UK Supreme Court rules "woman" defined by biological sex, sparking debate on transgender rightsThe UK Supreme Court has ruled that "woman" refers to biological sex in the Equality Act 2010, excluding transgender women from legal prote...
16 Apr, 2025, 06.18 PM IST
Trump isn't just attacking trans people. He's denationalizing themThe rights the Trump administration is taking away from trans people are relatively new. Only in the past few decades, for example, have cl...
17 Mar, 2025, 12.15 PM IST
Hunter Schafer calls out Donald Trump’s gender policy after her passport now lists her as maleHunter Schafer has opened up about a harsh reality check after President Donald Trump’s executive order recognising only two genders. The a...
22 Feb, 2025, 01.33 AM IST
How Trump uses language to attack the idea of transgender identityPresident Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders defining sex strictly as male and female, established at conception and unchange...
11 Feb, 2025, 11.03 PM IST
In state capitals, Republicans propose new limits on transgender identityRepublican lawmakers across the U.S. have introduced numerous bills this year to restrict recognition of transgender individuals according ...
19 Jan, 2025, 10.37 AM IST
Manipur trans community expresses outrage over marginalised in final electoral rollsThe final electoral rolls, released on Monday by Manipur Chief Electoral Officer Pradeep Kumar Jha, reported a total of 20,26,623 electors,...
23 Jan, 2024, 08.00 PM IST
A social barrier well transcendedIn recent years, laws have tried to change this reality. The Supreme Court's 2014 National Legal Services Authority (Nalsa) judgment recogn...
18 Sep, 2023, 11.01 PM IST
Scotland Gender Recognition Reform Bill: Sir Keir Starmer raises concern over reducing age criteria to 16Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has raised concerns over Nicola Sturgeon-led Scotland government's Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill...
15 Jan, 2023, 07.37 PM IST
Scotland passes gender recognition reform bill in ‘historic’ victory for trans communityThe Scottish parliament has passed the long-awaited Gender Recognition Reform bill.
23 Dec, 2022, 02.04 AM IST
Passport to acceptance? LGBTQ+ travellers wary about gender-neutral IDsThe United States issued its first "X" passport last year to Dana Zzyym, who is non-binary and intersex - born with atypical sex characteri...
04 Feb, 2022, 11.05 AM IST
India Inc chants inclusive mantra by hiring trans peopleAlthough the numbers are still very small, a clutch of corporate including Amazon, Lalit Group, M&M, IBM, Accenture and KPMG have kicked of...
28 Aug, 2020, 11.02 AM IST
JK Rowling gives context on controversial comments, says she is a survivor of domestic abuse & sexual assaultRowling caused a scandal by tweeting last weekend about "people who menstruate".
11 Jun, 2020, 08.59 AM IST
India Inc looks at wider LGBTQ inclusionGodrej India Culture Lab to help cos shape up policy for transgender people, to come out with manifesto highlighting their condition.
10 Dec, 2018, 11.49 PM IST
Cabinet passes reworked Transgender Bill with 27 changesThe Bill had earlier made it mandatory for any organisation employing 100 or more persons to designate an official to examine complaints of...
03 Aug, 2018, 07.30 AM IST
What Kerala's new transgender policy could teach other states about recognising the rights of a maltreated communityIndia's transgender people were recognised for the first time by the Census in 2011. It pegged the TG population at 4.88 lakh, 56% of whom ...
09 Dec, 2015, 03.22 PM IST
NALSAR varsity issues first gender-neutral degree in India to Anindita MukherjeeMukherjee had requested the authorities to address her as 'Mx' in her certificates, which has probably become the first Indian educational ...
21 Jun, 2015, 01.26 PM IST
- US announces new policy on gender change in passports
The United States has announced new flexible policy guidelines regarding gender change in passports and consular reports of birth abroad.
10 Jun, 2010, 10.36 AM IST