Pakistan has issued its first third-gender passport to a transgender activist, who hailed the move as a step forward for the marginalised community in the deeply conservative South Asian country. Farzana Riaz, a transgender in northwestern Peshawar city, said the new passport would help her campaign globally on behalf of her community, who are also … Read more
Now, this argument is not new, but coming from a Gender Minister — the most senior individual responsible for the welfare of women and children — makes it egregious: the old baseless, shiftless and lazy short skirt argument that doesn’t even hold water. It is so useless an argument that how it was uttered from … Read more
Farzana draws all eyes when she dances, with the twist of her hips and hair — but today she is above all the voice of a Pakistani community with an ambiguous status: the khawajasiras. The 30-year-old is a guru, a matriarch at the head of a “family” of several hundred khawajasiras, an umbrella term in … Read more
Is makeup for men a fad or the future? By Ellen Thomas It’s a thing now: Young men are into makeup, and the industry is going where the boys are. Driven by hyper-connected Generation Z’s disinterest in gender identification, beauty brands are looking to market with a gender-neutral approach. A report this year by J. … Read more
Chelsea Manning, the US soldier jailed for passing data to WikiLeaks, says she has ended a hunger strike because the army has agreed to provide her with gender transition surgery. Psychologists recommended in April that she should receive the treatment, commonly known as a sex change. The move comes after the US military in July … Read more
A four-year-old child is receiving special help from education authorities in Australia to undergo transition for a change in sex, Standard UK has said. New South Wales Department of Education has rolled out a support package for the toddler, who is not due to start kindergarten until next year. However, the situation has drawn criticism … Read more