Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 12/26/2022

Donnelly pressed over use of UK clinic for children with gender-identity issues

12/25/2022

Documents released under a Freedom of Information request show Mr Donnelly was contacted by a representative from Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) and an individual, whose name…

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Added on: 12/25/2022

Elon Musk challenged by Tesla investor with trans child: ‘You’re punching down’

12/24/2022

In the same month that he tweeted mocking pronouns, and urged people to follow conspiracy theorists QAnon, Musk reportedly told investors he would not “censor” his views…

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Added on: 12/24/2022

La Tianguis Sexo Disidente: the radical, queer, Mexican flea market

12/23/2022

Every day, in the centre of Mexico City, a flea market takes place. At the market, trans girls and queer folx gather under a railway, selling clothing,…

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Added on: 12/23/2022

Gender self-determination to be granted in Spain, Scotland

12/22/2022

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s lower house of Parliament Thursday passed a law that allows people over 16 years of age to change their legally registered gender without…

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Added on: 12/23/2022

LGBT campaigners hail new gender recognition law as MSPs vote for change

12/22/2022

The Gender Recognition Reform Bill was voted through the Scottish Parliament on Thursday afternoon after lengthy and often heated debate. Holyrood spent much of Tuesday and Wednesday…

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Added on: 12/22/2022

A transgender resource centre now favourite stop for scholars, students in Tamil Nadu

12/21/2022

The silence in the hall is broken by the ringtone of a mobile phone. The caller, who is a Ph.D. scholar from Coimbatore engaged in research on…

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Added on: 12/21/2022

NHS will spend £100,000 on scheme that teaches staff how to be inclusive to pregnant transgender men

12/20/2022

Health chiefs are planning on forking out £100,000 on a woke scheme that teaches NHS staff how to treat pregnant transgender men inclusively. It could encourage the…

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Added on: 12/21/2022

Scottish transgender reform looks imminent after marathon Holyrood debate

11/20/2022

Transgender 16- and 17-year-olds in Scotland are soon likely to be able to apply to change the sex on their birth certificate for the first time as…

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Added on: 12/20/2022

Two faces of Pakistan: The Transgender RIghts Act and its Muslim opponents

12/19/2022

Transgender Pakistanis face the complex challenges of life in a homeland with both a strong conservative Muslim society and a groundbreaking transgender rights law. Pakistan, a conservative…

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Added on: 12/19/2022

Maria B announces Khunsa Fund for intersex community

12/18/2022

A few days after receiving criticism for her opinion on the film Joyland, renowned designer Maria B established the Khunsa Fund for the empowerment of the intersex…

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Added on: 12/19/2022

Inclusive Healthcare! In A First, Cloud Clinics Launched For LGBTQIA+ Community In Bengaluru

12/18/2022

Borderless.lgbt, the world’s first health and wellness cloud platform devoted to LGBT healthcare, has launched a cloud clinic in Bengaluru, where global experts will work alongside doctors…

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Added on: 12/17/2022

Court upholds Connecticut’s transgender athlete policy

12/16/2022

A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticut’s policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, rejecting arguments by four…

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Added on: 12/17/2022

UN human rights expert backs Scottish government’s vital gender law reforms

12/16/2022

One of the UN’s leading voices on gender identity and LGBTQ+ rights has endorsed Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act reforms, which will be voted on next week. Victor…

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Added on: 12/14/2022

Cambridge Dictionary changes definitions of ‘male,’ ‘female’ to include transgender people

12/13/2022

The definitions of “man” and “woman” have been altered in the Cambridge Dictionary in order to be inclusive of transgender people. While both words still contain their…

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Added on: 12/12/2022

Transgender Qatari princess flees country fearing persecution

12/11/2022

A Qatari princess was granted asylum in the UK over fears that they would be persecuted for being transgender. Leaked documents obtained by the Sunday Times of…

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Added on: 12/11/2022

Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises

12/10/2022

Alejandra Caraballo is used to seeing anti-transgender hatred. As an L.G.B.T.Q. rights advocate and a transgender woman, she has received death threats, and her and her family…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized

12/6/2022

On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

LGBTQ Politics in Kazakhstan: A Cross-Cutting Electoral Cleavage?

12/6/2022

For many decades domestic politics in Kazakhstan has pivoted around monolithic state structures, dependent on such a concentrated leadership elite, that outside observers might surmise the country…

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Added on: 12/07/2022

Ukraine’s only transgender correspondent has become a local legend

12/6/2022

I was shocked when I learned of LGBTQ Nation reporter Sarah Ashton-Cirillo – the only openly transgender war correspondent working in Ukraine. It was May, and I…

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Added on: 12/06/2022

Sport New Zealand reveals new guidelines for transgender inclusion in community sport

12/5/2022

Sport New Zealand has released new guidelines for the inclusion of transgender people in community sport, allowing athletes to compete in the gender they identify with. The…

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Added on: 12/04/2022

Colorado Springs LGBTQ+ community has long struggled to find a ‘safe space’

12/03/2022

Finding a place for rainbows in a sea of red has often been a struggle for those who identify as LGBTQ+ in Colorado Springs, a city with…

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Added on: 12/04/2022

Pageant celebrates transgender life in India

12/03/2022

Anilya Boro may not have won the crown at India’s Miss Trans NE pageant this year, but having her parents there in support was a validation in…

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Added on: 12/04/2022

Influential Iraqi cleric launches anti-LGBTQ campaign

12/03/2022

An influential Iraqi cleric who announced his withdrawal from politics four months ago has broken a period of relative silence to launch an anti-LGBTQ campaign. Shiite cleric…

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Added on: 12/03/2022

Japanese girl publishes children’s book to make LGBTI community visible

12/02/2022

Ui, a 12-year-old Japanese girl, discovered the existence of transgender people while watching a program on public television. Unable to find any children’s books on the subject,…

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Added on: 12/02/2022

Russian drag queens ‘ready for the worst’ as LGBTQ law looms

12/01/2022

Backstage at a bar in Moscow, a troupe of drag queens surrounded by make-up palettes and sparkling costumes join hands before taking to the stage for what…

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Added on: 11/30/2022

Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ bill sparks spike in “legally sanctioned” extortion

11/29/2022

Last year, Ghana’s parliament introduced a controversial new anti-LGBTQ bill that could further criminalise same-sex acts and identities. Although homosexuality was initially outlawed under colonial rule –…

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Added on: 11/29/2022

Activists mark 1 week chained together in Caracas demanding LGBTI rights

11/28/2022

Transsexuals may not change their names in Venezuela, where soldiers are imprisoned if they openly express their homosexuality and neither the constitution, the laws not protests have…

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Added on: 11/29/2022

South Korea’s LGBTQ community confronts crushing headwinds in fight for equality

11/28/2022

Lesvos rolls out of bed each morning before the sunrise, heads to work, then punches her time card at exactly 6 a.m. By day, she’s a chef…

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Added on: 11/28/2022

Military dad & trans daughter sue for right of military dependents to get gender-affirming surgery

11/27/2022

A 21-year-old transgender college student is suing the Department of Defense (D0D) and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for denying her gender-affirming surgery under her dad’s military health…

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Added on: 11/27/2022

I spoke to 100 LGBTQ+ Afghans fearing for their lives under the Taliban. This is what I learned

11/26/2022

Filmmaker Dan Hall accidentally found himself in contact with more than a hundred queer people in Afghanistan living under Taliban rule. He shares some of their stories…