UK non-profit The Good Law Project is helping three claimants appeal the High Court’s decision on the lawfulness of the EHRC’s interim trans guidance. On 13 February, the High Court said that trans women are lawfully permitted to use women’s facilities, save for at work, in a decision on the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s […]

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Nepal’s LGBTQ+ community is celebrating after Bhumika Shrestha became the country’s first transgender lawmaker on 16 March. Nepal’s Election Commission confirmed Shrestha as a proportional-representation MP from the Rastriya Swatantra Party following a party win in parliament last week. Shrestha identifies as “third gender”, a gender which has been legally recognised in Nepal since a […]

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC’s) former chairwoman, Kishwer Falkner, has joined ‘gender-critical’ House of Lords peers in calling for an abortion scheme to be scrapped in the UK. The 71-year-old life peer was among several to support an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill which would scrap the ‘pills by post’ scheme. […]

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