Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 10/30/2019
10/29/2019
The rules of the Miss France contest no longer prevent transgender people from participating, the director of the Miss France pageant, Sylvie Tellier, said in a recent…

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Added on: 10/29/2019
10/27/2019
“I hadn’t seen a play or history of my people,” says Patricia Cotter—so she wrote ‘The Daughters’ which evokes a grand sweep of lesbian history, including the…

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Added on: 10/29/2019
California will train poll workers to better assist transgender and gender non-conforming voters in next year’s presidential elections. The state has partnered with Equality California, the nation’s…

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Added on: 10/28/2019
10/27/2019
A trans intersex person has explained, in a moving opinion piece for Intersex Awareness Day (October 26), why they didn’t need surgery to be “fixed”. There are…

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Added on: 10/27/2019
10/26/2019
What did 7-year-old Luna Younger of Dallas do that has mobilized conservatives and Christian fundamentalists across Texas into action? She declared, at age 3, “I’m a girl.”…

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Added on: 10/27/2019
10/26/2019
Lawyer Allison Bailey of Garden Court Chambers, who describes herself as “gender critical”, wrote a tweet on Tuesday (October 22) announcing the launch of the group. She…

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Added on: 10/26/2019
10/25/2019
A new lesbian, gay, and bisexual alliance group was blasted by on social media for excluding trans and nonbinary communities. The “LGB Alliance” group launched Tuesday evening…

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Added on: 10/26/2019
10/25/2019
Sam Porto and his mirror have never gotten along. When the transgender man was growing up in Brazil, the sight of his developing breasts disgusted him. But…

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Added on: 10/24/2019
10/23/2019
An updated study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law ranked the world’s nations by levels of LGBT acceptance. The current report updates and expands…

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Added on: 10/21/2019
Three individuals who transitioned from male to female shared their journeys recently when the Oak Park Area Lesbian & Gay Association hosted a Transgender Education Panel at…

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Added on: 10/21/2019
10/21/2019
Maria Nantale is enjoying a beer at a rickety wooden bar after a long day’s work. “Forty people tested today,” she reflects. “Found three positives. One of…

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Added on: 10/17/2019
10/16/2019
The first detailed guidelines for schools in Northern Ireland on how to support transgender pupils have been published. The guidance is from the Education Authority (EA). It…

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Added on: 10/16/2019
10/15/2019
A federal judge on Tuesday overturned ObamaCare protections for transgender patients, ruling that a 2016 policy violates the religious freedom of Christian providers. Judge Reed O’Connor in…

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Added on: 10/16/2019
10/15/2019
Shoved, cursed and ridiculed, Nisha’s hospital visits were always stressful as a transgender woman and got worse after she was diagnosed as HIV-positive. But a new app…

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Added on: 10/14/2019
10/13/2019
The UK prime minister Boris Johnson will tomorrow (October 14) unveil voter ID proposals to make showing photo ID compulsory in order to vote. The controversial voter…

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Added on: 10/07/2019
10/06/2019
After reports that a public consultation on the matter had been abandoned, equalities minister Liz Truss is reportedly committed to completing the process in a way that…

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Added on: 10/05/2019
10/04/2019
“Not every patient wants to have a surgical transition. Transition can take many forms,” says Dr. Jess Ting in an early interview in “Born to Be,” a…

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Added on: 10/04/2019
10/03/2019
Australian experts have debunked ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria’ in a strongly-worded position statement. The phrase emerged in 2018 and posits that a “social and peer contagion” is…

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Added on: 10/01/2019
09/30/2019
A transgender man will be the new face of the iconic boxing brand Everlast, in a move lauded for showing that there are “many ways to be…

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Added on: 09/30/2019
Aimee Stephens lost her job at a suburban Detroit funeral home and she could lose her Supreme Court case over discrimination against transgender people. Amid her legal…

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Added on: 09/29/2019
09/25/2019
The toymaker behind Barbie launched a range of gender-neutral dolls on Wednesday which can be styled as either girls or boys, saying children were moving away from…

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Added on: 09/26/2019
09/25/2019
A transgender man from Kent who gave birth with the help of fertility treatment cannot be registered as his child’s father, the most senior family judge in…

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Added on: 09/23/2019
09/23/2019
“It has been my inner turmoil for the last two years, but today I want to be honest. The rumours that you’ve heard out there about me…

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Added on: 09/22/2019
09/21/2019
Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA., was the penultimate speaker at Friday night’s forum focused on LGBTQ issues, and took the stage with a powerful opening statement. “If elected…

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Added on: 09/19/2019
In seventh grade, at school in a small town five hours’ drive north of Yangon, Jel Li developed a crush on another girl. Confused, she wrote her…

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Added on: 09/19/2019
09/18/2019
Bianka Rodríguez was leaving a San Salvador shopping centre when a man with a gun came up and forced her into his car. He proceeded to drive…

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Added on: 09/18/2019
With a bag of condoms and a stack of business cards, Tamika Spellman began a route she knew by heart, peering out the window of her Lincoln…

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Added on: 09/17/2019
09/16/2019
Jamaica has recorded the most incidents of human rights violation when compared to its Caribbean neighbours. According to the regional civil society-led human rights reporting mechanism, the…

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Added on: 09/16/2019
09/15/2019
On September 14, thousands of transgender people and their allies took to the streets of London in a historic first – the UK capital’s first-ever Trans+ Pride…

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Added on: 09/15/2019
09/14/2019
The body of a black transgender woman, said by the authorities to have been burned beyond recognition, was found inside an abandoned car in Florida. The victim,…