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Added on: 07/29/2021

Ghana: anti-gay bill proposing 10-year prison sentences sparks outrage

07/28/2021

Draft anti-gay legislation submitted to Ghana’s parliament could propose up to 10 years in jail for LGBTQ+ people as well as groups and individuals who advocate for…

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Added on: 07/28/2021

Judge dismisses legal challenges to transgender student protections

07/27/2021

A Lynchburg Circut Court Judge dismissed legal challenges to block the Virginia Department of Education’s new policies on protecting transgender students. Earlier this spring, two lawsuits were…

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Added on: 07/28/2021

Meet 7 Activists Fighting to Improve LGBTQ+ Rights Across Africa

07/27/2021

I’ve personally experienced two homophobic attacks in my home city of Enugu, in southeastern Nigeria: one from the police and the other from a crowd of students….

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Added on: 07/26/2021

Finns Turn against Puberty Blockers for Gender Dysphoria

07/25/2021

First, it was the Brits and then the Swedes. Now, the transgender moral panic is receiving more pushback from the Finns. Finnish medical guidelines are now opposed…

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Added on: 07/26/2021

‘The worst anti-LGBTQ bill ever’

07/25/2021

The “most homophobic document the world has ever seen” is how LGBTQ rights activists describe Ghana’s sweeping anti-homosexuality bill recently revealed after months of discussion and publicity…

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Added on: 07/24/2021

Hungary’s LGBTQ community: ‘We are afraid of losing everything’

7/23/21

Over the past months, Boldizsar Nagy has had to grapple with things he never expected. He was never anyone “special,” the journalist and children’s book editor said…

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Added on: 07/24/2021

Ghana: anti-gay bill proposing 10-year prison sentences sparks outrage

7/23/21

Draft anti-gay legislation submitted to Ghana’s parliament could propose up to 10 years in jail for LGBTQ+ people as well as groups and individuals who advocate for…

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Added on: 07/23/2021

False start for intersex athletes barred from Olympics

07/22/2021

When the world’s fastest women race for gold over 800m in Tokyo, all three medallists from the 2016 Olympics will be absent – barred as intersex athletes…

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Added on: 07/23/2021

Panama’s Gender-Based Lockdown and the Resilience of Transgender Activism

07/21/2021

On April 1, 2020, the government of Panama introduced a gender-based lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This meant that women and men were only allowed…

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Added on: 07/22/2021

Argentina rolls out ID cards for non-binary people

07/22/2021

In a first for South America, people who do not identify as male or female can tick a third box in their ID cards. People who neither…

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Added on: 07/20/2021

ACLU files suit over Montana transgender birth certificate law

07/19/2021

The ACLU of Montana filed a lawsuit against the state, seeking to challenge a recently passed birth certificate law that it alleges makes it “difficult, if not…

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Added on: 07/19/2021

Transgender woman in Cameroon describes ‘hell’ of five months in prison

07/18/2021

The five months that two transgender women in Cameroon spent in prison were “hell”, one of them told Reuters on Friday after they were released, describing how…

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Added on: 07/18/2021

Church in Norway marks name change for transgender person

7/18/21

A Lutheran church in Norway has held a name change ceremony for a 49-year-old transgender person in what officials said marked the first such event in a…

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Added on: 07/18/2021

Protests over transgender rights at LA spa turn violent

7/17/21

Police arrested several dozen people and fired non-lethal projectiles to disperse an unruly crowd on Saturday after a dueling protest over transgender rights at a Los Angeles…

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Added on: 07/17/2021

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF TRANS AND INTERSEX PERSONS

7/16/21

The Australian government has failed to accept two of five recommendations regarding LGBTQI+ rights, following the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva…

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Added on: 07/17/2021

E.U. takes action against Hungary, Poland over anti-LGBTQ measures

7/16/21

The European Commission has started legal action against Hungary after the country passed a law that bans sharing content in schools that seemingly endorses gay and transgender…

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Added on: 07/17/2021

New York City Hospitals Prohibit Unnecessary Intersex Surgeries

7/16/21

New York City Health & Hospitals, the largest public healthcare system in the United States, has instituted a policy to defer all medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex…

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Added on: 07/16/2021

At the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch, trans farmers raise alpaca, patrol for threats

07/15/2021

WESTCLIFFE, Colorado, July 16 (Reuters) – The ranch hand walks along rocky ground, the beam of her flashlight cutting through the moonlit night. She holds a shotgun…

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Added on: 07/14/2021

Jailed transgender women in Cameroon to be released pending appeal

07/13/2021

DOUALA, July 13 (Reuters) – Two transgender women in Cameroon convicted in May of “attempted homosexuality” were ordered released from prison on Tuesday until a court hears…

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Added on: 07/14/2021

Jailed transgender women in Cameroon to be released pending appeal

07/13/2021

Two transgender women in Cameroon convicted in May of “attempted homosexuality” were ordered released from prison on Tuesday until a court hears their appeal, their lawyer said….

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Added on: 07/10/2021

Pakistan opens first state-run school for transgender people

7/9/21

Pakistan has opened its first government-funded school for transgender women, who are often bullied out of mainstream education as children in the deeply conservative nation. The country’s…

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Added on: 07/10/2021

Hungary Bans LGBTQ Content From Schools, But Some Teachers Say They Will Defy It

7/9/21

Viktoria Radvanyi says her job has never been so stressful. She’s on the board of Budapest Pride, Hungary’s annual LGBTQ event, whose monthlong festival is currently underway….

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Added on: 07/08/2021

Crusade Against Hypocrisy Inspires First Transgender Candidate for German Bundestag

07/07/2021

MUNICH (Reuters) – As the first transgender candidate for Germany’s parliament, Tessa Ganserer doesn’t mince words when it comes to identifying those responsible for the legislative prejudice…

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Added on: 07/08/2021

LGBT visibility grows in Japan ahead of ‘diversity’ Olympics

07/06/2021

Fumino Sugiyama, a former female fencer for the Japan women’s national team who came out as a man more than a decade ago, last week became the…

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Added on: 07/07/2021

European Court Upholds Russian Transgender Woman’s Right to Family Life

07/06/2021

In a victory for a transgender parent’s right to maintain contact with her children, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on July 6 that Russia’s denial…

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Added on: 07/03/2021

In Mexico, transgender politicians make strides

7/2/21

Salma Luévano was arrested for publicly identifying herself as transgender in provincial Mexico in 1985. Now she is set to take office as a member of Congress…

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Added on: 07/03/2021

Czech Mental Health Institute launches initiative to help transgender people cope with anxiety, depression

7/2/21

Transgender people are those whose gender differs from the sex they were born with. Suicidal tendencies and inclination for self-harm appear in up to half of the…

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Added on: 07/01/2021

Spain’s Cabinet Approves Draft of Transgender Rights Law

06/29/2021

The Spanish Cabinet on Tuesday passed a draft bill on LGBTQ rights that will seek parliamentary approval to allow transgender people over 16 to freely change their…

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Added on: 06/28/2021

Czech President Zeman calls transgender people ‘disgusting’

06/27/2021

PRAGUE, June 27 (Reuters) – Czech President Milos Zeman, commenting on a Hungarian law that bans LGBT material from schools, told a television interview on Sunday that…

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Added on: 06/27/2021

Guatemala: 3 Killings of LGBT People in a Week

6/26/21

Unidentified assailants killed two transgender women and one gay man in Guatemala in separate attacks within the span of one week, including Andrea González, the leader of…