Category: Transgender Rights
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Northern Ireland Schools To Receive Guidance On Supporting Transgender Pupils
Newly appointed Green Party leader Clare Bailey has praised the news that all Northern Ireland schools will be provided with detailed guidance on how to support transgender pupils.
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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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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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TLDEF Appoints Nationally Recognised LGBTQ Activist Andy Marra as Executive Director
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Andrea “Andy” Hong Marra as its new executive director. Marra is a nationally revered social justice advocate with a strong track record of service to the LGBTQ movement. Marra succeeds Dolph Ward Goldenburg who has served as Interim Executive Director since February.
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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.