Tag: trans rights
A new Russian law aiming to prohibit any change of marital status for trans people could have a retroactive effect and prevent straight couples from marrying.
Russia's proposed amendments to their Family Code legislation which is claimed to "strengthen the family institution" is also an additional opportunity for the executive...
LGBT+ rights groups are crying foul as the President of the Philippines officially pardoned a U.S. Marine who was convicted of killing a transgender woman.
According to The Philippine Star newspaper prosecutors’ attempts to block LCPL Joseph Pemberton’s early release from prison which prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to pardon him.
Prosecuted...
Three trans women were beaten, robbed, and humiliated in a brutal attack by a pack of men in LA, while onlookers simply ignored the crime.
Jaslene White Rose, Eden the Doll, and Joslyn Flawless who are at victims at the centre of the incident found themselves attacked on the busy...
Amnesty International says the proposed legislation’s scrapping “sends a chilling message that the UK is a hostile place for trans people.”
United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson had dumped his predecessor Theresa May’s proposed measures which would have allowed people to change their legal gender by “self-identifying” as a different...
To the delight of Harry Potter fans across the globe, Emma Watson has officially broken her silence on JK Rowling and her anti-trans tweets.
Watson who played Hermione Granger in the Rowling's beloved children’s series issued her response to the saga via Twitter to her 29 million followers.
“Trans people are...
A transgender man has made history in Vietnam after giving birth to his baby daughter on the 16th of May.
The well-known transgender couple Minh Khang and Minh Anh welcomed their healthy 2.3kg baby daughter Thiên An into the world in Ho Chi Man City.
The 24-year-old husband Khang, who was...
New laws have come into effect in the Australian state of Victoria that now allow trans and gender diverse Victorians to alter the sex recorded on their birth certificate without having to undergo surgery.
Due to the new laws an applicant still needs to sign a statutory declaration stating they...
Puerto Rican authorities have confirmed that they are now investigating the murders of two transgender women.
Reported by the Puerto Rican newspaper, Primera Hora, authorities found the bodies of Serena Angelique Velázquez and Layla Pelaez’s in a car under a bridge in the municipality of Humacao on the island’s southeast...
