What it means to be transgender: A guide to a modern civil rights issue
It’s the latest fight in LGBTQ battlegrounds across the world: transgender rights. From Caitlyn Jenner’s gender transitioning to the battle over bathroom access, transgender news is flooding the...
View ArticleIdentity crisis: India's trans community loth to embrace third-gender status
A continued lack of acceptance and opportunity means India’s hijras are often reluctant to take advantage of a 2014 law permitting a formal change of identity...
View ArticleIndia's trans community loth to embrace third-gender status
A continued lack of acceptance and opportunity means India’s hijras are often reluctant to take advantage of a 2014 law permitting a formal change of identity...
View ArticleSex Survey Names 33 Kinds Of Gender Identity, Suggesting It Is 'More Nuanced'...
A sex survey from researchers in Australia is offering 33 answers when participants are asked to define their gender identity. Academics at The Queensland University of Technology created the anonymous...
View ArticleThree things I’ve learned about the real meaning of gender equality
When I started an NGO for gender equality, there was much I didn’t know. Here’s what I discovered...
View ArticleSarubala joins AIADMK
Former Tiruchi Mayor Sarubala R. Tondaiman who quit the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) last month joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Wednesday. Along with Ms. Sarubala,...
View ArticleUse of race in political party's name not objectionable: Election Commission
--> Sat, 17 Sep 2016-08:25pm , New Delhi , PTI A plea filed had sought direction from EC to parties such as Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam as they contain the...
View ArticleDMK poaching MDMK cadre, says Vaiko
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Vaiko has accused Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader M.K. Stalin of poaching his partymen with the promise of ticket for contesting the Assembly...
View ArticleI am genderqueer - comfortable with my identity at last
When I was five years old, I hid in our spare bathroom and tried to wee standing up. After all, that’s how all my friends did it. Except me; I had to sit down. This upset me. I just wanted to be like...
View ArticleCandidates see green shoots in an arid constituency
Scanty rainfall over the past decade, poor irrigation infrastructure, and the long-pending proposal on Cauvery-Gundar rivers inter-linking project are some major issues that have come to the fore in...
View ArticleVaiko hopes DMDK will join hands with PWF
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has been hijacked by the corporate, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Vaiko has alleged. Speaking to reporters here on Wednesday, Mr. Vaiko said...
View ArticleFirst ever data on US transgender surgeries reveals huge surge in demand:...
The first ever data on gender reassignment surgeries in the United States shows demand is skyrocketing. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons found a nearly 20 percent increase in vaginoplasties,...
View ArticleTamil Nadu Elections 2016: Here's a quick look at the key parties, alliances...
--> Alliances have changed and so have equations between party leaders in Tamil Nadu for the upcoming elections. The 2016 Tamil Nadu polls have been touted as a multi-cornered contest with so many...
View ArticleJ Jayalalithaa (1948-2016): The doughty fighter who earned her place in the...
At the funeral of the iconic MG Ramachandran, the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, in 1987, a solitary woman stood her ground behind his mortal remains. The sadness was writ large on the face of the...
View ArticleWhere BJP, Congress & their maverick kingpins stand as election fever grips...
Of the four major states going to the polls in a couple of months — West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Kerala — the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) chances are brightest in Assam and bleakest in Tamil...
View ArticleISRO chief among 60 Rajyotsava Award winners
The State government has chosen 60 people for Karnataka Rajyotsava Award, including Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar, cricketer Vinay Kumar, writer Aryambha Pattabhi,...
View ArticleDMK functionary held on charge of murder
A mason was brutally murdered by a political functionary as a dispute arose over illegal intimacy with a woman...
View Article24 candidates file papers in Kanyakumari district
As many as 24 candidates filed their nomination papers for the six Assembly constituencies in the district on Thursday. All the six All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidates, including former...
View ArticleFB’s 71 shades of sexuality raise hope and fear
For a new user, choosing the gender option on Facebook while setting up the account is not a routine task. The drop down menu consists of man, woman and, intriguingly enough, custom. Facebook offers to...
View ArticleHinduism is based on logic; Sabarimala shrine must allow entry of women:...
Swami Bhoomananda Theertha's fight for reforms in temple rituals and religious practices began decades ago. The renowned Vedantin monk based in Kerala was one of the first to demand that women of all...
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