Spain etches history! Becomes first European country to approve menstrual leave
World | February 16, 2023 21:58 ISTLaws were also passed to strengthen transgender and abortion rights for teenagers in Spain.
Laws were also passed to strengthen transgender and abortion rights for teenagers in Spain.
Odisha government has allowed the transgender community to apply for the posts of constables and sub-inspectors in the state police department.
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.
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.
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.
Navratilova had written that it was "cheating" to allow transgender women to compete in women's sport as they have unfair physical advantages.
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.
There are few films which are now included in IFFM 2016 to celebrate diversity of the LGBTQ community.
Born a girl, Hayden Cross gave birth to a baby girl in June, 2017
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
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
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