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Tasmania : Transgender rights law push hits the upper house
Transgender activists will brief members of Tasmania’s upper house in a push to remove gender from birth certificates in the state.
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Florida: HIV Care Lacking for Transgender Women
Florida fails to deliver basic HIV services to many transgender women, endangering their health and contributing to an uncontrolled HIV epidemic in the state, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Florida and federal HIV officials talk a lot about the importance of reaching “high risk” groups like transgender women. Human Rights Watch investigated whether the reality on the ground is matching the rhetoric – it isn’t.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance at Gothenburg City Museum
The Tuesday Club highlights current events with a cultural history link. On November 20, Sam Holmqvist lectures at the City Museum ( Göteborgs Stadsmuseum) to pay attention to the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Sam Holmqvist is literary historian and author of the first book on Swedish transgender history, Transformationer (2017).
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B.C. becomes first western Canadian province to fund gender-affirming surgeries
Starting in 2019 transgender people in British Columbia will have access to publicly funded gender-affirming lower surgeries within the province.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance at RumEtt in Helsingborg
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day to commemorate the memory of transgender people who died as a result of hate crime and remind the widespread transphobia that exists in Sweden and the world.
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LGBTQ migrants stick together for safety in Migrant Caravan
Dozens of transgender women and gay men in the caravan moving through Mexico with hopes of seeking asylum in the United States have banded together for protection — not from the uncertainty of a journey fraught with danger from the gangs who prey on migrants but from their fellow travellers.