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Transgender and Intersex Issues

Global News

Added on: 03/20/2020

Over 140 LGBTQ couples marry in mass wedding in Mexico City

NBC News
03/17/2020
Ana Scarlett Vargas was assigned male at birth, but she said she knew she was a girl at just 7 years old. At 13, she started performing…
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Global News

Added on: 03/18/2020

Transgender pastor defies court to conduct same-sex marriages in Hong Kong

Reuters
03/17/2020
A transgender pastor has vowed to officiate same-sex marriages in Hong Kong despite a legal challenge failing to provide assurances that he will not face arrest. Marrz…
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Global News

Added on: 03/18/2020

Argentine television gets its first transgender news anchor

Washington Post
03/17/2020
Diana Zurco did not attend her high school graduation because she refused to receive a diploma with her birth name. At 17 and considered a boy by…
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Global News

Added on: 03/17/2020

Transgender adults question gender identity before age 7, study finds

UPI
03/16/2020
Transgender adults who undergo gender-affirming surgery may first begin questioning their biological sex as early as age 7, a new study has found. In research published Monday…
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Global News

Added on: 03/16/2020

NY now lets minors switch gender on birth certificates

One News Now
03/15/2020
A new policy in New York state allows minors to change the biological sex on their birth certificates to their preferred sex – as a result of…
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Global News

Added on: 03/16/2020

Catholic college responds to trans man coming out with ‘brilliant’ show of love and support

Pink News
03/15/2020
Ben Hodge, 20, didn’t feel able to come out as a trans man at school – despite coming out as non-binary at 14 and using they/them pronouns….
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Global News

Added on: 03/15/2020

Unique transgender vulnerabilities require tailored and specific interventions

AIDS Map
03/14/2020
The virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2020) this week has included research assessing HIV prevalence, risk, access and adherence to medication in transgender women…
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Global News

Added on: 03/14/2020

A Clash Across America Over Transgender Rights

New York Times
03/13/2020
By the time Peyton Badalucco came out to his mother as transgender, he had been secretly binding his chest in a desperate attempt to hide his body….
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Global News

Added on: 03/14/2020

How Indian Pride Festivals Have Become Political Battlegrounds

VICE
03/09/2020
For most queer people, pride is seen as a space to celebrate diversity and resist oppression. It’s a space where they feel safe and seen. But this…
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Global News

Added on: 03/13/2020

Ghana bans LGBT+ conference after Christian groups protest

Reuters
03/12/2020
Ghana’s government has said it will not allow a major gathering of LGBT+ activists to go ahead after an outcry from conservative Christian groups in the country….
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Global News

Added on: 03/13/2020

Advocates: Transgender Woman Sexually Assaulted at ICE Site

US News and World Report
03/12/2020
A transgender woman seeking asylum should be released after she was sexually assaulted and harassed while being detained in an Arizona immigration facility with men for nine…
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Global News

Added on: 03/13/2020

Trans whistleblower Chelsea Manning has just been made a free woman

Piink News
03/12/2020
A judge has ordered the release of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, after she spent a year back behind bars. Manning, a former intelligence analyst, is best known for…
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Global News

Added on: 03/11/2020

Court rules against gender-neutral passports and says people must define as either male or female

Pink News
03/10/2020
The UK’s Court of Appeal has ruled against campaigner Christie Elan-Cane in per fight for a gender-neutral passport. Christie Elan-Cane had challenged the legality of the UK…
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Global News

Added on: 03/10/2020

Africa’s policies hold key to LGBT rights on the continent: here’s how

Modern Ghana
03/09/2020
Questions of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression have continued to divide opinion across the globe. This is primarily driven by legal, cultural and religious beliefs…
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Global News

Added on: 03/08/2020

Transgender queen crowned in Thailand as coronavirus limits crowd

Reuters
03/07/2020
After temperature checks for contestants and with a smaller crowd than last year because of coronavirus fears, Mexico’s Valentina Fluchaire was crowned in Thailand as winner of…
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Global News

Added on: 03/07/2020

Chile changing: transgender student leader lends voice to renewed protests

Reuters
03/06/2020
As the long southern hemisphere summer holiday draws to an end this month, students in Chile are returning to college – but not always to classes. Many…
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Global News

Added on: 03/02/2020

Puberty blockers can be ‘life-saving’ drugs for trans teens, study shows

CNN
02/26/2020
Transgender youth have a much greater risk of suicide, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, if they have access to a puberty…
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Global News

Added on: 02/29/2020

Washington state passes ban on gay and trans panic defenses for homicide

NBC News
02/28/2020
A measure prohibiting homicide defendants from claiming a defense based on panic over a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity has been passed by lawmakers in Washington…
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Added on: 02/23/2020

Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo

Star Tribune
02/22/2020
When dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo’s Carnival parade grounds, a costume of feathers clinging to her sinuous body, she fulfilled a dream of feminine beauty nearly…
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Added on: 02/23/2020

Teenage transgender row splits Sweden as dysphoria diagnoses soar by 1,500%

The Guardian
02/22/2020
For several days this week the veteran Swedish journalist Malou von Sivers will cover the same topic in every episode of her nightly TV chat show: the…
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Global News

Added on: 02/19/2020

African countries must scrap outdated laws and fully legalise same-sex relations

Thomson Reuters Foundation
02/18/2020
Sixty-eight countries around the world continue to criminalise same-sex relations. Almost half of them are based in Africa, comprising more than half the continent. These laws are…
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Added on: 02/17/2020

Sing a new song unto the Lord: the transgender, nonbinary Rev. Kori Pacyniak

San Diego Union-Tribune
02/16/2020
The conversation began in typical fashion, with a question many grandparents ask: “When you grow up,” Kori Pacyniak’s grandmother wondered, “what would you like to be?” At…
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Added on: 02/15/2020

LGBT GROUPS OBJECT TO FEDERAL LAWSUIT THAT SEEKS TO REVERSE TRANS-INCLUSIVE SCHOOL ATHLETIC POLICIES

Newsweek
02/14/2020
A new federal lawsuit seeking to challenge trans-inclusive school athletic policies is receiving backlash from LGBT organizations, who view the action as the latest maneuver in a…
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Global News

Added on: 02/14/2020

Who should decide when a child can change gender?

Reuters
01/13/2020
It was a case that tore a family apart – and exposed the faultlines in an increasingly bitter global row over the rights of a child to…
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Global News

Added on: 02/12/2020

Rebecca Long-Bailey sparks Labour row after pledging to fight ‘transphobic’ women’s groups

The Independent
02/11/2020
Rebecca Long-Bailey has triggered a furious row after signing up to a campaign to “fight” women’s groups branded “transphobic” and to expel offending party members. The Labour…
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Global News

Added on: 02/11/2020

South Dakota Senate Committee kills controversial gender-change bill

KSFY
02/10/2020
In a 5-2 vote on Monday, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted to kill a bill that aimed to ban gender-change treatments for youth under…
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Global News

Added on: 02/07/2020

National firestorm on horizon as states consider criminalizing transgender treatments for youths

USA Today
02/06/2020
Rep. Fred Deutsch, sponsor of the South Dakota’s HB 1057, said he introduced the bill Jan. 14 to prevent doctors from pushing children to change their bodies….
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Global News

Added on: 02/06/2020

Guyana gay-rights manifesto: Seeking support from political parties

Erasing 76 Crimes
02/05/2020
Gay rights advocates in Guyana have compiled a manifesto aimed at persuading Guyanese political parties to embrace measures to end repression of the LGBT community. News Room…
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Global News

Added on: 02/04/2020

Rising populism stokes homophobic hate speech across Europe

Thomson Reuters
02/02/2020
Homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and other anti-LGBT+ hate crimes are rising across Europe, fuelled by divisive politics and socially conservative groups that also campaign against abortion access,…
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Added on: 02/02/2020

Indian Supreme Court accepts trans lawsuit against new trans rights law

Hindustan Times
01/28/2020
The Supreme Court issued a notice to the central government on Monday on a petition alleging that a legislation drafted to protect transgender persons was violative of…
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