Current medical education in the United States only offers five hours on average dedicated for LGBT-related concerns. By bringing transgender surgeries to academic medical centers, Dr. Maurice Garcia hopes that future doctors will no longer […]
Pink Tiffany, a documentary on the life of model, businesswoman, and LGBT advocate Meghna Lama, premiered in Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival. Audience hailed Lama as a role model and congratulated the filmmakers Miranda Morton […]
Popular dating app Tinder offered unclear explanation why transgender accounts kept being removed. Some transgender users expressed suspicion that their removal might be caused by the number of reports made by transphobic people against their […]
BuzzFeed featured five transgender refugees who fled from their home country to avoid persecution. Photographer Steven Laxton said the stories of cruel and brutal treatment are heartbreaking. In some nations, expressing love to a beloved […]
Nearly half of young transgender respondents said they avoid seeking health care due to discomfort with health care practitioners. A study by University of British Columbia revealed that respondents who have a doctor who is […]
Pentagon announced it will comply to federal court ruling to start enlisting transgender members by January 1, 2018. The move could signal that there is growing sense that the administration is the losing legal fight […]
Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) of the Lebanese American University (LAU) invited sexual reproductive health and rights experts Cynthia El Khoury for a talk on her study concerning transgender women in Lebanon. […]
Current rules on legal gender recognition require the removal of gonads of applicants. United Nations said sterilization as a prerequisite to gender change constitutes human rights violation. The Japanese Justice Ministry claimed that the said […]
Critics call out the way traditional and social media describe the victim in news coverage. Psychologist Keith Lequay said in a 2015 interview that the country needed a frank and open education about what it […]
Diane Rodriguez, former sex worker, became Ecuador’s first elected transgender senator. She revealed that she received death threats upon her election. Her journey from activism to politics was motivated by lack of political leadership in […]
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