We are trans, hear us roar
BODY LANGUAGE “When did you realise that you were born in the wrong body?” I was recently asked by a journalist. It was at the age of eight. I remember being on a school trip to Port Elizabeth. It was...
View ArticleKillings of transgender Argentines test nation’s liberal laws
[...] in September, in Santa Fe, a city on Argentina’s Pampas lowlands, the corpse of Fernanda Olmos, 59, was discovered on her bedroom floor, a plastic bag pulled over her...
View ArticleImmigration officials ditch plan to detain transgender immigrants in Adelanto
Immigration officials say they have abandoned their plan to detain transgender immigrants at a detention facility in the high desert community of Adelanto. The facility would have been the first...
View ArticleTransgender woman who was sent to male prison is freed
Tara Hudson spent week in all-male HMP Bristol before she was moved to female prison after 150,000 people signed petition calling for her transfer...
View ArticleState higher education has low student count
KOLKATA: Though the Mamata Banerjee government has established 31new colleges and 13 new universities in four years, it fell short in terms of infrastructure and student enrolment count in a...
View ArticleGeorge Will: The low depths of higher education
WASHINGTON — Give thanks this day for some indirect blessings of liberty, including the behavior-beyond-satire of what are generously called institutions of higher education. People who are imprecisely...
View ArticleWomen workers can be as lazy as men
As the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister comes under heavy flak for her Government’s less-than-ideal handling of Chennai’s flooding crisis, I look around and realise that not one recent female Chief Minister,...
View ArticleJill Soloway's Transparent still has a story to tell
AS Nora Ephron famously noted: 'Everything is copy'. But whether the late journalist, author and screenwriter would herself have had the creative candour to turn her own father's transition from living...
View ArticleWith protests, higher education hits new depths
Give thanks this day for some indirect blessings of liberty, including the behavior-beyond-satire of what are generously called institutions of higher education. People who are imprecisely called...
View ArticleAIIMS Like Institutions in the Country (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare...
(Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India) The AIIMS like Institutions at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh, in the first phase of...
View ArticleFor 'The Danish Girl,' Eddie Redmayne studied issues facing transgender people
Eddie Redmayne rattles off statistics about the transgender community: "In 31 states, you can still be fired for being transgender," he says by phone from London. "The suicide rate within the community...
View Article'Constitution vouches for every right but for sexual minorities'
Transgender activist opens intl meet on medical and social sciences in city With a day left for Constitution Day, to be observed by the Centre for the first time on November 26, Akkai Padmashali, a...
View ArticleFrom Beavis to Beatrice: Hong Kong woman says sex-change surgery helped her...
For Beatrice Wong Suet-ling, sex-reassignment surgery brought much more than physical change – it unleashed a joy and confidence which she had not experienced in decades. She underwent the decisive...
View ArticleThe 5 Best and Worst Trans Moments of 2015
Last year in Rolling Stone we called 2014 "the biggest year in transgender history," citing landmark legal victories, as well as an unprecedented level of visibility in television, music, film and...
View Article‘She was only called Ms. after she died’: Transgender women in British prisons
LONDON — Vicky Thompson was serving a 12-month jail sentence in a category B men's prison until mid November when the 21-year-old, who had identified as female since her mid-teens, died by suicide. Two...
View ArticleConverge 2015: Activists, youth icons talk on social change, depression
New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) Social activists and youth icons gathered here at annual Converge event on Saturday to participate in a flagship talk series regarding human rights issues, LGBT community and...
View ArticleStruggle and freedom: the Vietnamese archive that celebrates a secret LGBT...
For six years Dinh Nhung has been collecting the memories of a community, derided by colonialists and communists, and only now coming out of the shadows...
View ArticleOne State Wants Trans Students to Take Hormones for One Year to Play Sports
Transgender students in Nebraska may soon be able to play on sports teams that match their gender identity—but they’ll have to jump through a lot of hoops in order to do so. The Nebraska School...
View ArticleOnly 5% of cops in state are women
At a time when gender parity is the war cry, Karnataka, with a population of over 3 crore women, has only 3,682 women police personnel. They constitute just 5.11% of the 72,000 police personnel in the...
View ArticleOn Violence Against Trans Women of Color
Amid the asinine fight over the safety of women and girls if we dare to let trans women use their gender appropriate restroom, 22 trans women are known to have been murdered (19 of them of color) in...
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