Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 08/28/2024

Providers halt services after court allows Florida to enforce ban on transgender care for minors

08/27/2024

Advocates say transgender patients are facing barriers to “potentially life-saving health care” after a federal appeals court ruled that a Florida law banning gender-affirming care can be…

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Added on: 08/26/2024

Supreme Court leaves LGBTQ+ students without crucial civil rights protections ahead of school year

08/25/2024

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold injunctions on the Biden administration’s latest education regulations in 10 states and hundreds of schools and university campuses nationwide leaves transgender,…

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Added on: 08/25/2024

Australian transgender woman wins landmark case against female-only app

08/24/2024

An Australian court ruled on Friday that removing a transgender woman from female-only social networking platform Giggle for Girls constituted discrimination, in a landmark decision on gender…

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Added on: 08/24/2024

Pakistan: Transgender entertainers face extortion

08/23/2024

Many transgender people in Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province earn money by dancing at private parties and events. However, this is a risky way to earn a…

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Added on: 08/24/2024

Afghan Transgender people also face harassment in Pakistan

08/23/2024

Alina is an Afghan transgender person who fled Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan, after the Taliban took over the country. Alina says her life would be in danger…

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Added on: 08/24/2024

LGBTQ Dems celebrate likely election of first openly transgender person to Congress

08/23/2024

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride, who in November is expected to become the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, told LGBTQ+ delegates to the Democratic National…

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Added on: 08/24/2024

Removing transgender woman from female-only app was discrimination, Australian court rules

08/23/2024

A female-only app discriminated against a transgender woman by removing her from the platform, an Australian court has ruled in a landmark case. The Federal Court of…

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Added on: 08/23/2024

LGBTQ Dems stress importance of representation, allyship in Harris-Walz ticket

08/22/2024

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride, who in November is expected to become the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, told LGBTQ delegates to the Democratic National…

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Added on: 08/22/2024

Details Emerge in Senseless Murder of Trans Woman Clement Hadebe

08/21/2024

A friend of Clement Hadebe, a transgender woman recently murdered in Johannesburg, has spoken out to correct what they describe as inaccurate media reports about the circumstances…

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Added on: 08/22/2024

Judge rules transgender teen can temporarily play on girls’ soccer team amid new law

08/21/2024

When the girls’ soccer team at Plymouth Regional High School in New Hampshire began practice on Monday to prepare for the start of the official season on…

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Added on: 08/21/2024

Closing the legal gaps: Advancing transgender justice in Pakistan

08/21/2024

The legal recognition and protection of transgender rights in Pakistan has been subject to a complex interplay of societal norms, cultural practices, and legislative frameworks. A significant…

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Added on: 08/21/2024

Trump-stacked appeals court overturns trans worker’s court victory

08/20/2024

A Georgia anti-trans discrimination ruling from May has been voided by an appeals court, half of whose judges were appointed by former President Donald Trump. The ruling…

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Added on: 08/20/2024

Did the Supreme Court just overrule one of its most important LGBTQ rights decisions?

08/19/2024

The Supreme Court handed down a brief and very odd opinion on Friday that seemed to abandon its landmark civil rights decision in Bostock v. Clayton County…

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Added on: 08/20/2024

Joburg Murder Sparks Transphobic Victim Blaming

08/19/2024

The horrific murder of Clement Hadebe, a queer individual in Johannesburg, has sparked a flood of hateful, victim-blaming transphobic bigotry on social media. Reports of Hadebe’s death,…

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Added on: 08/19/2024

Taiwanese public largely rejects gender self-identification, survey finds

08/18/2024

A new study published in Archives of Sexual Behaviour reveals that an overwhelming majority of Taiwanese respondents strongly oppose gender self-identification for transgender women. Gender self-identification, particularly for transgender…

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Added on: 08/18/2024

West Bengal: LGBTQIA community stages protest over Kolkata rape-murder

08/18/2024

Amid widespread outrage and demands for justice following the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, members…

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Added on: 08/17/2024

Supreme Court rejects Biden administration’s request to enforce new civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ students

08/16/2024

The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from the Biden administration to enforce parts of a new federal rule meant to protect LGBTQ+ and pregnant…

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Added on: 08/16/2024

Texas sues Biden again to block federal protections for transgender workers

08/15/2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton returned to court on Thursday to press his case against the Biden administration’s workforce protections for transgender employees. Texas’s lawsuit, filed in federal court on…

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Added on: 08/14/2024

LGBTQ asylum-seekers chase a life of safety and peace after rape and death threats

08/13/2024

Michelle Carranza, 22, did not want to be another trans woman murdered in her native Honduras. “They don’t accept us there. They kill us, they discriminate us,…

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Added on: 08/13/2024

Ballroom Is Still About Black Queer Joy

08/12/2024

Every Saturday between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m., the Washington Neighborhood Center in Sacramento, California, vibrates with house beats. Unknowing neighbors peer in curiously, but for those…

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Added on: 08/13/2024

Council Of Europe Urges Bulgaria To Scrap LGBTQ ‘Promotion’ Ban

08/12/2024

The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner on Monday said he was “deeply concerned” by an LGBTQ “promotion” ban passed by Bulgaria’s parliament, urging President Rumen Radev…

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Added on: 08/13/2024

First trans athlete at Paralympic Games says her participation ‘is an important symbol of inclusion’

08/12/2024

Valentina Petrillo is gearing up to become the first out transgender athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games, and has noted that her participation “is an important…

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Added on: 08/12/2024

The trans community experiences a surge of hope within deep election anxiety, report finds

08/11/2024

With so much talk about the trans community, much of it in the form of vitriol from the right, there are few platforms for the actual voices of…

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Added on: 08/10/2024

Nigerian transgender TikToker found dead

08/09/2024

Nigerian police are investigating the death of a Nigerian transgender TikToker known as “Abuja Area Mama”. The beaten and bruised body of 33-year-old transgender woman was found…

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Added on: 08/10/2024

Federal judge rules that Florida’s transgender health care ban discriminates against state employees

08/09/2024

A federal judge has ruled that Florida’s transgender health care ban discriminates against state employees and violates their civil rights. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled…

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Added on: 08/10/2024

Mexico City will now give harsher punishments to anti-trans murderers

08/09/2024

Mexico City, Mexico has passed a local law banning murders against transgender women, a practice referred to in the country as transfemicidio (transfemicide). Murderers convicted under the…

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Added on: 08/09/2024

Transgender voters more ‘hopeful’ about election following Biden exit, poll shows

08/08/2024

WASHINGTON (TND) — Transgender Americans have a more “hopeful” emotional state following President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the presidential election, according to a new poll by LGBT health…

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Added on: 08/08/2024

Transgender peoples’ legal hurdles with EU freedom of movement

08/07/2024

For transgender individuals, the dream of seamless travel and residence across EU member states is often undermined by a patchwork of legal and bureaucratic barriers surrounding recognition…

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Added on: 08/07/2024

LGBTQ rights groups celebrate Walz as Harris VP pick

08/06/2024

LGBTQ rights groups on Tuesday celebrated Vice President Harris’s selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, highlighting his longtime support for LGBTQ equality. Walz,…

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Added on: 08/06/2024

Thailand takes a leap towards marriage equality, but more work needed for trans rights

08/05/2024

This summer, the Thai government passed the Marriage Equality Bill, marking a historic moment as Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage….