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Added on: 05/27/2023

Vermont’s GOP Governor Shock: Protects Trans Care, Abortion Rights

05/26/2023

Vermont’s Republican governor, Phil Scott, is going against his party by protecting access to gender-affirming care and abortion instead of restricting or banning the procedures. Without much…

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Added on: 05/24/2023

Inside the Queer Revolution of Saigon’s Nightlife Underground

05/23/2023

On a recent weekend in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the city’s music, fashion and cultural vanguard descended upon Arcan, an underground club that’s become a local…

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Added on: 05/24/2023

Hungary Strips ‘Anti-LGBTQ’ Section From Whistleblower Law

05/23/2023

Hungary on Tuesday modified a new whistleblower law, following outcry by human rights groups, by removing a section that had allowed citizens to report anonymously against perceived…

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Added on: 05/23/2023

Transgender Activists Protest In Pakistan

05/22/2023

Transgender activists in Pakistan hold protest to appeal an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting their rights….

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Added on: 05/23/2023

Policy Outing LGBTQ Students In Morris Co. Stalled By Superior Court

05/22/2023

A state Superior Court has temporarily halted the implementation of a new policy requiring school staff to disclose students’ sexual and gender identities to parents in the…

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Added on: 05/22/2023

Pakistan Federal Shariat Court rules against landmark transgender rights legislation

05/22/2023

The Pakistani Federal Shariat Court struck down major portions of the landmark Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act Friday. The court, which determines whether laws comply with…

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Added on: 05/21/2023

Pakistani transgender activists will appeal Shariah court ruling against law aimed at protecting them

05/20/2023

Transgender activists in Pakistan said they plan to appeal to the highest court in the land an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting…

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Added on: 05/20/2023

In El Salvador, transgender community struggles for rights and survival

05/19/2023

Fabricio Chicas knows exactly what will happen. As soon as he hands in his ID, the employee on the other side of the counter will look at…

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Added on: 05/20/2023

Parents of transgender kids seek to block DeSantis ban on gender-affirming care for minors

05/19/2023

The parents of three transgender children in Florida are trying to get a federal judge to block a new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors, a…

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Added on: 05/19/2023

LGBTQI+ repression in East Africa: ‘They say that Westerners are turning us gay’

05/18/2023

Koei lives in a permanent state of tension. A baby-faced young man in his early-20s, he works in an insurance agency on the outskirts of Nairobi, the…

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Added on: 05/18/2023

Slovakia on brink of blocking legal recognition for trans people

05/17/2023

Slovakian MPs are under mounting international pressure to reject a bill that would see the country follow Hungary in effectively putting a stop to decades of legal gender…

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Added on: 05/18/2023

Mexico No. 2 in LatAm in hate crimes vs. LGBT community despite legal progress

05/17/2023

Mexico City, May 17 (EFE).- Mexico is commemorating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia as Latin America’s No. 2 country in terms of hate crimes…

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Added on: 05/18/2023

Uzbekistan needs a new economic approach that includes the LGBTQ+ community

05/17/2023

Countries that have decriminalised homosexuality have 4.5 times higher rates of foreign direct investment (FDI) than countries that criminalise consensual same-sex relationships, M V Lee Badgett writes….

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Added on: 05/17/2023

Homophobic attacks in France rose almost 30 percent last year, LGBTQ group says

05/16/2023

Last year saw an increase in gay and trans people reporting physical attacks in France, an activist group said on Tuesday, warning that anti-LGBTQ sentiment remains “anchored”…

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Added on: 05/17/2023

How do LGBTQ Zambians deal with bigotry?

05/16/2023

Mary identifies as a transgender woman, but presents to society as a gay man. “I am forced to be gay in Zambia because it isn’t as dangerous…

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Added on: 05/16/2023

Democrats Help Republicans Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Kids

05/15/2023

Three Texas Democrats helped their Republican colleagues pass a controversial state bill that would ban transgender youth from getting hormone therapies, puberty blockers and transition-related surgeries. This…

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Added on: 05/15/2023

The transgender Indonesian Muslims trying to secure their future

05/14/2023

The future of Indonesia’s only Islamic community centre for transgender women is in jeopardy after its leader, Shinta Ratri, died in February – and the government says…

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Added on: 05/15/2023

The American Medical Association’s first out gay president pledges to fight trans healthcare bans

05/14/2023

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld is a U.S. Navy combat veteran who will be inaugurated as the American Medical Association’s (AMA) first out gay president on June 13 –…

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Added on: 05/13/2023

Kentucky Republican governor candidate makes chilling vow to purge transgender kids from schools

05/12/2023

A candidate to become governor of Kentucky has vowed to purge transgender kids from the state’s schools, in her bid for Republican nomination. On Monday (8 May),…

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Added on: 05/12/2023

Supreme Court sides with transgender woman from Guatemala in asylum dispute

05/11/2023

WashingtonCNN — The Supreme Court cleared the way for a transgender woman from Guatemala to appeal her deportation from the United States in federal court. The woman argues that she…

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Added on: 05/11/2023

Trans rights gain ground despite rising European rhetoric

05/10/2023

LONDON, May 11 (Openly) – Europeans are moving ever closer to embracing equal rights for all despite a rise in anti-transgender rhetoric by many of their politicians,…

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Added on: 05/10/2023

Transgender minors protected from estranged parents under Washington law

05/09/2023

Minors seeking gender-affirming care in Washington will be protected from the intervention of estranged parents under a measure Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law Tuesday. The new…

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Added on: 05/10/2023

Top Spanish court considers far-right challenge to LGBT law

05/09/2023

Spain’s Constitutional Court said Tuesday it would consider a legal challenge lodged by the far-right Vox party against a new law extending rights for transgender teenagers and…

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Added on: 05/10/2023

Germany proposes ‘self-determination law’ to ease legal changes of gender

05/09/2023

The German government on Tuesday presented a proposal for a law that will make it easier for people to legally change their name and gender, ending decades-old…

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Added on: 05/08/2023

Israel Police Adopt New Regulation for Searching Trans People

05/06/2023

The Israel Police last week issued a new regulation regarding body searches of transgender people who have not fully transitioned, which several LGBTQ groups decry as harmful,…

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Added on: 05/07/2023

Texas investigates hospital over care for transgender minors

04/06/2023

A Texas hospital’s care for transgender minors is being investigated by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said Friday he’s seeking evidence of alleged “potentially illegal activity”…

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Added on: 05/06/2023

Czech Republic considers removing ‘barbaric’ trans sterilisation law, but prejudices persist

05/05/2023

Czech lawmakers have launched a proposal to remove the sterilisation requirement for legal gender transition, but progress to lift society-wide prejudices is slow. The Czech Republic is…

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Added on: 05/05/2023

Orbán again preaches against migrant and gay rights as CPAC returns to Hungary

05/05/2023

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s populist prime minister likened liberalism to a “virus” in an opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the Hungarian capital…

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Added on: 05/03/2023

Kansas will legally define gender as sex at birth. What that means for transgender rights

05/02/2023

Republican lawmakers in Kansas passed a sweeping law last week that will restrict the kinds of public spaces and services transgender and nonbinary Kansans will have access…

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Added on: 05/03/2023

Trans people in Kashmir have long gained acceptance as matchmakers. Now their jobs are in danger.

05/02/2023

Shabnum Subhan’s house is tucked in the bylanes of Srinagar’s downtown, the most densely populated area of Kashmir’s capital city. In the three-story house, 44-year-old Subhan, who…