Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 02/14/2020

Who should decide when a child can change gender?

01/13/2020

It was a case that tore a family apart – and exposed the faultlines in an increasingly bitter global row over the rights of a child to…

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Added on: 02/12/2020

Rebecca Long-Bailey sparks Labour row after pledging to fight ‘transphobic’ women’s groups

02/11/2020

Rebecca Long-Bailey has triggered a furious row after signing up to a campaign to “fight” women’s groups branded “transphobic” and to expel offending party members. The Labour…

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Added on: 02/11/2020

South Dakota Senate Committee kills controversial gender-change bill

02/10/2020

In a 5-2 vote on Monday, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted to kill a bill that aimed to ban gender-change treatments for youth under…

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Added on: 02/07/2020

National firestorm on horizon as states consider criminalizing transgender treatments for youths

02/06/2020

Rep. Fred Deutsch, sponsor of the South Dakota’s HB 1057, said he introduced the bill Jan. 14 to prevent doctors from pushing children to change their bodies….

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Added on: 02/06/2020

Guyana gay-rights manifesto: Seeking support from political parties

02/05/2020

Gay rights advocates in Guyana have compiled a manifesto aimed at persuading Guyanese political parties to embrace measures to end repression of the LGBT community. News Room…

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Added on: 02/04/2020

Rising populism stokes homophobic hate speech across Europe

02/02/2020

Homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and other anti-LGBT+ hate crimes are rising across Europe, fuelled by divisive politics and socially conservative groups that also campaign against abortion access,…

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Added on: 02/02/2020

Indian Supreme Court accepts trans lawsuit against new trans rights law

01/28/2020

The Supreme Court issued a notice to the central government on Monday on a petition alleging that a legislation drafted to protect transgender persons was violative of…

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Added on: 02/01/2020

Trans lawmaker Danica Roem gets powerful words of Equal Rights Amendment tattooed on her arm

01/31/2020

Trans lawmaker Danica Roem has had the first 24 words of the Equal Rights Amendment tattooed onto her arm in a powerful statement on gender equality. Roem…

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Added on: 01/31/2020

‘I tested my new name at the coffee shop’

01/31/2020

“Choosing my name was a pretty long journey,” says Sonja Howells. “When I first said my name to the barista, it felt so liberating. It was so…

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Added on: 01/30/2020

South Dakota Lawmakers Just Voted to Send Doctors to Jail for Helping Trans Kids

01/29/2020

After hours of heated (and often comically inaccurate) debate, South Dakota’s House of Representatives on Wednesday became the first in the country to greenlight a bill that…

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Added on: 01/30/2020

Amnesty International urges Korea to take action on LGBT rights

01/29/2020

Amnesty International on Thursday expressed concerns about the rights of sexual minorities in South Korea in its yearly human rights report, calling on the government and parliament…

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Added on: 01/29/2020

A GOP lawmaker, the son of an Auschwitz survivor, compared doctors treating transgender children to Nazis

01/28/2020

The South Dakota legislature is considering the nation’s first law that could send doctors to jail for treating transgender youths younger than 16 with hormone therapy or…

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Added on: 01/28/2020

Why are Dine LGBTQ people denied access to ceremony?

01/27/2020

When Rei Yazzie started his transition and his voice began to change, he knew it was time to prepare for a tá’cheeh – a traditional male puberty…

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Added on: 01/27/2020

72 LGBT organisations write to MSPs supporting trans rights

01/26/2020

Seventy two LBGT organisations have penned an open letter to MSPs, underlining their support for the government’s proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. Sports teams, pride…

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Added on: 01/26/2020

Denver school board votes to require gender neutral bathrooms in all public schools

01/25/2020

A new school board for Denver Public Schools unanimously passed a resolution in its first meeting requiring all district schools to have at least one all-gender bathroom….

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Added on: 01/24/2020

Dozens of anti-LGBTQ state bills already proposed in 2020, advocates warn

01/23/2020

Like most high school students, Aerin Geary does not typically pay attention to state legislation. However, the South Dakota teenager has been closely following House Bill 1057,…

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Added on: 01/24/2020

LGB Alliance founder says there shouldn’t be LGBT clubs in schools because of ‘predatory gay teachers’

01/23/2020

Malcolm Clark, co-founder of controversial anti-trans group the LGB Alliance, has denounced LGBT+ clubs in schools. Clark said LGBT+ clubs – a safe space for many LGBT+…

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Added on: 01/22/2020

South Korea transgender soldier to sue over dismissal

01/21/2020

A transgender soldier in South Korea says she will sue the army after it dismissed her for violating regulations following her sex change. Byun Hui-soo, 22, joined…

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Added on: 01/22/2020

Ecuador’s LGBT+ community seen suffering deadliest year in a decade

01/21/2020

Last year was the deadliest in at least a decade for gay and transgender people in Ecuador, campaigners have said, citing a possible backlash against new laws…

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Added on: 01/22/2020

Homosexual and trans migrants ask for help from the LGBT community in Mexico

01/21/2020

Central American homosexuals and trans who travel in the migrant caravan this Monday ask for the attention and help of the Mexican LGBT community because of the…

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Added on: 01/21/2020

Gender neutral toilets greet Margaret Court at Australian Open

01/21/2020

The Australian Open has made available two new gender-neutral toilets for the first time at Rod Laver Arena, the same day as Margaret Court made her return…

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Added on: 01/20/2020

Human Rights in the South Caucasus: 2019 victories and losses

01/20/2020

The Human Rights Watch report states that Azerbaijani authorities continue to exact tight control over the political system and persecute critics. There was at least one known…

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Added on: 01/19/2020

LGBT activists say new bills target transgender youth

01/18/2020

At the urging of conservative advocacy groups, Republican legislators in more than a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on transgender young people. One batch of…

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Added on: 01/19/2020

Scotland: Catholic Church opposes ‘troubling’ reforms to gender recognition lawsin

01/18/2020

The Catholic Church has called on its congregation to oppose proposed reforms to gender recognition laws in Scotland, which it called “troubling”. It also said that trans…

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Added on: 01/18/2020

Malaysia, where gay sex is illegal, used to be home to a community of gender non-conforming shamans

01/17/2020

Homosexuality is doubly illegal in Malaysia as it is banned by the country’s secular, colonial-era legal code, as well as its special Islamic courts. LGBT+ people have…

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Added on: 01/17/2020

South Korea to decide on first transgender soldier amid debate

01/16/2020

South Korea’s military said on Thursday it will hold a meeting to discuss whether it will discharge the first soldier to have undergone gender reassignment surgery, which…

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Added on: 01/16/2020

Trans Activist Runs for Congress in Peru

01/15/2020

Gahela Tseneg Cari Contreras is running for Congress in Peru, but the name she has gone by her entire adult life will apparently not be on the…

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Added on: 01/14/2020

House Democrats to ask ICE to release all transgender immigrants in custody

01/13/2020

House Democrats are preparing to ask the Department of Homeland Security to release all transgender immigrants being held at long-term federal immigration facilities. Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley…

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Added on: 01/10/2020

Brazil issues new rules, lowers age for gender reassignment surgery

01/09/2020

Brazil’s independent medical regulator announced new rules for treating transgender patients on Thursday, including lowering the age when trans people can have gender reassignment surgery to 18…

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Added on: 01/07/2020

Section 377 crusader Ashok Row Kavi steps down as Humsafar Trust Chairman

01/06/2020

Ashok Row Kavi, the founder Chairperson of Mumbai-based Humsafar Trust has stepped down from his post. The Indian journalist and LGBT rights activist had founded the Trust…