This will have a ‘liberating’ effect on trans people worldwide The World Health Organization (WHO) has made history and removed transgender from its list of ‘mental disorders’. The WHO approved the major change to its global manual of diagnoses on 25 May 25. It comes after WHO introduced it as… أكملي القراءة
Read More »Freedom to Malak Elkashif and Hossam Ahmed
Malak Elkashif is an Egyptian Transwoman, and Hossam Ahmed is an Egyptian Transman who were arrested by the Egyptian authorities for participating in protests that followed the the Egyptian railway station explosion incident in at the first of March. Hossam Ahmed was arrested from a cafe in Cairo’s city center… أكملي القراءة
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When filling out official documents, you are often asked to provide your name, birth date, and sex or gender. But have you ever been asked to provide your sex and your gender? It may not have occurred to you that sex and gender are not the same. However, sociologists and most other social scientists view sex… أكملي القراءة
Read More »The Women’s Movement in Morocco: Bridging the Progressive-Islamic Feminist Binary
“Women’s Arab Spring”: that is the aspiration of many women around North Africa and the Middle East. As a young female Moroccan student, I am also involved in women’s empowerment in my country. However, since a very early age, I have misunderstood and rejected the opposition between so-called progressive and… أكملي القراءة
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