Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 11/18/2020

LGBTQ advocates call 1st Islamic school for transgender students in Bangladesh a “positive step,” but not enough

11/17/2020

The first madrassa, or Islamic school, specifically for transgender students in Bangladesh opened last week in the capital city of Dhaka. It was a first not only…

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Draft laws impacting children’s and transgender rights in Russia withdrawn from State Duma

11/16/2020

The authors behind two separate packages of amendments to Russia’s Family Code have withdrawn their initiatives from the State Duma following backlash over proposed changes that would…

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Historic first as trans flag raised across Dublin city to mark Transgender Awareness Month

11/16/2020

The month of November is observed globally as Transgender Awareness Month with Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) being held November 20, which memorialises victims of transphobic violence….

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Wait times for trans healthcare are out of control. These activists take matters into their own hands

11/15/2020

Being transgender in Britain in 2020 has at times felt incredibly difficult: not because being trans is in itself hard, necessarily, but because society makes it so….

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Added on: 11/16/2020

Transgender people to gain inheritance rights in Bangladesh says country’s Law Minister

11/15/2020

Transgender people will soon be able to inherit property from their families, Bangladesh’s law minister said Sunday, the latest effort to give the minority group more rights…

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Added on: 11/14/2020

Tell the world we exist: The intersex child on a mission to inform

11/13/2020

When Wen Long van Knippenberg wanted to tell fellow pupils about life as an intersex child in the Netherlands, the presentation was banned by her teacher as…

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Added on: 11/12/2020

June Chua – The T Project, Singapore

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

Can you tell me about how you decided to start The T Project? I’d been a sex worker for many years. Sex work is very mundane and…

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Added on: 11/09/2020

Belgium to introduce ‘X’ as third, non-binary gender

11/09/2020

Belgium’s new government will introduce gender-neutrality throughout its term and make it possible for non-binary citizens to use the gender identifier “X.” Federal Justice Minister Vincent Van…

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Added on: 11/09/2020

Tasmanian Liberal members vote to repeal transgender laws

11/08/2020

Tasmanian Liberal party members have voted in favour of repealing the state’s landmark laws on transgender recognition. At the party’s state conference this weekend party members voted…

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Added on: 11/07/2020

Transgender couple wed in Hungary, land of growing homophobia

11/6/2020

The wedding of Hungarian transgender couple Tamara Csillag and Elvira Angyal looked just like any other, with the nervous pair dressing up and heading off to the…

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Added on: 11/07/2020

Transgender in Bangladesh: First school opens for trans students

11/6/2020

Bangladesh’s first religious school for transgender people has opened in Dhaka. More than 150 students will study Islamic and vocational subjects free of charge at the privately-funded…

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Added on: 11/07/2020

Bangladesh opens first Islamic school for transgender Muslims

11/06/2020

The LGBT community faces widespread discrimination in the South Asian country, with a colonial-era law still in place that punishes gay sex by prison terms, though enforcement…

World Voices

Added on: 11/04/2020

Alex Kofi Donkor – LGBT+ Rights Ghana

Ari Weinstein

Alturi Contributor

What is it like in terms of self-expression in Ghana? How does that affect LGBT people? There are quite a number of inequalities here, and it streams…

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Added on: 11/02/2020

Trans News, an online magazine for transgenders, launched

11/01/2020

The first edition of Trans News, an online magazine for transgender people, was launched at the Transgender Resource Centre here on Sunday. C. Shanmuga Sundaram, senior manager…

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Added on: 10/30/2020

A mother told Biden about her transgender child. Then came the attacks.

10/29/2020

In Joe Biden’s town hall earlier this month, one of the questions came from a woman named Mieke Haeck, a 42-year-old physical therapist from State College, Pa….

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Added on: 10/28/2020

In conservative Mexico, ‘Muxes’ soccer team tackles outdated LGBT stereotypes

10/27/2020

A soccer team in Mexico’s capital is shooting for greater inclusion for the LGBT community by relying on the widespread love of Latin America’s most popular sport….

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Added on: 10/27/2020

Egyptian officials systemically abuse and torture gays, rights group says

10/26/2020

Malak el-Kashif, a political activist and transgender woman living in Egypt, was arrested at her Cairo home last March after participating in a protest and was then…

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Added on: 10/27/2020

Intersex Activists Push Hospitals to Ditch Nonconsensual Surgeries on Children

10/26/2020

When Marissa Adams was a toddler, she underwent surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital to make her genitalia look more like a doctor’s idea of “normal.” Like as…

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Added on: 10/26/2020

How intersex Latter-day Saints struggle to stay in a ‘two gender’ faith

10/25/2020

Courtney Skaggs always felt, well, different from other girls growing up, but she didn’t really know how different until she had the birds-and-the-bees talk with her parents…

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Added on: 10/22/2020

Trump administration forces university to start discriminating against trans athletes

10/21/2020

New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce University has agreed to abolish its trans-inclusive policy for athletics, after pressure from the Trump administration and anti-LGBT+ activists. The university agreed to…

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Added on: 10/20/2020

Russian Cabinet rejects bill outlining changes to the Family Code impacting children’s and transgender rights

10/20/2020

Russia’s Government Commission on Legislative Activities has rejected conservative Senator Elena Mizulina’s draft law “aimed at strengthening the institution of the family.” The commission believes that the…

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Added on: 10/20/2020

Intersex, HIV/AIDs Status, Citizenship Now Protected Characteristics Under Albanian Discrimination Law

10/20/2020

The Albanian parliament has made amendments to the law “on protection from discrimination” to afford more protection to people living in the country. As per the amendments,…

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Added on: 10/20/2020

The military is having a hard time providing evidence that supports the transgender ban, advocate says

10/19/2020

The military is having a hard time providing documented evidence in support of its transgender ban. In Karnoski v. Trump, one of four challenges to the transgender…

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Added on: 10/16/2020

Rugby latest battleground for trans women as England breaks ranks

10/15/2020

A ban on transgender women competing in international rugby matches will not stop them playing the women’s game in England, the sport’s governing body said on Wednesday…

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Added on: 10/15/2020

LGBT groups in Japan launch petition seeking equality law

10/14/2020

Sexual minority groups and human rights activists launched a petition on Thursday calling for an LGBT equality law in Japan in hopes that it can be enacted…

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Added on: 10/13/2020

Israel to Form Government Committee to Assist Transgender Community

10/12/2020

Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn and Welfare Minister Itzik Shmuli announced an inter-ministerial team to consider ways to ease hardships for transgender people on Monday. The team is…

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Added on: 10/12/2020

NSW protesters defy ban to march against Latham’s anti-trans Bill

10/11/2020

LGBTQIA+ advocates and allies in New South Wales took to the streets over the weekend to march against a transphobic Bill currently before the state’s parliament. The…

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Added on: 10/12/2020

Saving Indigenous Trans Women

10/11/2020

The New Mexico Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women task force held a public meeting on Thursday on the topic of violence against queer and trans people in…

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Added on: 10/10/2020

Largest-ever US study on intersex adult health finds disparities

10/09/2020

The largest-ever American study on the social and mental health of intersex adults was released October 9, revealing that the population experiences major health disparities. “A national…

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Added on: 10/09/2020

Rights group denounces Central America anti-LGBTQ violence

10/08/2020

Human Rights Watch criticized Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala for failing to stop violence against LGBTQ people in a new report published on Wednesday, which also denounced…