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  Trump signs order to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports: 'War on women's sports is over'

  World | February 06, 2025 12:50 IST

  US President Donald Trump has signed an order to ban transgender athletes from women's sports. The order gives power to the Secretary of State's office to pressure the IOC to make changes in the standards that govern Olympic sporting events.

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  Spain etches history! Becomes first European country to approve menstrual leave

  World | February 16, 2023 21:58 IST

  Laws were also passed to strengthen transgender and abortion rights for teenagers in Spain.

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  Odisha allows recruitment of transgenders in state police department

  India | June 13, 2021 9:06 IST

  Odisha government has allowed the transgender community to apply for the posts of constables and sub-inspectors in the state police department.

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  Transgender will now be included as separate gender category in prison statistics

  India | December 07, 2020 12:57 IST

  The Central Government on Monday informed the Delhi High Court that transgenders shall be now included as a separate gender category in prison statistics reports. This comes after a public suit was filed in the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to recognize and classify transgenders as a separate third gender in their annual publication of prison statistics.

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  Parliament passes Bill to protect rights of transgenders

  India | November 26, 2019 17:47 IST

  The bill defines a transgender as someone whose gender does not match the gender assigned at birth. As per 2011 census, there are about 4.8 lakh transgender persons but some estimates peg it at 40 lakhs in the country.

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  Transgender Persons bill passed in Lok Sabha

  India | August 05, 2019 17:03 IST

  The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019 was passed by a voice vote amid noisy protests by some opposition parties over Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury not being allowed to speak on his adjournment notice. 

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  Tennis legend Martina Navratilova gets dumped by LGBT group over her comments regarding transgenders

  Tennis | February 21, 2019 13:06 IST

  Navratilova had written that it was "cheating" to allow transgender women to compete in women's sport as they have unfair physical advantages.

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  Congress becomes first party to appoint transgender national-level office bearer

  Politics | January 08, 2019 22:04 IST

  Welcoming Reddy to the Mahila Congress, the AIMC president said the activist's dynamic personality will be an asset for the party's women's wing.

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  IFFM 2016 takes further its theme of Diversity with an array of impressive LGBT films!

  Bollywood | August 09, 2017 18:13 IST

  There are few films which are now included in IFFM 2016 to celebrate diversity of the LGBTQ community.

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  Hayden Cross, Britain's first transgender man to give birth to a baby

  People | July 09, 2017 12:20 IST

  Born a girl, Hayden Cross gave birth to a baby girl in June, 2017

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  Nitish government announces job reservations for third gender in Bihar

  Politics | March 30, 2016 15:21 IST

  In what will count as a big push for providing equal rights to eunuchs and transgenders and bring them into the mainstream, the Bihar government on Wednesday announced extending reservation in jobs to the third gender and also set up a welfare board

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  Without fanfare, Obama advances transgender rights

  World | June 22, 2014 13:26 IST

  San Francisco: President Barack Obama, who established his bona fides as a gay and lesbian rights champion when he endorsed same-sex marriage, has steadily extended his administration's advocacy to the smallest and least accepted band