civil rights - Policy Changes Could Make Air Travel Easier For Transgender People

Casey Mendoza
NewsChannel5

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Luxembourg - Luxembourg makes status change for transgender people easier

Barbara Tasch
Luxembourg Times

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg  (Chamber Of Deputies)

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lead story - NHS threatened with legal action unless it offers transgender people fertility treatment

Josh Gabbatiss
Independent

London, UK

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lead story - 'Pose' Renewal Is Proof That Transgender People Can Play Trans Characters and Succeed, Producer Says

Lesley Goldberg
The Hollywood Reporter

Pose (TV show)

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civil rights - Christian Law Firm Asks Supreme Court to Allow Workplace Discrimination Against Transgender People

Imani Gandy
Rewire.News

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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

Press
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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

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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

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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

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

Press
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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