Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 09/12/2022

Tokyo Court Denies Transgender Parent Legal Rights To Own Child

09/11/2022

The journey toward equality for the LGBTQ+ community in Japan has been something of a ping-pong match over the past few years. The country has indeed taken…

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Added on: 09/12/2022

Transphobia in Germany: The danger of anti-queer attacks

09/11/2022

Munster, Augsburg, Bremen: three German cities, three brutal attacks on queer people within the past three months. One of them ended in tragedy for Malte C.*, a transgender man who…

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Added on: 09/10/2022

Montana permanently blocks transgender birth certificate changes

09/09/2022

Montana health officials on Friday made permanent a rule that blocks transgender people from changing their birth certificates even if they undergo gender-confirmation surgery. The move by…

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Added on: 09/06/2022

‘Legislation regarding transgender community against Quran and Sunnah’

09/05/2021

Senator Mushtaq Ahmad on Monday presented the bill for amendments in the Transgender Protection Act, 2018 to the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights. The meeting was…

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Added on: 09/06/2022

Louisiana tells schools to keep discriminating against trans students

09/05/2022

The Louisiana State Superintendent of Education is telling schools they can continue to discriminate against transgender students if they want to. In June, the Biden administration released…

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Added on: 09/05/2022

Acceptance and a job she loves makes this teacher’s world a lot brighter

09/04/2022

K. Sahana remembers how schools that had vacancies would reach out to her once they saw her qualifications listed in her resume. “When I would introduce myself…

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Added on: 09/04/2022

Doctors already in short supply in Alberta. Now, imagine trying to find one who’s gay

09/02/2022

Finding a family doctor is a challenge for most Albertans. The number of physicians in the province taking new patients has dropped by half since 2020. For…

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Added on: 09/04/2022

Thai transgender cabaret returns after pandemic closure

09/02/2022

Transgender performers at one of Thailand’s most famous cabaret shows have returned to the spotlight for the first time in about three years after being forced to…

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Added on: 09/02/2022

Peru opens torture investigation over trans man’s death in Indonesia

09/01/2022

LIMA, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors have opened an investigation for alleged torture over the death in Indonesia last month of a trans Peruvian man who…

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Added on: 08/31/2022

LGBT activists set to march on Scottish Parliament over trans rights

08/30/2022

LGBT campaigners are set to march on the Scottish Parliament calling for political parties to be “bolder” in the pursuit of transgender equality. Members of the SNP,…

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Added on: 08/31/2022

Their Country Banned Gay Marriage. This Lesbian Couple Got Married Anyway

08/30/2022

On a Saturday in early July, I arrived at the Bucharest town hall to attend a very special event – my old friend Georgiana was getting married…

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Added on: 08/30/2022

India’s top court declares same-sex couples entitled to social benefits, deserve legal protections

08/29/2022

A Supreme Court ruling in India affirmed that same-sex couples and other non-traditional families are entitled to social benefits, a decision that stands in stark contrast to…

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Added on: 08/30/2022

No place for hate’: Police remove lesbian protesters who crashed the Pride Cymru 2022 parade

08/29/2022

Police removed a group of lesbians from a gay pride march in Cardiff after an officer was filmed telling the gender-critical women to step aside due to…

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Added on: 08/28/2022

LGBT activists question Peru’s response to trans man’s death in Indonesia

08/26/2022

Indonesian police on Thursday denied accusations of violence from the family of a Harvard University transgender activist who died after being arrested on his honeymoon on the…

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Added on: 08/26/2022

Bali: Transgender student dies in police custody

08/25/2022

A Peruvian transgender rights activist has died in police custody in Bali. Police arrested Rodrigo Ventocilla, 32, on 6 August at Denpasar airport, after customs officials found…

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Added on: 08/24/2022

Twitch streamer and trans activist says she’s leaving Canada for awhile due to harassment

08/23/2022

Transgender activist and internet broadcaster Clara Sorrenti of London, Ont., says she’s leaving the country for a time at least to escape unrelenting harassment that has become…

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Added on: 08/23/2022

With a “feeling of betrayal,” one family flees Texas in search of safer climate for their transgender daughter

08/22/2022

Ess Welsh spent her entire life in Texas. It’s where she fell in love with marching band, where she found a community of fellow Dungeons and Dragons…

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Added on: 08/21/2022

After years of progress on gay rights, how did the US become so anti-LGBTQ+?

04/28/2022

In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opinion piece titled “The struggle for gay rights is over”. Written by the rightwing academic James Kirchick, the piece was obviously…

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Added on: 08/21/2022

Japan court refuses to recognise trans woman as parent of child born after transition

08/19/2022

A Japanese court on Friday ruled that only the child born before a trans woman went through her surgical and legal transition could be recognised legally as…

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Added on: 08/19/2022

The situation as a Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugee in Kenya is as terrible as you can imagine

08/17/2022

Geoffrey Rainbo* is an LGBTQ+ refugee from Uganda (@GeoffreyRainbo). I am a Ugandan gay man living in Nairobi after being relocated from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in north-western…

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Added on: 08/19/2022

AUSSIE OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST ELLIA GREEN COMES OUT AS TRANS

08/17/2022

Ellia Green, Australian Olympic gold medalist and former rugby union player, came out as transgender on Tuesday. Green, the first Olympian to come out as a transgender…

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Added on: 08/17/2022

Why Nayyab Ali puts her life on the line to protect trans Pakistanis

08/16/2022

In the basement of a residential building in a developing part of Islamabad, a dozen or so transgender women are sitting in a circle on the floor….

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Added on: 08/17/2022

Transgender people protected from discrimination under ADA, appeals court rules

08/16/2022

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that transgender people who experience gender dysphoria are protected from discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a ruling with major…

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Added on: 08/16/2022

The U.K. Turns Its Back on Transgender Ideology

08/15/2022

By the spring of 2023, Britain’s state-run transgender youth clinic will shut its doors for good. NHS England announced it was closing the Tavistock gender-identity clinic last…

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Added on: 08/16/2022

Utah Republican Party passes resolution seeking to block gender-affirming treatment for transgender youth

08/15/2022

The Utah Republican Party passed a resolution encouraging the banning of surgeries and hormone therapy for transitioning transgender minors. “We don’t let them drink until they’re 21….

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Added on: 08/15/2022

Winchester dance charity Move Momentum strive to be more inclusive with transgender awareness training

08/14/2022

Move Momentum, based in Winchester, aims to provide accessible, inclusive and affordable dance classes for the community. Recently, staff from the dance charity attended Transgender Awareness training led…

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Added on: 08/14/2022

Churches in East Africa can help to change attitudes to LGBT rights, says charity

08/12/2022

Churches in East Africa have a necessary part to play in changing attitudes and policies concerning LGBTIQ+ rights, the international charity the Arcus Foundation has said. Last…

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Added on: 08/10/2022

Seychelles president welcomes LGBTI activists

08/09/2022

The LGBTI community in the island nation of Seychelles has achieved a new level of social and political recognition. Evidence of that achievement came on July 21,…

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Added on: 08/10/2022

Meet 5 queer trailblazers making visibility matter in small-town America

08/09/2022

When Sylvia Ximi was in middle school, she recalls looking around her hometown of Prescott, Arizona, for any sign there were other queer people around. One low-slung…

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Added on: 08/08/2022

In a first, housing scheme proposed for transgender community in Maharashtra

08/07/2022

The Social Welfare Department of the Maharashtra government has proposed an affordable housing scheme for the transgender community. Credit: AFP File Photo The Social Welfare Department said….