Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 05/23/2021

Ukraine march in support of more transgender rights

5/22/21

Scores of people rallied in Ukraine on Saturday in support of the Trangender and LGBT community. Crowds gathered in the capital Kyiv, waving flags and chanting as…

World Voices

Added on: 05/19/2021

Daniel Martinovic – Rainbow Families, Croatia

Ryan Eakins

Alturi Contributor

Daniel Martinovic is an individual that shows the true fundamental qualities of friendship and advocacy. During 2015, he dove into LGBTI work when two of his friends,…

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Added on: 05/19/2021

Transgender women allowed to play women’s rugby in France

06/18/2021

The French rugby federation (FFR) has voted unanimously in favor of allowing transgender women to play women’s rugby as of next season. The decision goes against advice…

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Added on: 05/18/2021

Lithuanian Gay League head calls for partnership law, special plan for LGBT people

05/17/2021

VILNIUS – Vladimir Simonko, head of the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL), said on Monday that he expects the parliament to have the political will to pass a…

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Added on: 05/18/2021

Veteran lawyer Alice Nkom on fighting for LGBT rights in Cameroon

05/17/2021

To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, we speak to Alice Nkom. She became Cameroon’s first female lawyer in her early 20s and now…

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Added on: 05/17/2021

Turkish media watchdog issues fine over interview with transgender woman

05/16/2021

Turkey’s media watchdog has issued a fine against an internet series for airing a broadcast that featured a trans actress, Duvar English news site reported on Sunday….

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Added on: 05/17/2021

UK government to host its first global conference on LGBTQ+ rights

05/16/2021

The UK government’s first-ever global conference on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights is to be hosted in London next year, as ministers race to fulfil pledges…

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Added on: 05/17/2021

Iran: How transgender people survive ultraconservative rule

05/26/2021

Iran’s state subsidizes gender reassignment surgery while prohibiting homosexuality. A long and continuing history of activism has helped transgender people bolster their community despite the discrimination they…

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Added on: 05/16/2021

Police banned from participating in NYC Pride events and march through 2025

5/15/21

Police will be banned from participating in NYC Pride events, including its signature LGBTQ march, until 2025, the organization announced Saturday. NYC Pride is also working to…

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Added on: 05/15/2021

Two Spirit Society & Allies of North Dakota aims to improve life for LGBTQ people

5/14/21

Cardinal Red Bird has more than one story about the verbal abuse he listened to in his on-and-off stays on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central…

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Added on: 05/15/2021

Pakistan: How has COVID impacted the LGBT community?

5/14/21

The coronavirus pandemic has made being LGBT+ in Pakistan significantly more difficult, in a country where those communities already face numerous challenges, including systemic oppression, social stigma…

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Added on: 05/15/2021

Call for intersex inclusion as House panel excludes ‘intersex’ in sex definition of proposed anti-discrimination law

5/14/21

A conservative politician – Deputy Speaker Bienvenido Abante Jr. – succeeded in pushing for the exclusion of the term “intersex” from the definition of sex in the…

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Added on: 05/15/2021

Fear breeds bravery as LGBT+ S.Africans resist ‘war on queerness’

5/13/21

Three months ago, Chippa Mohanoe’s fiancée was stabbed in the neck and killed in front of their neighbours in South Africa’s Sebokeng township. Every day since, Mohanoe…

Alturi Blog

Added on: 05/14/2021

Guatemala LGBTI: Discrimination and Migration

Alexander Champeau

Alturi Contributor

Guatemala: LGBTI Interaction with Society and State As Equaldex notes, LGBTI rights in Guatemala are, at least on paper, quite elevated. The site notes that “homosexual activity”…

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Added on: 05/14/2021

Cameroon Sentences Transgender Women to 5 Years in Prison

05/13/2021

Two transgender women were sentenced to five years in prison in Cameroon this week after they were found guilty of “attempted homosexuality” and public indecency, the latest…

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Added on: 05/14/2021

Benin: Threat On Transgender People and Their Defenders Following Assault On Three of Them

05/13/2021

Authorities in Benin must immediately take all necessary measures to protect transgender people and the associations that defend them, after three transgender women were forced to undress,…

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Added on: 05/13/2021

‘It’s discrimination’: Beach resort issues ban on transgender people

05/21/2021

The local LGBT community slammed a local resort over alleged discrimination in its Facebook post announcing a ban on transgender people. The management of Isla Reta Beach…

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Added on: 05/12/2021

HELL ON EARTH Inside Indonesia’s horrific exorcisms, rapes and electroshock torture to ‘cure’ LGBT people and ‘pray away the gay’

05/11/2021

EXORCISMS have largely been confined to the history books – but they’re a grim modern-day reality in Indonesia. Many made to have the “treatment” don’t even have…

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Added on: 05/12/2021

Cameroonian transgender women convicted of ‘attempted homosexuality’

05/11/2021

A local social media celebrity known as Shakiro, who also is identified as Loic Njeukam, and Patricia, also identified as Roland Mouthe, were arrested on Feb. 8….

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Added on: 05/12/2021

2021 is worst year for gay and trans rights in ‘war’ on LGBT+ Americans

05/11/2021

In less than five months, 2021 has become the “worst year” in recent history for LGBT+ rights in the United States, with dozens of gay and transgender…

World Voices

Added on: 05/11/2021

A Talk with Daniel: Trans TI and Inclusiva, Argentina

Nicolette Gullickson

Alturi Contributor

Unfulfilled is something that many feel at points in their careers. For Daniel, this feeling left him wanting to do more, to make more of a “social…

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Added on: 05/10/2021

U.S. Supports Transgender Health Clinics in India

05/09/2021

The United States supports and advocates for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) people everywhere. In India — where transgender people…

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Added on: 05/09/2021

Trans men mocked and denied entry to Egypt by border guards because they ‘do not look female’

5/8/21

Or Mizan and Titi Katan, both from Haifa, Israel, were travelling to Egypt for a five-day holiday in the Ras a-Satan resort in the Sinai peninsula when…

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Added on: 05/09/2021

Silicon Valley Not Immune To Anti-LGBTQ Violence

5/8/21

Three years ago, San Jose lawmakers voted to fly a rainbow flag over Chick-Fil-A—an effort to proclaim LGBTQ residents were welcome in one of the world’s most…

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Added on: 05/09/2021

Iran’s anti-LGBT military law blamed for murder of gay man

5/8/21

Three men murdered 20-year-old Alireza “Ali” Fazeli-Monfared on Tuesday in the Iranian city of Ahvaz allegedly because they learned the Iranian military exempted him due to “moral…

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Added on: 05/08/2021

Trans Teens Are Being Denied the Essential Treatment They’re Legally Entitled To

5/7/21

Young people in England and Wales with gender dysphoria are being left “in limbo” and unable to access time-sensitive puberty blocker medication, VICE World News has been…

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Added on: 05/05/2021

Policing Intersex Americans’ Sex and Gender

05/04/2021

But in one 1629 case, the Virginia General Court took up the question of how to understand an adult intersex person. Thomas/Thomasine Hall was arrested for wearing…

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Added on: 05/05/2021

Policing Intersex Americans’ Sex and Gender

05/04/2021

Unlike many other cultures, the Anglo-American mainstream has always relied on a binary view of sex and gender. In the case of intersex people, who have inherent…

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Added on: 05/04/2021

Hundreds rally against anti-trans bills erasing years of LGBT+ progress ‘with the swipe of a pen’

05/03/2021

Hundreds of people took to the streets of North Carolina to protest two devastating anti-trans bills that threaten “the basic human right to be human”, activists say….

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Added on: 05/04/2021

Meet the Ugandan trans activist fighting for rights on social media

05/03/2021

“If you want to know that [Keem] is a man, just snatch away his phone and run,” taunted an Internet troll under Keem Love Black’s new profile…