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The relationship between faith, politics and LGBTQ rights is more complicated than it can appear at first glance.
In its simulation of real world living, without real world limits, The Sims offers players the chance to embody characters that represent their true selves.
Parents have a general right to know about their children’s activities in school, but that can be limited by students’ rights to privacy and personal safety.
Making workplaces more welcoming is becoming more important as applying for a gender recognition certification becomes easier.
A sociologist explains that the ability to claim transgender identities in India may appear progressive, but this can further marginalize historically stigmatized gender-nonconforming groups.
Bills baring transgender teens from girls’ sports and moves to investigate parents of trans children for potential crimes provide an uncertain and dangerous future for many.
Trans young people flourish with support from family, friends, and the broader community. Future commentary about trans young people’s rights needs to take this into account.
School board elections are becoming increasingly fractious and political events, with candidates focused on one or two issues. An education policy scholar explains why that’s a worrisome trend.
The ongoing debate over transgender rights in rural America frames transness as a nascent movement, ignoring a long undercurrent of transgender history that is all but forgotten.
A new IOC framework aims to ensure everyone can practice sport safely and free from harassment, irrespective of their gender or sex-linked traits.
The emotive and polarising language surrounding the Olympic weightlifter – and transgender rights in general – is crowding out the voices we need to hear most.
With both sides claiming unfair discrimination, the science disputed and law contradictory, where do transgender athletes turn?
We need to commit to creating safe and inclusive environments for trans and non-binary youth, because when they have those supportive environments, they thrive.
Trans Day of Visibility, celebrated March 31, is a day to honor the trans community and counter transphobia.
Transgender and non-binary people are often pressured to hide their gender identity at work.
Despite taking a step backwards, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights can redeem itself by continuing to protect the rights of LGBTQ persons on the continent
Kenya’s LGBTI community will have to wait a while longer for the High Court’s ruling on whether it will decriminalise homosexual relationships.
Physician Magnus Hirschfeld advocated for those he called ‘sexual intermediaries.’ His activism began before World War I – and ended only when the Nazis came to power.
Now that the U.S. government is threatening to define sex as either male or female, we need to fight more than ever for trans rights. But let’s give up the utopian ideal of a label-free future.
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Research Fellow in Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Dean and Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University
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Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Law, University of Salford
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Dayton
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Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
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Lecturer in Gender Studies, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia
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Olin Professor of English and American Studies, Emeritus, Wesleyan University
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Professor of Geography, Assistant Vice Chancellor Sustainability, University of Waikato
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Director and Professor of International Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
