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Fair, accurate and impartial LGBTQ+ news. A @TRF initiative.
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    Feb 16, 2023
    🚨 BREAKING 🇪🇸 Spain's parliament has passed a historic bill for LGBTQ+ rights, following months of debates. 🏳️‍🌈 The bill will: ⭕️ Introduce self-ID from the age of 14 ⭕️ Ban conversion therapy ⭕️ Ban intersex surgeries on babies ⭕️ Grant lesbian mothers equal parenting rights
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    Two-spirit (North America) 🌎 Identifying with masculinity and femininity, indigenous North American two-spirit people are often said to contain both male and female 'spirits'. They're often revered in their communities, seen as a channel between the physical and spiritual
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    Apr 7, 2021
    The gender binaries of "male" and "female" aren't as universal as you think 🌍 From Samoa 🇼🇸 to Albania 🇦🇱, here are eight cultures throughout history showing that the concept of non-binary gender is far from new 🧵👇
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    Jul 15, 2022
    🇭🇺 BREAKING: The @EU_Commission has announced it will sue Hungary over its anti-LGBTQ+ law. ⚖️ This is the first time in history that the EU has taken a member state to court over an LGBTQ-related issue. 🇪🇺 Here's what you need to know. 👇
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    Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium May 30, 2022.
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    Hijras (South Asia) 🌏 The centuries-old third gender, associated with sacred powers, usually refers to those assigned male at birth but don't identify as such. In 2014, India legally recognised hijras as a third gender after they were criminalised by the British in 1871
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    20 years after the first legal same-sex weddings in the Netherlands, gay marriage has taken off around the world🎉
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    Fa’afafine (Samoa) 🇼🇸 Identifying as a separate gender, fa’afafines' roles in society move fluidly between the traditional male and female. While they're assigned male at birth, Samoa also recognises fa’afatama – an equally fluid gender for those assigned female at birth
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    Sworn Virgins (Albania) 🇦🇱 In this dying practice, women take on the social identity of a man for life, while taking a vow of chastity. By taking on this identity, they're elevated to the status of a man, entitled to the rights and privileges of the patriarchy
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    Metis (Nepal) 🇳🇵 Officially recognised as a third gender in Nepal in 2007, metis have a long history in the Himalayan region. Assigned male at birth, they assume a traditional feminine appearance. Nepal set a global precedent with a third gender category on official documents.
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    Bugis (Indonesia) 🇮🇩 The ethnic group has for centuries seen gender as a spectrum, with three additional genders in addition to male and female. Bugis genders include 'calabai' (feminine men), 'calalai' (masculine women) and intersex 'bissu' priests
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    Apr 28, 2023
    🇩🇪 Germany could soon be the next country to introduce self-ID for trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️ The German government wants to allow trans people aged 14 and older to legally determine their own gender by simply going to the registry and declaring the change, local media reports.
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    First, some background. What is the Bechdel Test anyway? It’s simple. To pass the test the film needs: 1⃣ At least two women in it... 2⃣ ...who talk to each other... 3⃣ ...about something other than a man
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    While far from being all-inclusive, this list goes to show that non-binary concepts of gender are not a recent phenomenon 🌏 Were any of these new to you? Share your thoughts below 👇
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    Brotherboys and sistergirls (Indigenous Australians) Used by Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, brotherboys describes people with a gender experience inconsistent with their assigned sex, with a male spirit and male roles in the community – sistergirls are the opposite