Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 01/10/2024
01/09/2024
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador apologized Tuesday following accusations of misgendering a transgender legislator. “I want to … offer an apology to a colleague who identifies…

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Added on: 01/10/2024
01/09/2024
Space Force Col. Bree Fram, a distinguished transgender service member, advocate, and rocket scientist, recently faced a barrage of online attacks following a derogatory post by Chaya…

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Added on: 01/10/2024
01/09/2024
While UK-based activists sit tight in wait of an update on Rishi Sunak’s conservative party to follow through on their promise to ban the abhorrent practice, Scotland…

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Added on: 01/09/2024
01/08/2024
A lawsuit to block enforcement of Louisiana’s new ban on transgender health care procedures for anyone under 18 was announced Monday by LGBTQ+ advocates. The lawsuit was…

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Added on: 01/09/2024
01/08/2024
A transgender pool champion says she received “vile” and “horrific” abuse online after her opponent refused to play her in a final. Lynne Pinches conceded the Women’s…

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Added on: 01/08/2024
01/08/2024
ISLAMABAD  –  Special Assistant to Prime Min­ister for Human Rights and Women Empowerment, Mush­aal Hussain Mullick here on Sunday said that the govern­ment was committed to provide…

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Added on: 01/07/2024
01/06/2024
When veteran drag queen KymmBerlei takes to the stage in her floor-length sequin gown, glamorous wig, and sky-high heels, she in many ways embodies the enormous transformation…

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Added on: 01/06/2024
01/05/2024
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) has signed an executive order banning hospitals in the state from performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors. The ban went into effect immediately,…

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Added on: 01/06/2024
01/05/2024
Labour MP Rosie Duffield has been cleared of allegations of transphobia and antisemitism by her party, saying she has been “completely exonerated”. The Canterbury politician, whose views…

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Added on: 01/06/2024
Trans activist Dominique Rebel Saint-Vil of OTRAH (Organisation Trans d’Haïti) is surviving — barely — in her beleaguered, impoverished gang-controlled nation. In the following interview, she describes…

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Added on: 01/05/2024
01/05/2024
The Scottish Government has announced funding for a project to support the mental health of LGBTQ youth. £50,000 will be given to LGBT Youth Scotland to establish…

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Added on: 01/05/2024
The year 2023 was marked by a severe global assault on LGBTQ rights and unexpected challenges and progress. Despite the hard shove backward, LGBTQ communities stood up…

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Added on: 01/04/2024
01/04/2024
LONDON, Dec 21 (Openly) – There were huge milestones and setbacks for LGBTQ+ rights around the world during 2023. Same-sex marriage was legalised in nations including Slovenia and Andorra,…

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Added on: 01/04/2024
01/03/2024
At least 510 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legislatures across the United States last year — a new record, according to American Civil Liberties Union data as…

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Added on: 01/03/2024
In March of this year, Russia will hold presidential elections. The contest, like ones past, will be highly choreographed, and its outcome is preordained. President Vladimir Putin,…

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Added on: 01/02/2024
Enforcement of binary gender norms has led to unwanted medical interventions on intersex and cisgender children. In 1976, a woman from Roanoke, Virginia, named Rhoda received a…

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Added on: 12/31/2023
12/31/2023
Caroline Paige, who was the first transgender Officer to serve openly in the UK Armed Forces, has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British…

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Added on: 12/30/2023
12/29/2023
Ohio’s Republican governor has vetoed legislation that would have barred transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care, he said Friday. Signing the bill would “be saying that the…

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Added on: 12/28/2023
12/27/2023
A battle six years in the making was finally won as Maya Gurung and Surendra Pandley’s marriage was officially registered with the government of Nepal in late…

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Added on: 12/27/2023
12/26/2023
Thousands of transgender people in India are reportedly waiting months to obtain a certificate that will allow them to receive gender-affirming care. Statistics reported by the country’s…

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Added on: 12/26/2023
12/25/2023
A journalist asked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis directly how he would feel if one of his kids came out as gay or trans. The question came up…

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Added on: 12/26/2023
12/25/2023
After the groundbreaking entry of Sobia Khan into the political arena, another prominent transgender figure, Saima Shaukat, has stepped into the spotlight by submitting her nomination papers…

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Added on: 12/26/2023
The claim: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said parents who seek gender-affirming care for their children subject those children to abuse — so much so that other nations…

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Added on: 12/25/2023
12/24/2023
Kentucky’s version of a “Don’t say gay” law is creating many problems for LGBTQ+ students — and the parents and teachers who want to support them, numerous…

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Added on: 12/25/2023
11/24/2023
As a gay man growing up in Russia, books were Vladimir Kosarevsky’s refuge, offering him a precious glimpse into lives that in some way echoed his own….

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Added on: 12/24/2023
12/23/2023
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas, according to court filings that…

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Added on: 12/23/2023
12/22/2023
Protections for transgender people will be stripped back in Madrid after a proposal was passed by the Spanish capital’s conservative People’s Party (PP). Under the reform, discriminating…

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Added on: 12/22/2023
12/21/2023
LONDON – Gay and transgender Russians say they fear further attacks on their rights following a Supreme Court ruling that designated LGBTQ+ activists as “extremists,” with some in…

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Added on: 12/21/2023
12/20/2023
It has been 70 years since the Lavender Scare, when thousands of gay people in the US government were fired or forced to resign from their jobs….

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Added on: 12/21/2023
BANGKOK (AP) — Naphat Krutthai and Rasithaya Jindasri have been in a committed relationship for eight years, but only now can they consider getting married. In a clothing…