(WB) Yanhui Peng, co-founder of LGBT Rights Advocacy China, a Chinese advocacy group, in 2014 sought to expose doctors and therapists who practice so-called conversion therapy.
Citing medical bills, pain and suffering, psychological damage and impairment, the Crawford family is reaching a conclusion on their landmark four-year-long court case by settling for $440,000.
(WB) Julia Monro, a spokesperson for the German Association for Trans Identity and Intersex People (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität), in 2017 applied to become a police officer because she wanted to join the fight against Internet crimes. Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office rejected Monro’s application because she is transgender.
(WB) An advocacy group in Botswana is working with medical providers to improve transgender and intersex people’s access to health care.
Marrisa Adams is a member of a group that feels marginalized because of their genitalia.
(WB) An LGBT and intersex rights group in Mauritius continues to work to protect LGBT and intersex people in the workplace.
2016 gave us at least one parting gift to be grateful for.
This may be the first international sporting event to cater a category to the often-outcasted transgender, intersex and non-binary communities.
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Roughly 1.7 percent of babies could be considered intersex. Many of them undergo unnecessary and often harmful surgery — typically just to “fit in” with social expectations.
