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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 ...

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 ...

Even as it continues to provide other gender-affirming care, Oregon Health & Science University months ago stopped offering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...