Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 08/26/2019
08/25/2019
Alarming stories of terror and heartbreak continue to surface amid Turkey’s ruthless campaign to deport thousands of refugees back to Syria’s Idlib province, which faces a deadly…

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Added on: 08/26/2019
08/25/2019
Evie is like many 14-year-old girls. After school she likes to hang out with her friends, or go home and watch Netflix. She says she would like…

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Added on: 08/24/2019
08/23/2019
When summer began, Ward’s* biggest worry was her sick boyfriend. A Syrian with a gentle voice, and all her identity documents in order, Ward thought she could…

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Added on: 08/23/2019
08/22/2019
New rules on gender identity at schools are causing a stir in Portugal, where some parents are expressing alarm that transgender children will be able to choose…

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Added on: 08/23/2019
08/22/2019
A US Christian fundamentalist group have been dropping ‘homophobic and transphobic’ leaflets into homes across Birmingham. Singer Janique James, 23, was shocked to receive the Tradition, Family,…

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Added on: 08/22/2019
President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed his full support to the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning) community, neophyte Senator Christopher Lawrence ‘’Bong’’ T. Go said on…

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Added on: 08/21/2019
President Trump’s administration has told the Supreme Court that transgender workers are not protected by federal civil rights law and can be fired because of their gender. The…

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Added on: 08/21/2019
08/20/2019
Kenya will become the first African country to recognize its intersex population in a census on Saturday that counts people born with a sexual anatomy that does…

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Added on: 08/18/2019
08/17/2019
Roughly half of americans think federal law bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Despite four years of nationwide same-sex marriage, despite rapidly growing cultural acceptance…

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Added on: 08/17/2019
08/16/2019
Hundreds of people gathered in Nepal’s capital on Friday for the annual gay pride parade. The participants used the event in Kathmandu to call for better rights….

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Added on: 08/17/2019
08/16/2019
The Trump administration on Friday took one of its most aggressive steps yet to legalize anti-transgender discrimination by telling the Supreme Court that federal law allows firing…

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Added on: 08/16/2019
As the rainbow flags come down in New York City after the WorldPride and Stonewall 50 celebrations, and as flags go up for pride events in other…

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Added on: 08/16/2019
08/16/2019
Two city youths have decided to take the next step in the assertion of LGBT rights and have more queer-friendly laws in the country. To enable their…

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Added on: 08/15/2019
08/15/2019
A bill to allow transgender and gender diverse people to change the sex listed on their birth certificate without surgery has cleared its first hurdle, passing the…

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Added on: 08/14/2019
08/14/2019
Journalist Bernard Lane of The Australian newspaper, announced a gender issues section on the broadsheet’s website on Friday to widespread criticism from LGBT+ advocates. The section so far…

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Added on: 08/13/2019
Cricket Australia (CA) have come under fire for a new policy aimed at making the sport inclusive for transgender and gender diverse players, with Prime Minister Scott…

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Added on: 08/12/2019
In a historic first for the conservative South American country, a court in Paraguay on Friday will convene for a murder trial in the death of a…

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Added on: 08/12/2019
08/12/2019
LGBTQ people gathered in Johannesburg recently for the city’s first official black queer ball. Organizers say the event was to create a safe space for people in…

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Added on: 08/11/2019
08/11/2019
In 2012, when the city got its first Gender Reassignment Clinic at Kolkilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri, Dr Dheeraj Kapoor, consulting endocrinologist, was one of the key…

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Added on: 08/11/2019
08/10/2019
With more than 800,000 migrants currently applying for asylum in the U.S., a growing number of immigrants rights groups are calling attention to the plight of LGBTQ…

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Added on: 08/10/2019
08/08/2019
Four LGBT+ people are murdered every day in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to “alarming” new research released on Thursday by a regional network of gay…

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Added on: 08/08/2019
08/07/2019
Israel’s army is taking into account a slow but steady growth in number of transgender soldiers going through sex change processes before or during their military service,…

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Added on: 08/07/2019
08/06/2019
A ballot-box effort to roll back transgender rights in Uruguay failed to draw enough voters to the polls to trigger a national referendum, prompting LGBT+ rights supporters…

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Added on: 08/06/2019
08/04/2019
Transsexual people have become more acceptable in Thai society, according to an opinion survey released on Sunday by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll….

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Added on: 08/04/2019
08/03/2019
For Russia’s LGBT community, homophobia and violence are part of day-to-day reality. Some cases, like the murder of activist Yelena Grigoryeva last week or torture in Chechnya,…

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Added on: 08/02/2019
07/31/2019
Since the campaign and subsequent election of Jair Bolsonaro, who was long known for trotting out hate speech against marginalized communities in his bid for Brazil’s presidency,…

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Added on: 07/31/2019
07/31/2019
At the dinner table, conversations bubble around people as they tuck into a three-course meal. A plethora of different nationalities and identities have pulled up a chair…

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Added on: 07/31/2019
07/31/2019
Hate crimes have risen across the USA to a decade high, with most extremist homicides carried out by white nationalists or those in the far right, according…

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Added on: 07/28/2019
It can take years to master a martial art form, but learning a few simple moves can keep people safe on the streets, a self-defense instructor told…

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Added on: 07/27/2019
07/25/2019
At least 1,500 members of the LGBT community in Nepal have changed their gender on official documents. Following a historic court ruling in 2007, Nepal implemented one…