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Added on: 03/18/2021

Mississippi governor signs bill banning trans athletes from school sports

NBC News
03/11/2021
On Thursday, Gov. Tate Reeves signed “the Mississippi Fairness Act” into law, requiring the state’s schools to designate teams by sex assigned at birth and prohibiting transgender…
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Global News

Added on: 03/17/2021

Equality Act is creating a historic face-off between religious exemptions and LGBTQ rights

Washington Post
03/16/2021
In some ways, full LGBTQ rights has never seemed more within reach. First came the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Then its decision last year…
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Added on: 03/17/2021

Turkey’s LGBT+ endure brutal attacks amid Erdogan reign

Deutche Welle
03/16/2021
When Miras Günes body was found a few days ago, her face was disfigured beyond recognition. The preliminary autopsy report revealed she was beaten to death with…
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Added on: 03/14/2021

Sponsors of North Dakota’s transgender athletes bill have ties to anti-LGBT organizations

Grand Forks Herald
3/14/21
When state Sen. Janne Myrdal testified before the North Dakota House Human Services Committee in support of HB 1298, she said she believes the bill has little…
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Added on: 03/13/2021

Transgender woman Martine Delaney recognised for service to Tasmanian community

ABC News (AU)
3/12/21
LGBT rights advocate Martine Delaney has become the first Tasmanian transgender woman to be recognised on the Honour Roll of Women — an award given to those…
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Added on: 03/13/2021

Hungary’s top court throws out retroactive gender change ban

Reuters
3/12/21
Hungary’s Constitutional Court on Friday said it had thrown out a government bid to stop people who have changed gender being recognised in official documents, an issue…
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Added on: 03/09/2021

Bangladesh’s first transgender news reader takes to the airwaves

The Guardian
03/09/2021
To cheers from colleagues, Bangladesh’s first transgender news presenter broke down in tears , but only after her word-perfect debut was beamed to the nation and the…
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Added on: 03/09/2021

Patriarchal Albania offers little compassion for same-sex relationships

WHBL
03/09/2021
TIRANA (Reuters) – Sara, a 26-year-old woman from Tirana, is reluctant to talk about her love life with friends and family as they cannot understand her attraction…
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Added on: 03/09/2021

Researchers perform new study on intersex experience

News Medical
03/08/2021
Intersex and Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) are two terms used to describe those born with sex characteristics (i.e., chromosomes, gonads, genitals) that do not fit the…
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Added on: 03/08/2021

Pakistan- Accused who tortured transgender person arrested in Nowshera

MENA FN
03/07/2021
Nowshera Police have arrested an accused who attacked and injured a transgender person. Police said that transgender person Fayyaz alias Sunny came to Cantt Police Station with…
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Global News

Added on: 03/06/2021

Myanmar’s Pro-Democracy Protests Are Giving a Voice to LGBTQ+ People

Time Magazine
03/05/2021
Sue Sha Shin Thant, a transgender woman, has experienced a lifetime of discrimination and social exclusion in Myanmar, where LGBTQ+ people have no recognized rights or protections…
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Global News

Added on: 03/05/2021

Mississippi governor to sign bill banning transgender student-athletes from female sports teams

ABC
03/04/2021
Mississippi legislators have passed a bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams in schools and universities — one of over two dozen…
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Added on: 03/04/2021

South Korea’s first known transgender soldier found dead

ABC
03/03/2021
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s first known transgender soldier, who protested the military’s decision last year to discharge her for undergoing gender reassignment surgery, was found…
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Added on: 03/04/2021

The Trailer: Why Republicans keep running against trans rights

Washington Post
03/04/2021
In this edition: The GOP’s transgender politics, lessons from CPAC and a sit-down with a Republican running for Congress against Trump. We don’t have the Kraken anymore,…
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Added on: 03/01/2021

BIHAR GOVT TO PATNA HIGH COURT : WILL SET UP SPECIAL TRANS POLICE UNITS IN EACH DISTRICT

Gaylaxy Magazine
03/01/2021
In an affidavit submitted to the Patna High Court, Bihar Government has said that it is committed to “respectful representation” of transgender people in public employment, and…
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Added on: 02/26/2021

LGBT+ Americans inch closer to ‘freedom’ as House passes Equality Act

Reuters
02/25/2021
By a vote of 224 to 206, the House passed the landmark Equality Act, which amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender…
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Added on: 02/26/2021

Outrage as Marjorie Taylor Greene displays transphobic sign in Congress

The Guardian
02/25/2021
The Republican extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene attracted widespread condemnation – from transgender groups, Democrats and her own party – after she hung a transphobic sign outside her…
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Added on: 02/25/2021

American anti-trans activist invited to give Singaporeans a ‘better understanding’

Coconuts Singapore
02/24/2021
An American doctor who believes transgenderism as a “myth” and has supported the forced “conversion” of homosexuals has been invited to lead a discussion of the issue…
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Added on: 02/25/2021

Transgender Arkansan killed in Pennsylvania

Arkansas Democrat Gazette
02/24/2021
A 24-year-old transgender woman from Springdale was killed Thursday in Pennsylvania , according to the Pennsylvania State Police. Chyna Carrillo’s death is at least the seventh killing…
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Added on: 02/25/2021

A record 5.6% of Americans identify as LGBT+, Gallup poll finds

Reuters
02/24/2021
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A record 5.6% of Americans – or 18 million people – are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, a Gallup poll found…
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Added on: 02/24/2021

‘I’m still here’: Transgender troops begin new era of open military service

ABC News
02/23/2021
As the U.S. military adapts to evolving and increasingly complex global threats, highly-trained cyber warriors like Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Brock Stone are at the tip…
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Added on: 02/24/2021

Tunisia: Police Arrest, Use Violence Against LGBTI Activists

Human Rights Watch
02/23/2021
(Beirut) – Tunisian security forces have repeatedly targeted protesters, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) activists at protests, Human Rights Watch said today. The targeting…
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Added on: 02/23/2021

Empowering the transgender community to facilitate their access to justice in Armenia

Council of Europe
02/22/2021
The RighT Side Human Rights Defender NGO in Armenia is implementing until July 2021 a national project aims at empowering the transgender community to facilitate their access…
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Added on: 02/22/2021

Housing for transgender, two-spirit people opens in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

CBC
02/21/2021
New housing for transgender, two-spirit and gender-diverse people is set to start accepting residents in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Ross-Aoki House, a century-old 24-room hotel, was purchased by…
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Added on: 02/21/2021

Abuse and hate speech against LGBTI people rises across Europe and Central Asia

BNE
2/21/21
There has been a “stark rise” in abuse and hate speech against LGBTI people in the Europe and Central Asia region, including from politicians, says a new…
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Added on: 02/21/2021

Yokkao Founder Philip Villa Supports Transgender Fighter Nong Rose in Fight for Inclusivity

Net News Ledger
2/21/21
Thai trans woman Muay Thai fighter, Nong Rose Baan Charoensuk is on a mission to strive for transgender rights in Thailand and around the world. She now…
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Added on: 02/20/2021

Why Jammu’s transgender community hit the streets in protest

Down to Earth
2/19/21
Several groups of the community came together at Bikram Chowk on January 21, 2021 to take out a nude protest. Four transgender persons were allegedly abudcted and…
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Added on: 02/18/2021

State anti-transgender bills represent coordinated attack, advocates say

NBC News
02/17/2021
Bills in at least 20 states are targeting the transgender community in what LGBTQ advocates say is an organized assault by conservative groups. On Thursday, the North…
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Added on: 02/17/2021

LGBT+ History Month event for teens hijacked by ‘homophobic, transphobic and racist slurs’ and pornography

Pink News
02/16/2021
An LGBT+ History Month seminar for under-18s was interrupted by a cyber attacker who shouted homophobic, transphobic and racist slurs. Education non-profit Academus Education was hosting a…
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Added on: 02/17/2021

Transgender Woman Is Killed in ‘Vicious and Violent Attack’ in Her Miami Apartment

People
02/16/2021
An attack that a police detective describes as “very vicious and violent” has authorities searching for the killer of a 45-year-old transgender woman found dead two weeks…
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