A transgender woman is the first person in Japan to be granted a legal gender change without having to undergo compulsory gender-affirming surgery. In order to legally change one's gender on official ...

A new report from education watchdog Defending Education called out San Diego Unified School District’s "Equity and Belonging ...

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A transgender student at IU was able to get the name and gender on her official identifying documents changed this month. The student initiated her process before a recent executive order in Indiana ...

There have been a number of policy developments in recent years regarding gender markers on legal documents — including, for the first time ever, the option to select X gender on passports. Now, with ...

Gender and diversity inequality in corporate board rooms is legion. Cosmetics company e.l.f. Beauty wants to change the equation — so it's taking its message to Wall Street. The "Change the Board Game ...

You must change your name in your county of residence. For many first-year students living in Colorado, this will be your permanent residence, most likely the home of your parent or guardian. For ...

Gender dysphoria is a term to describe the experience of distress that can be caused when people’s sex and gender identity do not match. Experts do not consider it a mental illness, and not all trans ...

Transgender Floridians can no longer change the listed gender on their driver licenses. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles quietly announced the change in a memo late last ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A memo sent to Florida county tax collectors last week effectively bans people from changing their "gender" or "sex" on their driver's license. This is just one of the latest ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for “Orlando,” an opera based on a Virginia Woolf novel about a ...