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 ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional, a landmark ...

Transgender and nonbinary people have won the right to change their gender marker on their U.S. passports — but only for now. “This decision is a critical victory against discrimination and for equal ...

April 8 (UPI) --The Vatican and Pope Francis issued a strong declaration Monday, condemning transgender sex change, surrogate motherhood and abortion as "grave threats" to human dignity. "We are ...

San Diego school district faces scrutiny over student gender change forms after education watchdog report reveals ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Since Daniel Craig departed the role in 2021, there’s been a lot of chatter about who might be the next James Bond. “I don't know if 007 really should be a woman,” she said in response to a question ...