Tag: transgender
Hope’s it makes it better To Be Transgender in Norway
David Christopher Moen and John Rino Jacobsen boys born as girls. Now they hope a new clause in the Norwegian Constitution which protects against discrimination will make it easier to be a transgender person.
TENI Welcomes News of Settlement in Lydia Foy Case
Yesterday (28th October), Lydia Foy reached a settlement in her 21 year legal battle against the State to have her female gender recognised. Settlement was reached after the State declared a ‘firm intention’ to enact gender recognition legislation in 2015.
Transgender teen Jazz Jennings releases first book targeting children
At just 14-years-old, Florida teen Jazz Jennings continues to do more for transgender advocacy than most.
Transgender teen sues ‘schizophrenic’ Connecticut detention centre
Sixteen-year-old Jane Doe alleges that boys’ detention centre that has been her giving hormone therapy has also traumatised her
U.S. military urged to follow Canada on transgender recruits
Pentagon rules prohibit transgender people from serving in military.
New booklet encourage therapists to resist against the Health Protection Agency (Sundhedsstyrelsen) in Denmark
LGBT Denmark is very concerned at the development of transgender people access to treatment, as the Denmark Board of Health (Sundhedsstyrelsen) is currently working on a draft. The new draft guidance has been issued for consultation, maintain and in some cases reinforces the practice of lengthy, disempowering scenario where a care team with a monopoly in Denmark can refuse to treat patients without decision can be appealed.