When Panama announced it would implement a gender-based quarantine schedule in response to COVID-19, transgender activists were alarmed. And with reason: on April 1, police detained a transgender woman alleging that she was male and out on “the wrong day.”
Peru, Panama introduce gender-based rules for COVID-19
Australia: Taking blood means you can't social distance: health workers want masks
Hungary exploits emergency powers to ban trans people from legally changing gender
Hungary has published a bill that would make it impossible for people to legally change their gender. The government made the move on International Transgender Day of Visibility. It came just a day after Hungary’s parliament voted the government sweeping emergency powers to manage the COVID-19 pandemic.
Iraqis criticise Muqtada al-Sadr for same-sex marriage claims
COVID-19 IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: HOW TO INCORPORATE WOMEN AND GENDER EQUALITY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE CRISIS RESPONSE
AMERICAS AT A CROSSROADS IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19
Faced with an unprecedented pandemic, governments across the Americas have begun to respond to COVID-19 in a variety of ways, ranging from calling for states of emergencies, to imposing travel bans, to implementing quarantines. Stakes are high and the way governments respond to this pandemic could determine the future of millions of people.
The ICJ releases briefing paper on Pakistan’s Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018
HELP LGBTIQ ORGANIZATIONS GLOBALLY RESPOND TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC
US: Gender-concordant identity documents and mental health among transgender adults in the USA: a cross-sectional study.
South Africa: Professor Gita Ramjee, world-renowned HIV scientist, dies of Covid-19 complications
Professor Gita Ramjee, who recently returned from a trip to London, had been admitted to hospital with pneumonia. She was Chief Scientific Officer at the Aurum Institute and former chief specialist scientist and director of the South African Medical Research Council’s (SAMRC) HIV Prevention Research Unit. She died in an Umhlanga hospital on Tuesday from Covid-19 related complications.