Tag: transgender
Nearly 200 apply to change gender under new Norway legal gender law
A total of 190 people have applied to change their legal gender in Norway in the month since a new law came into force allowing them to do so without gender reassignment surgery.
12 States File Brief Supporting Obama Administration’s Historic Guidance on Transgender Students
HRC hails action on behalf of administration efforts to ensure dignity, equal treatment of all students.
Only in America : Teen sues school for proposing trans students wear green wristbands
Yet another transgender student is suing for the right to use the restroom of their choice at school, but this time, according to a lawsuit filed this week, a Wisconsin school is going so far as to propose transgender students wear green wristbands to better restrict bathroom use.
Powerful HRC Foundation Video Features Proud Dads of Transgender Children Talking About Equality
Yesterday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organisation, released a first-of-its-kind web video exclusively featuring fathers of transgender children describing their experiences.
Exhibition Honours Gay Movement Pioneer
This year marks the 85th anniversary of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s visit to San Francisco. Starting in the late 1890s, Hirschfeld was a groundbreaking defender of homosexual and transgender people in Germany and beyond.
RNC Committee Passes Most Overtly Anti-LGBTQ Platform in History
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer civil rights organisation, today blasted the Republican National Committee for the platform committee’s decision to pass a platform with a slew of anti-equality provisions, including attacks on transgender people and a commitment to overturn nationwide marriage equality.