Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 04/22/2024

In Australia, women-only app becomes latest front in war over trans rights

04/21/2024

Sydney, Australia– Sall Grover says she did not think twice when she blocked Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman, from her Australian-based women-only app Giggle for Girls. “It…

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Added on: 04/22/2024

Gov. Greg Abbott Wants to ‘End’ Trans Teachers Expressing Their Gender in Texas

04/21/2024

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggested that he wants to end transgender and gender nonconforming individuals from expressing their gender while teaching in the state. At a speech delivered Friday…

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Added on: 04/22/2024

In Japan, US book on transgender surgery for young people sparks threats, heated debate

04/21/2024

A decision by a conservative-leaning newspaper in Japan to defy threats and push ahead with the translated publication of a book critical of gender-altering procedures for young people…

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Added on: 04/21/2024

Jeremy Corbyn calls for an end to the ‘horrors’ of anti-trans discrimination

04/20/2024

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has shared a message of support for transgender people everywhere. The Islington North MP told the Council of Europe that there had…

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Added on: 04/21/2024

California judge agrees to second look at language in proposed transgender initiative

04/20/2024

A California judge weighing potential prejudice in the title and summary of a proposed ballot measure concerning transgender children is considering his ruling after a Friday hearing….

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Added on: 04/20/2024

Scotland Pauses Transgender Medications For Minors

04/19/2024

Scotland has paused all new prescriptions of transgender medications such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, the latest in a string of developments in Britain…

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Added on: 04/20/2024

Biden’s new Title IX rules protect LGBTQ+ students, but avoid addressing transgender athletes

04/19/2024

The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the…

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Added on: 04/19/2024

A Second Trump Presidency Would Be A Nightmare Scenario For Transgender People

04/18/2024

Jules was driving to their friend’s house in St. Petersburg, Florida, last year when a police officer pulled them over for a busted taillight. Jules wondered if…

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Added on: 04/19/2024

Puberty blockers paused for under-18s in Scotland

04/18/2024

Scotland’s only youth gender clinic has paused prescribing puberty blockers for under-18s. Prescriptions for under-18s currently on the waiting list are to be blocked following the decision…

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Added on: 04/17/2024

Federal appeals court overturns West Virginia’s transgender sports ban

04/16/2024

A federal appeals court struck down a West Virginia law that barred transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams in public schools and colleges….

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Added on: 04/17/2024

Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf confirms trans women will be protected under new misogyny laws

04/16/2024

Humza Yousaf has confirmed that trans women will be protected under new misogyny laws in Scotland. The Scottish government are set to introduce a bill to address…

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Added on: 04/16/2024

US Supreme Court lets Idaho enforce ban on transgender care for minors

04/15/2024

The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let a Republican-backed law in Idaho that criminalizes gender-affirming care for transgender minors broadly take effect after a federal judge…

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Added on: 04/16/2024

Trans youth dying in suicide “epidemic” as UK increasingly restricts gender-affirming care

04/15/2024

Transgender 15-year-old Jason Pulman died by suicide after his country’s medical system told him he’d have to wait 26 months for his first gender-affirming care appointment. His…

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Added on: 04/16/2024

First China transgender clinic deals with ‘visitors’ as it embraces country’s 4 million people with body dissatisfaction

04/15/2024

For China’s transgender population of four million – and those with empathy for them – they are people whose souls are trapped in the wrong body. At…

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Added on: 04/16/2024

What Canadian doctors say about new U.K. review questioning puberty blockers for transgender youth

04/15/2024

A long-anticipated — and contentious — national review of gender-affirming care for youth in England was released last week, resulting in headlines across the U.K. saying that…

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Added on: 04/15/2024

Government set to discuss transgender inclusion policies in football and cricket

04/14/2024

Football and cricket’s transgender inclusion policies are set to come under Government scrutiny at a meeting on Monday afternoon. Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has convened a gathering of national sports…

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Added on: 04/15/2024

Muslim parents seek a path forward after protests over LGBTQ rights in school

04/14/2024

When Iftekhar Ahmed’s child came out as transgender four years ago, the situation was difficult for him to comprehend. Raised in Pakistan in a Muslim household, Ahmed…

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Added on: 04/15/2024

Belarus Calls LGBT Lives ‘Pornography’

04/13/2024

Belarus has hit a new low in its targeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As of today, the definition of pornography under Belarusian law…

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Added on: 04/15/2024

Germany makes changing legal gender easier

04/13/2024

German lawmakers voted Friday in favor of the Self-Determination Act, making it easier for transgender, intersex and non-binary people to change their gender entry at the country’s…

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Added on: 04/14/2024

Germany makes changing legal gender easier

04/13/2024

German lawmakers voted Friday in favor of the Self-Determination Act, making it easier for transgender, intersex and non-binary people to change their gender entry at the country’s…

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Added on: 04/13/2024

German parliament votes to make it easier for people to legally change their name and gender

04/12/2024

German lawmakers on Friday approved legislation that will make it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records. The…

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Added on: 04/13/2024

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly Vetoes Bill That Would Strip Away Access to Essential Health Care for Transgender Youth

04/12/2024

Today, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed SB 233, which, if enacted, would ban crucial, medically necessary health care for transgender youth. This is the latest anti-LGBTQ bill…

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Added on: 04/13/2024

Scotland’s New Transgender ‘Hate Crime’ Law Already Showing How It Leads to Tyranny

04/12/2024

Scotland’s new “hate crime” law already is demonstrating how it will be used to squash dissent and free speech. The so-called Hate Crime and Public Order Act,…

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Added on: 04/12/2024

Rio’s Runway, Reimagined: Transmasc and Nonbinary Performers Expand Brazil’s Ballroom Scene

04/11/2024

“Ballroom changes lives, you know? It’s inevitable,” said Maru Camargo, who joined Rio de Janeiro’s Ballroom scene about a year ago after moving from the countryside. If you…

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Added on: 04/12/2024

Transgender inclusion? World’s major religions take varying stances

04/11/2024

The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex — a setback for transgender people who had hoped Pope Francis might be…

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Added on: 04/10/2024

What are the key findings of the NHS gender identity review?

04/09/2024

A review into the NHS’s gender identity services has found that children and young people have been let down by a lack of research and evidence on…

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Added on: 04/09/2024

Behind the movement that brought homosexuality — and psychiatry’s power — to a vote 50 years ago

04/08/2024

Fifty years ago, the nation’s psychiatrists effectively put gay people’s mental health — and their very place in society — to a vote. Five months prior, on…

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Added on: 04/09/2024

‘The purpose is getting lost’: debate obscuring point of Scottish hate law, say campaigners

04/08/2024

“We sell flat whites and make croissants in a bakery that’s supposed to be a safe place for the people who work here and the customers who…

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Added on: 04/08/2024

Group urges government to protect transgender people

04/07/2024

On World Health Day yesterday, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights (TAPCPR) urged the government to better care for the health rights of transgender and…

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Added on: 04/07/2024

Gender-critical activists and pro-transgender groups clash in Edinburgh

04/06/2024

Gender-critical activists and counter-protesters clashed in Edinburgh in a dispute over transgender rights. Let Women Speak (LWS), an organisation described by supporters as a “gender-critical feminist” campaign,…