Transgender news, information and top stories happening in Asia (including Philippines, Thailand, Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan…).
Members of the LGBT community of Uzbekistan faced deep-rooted homophobia, discrimination and threats of violence. Transgender woman K. is seeking asylum in Belarus to escape from harsh realities she faced in her home country Uzbekistan. […]
Muay Thai boxer and transgender woman Nong Rose will debut in Paris, France in a fight against champion Akram Hamidi. She said that when she started fighting professionally as a girl, she was afraid that […]
Equal Opportunities Commission pushed for gender recognition legislation that would remove sex reassignment surgery requirement, and would be replaced with a statutory declaration and an intent to live permanently in their affirmed gender. Christian group […]
The state of Terrenganu is poised to implement transgender conversion plans with the hope of rehabilitating transgender people back to what the state considered as normal. LGBT advocate criticized the move, stating that it will […]
A short video that shows everyday harassment against transgender people and to change gesture of ridicule to one of support went viral in Pakistan. Uploaded by the Asia Pacific Transgender Network, they hoped that the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pioneering research on transgender population in China reveals mental health issues and struggle for acceptance. Considered to have the largest sample size, the National Survey of the Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Population in China was […]
“Allah does not care if you are transgender” said Shinta Ratri, founder of a boarding school for transgender Muslims in Java, Indonesia. School has become a refuge for LGBT people as a place of worship. […]
As China’s state government wields ever increasing control over the country’s culture and society, its treatment of transgender individuals is a complicated push-and-pull between public acceptance and privately held conservative beliefs. In an in-depth review […]
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