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gender identity news

Elon Musk's daughter Vivian Wilson reveals financial woes, makes comment on dad

In 2022, Vivian Wilson broke ties with her father Elon Musk after changing her gender identity.
Published on Sep 03, 2025 11:31 PM IST

Trans-rights and the need for a nurturing ecosystem

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It was only when Dr. Jency became an assistant professor that she got recognition for her hard work. “I am a professor first and a transgender after,” she says. (ANI)
Published on Aug 02, 2025 10:16 PM IST

Courts and the making of transgender rights

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NALSA’s true breakthrough lay as much in recognizing a third gender as in affirming the right to self-identify — a radical move even by international standards. (HT Photo)
Updated on Jul 30, 2025 09:01 PM IST

Transgender rights & transforming society

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So little is known about gender identity, and so much is feared through tropes. (Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jun 28, 2025 09:01 PM IST

US judge blocks Trump's refusal to issue passports to transgender citizens

The order also directed the State Department to change its policies to only issue passports that "accurately reflect the holder's sex."
Published on Jun 18, 2025 08:28 AM IST

Conjoined twin kept gender identity secret from sister for decades: ‘I should…’

Lori and George Schappell were conjoined twins born in 1961,
Published on Mar 11, 2025 09:20 PM IST

Iowa Republicans back a bill that would strip gender identity from the state's civil rights code

Iowa Republicans back a bill that would strip gender identity from the state's civil rights code
Published on Feb 25, 2025 04:05 AM IST

Finalists announced for Lukas book prizes, which champion 'serious research and social concern.'

Finalists announced for Lukas book prizes, which champion 'serious research and social concern.'
Published on Feb 19, 2025 06:12 PM IST

EEOC seeks to drop a gender discrimination case, signaling a big shift in civil rights enforcement

EEOC seeks to drop a gender discrimination case, signaling a big shift in civil rights enforcement
Updated on Feb 15, 2025 04:31 PM IST

Minnesota prep sports body says it will follow state law on transgender athletes, not Trump's order

Minnesota prep sports body says it will follow state law on transgender athletes, not Trump's order
Updated on Feb 08, 2025 02:41 AM IST

US CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says

US CDC orders pullback of new scientific papers involving its researchers, source says
Updated on Feb 03, 2025 02:18 AM IST

Factory worker with dual reproductive systems is both 'mother' and ‘father’

As a child, she displayed behaviours and preferences different from other girls.
Published on Jan 04, 2025 06:10 PM IST

Project Darling: Celebrating racy disempowered women of theatre

Project Darling: Celebrating racy disempowered women of theatre
Updated on Dec 01, 2024 06:38 AM IST

Imane Khelif gender row: What's 5-Alpha reductase deficiency?

Imane Khelif has filed a legal complaint against online harassment after the gender outcry. (Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP)
Updated on Nov 07, 2024 06:49 PM IST

Fresh Olympics gender row: BBC host uses wrong pronouns for ‘non-binary' athlete

Raven Saunders, of the United States, competes during the women's shot put qualification at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Updated on Aug 09, 2024 02:25 PM IST

Review: Making the ‘Woman’ by Sutapa Dutta and Shivangini Tandon

Tawaifs or courtesans upended gender norms. (Wikimedia Commons/Frederic Courtland Penfield: East of Suez. Ceylon, India, China and Japan. New York: The Century Co. 1907.)
Updated on Jul 25, 2024 10:46 PM IST

Kerala transwoman forced to undergo conversion therapy gets HC relief

The bench of justices Raja Vijayaraghavan V and PM Manoj held that LGBT persons like other heterosexual persons are entitled to their privacy and the right to lead a dignified existence without fear of persecution (File photo)
Updated on Jul 04, 2024 09:48 AM IST

Judge blocks Biden's law expanding LGBTQ student protections in 6 more states

FILE - Lawmakers listen as parents speak about the prospect of their children competing against transgender girls in school sports at the Utah State Capitol on March 25, 2022, in Salt Lake City. A federal judge on Monday, June 17, 2024 temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students in six additional states, dealing another setback for a new policy that has been under legal attack by Republican attorneys general.
Published on Jun 18, 2024 02:40 AM IST

New York judge blocks amendment barring discrimination on gender identity and pregnancy outcomes

New York judge blocks amendment barring discrimination on gender identity and pregnancy outcomes
Published on May 08, 2024 06:19 AM IST

Gender Question | JK’s Rowling’s new X post, and the limits of its logic

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A flag supporting the rights of transpersons at a demonstration
Published on Apr 07, 2024 04:50 PM IST

A feminist approach to gender-based violence policymaking in India

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Gender Equality.
Published on May 11, 2024 03:57 PM IST

US State Dept cautions workers about ‘misgendering’ amid rising global conflicts

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Updated on Feb 20, 2024 06:17 PM IST

UK lawmaker calls for posthumous gender recognition for transgender individuals

A lawmaker in the United Kingdom has demanded a law to allow changing of legally recognised gender of transgender persons to match their actual gender identity, after their death.
Published on Feb 08, 2024 09:19 PM IST

Cop who underwent sex change surgery becomes father

Cop who underwent sex change surgery becomes father
Updated on Jan 20, 2024 07:54 AM IST

SC notice to Centre, UP and Gujarat over sacking of a trans woman teacher

The Supreme Court bench admitted the petition moved by Jane Kaushik (AP)
Updated on Jan 03, 2024 02:51 AM IST

SC notice to Centre, UP and Gujarat over sacking of trans woman teacher

The Supreme Court told the Centre, UP and Gujarat to respond to the trans woman teacher’s petition within four weeks (HT FILE PHOTO)
Published on Jan 02, 2024 01:48 PM IST

Miss Universe 2023: Meet two transgender participants whose win can make history

Miss Universe 2023: Meet the two transgender participants whose win can make history
Published on Nov 19, 2023 07:28 AM IST

Women-only Grace Hopper tech fair overrun by men identifying as ‘women’

ScreenGrab (TikTok)
Updated on Oct 04, 2023 06:31 PM IST

Alice Cooper slams gender-affirming care for trans kids, calls it 'fad'

US singer Alice Cooper with the band Hollywood Vampires during the Hellfest Summer Open Air rock festival in Clisson, western France, on June 15, 2023.
Published on Aug 24, 2023 10:20 PM IST

California expands travel ban to three states over transgender student-athlete

Demonstrators lift Pride and Transgender flags as they sit on a road during a 'day of resistance' to protest the Israeli government's judicial overhaul bill, in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2023. The proposals have divided the nation and triggered one of the biggest protest movements in Israel's history since being unveiled in January by the hard-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
Published on Jul 19, 2023 08:42 AM IST