ILGA World: LGBTI news – 1 – 14 October 2021
Two weeks in LGBTI news
1 – 14 October 2021
Written by Maddalena Tomassini
Edited by Daniele Paletta
After a few months of hiatus, ILGA World’s bulletin is back: week after week, our members and readers will be given access to a collection of news affecting people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics in every part of the world – told with journalistic accuracy and yet firmly rooted in the voices of our communities.
During the past two weeks, our rainbow family carried on fighting for a more equal world. 53 States from all regions in the world have called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to urgently protect intersex persons in their autonomy and right to health. We rejoiced with our communities in Turkey for the acquittal of the 19 people accused of “unlawful assembly” for taking part in a Pride march. We celebrated the memory of a South Korean trans soldier who was found dead earlier this year: she had fought against her dismissal, and has now been given a posthumous victory, as a Court recognised that her discharge was “undoubtedly illegal and should be cancelled”. In the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, two municipalities registered the birth of two babies, recognising them as children of lesbian mothers.
More challenges are ahead: our communities in Botswana will have to wait some more for a ruling on the State’s attempt to overturn the decriminalisation of same-sex intimacy between consenting adults. Meanwhile, in the United States, the state of Texas has removed resources for LGBT youths from the website of the Department of Family and Protective Services. In Australia, people are coming together for our trans and gender diverse siblings, calling for gender affirming surgeries to be covered by Medicare.
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