Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 04/01/2023
Transgender activists have urged Hong Kong’s Immigration Department to approve applications to change the sex shown on identity cards after authorities suspended the process following a court…

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Added on: 03/31/2023
03/29/2023
Mongolia, a country with a relatively small population of three million people who maintain very close relations, has a vibrant LGBTQ+ community. Yet, for them, living an…

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Added on: 03/30/2023
03/29/2023
After authorities said the Nashville school shooter identified as transgender, anti-trans sentiment about the community surged from far-right political figures. Gun reform advocates and LGBTQ activists say the transgender community is…

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Added on: 03/29/2023
03/28/2023
“I love Florida, but Florida doesn’t love me back. ”Those were the words of Ollie, a nonbinary high school senior in Collier County who has lived in…

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Added on: 03/28/2023
03/27/2023
On Friday, House Republicans passed the so-called “Parents Bill of Rights Act,” which would force educators to misgender trans students and out them to their parents. The…

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Added on: 03/28/2023
JusticeMakers Bangladesh, a renowned human rights organization, has expressed grave concern over the murder of Khalek, a transgender woman, on Feb. 19 in Gazipur in central Bangladesh….

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Added on: 03/27/2023
BERLIN – Germany’s government agreed to simplify the administrative procedure for people wanting to change genders, a move long demanded by the LGBTQ community, a spokesman for…

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Added on: 03/27/2023
03/26/2023
A popular social networking app for gays, Grindr, has issued a warning to its users in Egypt after reports emerged that police are using fake accounts to…

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Added on: 03/27/2023
Ziya Pavel always wanted to be a mother; Zahad not so much. But the funny thing about love is that it makes you do things that you…

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Added on: 03/27/2023
03/26/2023
Members of The Dyke Project partied to protest the inaugural event of the The Lesbian Project – a trans-exclusionary initiative created by Julie Bindel and Kathleen Stock. The…

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Added on: 03/26/2023
03/25/2023
Deutsche Bank and Rotary Club of Bombay have teamed up to open Mumbai’s first transgender-run salon on Saturday, March 25 in an effort to create equal employment…

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Added on: 03/26/2023
03/25/2023
Ahead of internal discussions on legislation aimed promoting a better understanding of the LGBT community, conservatives within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have taken issue with a…

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Added on: 03/24/2023
03/20/2023
A wave of murders of trans women in Peru — six since the beginning of the year, after eight all of last year — has exposed a…

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Added on: 03/24/2023
03/23/2023
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio lawmakers are part of a record-breaking national conservative movement pushing anti-LGBTQ legislation, where 340 bills have been introduced in statehouses across the nation…

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Added on: 03/21/2023
03/20/2023
A Kiwi transgender woman is considering getting her gender affirmation surgery done overseas as demand in New Zealand for the service soars. Ella Jenkins, 23, was put…

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Added on: 03/21/2023
03/20/2023
The Andrews government will move to ban the Nazi salute within months after the gesture was used at a protest attended by neo-Nazis at the weekend. Victoria’s…

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Added on: 03/20/2023
ISLAMABAD: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz on Sunday said there was a united stance that the ‘guru culture’ in the khawaja sira (non-binary…

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Added on: 03/18/2023
03/17/2023
On March 12, Eden Knight, a 23-year-old Saudi-American transgender woman, posted a note online indicating that she intended to die by suicide. Knight’s suicide note accused her…

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Added on: 03/17/2023
03/16/2023
With each political debate and bill that passes over transgender rights, parents and LGBTQ+ youth say they brace for the negative impact it may have on their…

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Added on: 03/17/2023
03/17/2023
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) has strongly condemned the “efforts by the Muslim right wing in Kerala, including leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Indian Union…

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Added on: 03/16/2023
03/14/2023
A “cruel” bill that would define trans people out of Tennessee state code has inched closer to reality after it passed through the Senate. In the latest attack…

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Added on: 03/15/2023
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed legislation making it easier to sue providers of gender-affirming care for children, a move that could effectively reinstate a blocked…

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Added on: 03/15/2023
03/14/2023
A dramatic surge in attacks on LGBTQ+ people in Uganda has been recorded by rights groups this year, as the environment for sexual minorities turns increasingly hostile….

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Added on: 03/14/2023
03/13/2023
President Joe Biden called efforts to restrict transgender rights in Florida “close to sinful” in an interview released Monday, suggesting federal laws should be passed to protect…

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Added on: 03/13/2023
A British anti-transgender activist is planning a visit to Aotearoa, sparking concerns amongst Rainbow communities who say she has a “track record of hateful speech and the…

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Added on: 03/13/2023
03/12/2023
Anastasiia Yeva Domani has lived in Kyiv for her entire life and never plans to move. She is familiar face to many in the trans community in…

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Added on: 03/10/2023
Daily Wire pundit Michael Knowles has spent the past week pushing eliminationist rhetoric about transgender people. It began on his show, where on February 27 he said “transgenderism”…

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Added on: 03/10/2023
03/09/2023
BUDAPEST, March 9 (Reuters) – Hungary’s Justice Minister said late on Wednesday that Budapest would fight in the Court of Justice of the EU to defend an…

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Added on: 03/08/2023
03/07/2023
Activists and an independent journalists’ body in Indonesia have warned the media against giving undue importance to politicians’ efforts to exploit Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT)…

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Added on: 03/08/2023
03/07/2023
Identified as “female” on his Hong Kong ID, trans activist Henry Tse waged an arduous legal battle to have his real gender recognised. Six years later, he…