Transgender Rights
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Trump signs order to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports: 'War on women's sports is over'
World | Feb 06, 2025, 12:50 PM ISTUS 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 | Feb 16, 2023, 09:58 PM ISTLaws 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 | Jun 13, 2021, 09:06 AM ISTOdisha 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 | Dec 07, 2020, 12:57 PM ISTThe 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 | Nov 26, 2019, 05:47 PM ISTThe 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 | Aug 05, 2019, 05:03 PM ISTThe 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 | Feb 21, 2019, 01:06 PM ISTNavratilova 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
National | Jan 08, 2019, 10:04 PM ISTWelcoming 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 | Aug 09, 2017, 06:13 PM ISTThere 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 | Jul 09, 2017, 12:20 PM ISTBorn 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
National | Mar 30, 2016, 03:21 PM ISTIn 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 | Jun 22, 2014, 01:26 PM ISTSan 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