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TAG: gender identity

Philanthropic and Government Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Communities

Global Philanthropy Project and Funders for LGBTQ Issues are pleased to present the 2015-2016 Global Resources Report: Philanthropic & Government Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Communities, a comprehensive report on the state of foundation and government funding for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) issues. This report captures data on 12,964 grants awarded by 511 foundations, […]

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Sexual politics in July 2018

22nd International AIDS Conference:  On July 22, Pedro Villardi, from GTPI-ABIA, participated in the  Challenging Criminalization Globally Pre-Conference, one of the more important satellites events in which matters related to gender and sexuality were debated. Other relevant events to be reported are: the Change seminar on the detrimental effects of Trump policies;  the debate called […]

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2018 Pride Day in Iran

July 27 is Pride Day in Iran. It’s been the 9th following year that the 4th Friday of July (1st Fri of Mordad in Persian calendar) is named & celebrated as Iran Pride Day. Although being queer is officially illegal & same-sex sexual conduct could be punished by death in Iran, LGBTIQs inside the country […]

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Sexual politics in June 2018

Main global trends  ICD Reform – On June 18, the Working Group set up by the World Health Organization (WHO), has released the final version of the International Classification Diseases 11 (ICD 11). These parameters have been under review since 2011 and the outcome of this long process means an important victory for transnational trans rights […]

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Gender and sexuality in the Colombia elections

  by Franklin Gil Hernandes Apparently, attacks on “gender ideology”, quite  central to the  2016 peace referendum, were peripheral in the 2018 Colombian presidential campaign. But to better grasp what has happened we must distinguish across the different levels in which electoral discourses have circulated. At the public level of the presidential campaign, reflected in […]

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Assessing gender and sexuality politics in the Colombia elections

by Sandra Mazo Cardona An inside look from gender and sexuality on the circumstances that led to Duque’s victory in the Colombian presidential elections On June 17, 2018, Ivan Duque, Centro Democrático’s (Democratic Center in English) candidate won the presidential elections in Colombia with 54 percent of votes. The second term election was sharply polarized […]

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ICD-11: media compilation

The World Health Organization will stop classifying transgender people as mentally ill – CNN Being Transgender Is No Longer Considered A Mental Disorder By World Health Organization – HuffPost A shameful history comes to a close – Equal eyes on our world World Health Organisation moves to end classifying trans identities as mental illness – TGEU Depathologisation […]

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Being trans is not a mental disorder anymore: ICD-11 is officially released.

  The World Health Organization has just announced the completion of the ICD-11 and released the official online version. The announcement does not mark the end of the ICD-11 process, but the beginning of a new phase focused on implementation and assessment at the country level. The new ICD version will be presented for final approval at World Health […]

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Marginal accounts on LGBTQI+ Pride 2018 around the world

Several hundred people danced, marched and raised slogans on the Chennai 10th Rainbow Pride March with banners and flags celebrating the date on June 24. In Guyana, the only country in South America where homosexuality is illegal, hundreds celebrated the 1st Pride March in the country despite religious discourses against it. Against pink-washing the Palestinian […]

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Sexual politics in May 2018

Nicaragua:  SPW calls attention to the violent political crisis sweeping through this small Central American country and expresses its solidarity with the Nicaraguan society that continues to resist the brutal violence perpetrated by the Ortega–Murillo regime. The deep and brutal political crisis that began in April, has not gained the deserved visibility amongst progressive sectors or […]

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Gender Ideology: tracking its origins and meanings in current gender politics

by Sonia Corrêa In the first week of November 2017, Judith Butler was viciously attacked in Brazil by a heterogeneous group of actors who define themselves as anti-gender,[1] a regrettable episode caught the attention of both the media and international and global North academics. This well-orchestrated political formation is not new and much less peculiarly Brazilian. As analysed […]

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Political mythology on abortion and trans men

Blas Radi (Universidad de Buenos Aires)[1]   The sexual and (non) reproductive health of trans men is a challenging issue. In the first place, because it is far from being guaranteed (even contemplated, perhaps imagined?) by the Health system and its agents. Second, because it seems not to be included in the limited inventory of […]

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