Transgender news, information and top stories happening in Asia (including Philippines, Thailand, Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan…).
The government in the state of Kerala, India is going to establish clinics for transgender people and introduce sex-change operations in all state-run medical colleges. The Press Trust of India (PTI) website reported on September […]
Cebu, Philippines. Transgender beauty queen Bee Urgello narrates her life story on the recently held TEDx Lahug in Cebu City, Philippines. She bravely shares the pain that she endured to be the woman that she […]
Cebu City, Philippines. Last June 24, 2017, the streets of Cebu City were filled with beautiful colours as members of the LGBTIQ and allies paraded with their colourful costumes while bannering the rainbow flag. It […]
Tomoya Hosoda is the first trans man ever to be elected to public office in Japan. The 25 years old young man was elected as councillor for the city of Iruma, located in Saitama Prefecture, […]
From the 300,000 inmates in Thai prisons, 6,000 are reported to belong to sexual minorities. A recent article from the Associated Press describes this little known policy that aims at separating LGBT inmates from the rest. “I […]
The South Sulawesi Police cancelled a Bugis cultural event involving transgender participants, last Thursday, apparently under the pressure of a Muslim group. The event was set to take place in the Soppeng Regency from January 19 to 22, […]
Thai transgender activist Nada Chaiyajit, 37 years old, completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Phayao in northern Thailand in August 2016, but her university refused to issue her graduation certificate. The reason: she submitted […]
Anjali Lama, 32, originally from Nepal, will perform at the Lakmé Fashion Week, set to take place in Mumbai from February 1 to February 5. She originally auditioned for the show last year but got rejected. This […]
Ivory Aquino, a Filipino transgender woman who moved to the U.S. when she was a teenager, always dreamed of being an actress, but being a transgender woman seemed to be a hindrance to realise that […]
The Lahore High Court, led by Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, passed the order last Monday to count transgender people in Pakistan’s next national census, set to take place in March 2017. The ruling was impulsed […]
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