The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to outlaw "genital or bodily mutilation of a minor," which would effectively ban...

Former New Hampshire state legislator Stacie-Marie Laughton, who made history as the state’s first openly transgender lawmaker, has pleaded...

A recent UK Supreme Court ruling affirming "sex" refers to biological sex under equality laws has left transgender individuals like Nate Ra...

President Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders defining sex strictly as male and female, established at conception and unchange...

Two of President Trump's executive orders facing legal challenges include measures halting gender marker changes on passports and banning f...

President Donald Trump's executive order bans transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports by emphasizing Title IX ...

President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order to prevent individuals assigned male at birth from participating in women's sports...

Government and Supreme Court address discrimination in prisons, emphasizing equal treatment for all inmates, including LGBTQ+. Efforts to u...

The Union Home Ministry has urged states and Union Territories to stop segregating prisoners based on caste and religion and stop assigning...

Rowling questioned Nandy's support for women's rights by referencing previous comments made by the Labour frontbencher and a letter she sig...

The Supreme Court Committee on Prison Reforms has recommended that transgender prisoners should be treated equally and given the same right...

While the number of convicts from SCs, STs and OBCs stood at 89,802, those under trial stood at 283,535, with the highest number in Uttar P...

In recent years, there have been fits and starts for the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights at work in the US - including an executive order Joe ...

The scheme, the Home Ministry said, does not apply to those prisoners who were convicted with death sentence, life imprisonment, rape, terr...

The home ministry said that women and transgender convicts above 50 years with overall good conduct, especially those not punished in the l...

The remission scheme is intended to ensure prison discipline and good conduct on the part of prisoners with the prospect of early release f...

Patnaik, while asking a supplementary question on transgenders, stressed that the government had passed the Transgender Persons (Protection...