Transgender and Intersex Issues

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Added on: 01/31/2019

Church of England Faces Calls to Withdraw Trans Welcome Ceremonies

01/29/2019

The Church of England is facing pressure to withdraw guidance for ceremonies welcoming transgender worshippers following a transition after more than 2,000 members signed a letter of…

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Added on: 01/29/2019

Myanmar LGBT Pride Out in Force, But Laws Lag Behind

01/29/2019

This past weekend, pride week kicked off in full force in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon. A flurry of rainbow umbrellas dotting Yangon harbor, held by fishermen following…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Holocaust Memorial Day: How the pink triangle became a symbol of gay rights

01/26/2019

As the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday (January 27), PinkNews remembers all those in the LGBT+ community that were persecuted by the Nazis—and how the…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Chandigarh demands right to be different

01/27/2019

The fate of LGBT community of Chandigarh swiveled into a different alley when Dhananjay Chauhan, a transgender student, led the campaign on Panjab University campus for a…

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Added on: 01/28/2019

Reconnecting LGBT and Indigenous struggles

01/26/2019

Historically, the LGBT community and Indigenous people have been closely connected in their struggle for equal and fair treatment in Canada. However, that connection has been partially…

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Added on: 01/26/2019

Nearly one in 50 US teen students see selves as transgender, government reports

01/25/2019

Nearly one in 50 U.S. high school students considers themself transgender, and more than a third of those say they attempted suicide in the previous year, according…

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Added on: 01/26/2019

In the deepness of Siberian closets

01/23/2019

Until recently a flag, painted on the balustrade, contrasted the otherwise concrete-grey waterfront next to the Angara River, which trenches the city of Irkutsk into halves. Its…

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Added on: 01/25/2019

Japan Supreme Court: Trans people must be sterilized before gender change

01/24/2019

The Supreme Court of Japan published a ruling on Thursday (24 January) upholding a law that requires transgender people to be sterilized before changing their gender on official documents. Japan’s law in question…

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Added on: 01/25/2019

Indian transgender politician Apsara Reddy: ‘I want to be looked upon as an equal’

01/22/2019

Apsara Reddy this month became the first transgender person to be appointed as general secretary of the Mahila Congress, the party’s women’s wing. Before plunging into politics,…

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Added on: 01/23/2019

Gabriel’s journey: A transgender Spaniard makes the change

01/22/2019

Gabriel Diaz de Tudanca is a 19-year-old Spaniard who, although born a girl, identified as male from early childhood. “When I was three years old I came…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Australian politician Mark Latham pledges to gut transgender rights

01/20/2019

Australian One Nation politician Mark Latham has unveiled a series of new anti-transgender policy pledges. Latham was once the leader of Australia’s centre-left Labor Party, but is…

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Added on: 01/21/2019

Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities

01/20/2019

When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture hall watching a BuzzFeed video about what…

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Added on: 01/20/2019

Yale announced ‘non-binary’ gender option in response to Trans Rights Coalition Petition

01/18/2019

Registering as “non-binary” is now a non-issue at Yale. A November petition by the Ivy League university’s LGBT community has successfully changed the Student Information System. Students…

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Added on: 01/19/2019

Murdered’ transgender woman from Droitwich was LGBT hero

01/17/2019

Amy Griffiths was discovered dead at her flat in Chalverton Court, Droitwich, on Monday. Police said she had suffered head and throat injuries. Martin Saberi, aged 53,…

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Added on: 01/16/2019

New York bans gay conversion therapy, and passes historic trans protection law

01/15/2019

The state of New York has passed bills banning gay conversion therapy and adding gender identity to its anti-discrimination legislation. The state’s legislative body approved the bills on Tuesday…

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Added on: 01/15/2019

Conservative group sues to block trans women from using faith-based shelter

01/13/2019

A conservative Christian group in the US has urged a district judge to block trans women from using a faith-based women’s shelter. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) sued…

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Added on: 01/11/2019

Trans people flock to Malta’s new gender clinic

01/09/2019

About 35 people have accessed the services at Malta’s new gender clinic since it opened in mid-November. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Chris Fearne, said…

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Added on: 01/11/2019

Human Rights Commission warns Depok’s policies produce potential for anti-LGBT discrimination

01/09/2019

State-sanctioned discrimination in Indonesia against the LGBT community and individuals saw a sharp increase towards the end of last year as officials in a number of cities…

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Added on: 01/10/2019

Pushed to Fringes of Indian Society, Delhi’s Trans Women Face Constant HIV Threat

01/07/2019

Boby has lost track of the precise number of times she has been gang-raped. She thinks it is between eight and 10. “Every time it has been…

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Added on: 01/08/2019

Trans Indians ramp up protests against ‘discriminatory’ bill

01/07/2019

Transgender Indians and their allies have been urgently rallying against a transgender bill. They want the bill to be overhauled before it is considered by the upper…

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Added on: 01/07/2019

New Jersey to introduce gender-neutral birth certificates in February

01/06/2019

New Jersey birth certificates will have the option of a third, non-binary gender starting on 1 February. Governor Phil Murphy signed this legislation, the Babs Siperstein Bill,…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

Trans community confront police for taking their sound systems

01/04/2019

Trans women in a small Pakistani city have accused police of illegally confiscating their sound system. Dancing at weddings and other special occasions is often the only…

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Added on: 01/06/2019

In this UK city, new sex education lessons are a victory for trans rights

01/05/2019

The city of Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom will be teaching a more inclusive sex education curriculum. School children in the city’s schools will now…

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Added on: 01/05/2019

Life of a gay migrant: Racism exists in the LGBT community too

01/05/2019

Ireland may be known as the land of céad míle fáilte, but a report in the last months of 2018 suggests more needs to be done to…

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Added on: 01/04/2019

Second death of a trans woman in a month shakes Malaysian community

01/02/2019

The death of a trans woman in the Malaysian town of Klang, the second in less than a month, has prompted calls for the government to better…

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Added on: 01/03/2019

The Cape Town Schools Learning from Trangsgender Students

01/02/2019

As an increasing number of young South Africans reveal that their gender identities differ from their sex at birth, schools are learning about the challenges these students…

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Added on: 01/03/2019

Government ‘mishandling’ Trans Rights Reform by Failing to Tackles Health Inequalities, Former Tory Minister Says

01/02/2019

A former Conservative cabinet minister has accused the government of “mishandling” reforms needed to improve the health and quality of life of transpeople. Maria Miller, the chair of the commons women and equalities…

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Added on: 01/03/2019

Brazil’s New President Removes LGBTI Concerns from Human Rights Ministry

01/02/2019

Brazil’s new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro removed concerns regarding the LGBTI community from being considered by a new human rights ministry hours after his inauguration, part of…

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Added on: 01/02/2019

LGBTI group lodges criminal complaint against newspaper for inciting hate

12/31/2018

Dozens of LGBTI activists in Turkey held a protest in central Istanbul calling for justice after the brutal and gruesome murder of trans woman Hande Kader. The…

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Added on: 01/01/2019

Trans woman shot 11 times on way to the gym in Brazil

12/30/2018

A transgender woman was shot 11 times and killed on her way to the gym in Brazil. Nicolly Banks, 26, walked down Liopino Lourenço de Araújo street in Uberlândia, Triângulo Mineiro,…