Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 10/07/2020

‘Unable to learn’ – Transgender schools in Latin America offer a fresh chance

10/06/2020

MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As a transgender girl growing up in Buenos Aires, Viviana Gonzalez dreamt of being a writer, composing poems to console her…

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Added on: 10/06/2020

Transgender Sonorans, Allies Celebrate ‘Historic’ Passage Of Identity Measure

10/05/2020

A measure to allow transgender Sonorans to easily modify official documents to reflect their gender identity has been approved. After a brief presentation from its sponsor and…

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Added on: 10/05/2020

An often ‘isolating’ experience: Students launch trans mentorship program

10/04/2020

A new student-run trans mentorship program has launched at UBC. Fourth-year students Alex Gonzalez and Kip Chow, along with a few other students from the Vancouver and…

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Added on: 10/04/2020

Eight Australian sports commit to implementing inclusion measures for transgender athletes

10/03/2020

Governing bodies of eight sports in Australia have committed to implementing governance that supports a greater level of inclusion for transgender and gender diverse athletes. At a…

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Added on: 10/03/2020

When politicians use hate speech, political violence increases

10/02/2020

Politicians deepen existing divides when they use inflammatory language, such as hate speech, and this makes their societies more likely to experience political violence and terrorism. That’s…

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Added on: 10/01/2020

Derricia Castillo-Salazar – Our Circle, Belize

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

How did you become involved in LGBTI activism? I started my advocacy journey in HIV/AIDS work when I was about 14 years old. I went to a…

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Added on: 09/29/2020

No One Wants To Testify’: Gruesome Murder Case Highlights Vulnerability Of Russia’s Transgender Population

09/29/2020

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — In June, a high school student discovered a decapitated and dismembered body in a swimming hole on the Mga River just outside St….

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Added on: 09/29/2020

Australia’s fa’afafine community is growing, and they want their voices heard

9/29/2020

Latoya Hoeg had an upbringing some kids can only dream of. Rather than struggling to fit in as a boy, her Samoan family embraced her differences. “I…

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Added on: 09/29/2020

Transgender People Still Criminalized in 13 UN Member States, Report Finds

09/29/2020

At least 13 United Nations member states still criminalize transgender people, while others use morality and indecency laws to crack down on the trans community, a report…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

California requires correctional facilities to house transgender inmates by gender identity

09/27/2020

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law on Saturday a package of measures intended to strengthen protections for LGBTQ people, including one that requires the state’s correctional…

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Added on: 09/28/2020

Government issues gender identity guidance for teachers in England

09/27/2020

Teachers should not tell children that they might be a different gender based on their personality or the clothes they want to wear, new guidance from the…

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Added on: 09/27/2020

Poland’s ruling nationalists cement new coalition deal

09/26/2020

Poland’s ruling nationalists signed a new coalition agreement on Saturday, ending weeks of in-fighting in the three-party alliance over how it will govern over the next three…

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Added on: 09/27/2020

Thousands march in Uruguay for LGBT rights

09/26/2020

Rainbow colours and war cries have rung out at the centre of Montevideo as Uruguayans gathered for the annual LGBT pride parade wearing masks undeterred by the…

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Added on: 09/27/2020

Key Rights at Stake in US Supreme Court Pick

09/26/2020

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020 leaves a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court and enormous uncertainty over the court’s future…

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Added on: 09/26/2020

Govt urged to recognise, research on intersex community

09/25/2020

There are growing calls for government to recognise the existence of intersex persons and need for research to guide on the realities of the “hidden” community. Intersex…

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Added on: 09/26/2020

Trans rights activists and Home Affairs minister agree to work together

09/25/2020

Last month, a group of trans, LGBTI+ and allied organisations wrote to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) over its reduction of vital gender-affirming services during the…

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Added on: 09/25/2020

French court rejects transgender woman’s demand to be recognised as a mother

09/17/2020

France’s highest court has ruled that a transgender woman cannot be officially recognised as the biological mother of the child she conceived with her wife before transitioning….

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Added on: 09/23/2020

Changes to gender recognition laws ruled out

09/22/2020

Ministers have ruled out changes to make it easier for transgender people in England and Wales to have their gender legally recognised. They have rejected calls for…

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Added on: 09/23/2020

A refuge for homeless transgender people is in the works in New Orleans

09/22/2020

A group of advocates in New Orleans have raised more than $400,000 to create what will be the city’s first home for transgender and gender non-confirming people…

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Added on: 09/21/2020

Medical diagnosis will still be needed to have gender legally recognised after reform

09/20/2020

Trans adults will continue to need a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria to change their legal gender even after a reform of the UK’s gender-recognition laws, the…

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Added on: 09/21/2020

Transgender activist Akkai Padmashali joins Congress

09/20/2020

In a historic event of sorts, transgender activist Dr Akkai Padmashali joined the Karnataka unit of the Congress party on Sunday. Akkai is the first from the…

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Added on: 09/20/2020

‘Love Falls on Us’ explores the intersection of African LGBT rights and American activism

09/19/2020

The book in this installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular — “Love Falls on Us: A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives” —…

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Added on: 09/18/2020

Fiji: A long way to go for LGBTQ equality

09/17/2020

Fiji’s growth in achieving transgender rights and freedom is less than 1 per cent, says founder of Transgender Fiji Network, Dr Isireli Biumaitotoya. Dr Biumaitotoya said Fiji…

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Added on: 09/17/2020

Kalki Subramaniam – Sahodari Foundation, India

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

I’m wondering if you can tell me a little bit about what inspired the Sahodari Foundation. Since childhood, I’ve had difficult experiences because of my transgender identity….

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Added on: 09/15/2020

More than 60 LGBT, intersex people killed in Colombia in first eight months of 2020

09/15/2020

BOGOTA (Reuters) – At least 63 members of Colombia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community were killed in the first eight months of this year, the…

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Added on: 09/15/2020

Disney, Google, Microsoft back trans rights amid fierce British debate

09/14/2020

Dozens of organisations including Disney, Google and Microsoft weighed into a fierce debate over transgender rights in Britain on Monday, writing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to…

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Added on: 09/15/2020

UN condemns killing of LGBT activist in northern Mexico

09/14/2020

The U.N. human rights agency called on Mexican authorities Thursday to thoroughly investigate the killing of an LGBT rights activist in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua….

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Added on: 09/14/2020

Woman Opens 1st Mississippi Clinic Dedicated to Trans Healthcare

09/13/2020

When Gulf Coast native Stacie Pace decided to open her own clinic, the nurse practitioner carefully considered one question: Whose healthcare needs were not being met? The…

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Added on: 09/13/2020

Transgender anarchist wins GOP nomination for sheriff in Cheshire County

09/12/2020

Keene’s Aria DiMezzo is the first transgender person to win the GOP’s nomination for Cheshire County sheriff after running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. DiMezzo, associated with the…

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Added on: 09/10/2020

Council of churches says pardon on Pemberton an injustice to all Filipinos

09/09/2020

The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) said the granting of absolute pardon to US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton is an “injustice” not only to…