The National Transgender Discrimination Survey is the most extensive survey of transgender discrimination ever undertaken. Over 6,450 responses are included in the survey, which explored discrimination in all aspects of life.
As all shades of gender expression flower, not only is the issue of one man, one woman marriage made irrelevant. The entirety of sexism itself loses all viability. It is the transgender population that will help push us all forward into a future where each person’s individual character traits and preferences carry more weight the shape of their body parts, a new world that transcends the narrow limits of gender and could well be the culmination of the feminist dream. >>>
Before making the film, its producer Fereshteh Taerpour said she did not even know the fatwa existed. "At the beginning, it was very strange for me to find out that sex-change operation is permitted in Iran," she told the Guardian. "The authorities give loans and even issue new ID cards after the surgery, something that is not legal in many countries."
“We demand our rights. We deserve to be treated equally. The society needs to understand how much we struggle for existence. The problems that we face are 100 times harder than the problems face by women. Bad treatment minted to us by teachers, doctors, policemen really hurt us. And most of the people make fun of us too.” >>>
“We ran a huge campaign in Warangal district for our voting rights. In the end, the local authorities issued voter ID cards to 140 transgenders in Warangal district. At the end of the day, the public should understand that we too are human beings and like any other, we too have basic rights,” a proud Laila told ‘The Hindu’.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry heard the case pertaining to the rights of the trans-genders. The apex court ruled that the transgenders also have the right over family inheritance. >>>
Chandrashekhar was all of 18 when he desired to become Shilpa, of his own volition, or rather his genes demanded it. But the transition from a man to woman became fiercely controversial after the infamous Banashankari incident when Hijras (eunuchs) were tortured at the police station.
The UNDP and Asia Pacific Transgender Network have released a groundbreaking study on the rights and extreme vulnerabilities of transgender people to HIV. See below launch message and links to the report and full press release for more details. >>>
At the recent Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) international forum on economic rights, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates from around the world highlighted the urgent need to link economic justice and LGBT rights. >>>
Before Jenna Talackova, there was Chaz Bono; before him, Brandon Teena; and, back in the 1950s, Christine Jorgensen. Transgender people have had a long, loud struggle in the media, from Jerry Springer’s earliest ratings-bait drama productions to Donald Trump deciding recently to ban a transgender pageant hopeful — only to have the organization overturn the ban and institute a policy of acceptance.
Proponents of a bill that adds transgender people to the list of groups protected under the state’s civil rights laws said this afternoon that they are lobbying members of the Legislature as they prepare for a House vote and a potential Senate vote this week.
The next year 2013 will see the fifth revised version of DSM, the international classification of diseases Psyhicatry American Association (APA), a reference manual for doctors and politicians around the world. So we went out again, and forcefully against time. Because we will not give up, because we will not allow ourselves to follow in the coming pathologizing classifications of disease. >>>
17/10/2011 | ILGA Communication Team Asia
Malaysia’s media is under fire for airing two bizarre explanations about transgender (‘mak nyah’) and effeminate gay people (‘pondan’). One claimed that they are a ‘threat to women’s livelihoods,’ another that ‘wrong food consumption the cause of effeminate men.’ >>>