Portugal has passed a law that allows transgender people to change their legal gender under a “self determination” system. The new law, which makes Portugal the sixth European country to adopt a “self-ID” gender recognition law, passed through the country’s parliament on Friday by a reported vote of 109-106. It Read more…
Videos, Report Highlight Issues of Identity, Activism (Beirut, April 16, 2018) – Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists from Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa are defying state-sponsored repression and social stigma, Human Rights Watch and the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality (AFE) said in Read more…
A lot of discussions go on about LGBTI people and of course transwomen are a large part of the contemporary gender and sexuality discussions. Despite the attempts of including diverse sexualities into discussions, the people we often miss are men who are attracted to transwomen. This is a usually asked Read more…
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who opposes protections for transgender employees. NOAH BERGER/Getty Images On Wednesday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination against transgender people. It also held that employers may not use the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Read more…
AUGUST 27, 2017EXCLUSIVE Sabi, before (right) and after (left) the Sex Change Operation Home Exclusive Sabi, born as MK Giri, had joined the Marine Engineering Department of the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam as an 18 years old young man in 2010. However, she never quite felt she belonged to the body she Read more…