TAG: gender identity

Caitlin Jenner and Rachel Dolezal: The conceptual and political challenges undergirding the contrast between transexuality and transraciality

In the first week of June 2015, two articles have reached us that spoke to the unabated tensions – and perhaps unresolvable – tensions between those streams of feminism that deny the validity and ‘authenticity’ of female transgender identities and experiences.

Transgender Men Who Experienced Pregnancy After Female-to-Male Gender Transitioning

SPW recommend the study Transgender Men Who Experienced Pregnancy After Female-to-Male Gender Transitioning, aimed at conducting a cross-sectional study of trans- gender men who had been pregnant and delivered after transitioning from female-to-male gender to help guide practice and further investigation.

UN report on violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched the report Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

On being transgender in Egypt

Aisha* was sleeping when her apartment was raided. She and three other friends had just moved in when the police came by asking if they had weapons or anything illegal. They said no, and were asked for their identity cards. Aisha and her friends are transgender women, but their identity cards say they are male. When the […]

GATE comment on Malta Gender Identity Legal Reform

In April, 2015 Malta passed the Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics (GIGESC) Act, which encompasses, in a new and radical combination, legal recognition, protection and anti-discrimination measures. GATE, Global Action for Trans Equality, commented the highly positive meanings of the reform. Read more here.

The Yogyakarta Principles

In November 2006, a group of experts met in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: UN independent experts, committee members of human rights, academic / and the defenders / es of human rights of people GLBTT. They / s adopted the Yogyakarta Principles on International Law Enforcement of Human Rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity. This […]

The Brazilian Resolution

In collaboration with Arc International and Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) SPW has organized an international consultation involving LGBT activists, from all over the world, in preparation for the 2004 debates of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UN CHR) that would vote the resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity tabled by […]

Making Depathologization a matter of law

A comment from GATE on the Maltese Act on Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics. In April, 2015 Malta passed the Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics (GIGESC) Act, which encompasses, in a new and radical combination, legal recognition, protection and anti-discrimination measures. The Act approved by parliamentary consensus on April 1st joins […]

White House Takes Stance Against ‘Reparative Therapy’

Taken from Reality Check A letter posted Wednesday to WhiteHouse.gov thanked visitors for signing a petition in support of banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ young people. So-called conversion therapy, also known as “reparative therapy,” seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. It has been found to be psychologically harmful and has been rejected […]

The Right To Autonomy Over Our Bodies And Loves: The Resolution On Human Rights, Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity Furthers Dialogue

FRIDAY FILE – AWID spoke to Dawn Cavanagh* of the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) in South Africa and Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI), about the significance of the resolution on Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity recently adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council. The resolution follows the first ever UN resolution adopted on […]