Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 09/26/2020
09/25/2020
Last month, a group of trans, LGBTI+ and allied organisations wrote to the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) over its reduction of vital gender-affirming services during the…

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Added on: 09/25/2020
09/17/2020
France’s highest court has ruled that a transgender woman cannot be officially recognised as the biological mother of the child she conceived with her wife before transitioning….

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Added on: 09/23/2020
09/22/2020
Ministers have ruled out changes to make it easier for transgender people in England and Wales to have their gender legally recognised. They have rejected calls for…

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Added on: 09/23/2020
09/22/2020
A group of advocates in New Orleans have raised more than $400,000 to create what will be the city’s first home for transgender and gender non-confirming people…

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Added on: 09/21/2020
09/20/2020
Trans adults will continue to need a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria to change their legal gender even after a reform of the UK’s gender-recognition laws, the…

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Added on: 09/21/2020
In a historic event of sorts, transgender activist Dr Akkai Padmashali joined the Karnataka unit of the Congress party on Sunday. Akkai is the first from the…

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Added on: 09/20/2020
The book in this installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular — “Love Falls on Us: A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives” —…

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Added on: 09/18/2020
09/17/2020
Fiji’s growth in achieving transgender rights and freedom is less than 1 per cent, says founder of Transgender Fiji Network, Dr Isireli Biumaitotoya. Dr Biumaitotoya said Fiji…

World Voices

Added on: 09/17/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
I’m wondering if you can tell me a little bit about what inspired the Sahodari Foundation. Since childhood, I’ve had difficult experiences because of my transgender identity….

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Added on: 09/15/2020
09/14/2020
Dozens of organisations including Disney, Google and Microsoft weighed into a fierce debate over transgender rights in Britain on Monday, writing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to…

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Added on: 09/15/2020
The U.N. human rights agency called on Mexican authorities Thursday to thoroughly investigate the killing of an LGBT rights activist in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua….

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Added on: 09/14/2020
When Gulf Coast native Stacie Pace decided to open her own clinic, the nurse practitioner carefully considered one question: Whose healthcare needs were not being met? The…

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Added on: 09/13/2020
09/12/2020
Keene’s Aria DiMezzo is the first transgender person to win the GOP’s nomination for Cheshire County sheriff after running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. DiMezzo, associated with the…

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Added on: 09/10/2020
The National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) said the granting of absolute pardon to US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton is an “injustice” not only to…

World Voices

Added on: 09/09/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
Can you tell me about the image you made that circulated social media platforms in support of Julie Khan? I met Julie last year at the 2019…

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Added on: 09/08/2020
09/08/2020
Argentina’s president is now requiring 1% of public sector jobs be set aside for transgender people. In a decree signed by President Alberto Fernández signed a decree…

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Added on: 09/08/2020
09/07/2020
Russia could be set to follow in the footsteps of Hungary with a proposed law that would legally erase transgender people. Proposed amendments to Russia’s Family Code,…

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Added on: 09/06/2020
09/05/2020
The gruesome killing on Saturday of a second transgender woman in northern Mexico has unnerved the local transgender community and amplified calls for greater protections in the…

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Added on: 09/06/2020
09/04/220
Lil’ Daddee struts onto the stage wearing a fake mustache and a boiler suit covered in grease stains. The performer picks up a large bicycle pump and…

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Added on: 09/05/2020
09/04/2020
Russian politicians are weighing a chance to the country’s Family Code that would prevent transgender citizens from changing their legal gender to match their actual gender. The…

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Added on: 09/05/2020
09/04/2020
The Kay Trans Haiti center located in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is funded by a Spanish healthcare company and the United Nations Development Program and provides lodging and…

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Added on: 09/05/2020
In her white sleeveless top, strappy silver sandals and long blue skirt, which is destined to be thrown off minutes into her set, dancer Tenzin Mariko stepped…

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Added on: 09/04/2020
A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines will remain behind bars while a court considers an appeal against a decision to release…

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Added on: 08/31/2020
08/31/2020
A transgender campaign group has said new rules compelling Northern Ireland’s civil servants to use whichever terms transgender people wish is an “important first step”. Meanwhile, the…

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Added on: 08/30/2020
08/29/2020
For decades in Turkey, there was no higher honour than being made fun of by Huysuz Virjin (Grumpy Virgin), the country’s first drag queen, beloved for her…

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Added on: 08/29/2020
08/28/2020
Marking an historical first in Pope Francis’s home country, the Diocese of San Luis in northern Argentina invited a transgender woman Tuesday to read one of the…

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Added on: 08/29/2020
08/28/2020
The activist-led Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO) aims to strengthen West African movements for gender diversity and sexual rights. To accomplish that, it takes a flexible…

World Voices

Added on: 08/26/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
How did you become involved with LGBTI activism? I started back in 2011 when I was away from Poland studying in Slovenia and I found out there…

World Voices

Added on: 08/26/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
How did you become interested in this type of activism? When I was younger, I worked a lot with the trans sex worker community because I used…

Global News

Added on: 08/25/2020
Bewildered, traumatized, terrified, these are words that come close to describing the turmoil facing Ezekiel Mwaleghu, a 19-year old form-one student at a secondary school in Voi…