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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….

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Added on: 08/08/2022

Trans equality wins in federal court as state Medicaid ordered to pay for gender affirming care

08/07/2022

U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Chambers ruled this week that West Virginia’s Medicaid program can no longer exclude gender-affirming medical care for its transgender members. The…

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Added on: 08/07/2022

Uganda suspends operations of charity championing LGBT rights

08/06/2022

The Ugandan government has suspended the operations of a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) that advocates for the rights of sexual minorities, accusing it of working in the…

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Added on: 08/06/2022

Romania Could Pass Russian-Style Anti-Gay “Propaganda” Law

08/05/2022

The Romanian Senate recently passed a bill that would classify the dissemination of LGBTQ-related information as “propaganda,” following the lead of Russia and Hungary and continuing a…

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Added on: 08/05/2022

Social contagion’ isn’t causing more youths to be transgender, study finds

08/04/2022

“Social contagion” is not driving an increasing number of adolescents to come out as transgender, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Pediatrics. The study also…

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Added on: 08/04/2022

The Nigerians worried about a bill to outlaw cross-dressing

08/03/2022

Trans women and men and non-binary people in Nigeria are nervously eyeing a parliamentary proposal that seeks to criminalise cross-dressing. It aims to amend the Same-Sex Marriage…

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Added on: 08/02/2022

Post-‘Roe,’ Transgender People Fear for the Future

08/01/2022

Minutes after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the country’s full-fledged attack on bodily autonomy reached new proportions in the…

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Added on: 07/31/2022

Britain’s only children’s gender identity clinic to shut down

7/28/22

Britain’s only dedicated gender identity clinic for transgender children and young people is to close, England’s national health service announced on Thursday, in response to recommendations from…

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Added on: 07/26/2022

Buenos Aires officials sued over unjust ban on gender-neutral language in schools.

07/25/2022

Authorities in Buenos Aires are being sued after banning gender-neutral language from being taught in schools. Local officials were collectively taken to court by political groups after…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Glasgow bagel business owner on mission to help young LGBT Scots

07/24/2022

IAN Brooke still looks over his shoulder when walking along a street when his husband takes his hand. The 42-year-old does it instinctively to see who might…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Gender-affirming Care: Thailand’s Transgender People Lead By Example

07/24/2022

According to the article published in The Lancet last year, “transgender-specific data could benefit efforts in Asia to identify gaps in HIV response for transgender people.” Despite…

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Added on: 07/25/2022

Delhi: Dispute between transgender individuals and police escalates at Dwarka

07/23/22

A dispute early Friday morning at a police station in Dwarka between transgender individuals from the Garima Greh shelter and police escalated, with the transgender individuals alleging…

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Added on: 07/23/2022

President Ramkalawan Meets Members of LGBTI Seychelles

7/22/22

President Wavel Ramkalawan received the Chairperson of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) Seychelles Association, Mr. Naddy Vidot, at State House yesterday morning. LGBTI Seychelles…

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Added on: 07/23/2022

Greece bans genital surgery on non-consenting intersex babies

7/22/22

The parliament of Greece passed a law earlier this week banning “sex-normalizing” surgeries for babies born intersex. Intersex children are born with any number of chromosomal, gonadal,…

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Added on: 07/19/2022

Meet the first transgender military training instructor in United States Air Force

07/18/2022

A military training instructor at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland not only serves our country by training the best in the United States Air Force, but also…

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Added on: 07/18/2022

Thousands Attend Trans Pride Amid Backlash Against Trans Rights

07/17/2022

Thousands of people attended Trans and Intersex Pride in Dublin amid concern that there is growing “backlash” against the community and its rights. Kicking off at the Garden…

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Added on: 07/17/2022

Rwanda ‘lies’ on gay rights as activist claims they were told to assure refugees

07/16/2022

Rwanda’s leaders are scrambling to make the country appear safe for gay people, it was claimed yesterday. A senior activist there told the People he was approached…

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Added on: 07/16/2022

Invitation: Survey aims to learn the realities of LGBTQI lives worldwide

07/14/2022

Gay-friendly researchers are reaching out to LGBTQI community members with the goal of creating an accurate account of what LGBTQI life is like in each of 204…

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Added on: 07/14/2022

Climate Of Hate’ For LGBT Defenders In Former Soviet Republics

07/13/2022

Amnesty International says groups that defend LGBT rights are facing a rise in hostility in parts of the former Soviet Union, fueled by discrimination, homophobia, and what…

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Added on: 07/13/2022

Penny Mordaunt doubles down on trans stance and says she never wanted Gender Recognition Act reform.

07/12/2022

Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt has said that she never supported plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act. Mordaunt served as equalities minister under Theresa May across…

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Added on: 07/12/2022

Bhutan’s trailblazing beauty queen speaks up for LGBTQ community

07/11/2022

Tashi Choden will not only be the first contestant to represent Bhutan at the Miss Universe competition — she is also the Himalayan country’s only openly gay…

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Added on: 07/11/2022

First Nations, transgender woman and broadcaster Charlotte Coulthard-Dare fights for visibility

07/10/2022

Charlotte Coulthard-Dare knows that some people have a problem with her very existence. “How would anybody else feel if they were put in a box within a box…

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Added on: 07/10/2022

Thousands march in Bucharest LGBTQ pride parade

7/9/22

Thousands of Romanians joined an LGBTQ pride march in Bucharest on Saturday ahead of planned legislation that could potentially endanger future parades and fuel discrimination. Parliament’s lower…

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Added on: 07/10/2022

Are LGBTQ rights blossoming in Bhutan?

7/8/22

In 2021, Bhutan decriminalised homosexuality after King Druk Gyalpo signed off on a law amending the small Himalayan country’s penal code. Parts of the code had criminalised…

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Added on: 07/09/2022

Israel’s Education System Revolutionized Its Approach to Transgender Students, but Still Has a Ways to Go

7/8/22

During the last week of school before summer vacation, the parents of N., a second-grader from the central Israeli city of Herzliya, visited her class in order…

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Added on: 07/09/2022

Man in China Learns He Has Ovaries and Uterus

7/8/22

A Chinese man by the name of Chen Li, 33, received the shock of his life after learning that he had ovaries and a uterus and that…

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Added on: 07/08/2022

UNAIDS welcomes the repeal of laws that criminalise and discriminate against LGBT people in Antigua and Barbuda

0707/2022

Geneva, July 7, 2022— UNAIDS applauds the ruling of the Antigua and Barbuda High Court of Justice that effectively decriminalises consensual same-sex sexual activity by holding that sections 12 and 15 of the…

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Added on: 07/07/2022

Transmen Indonesia successfully conducted a national assembly

07/07/2022

Transmen Indonesia successfully conducted a national assembly to gather trans men and trans masculine people in Indonesia. The event was attended by 21 people from 12 provinces…