Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 08/29/2020

Transgender woman’s role at Mass stirs controversy in Argentina

08/28/2020

Marking an historical first in Pope Francis’s home country, the Diocese of San Luis in northern Argentina invited a transgender woman Tuesday to read one of the…

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Added on: 08/29/2020

Boosting LGBTIQ rights in West Africa, one grant at a time

08/28/2020

The activist-led Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) aims to strengthen West African movements for gender diversity and sexual rights. To accomplish that, it takes a flexible…

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Added on: 08/26/2020

Slava Melnyk – KPH: Campaign Against Homophobia

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

How did you become involved with LGBTI activism? I started back in 2011 when I was away from Poland studying in Slovenia and I found out there…

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Added on: 08/26/2020

Tarek Zeidan – Helem, Lebanon

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

How did you become interested in this type of activism? When I was younger, I worked a lot with the trans sex worker community because I used…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Coronavirus and stigma among priorities for India’s new transgender council

08/25/2020

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Discrimination, housing and the impact of COVID-19 are among the top priorities for India’s new National Council for Transgender Persons, two…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Intersex student seeks help after corrective surgery goes awry

08/24/2020

Bewildered, traumatized, terrified, these are words that come close to describing the turmoil facing Ezekiel Mwaleghu, a 19-year old form-one student at a secondary school in Voi…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Hateful rhetoric against transgender people is culminating in physical attacks, Sheffield LGBT charity warns

08/24/2020

Heather Paterson, CEO of Say It Sheffield, says the language seen used against trans people is similar to that seen in the 1980s against gay and lesbian…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Hollywood Boulevard ‘All Black Lives Matter’ street painting will stay permanently to honour the Black queer community

08/23/2020

The huge, LGBT-inclusive ‘All Black Lives Matter’ installation on Hollywood Boulevard is being made permanent to commemorate the history-making march in Los Angeles. Tens of thousands of…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Neither boy nor girl, it’s ‘not a sin sweetheart’

08/24/2020

THRISSUR: A lullaby album for an intersex child, authored by transgender poet Vijayaraja Mallika, has gone viral on social media. “Shaapamalla, papamalla, omane nee, ente jeevithathil vannudhicha…

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Added on: 08/25/2020

Intersex Children in Uganda Face Rejection, Violence

8/23/20

KAMPALA, UGANDA — No one wanted to name Nakitto Flavio’s baby. At a traditional ceremony, the infant’s aunt refused because the newborn’s sex was unclear. Flavio’s husband…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Beyond ‘he’ and ‘she’: 1 in 4 LGBTQ youths use nonbinary pronouns, survey finds

08/22/2020

One in 4 LGBTQ youths use pronouns other than he/him or she/hers, according to a survey released Wednesday by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide prevention and…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People

08/22/2020

The lead U.S. foreign aid agency has proposed a new policy on gender and women’s empowerment that eliminates any mention of transgender people or contraceptives, running counter…

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Added on: 08/23/2020

Holland, Michigan adopts anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ, others

08/20/2020

After a seven-hour meeting that went into the night and included several hours of impassioned public comment, Holland City Council voted 8-1 early Thursday morning to approve…

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Added on: 08/20/2020

‘The volume has been turned up on everything’: Pandemic places alarming pressure on transgender mental health

08/19/2020

The surgery was supposed to be a turning point. Brenda Emery spent a year preparing for the vaginoplasty. To save up for it, she took jobs in…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

LGBTQ+ People In Beirut Are Suffering As Lebanon Continues to Bleed

08/18/2020

Lebanon, a country ravaged by war for 15 years, had its most devastating blast on August 4, 2020. The blast killed 180 people, injured more than 6,000,…

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Added on: 08/18/2020

Donors free trans woman from jail in Cameroon, help her in new career

08/18/2020

C., the trans woman in eastern Cameroon who is being helped by this blog’s Not Alone Project, has been released from prison early and is preparing for…

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Added on: 08/17/2020

Ancient Viking warrior given a hero’s burial may have actually been ‘transgender, non-binary or gender fluid’

08/16/2020

Three years ago, the ornately dressed remains of a high-status Viking warrior from the mid-900s were discovered alongside swords, spears and two slaughtered horses in Birka, Sweden….

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Added on: 08/17/2020

An inclusive move: Reserved seats for transgenders in Kolkata

08/16/2020

Kolkata’s transgender commuters will now have designated seats in some of the city’s public buses. The movement to reserve at least one bus seat for the third…

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Added on: 08/17/2020

UK Black Pride ‘celebrates black queer voices’ as coronavirus forces 15th anniversary event online

08/16/2020

UK Black Pride – Europe’s largest celebration for LGBTQ people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle Eastern descent – didn’t let a little thing like…

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Added on: 08/16/2020

World Rugby’s proposed ban on transgender women sparks outcry

08/15/2020

Citing recent research, a 38-page World Rugby transgender working group draft document is proposing a ban on transgender women from playing women’s rugby. An anonymous leaked the…

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Added on: 08/15/2020

First pan-African virtual Pride event takes place to share LGBT+ stories

08/14/2020

The first pan-African virtual Pride event takes place on Friday aimed at bringing together LGBT+ Africans to share their stories of challenge and success from a continent…

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Added on: 08/11/2020

Trans women pose no threat to cis women, but we pose a threat to them if we make them outcasts

08/10/2020

Dear ladies who are fearful and hostile to trans women, That I grew up and spent most of my life in San Francisco I consider one of…

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Added on: 08/07/2020

Thailand: Gender recognition bill set to be tabled

08/06/2020

The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security will table its gender recognition bill for consideration by parliament in October amid concerns it will leave behind those…

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Added on: 08/06/2020

Russia: Reject Anti-LGBT ‘Traditional Values’ Bill

08/05/2020

A draft bill before Russia’s parliament would significantly affect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today. Among the proposed…

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Added on: 08/03/2020

Relief eludes transgender gharanas of Bhopal

08/02/2020

Their income has dried up due to COVID-19 restrictions. “They came for men and women but not us,” lamented Devi Singh, 30, from the Mangalwara gharana [family]…

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Added on: 07/31/2020

El Salvador police sentenced in nation’s first trans murder convictions

07/30/2020

A court in El Salvador has sentenced three police officers to 20-year prison sentences for the murder of a transgender woman, the nation’s first convictions in a…

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Added on: 07/25/2020

Pennsylvania governor blasts ‘vile acts’ against transgender official leading pandemic response

07/24/2020

The man sitting in a Pennsylvania carnival’s dunk tank at a fundraiser last weekend was going for a Marilyn Monroe look, he said, styling himself in a…

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Added on: 07/25/2020

Republican platform condemned for claim LGBT+ people ‘recruit children’ and ‘prey’ on cis women

07/24/2020

The Republican Party in North Dakota has been condemned by a raft of party officials after it published vile and offensive remarks about the LGBT+ community. In…

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Added on: 07/22/2020

First-ever pan-African Pride will celebrate the ‘bustling, multi-layered reservoir’ of queer Africans

07/21/2020

A first-of-its-kind pan-African LGBT+ Pride event, Pride Afrique, is set to take place virtually, celebrating the “bustling, multi-layered, chaotically explosive reservoir” of queer Africans. According to Star…

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Added on: 07/21/2020

First Romanian trans woman to run for office vows to support women, sex workers and Roma

07/20/2020

Antonella Lerca, a Roma woman and sex worker, is campaigning to run as an independent candidate for District 2 in the Romanian capital of Bucharest. Launching her…