Nine new countries have made legal gender change possible without abusive rules on trans people in the past two years. However, trans people continue to face widespread persecution around the world.
Moreover, a right-wing backlash against trans equality is now evident in every corner of the globe. That’s according to a major new report by LGBT+ organization ILGA World.
The Trans Legal Mapping Report is out today. And it charts the laws criminalizing trans people as well as the legal processes to change their name and gender in official documents in 143 UN member states.
ILGA World says: ‘Trans organising and advocacy are at a turning point. Significant advances have been made in recent years, but regressions have also occurred in every