Transgender and Intersex Issues

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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…

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Added on: 05/03/2021

Court could force Honduras to stop ‘social cleansing’ of trans people

05/02/2021

International LGBT+ advocates are waiting anxiously for the verdict of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which monitors human rights in the western hemisphe. The top tribunal…

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Added on: 05/02/2021

Donald Trump’s cruel ban on trans people joining the military is officially over

5/1/21

Pentagon policies that allow trans folk to serve in the US military went into effect Thursday (April 30), finally undoing Donald Trump’s cruel and unnecessary ban. It…

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Added on: 05/02/2021

Gender-affirming care leads to better mental health among trans people

5/1/21

Transgender people who are able to receive gender-affirming surgery reported improved mental health outcomes, according to a new study published Wednesday. The study, published in JAMA Surgery…

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Added on: 05/01/2021

LGBTQ protestors vogue through the streets as part of massive national strike in Colombia

4/29/21

As protests rock Colombia this week over tax reforms, LGBTQ people have led sizeable contingents through the streets nationwide. Video posted to multiple social media sites showed…

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Added on: 04/30/2021

ACTIVISTS TO PROTEST LATHAM’S ANTI-LGBT BILLS IN SYDNEY ON JUNE 5

04/29/2021

The next protest against One Nation MP Mark Latham’s anti-LGBTQI bills is scheduled for June 5, at the Town Hall in Sydney. The protests against the bills…

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Added on: 04/30/2021

Father arrested while testifying against anti-trans health ban in Arkansas

04/29/2021

Chris Attig was arrested while testifying against HB 1570 in the Arkansas House on March 9. When their speech went 30 seconds over the allotted two minutes,…

World Voices

Added on: 04/29/2021

David Tasevski — Subversive Front, North Macedonia

Alturi Contributor

How did you initially get involved with activism? My first contact in the NGO sector was through volunteering in an organization for people who use drugs. I…

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Added on: 04/29/2021

Brazilian musician shines light on intersection of sexuality and Judaism

04/29/2021

Brazil is a diverse and complex country. For 32-year-old Assucena Assucena, who is trans and Jewish (of Moroccan and Sephardic descent), that complexity is intensified. To be…

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Added on: 04/27/2021

Cameroonian LGBT activist champions imprisoned transgender women

04/26/2021

Coming from Cameroon where letting it be known that she was a lesbian could lead to prison time, activist and social media influencer Bandy Kiki struggled to…

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Added on: 04/26/2021

Lilit Martirosyan – RighT Side: Human Rights Defender, Armenia

Alturi Contributor

How did you become involved in activism? My mission in this world is to help people live safely and to help them have a good life. I…

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Added on: 04/26/2021

Sagi Berman to come out as Israeli top-flight soccer’s first transgender referee

04/24/2021

Israeli Premier League soccer referee Sagi Berman will come out publicly as transgender at a Tuesday press conference. She is the league’s first-ever transgender referee. Berman, 27,…

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Added on: 04/26/2021

LGBT+ Travellers: ‘A lot of the community are ignorant towards the trans issue

04/25/2021

Imagine a world where you live in fear, and with each waking hour that fear grows to a point where the only escape comes from the promise…

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Added on: 04/26/2021

Intersex activist lives as a man rather than a woman because men get ‘so much more respect’

04/25/2021

Intersex activist Roshaante Anderson wants people in the LGBT+ community and allies to remember there’s an “I” in the acronym, and there are voices that need to…

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Added on: 04/25/2021

Exorcisms and ‘corrective’ rape: inside Indonesia’s controversial LGBT ‘conversion’ therapies

4/25/21

Growing up as someone who does not conform to traditional gender norms is not easy in Indonesia. Just ask Christine*, a 35 year-old transgender woman in West…

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Added on: 04/25/2021

LGBT activists not excited by Jenner’s campaign for governor

4/25/21

Though Caitlyn Jenner is one of the most famous transgender people in America, the announcement of her candidacy for California governor was greeted hostilely by one of…

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Added on: 04/24/2021

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly Vetoes Transgender Sports Ban

04/22/2021

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, on Thursday vetoed a bill that seeks to prohibit transgender women and girls from participating on sports teams. In announcing her…

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Added on: 04/20/2021

‘It’s not safe’: Parents of transgender kids plan to flee their states as GOP bills loom

04/19/2021

George and Emily Spurrier are leaving their home of 16 years in central Arkansas due to a new law that will ban the health care that they…