Tag: transgender
Facebook offers new custom gender field for trans users
Today, Facebook announced a custom gender option with additional privacy settings for transgender people. The new feature, which GLAAD helped develop, enables users to select a custom gender option, indicate preferred pronouns and adjust privacy settings for the custom gender field.
New Report Documents Discrimination Faced by Transgender People in Europe
Today Amnesty International launched the groundbreaking report, The state decides who I am: lack of legal recognition for transgender people in Europe.
Europe: Transgender people face discrimination and inhuman and degrading treatment
European countries are violating the human rights of people trying to change their legal gender, said Amnesty International in a report published today. It details how transgender people are forced to undergo invasive surgery, sterilization, hormone therapy, psychiatric testing before they can change their legal status.
New HRC Report Highlights Trend between Pres. Obama’s Use of ‘Gay’ and Growing Support for Equality
A new report from the Human Rights Campaign shows that President Obama’s unprecedented usage of words including “lesbian,” “gay,” “bisexual” and “transgender” in his public statements is contributing immensely to the political mainstreaming of LGBT people and marriage equality within American society.
Nigeria: Halt homophobic witch-hunt under oppressive new law
Nigeria must immediately release the more than 10 people already arrested under a deeply oppressive new law that runs roughshod over a range of human rights and discriminates based on real or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity, Amnesty International said.
TENI Warmly Welcomes Committee Report on Gender Recognition
The Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection published its report yesterday on the General Scheme of the Gender Recognition Bill 2013.