/16/2023
05/15/2023
Three Texas Democrats helped their Republican colleagues pass a controversial state bill that would ban transgender youth from getting hormone therapies, puberty blockers and transition-related surgeries. This…

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Added on: 05/15/2023
05/14/2023
The future of Indonesia’s only Islamic community centre for transgender women is in jeopardy after its leader, Shinta Ratri, died in February – and the government says…

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Added on: 05/15/2023
05/14/2023
Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld is a U.S. Navy combat veteran who will be inaugurated as the American Medical Association’s (AMA) first out gay president on June 13 –…

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Added on: 05/13/2023
05/12/2023
A candidate to become governor of Kentucky has vowed to purge transgender kids from the state’s schools, in her bid for Republican nomination. On Monday (8 May),…

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Added on: 05/12/2023
05/11/2023
WashingtonCNN — The Supreme Court cleared the way for a transgender woman from Guatemala to appeal her deportation from the United States in federal court. The woman argues that she…

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Added on: 05/11/2023
05/10/2023
LONDON, May 11 (Openly) – Europeans are moving ever closer to embracing equal rights for all despite a rise in anti-transgender rhetoric by many of their politicians,…

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Added on: 05/10/2023
05/09/2023
Minors seeking gender-affirming care in Washington will be protected from the intervention of estranged parents under a measure Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law Tuesday. The new…

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Added on: 05/10/2023
05/09/2023
Spain’s Constitutional Court said Tuesday it would consider a legal challenge lodged by the far-right Vox party against a new law extending rights for transgender teenagers and…

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Added on: 05/10/2023
The German government on Tuesday presented a proposal for a law that will make it easier for people to legally change their name and gender, ending decades-old…

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Added on: 05/08/2023
05/06/2023
The Israel Police last week issued a new regulation regarding body searches of transgender people who have not fully transitioned, which several LGBTQ groups decry as harmful,…

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Added on: 05/07/2023
A Texas hospital’s care for transgender minors is being investigated by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said Friday he’s seeking evidence of alleged “potentially illegal activity”…

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Added on: 05/06/2023
05/05/2023
Czech lawmakers have launched a proposal to remove the sterilisation requirement for legal gender transition, but progress to lift society-wide prejudices is slow. The Czech Republic is…

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Added on: 05/05/2023
05/05/2023
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s populist prime minister likened liberalism to a “virus” in an opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the Hungarian capital…

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Added on: 05/03/2023
Republican lawmakers in Kansas passed a sweeping law last week that will restrict the kinds of public spaces and services transgender and nonbinary Kansans will have access…

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Added on: 05/03/2023
05/02/2023
Shabnum Subhan’s house is tucked in the bylanes of Srinagar’s downtown, the most densely populated area of Kashmir’s capital city. In the three-story house, 44-year-old Subhan, who…

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Added on: 05/01/2023
04/30/2023
Just weeks before stepping foot on Smith College’s campus, Avery finally came to understand something that cast doubt on whether the small women’s college in Northampton, Massachusetts,…

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Added on: 05/01/2023
04/30/2023
For many transgender individuals, the very spaces that are meant to provide safety and refuge – their own homes and private spaces – can be hotbeds of…

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Added on: 04/30/2023
04/29/2023
Some conservative commentators and celebrities began calling for a boycott of Bud Light after the beer was featured in a social media promotion by a transgender influencer,…

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Added on: 04/29/2023
Issues surrounding the rights of transgender students continue to make national headlines, and they’re hitting home in the Valley. One West Valley school district was considering changes…

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Added on: 04/26/2023
In Scotland, about 60 per cent of the secondary schools have adopted the ‘LGBT charter’ which aims to promote acceptance among teachers and students The Herald reported….

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Added on: 04/26/2023
04/25/2023
Threatening notes. Physical assaults. False accusations. In his years dealing with the families of young transgender people in Beijing, Doctor Poon has seen it all. Since 2016,…

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Added on: 04/26/2023
04/25/2023
Montana Republicans persisted in forbidding Democratic transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from participating in debate for a second week and her supporters brought the House session to a…

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Added on: 04/25/2023
04/24/2023
In a surprising move, Hungarian President Katalin Novak rejected the new law that restricts the rights of homosexual and transsexual people on April 21. It marks the…

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Added on: 04/25/2023
Lessons in self-defense and how to stay safe in the face of harassment will soon be offered to D.C. residents who are transgender and nonbinary. The group…

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Added on: 04/25/2023
04/24/2023
Russia’s Justice Ministry is gearing up to make it tougher for transgender people to change their gender markers in their passports, which will make gender transition tougher…

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Added on: 04/25/2023
04/24/2023
As a third grader in Utah, mandolin-playing math whiz Elle Palmer said aloud what she had only before sensed, telling a friend she planned to transfer schools…

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Added on: 04/23/2023
04/22/2023
Two years ago, Kavitha Sivasamy, an articulate, elegant Canberra lawyer, began to face her fears about undergoing gender-affirming surgery. “It’s really scary to go through something so…

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Added on: 04/22/2023
04/21/2023
National guidance for schools in Wales on how to support transgender pupils will be published during the next academic year. The Welsh government said it required “extensive…

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Added on: 04/22/2023
04/21/2023
The Minnesota Senate Friday passed a trio of proposals aimed at legally safeguarding people who come to Minnesota for abortion and gender-affirming care and outlawing what’s called…

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Added on: 04/19/2023
Last week, the Indian government made its opposition to same-sex marriage be known by urging the country’s Supreme Court to reject petitions filed by same-sex couples. The…