Bangladesh - Small factory offers big changes for transgender people

Bilkis Irani
Dhaka Tribune

Dhaka, Bangladesh

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lead story - Once ostracised, now Pakistani transgender people are running for parliament

Memphis Barker
The Guardian

Islamabad, Pakistan

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lead story - Puerto Rico allowing transgender people to fix birth certificates

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Channel NewsAsia

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Croatia - Transgender people have a right to be issued new diplomas

Vedran Pavlik
Total Croatia News

Ŝibenik, Croatia

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lead story - I'm a surgeon who helps transgender people live the way they feel inside

Jonathan Keith
USA Today

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civil rights - SPLC seeks documents detailing rollback of protections for transgender people in prison

Staff
Southern Poverty Law Center

Southern Poverty Law Center statewide map

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lead story - As transgender people seek change, hospital doors open

Catharine Richert
MPR

Rochester, Minnesota

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lead story - China’s transgender people ‘step forward’ from the shadows

Agence France-Presse
South China Morning Post

Along the River During the Qingming Festival, Bianjing

Abt. 12th century CE

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lead story - 120 House Democrats hit ‘flawed’ science in Pentagon’s plan limiting transgender people in military

Joe Davidson
The Washington Post

Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA)

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Japan - Social security for transgender people expands; obstacles remain in old age

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Japan Today

Japan, Takezaki Suenaga, 1293 CE

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lead story - Transgender people withdrawing from society due to lack of gender-neutral toilets

Alexandra Treloar
ABC (Australia)

Sydney, Australia

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lead story - Transgender people encouraged to become priests in Church of England diversity drive

Olivia Rudgard
The Telegraph

Canterbury Cathedral

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lead story - TRANSGENDER PEOPLE'S BRAINS ARE WIRED LIKE THOSE OF GENDER THEY IDENTIFY WITH, NEW STUDY SHOWS

Kashmira Gander
Newsweek

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lead story - Despite fatwa, transgender people in Iran face harassment

Press
Tampa Bay Times

Tehran, Iran

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lead story - Laverne Cox: ‘Planned Parenthood Is A Welcoming Place For Transgender People’

Alanna Vagianos
HuffPost

Laverne Cox

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civil rights - New Hampshire’s legislature just passed a bipartisan bill protecting transgender people

German Lopez
Vox

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lead story - Pakistan launches first school for transgender people

Chloe Chaplain
Evening Standard.

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Idaho - Idaho Begins Allowing Transgender People To Change Their Birth Certificate

James Dawson
Boise State Public Radio

Boise, Idaho

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main headline - Website Designed To Help Transgender People In Florida Change Name And Gender Marker

William Daffron
WUFT

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civil rights - US court grants rights to transgender people in Puerto Rico

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Washington Post

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