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Transgender athletes barred from female category events

The new rules essentially stop transgender athletes from ​competing in female category events at the Olympics. They had previously been eligible to compete at the Games once cleared by their...

Sahara Chowdhury speaks at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters Unity on 22 August 2025. Photo: Courtesy

Expelled transgender student demands reinstatement at Metropolitan University in Sylhet

Metropolitan University in Sylhet. Photo: Collected

Transgender student's expulsion from Sylhet university sparks outcry

Metropolitan University in Sylhet. Photo: Collected

Sylhet's Metropolitan University faces backlash over expulsion of transgender student

From upper left to bottom right: Prof Anu Muhammad, Prof Samina Lutfa, lawyer Manzur Al Matin and journalist Saydia Gulrukh. Photo: Collected

162 citizens condemn transgender student’s expulsion from Sylhet university

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Call for policy overhaul to end systemic discrimination against Hijra community

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Transgender person killed in Chattogram road accident

The Pentagon is seen from the air in Washington, US, 3 March 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Up to 1,000 transgender troops are being moved out of the military in new Pentagon order

The Old Florida Capitol is seen with the tower of the current Florida Capitol rising behind, during a legislative session in Tallahassee, Fla., 6 March 2025. Photo: AP via UNB

Transgender student's arrest under Florida bathroom law may be first of its kind

Tanya, 25, a Rohingya transgender beautician, provides service to a young girl in her beauty parlour, at the entrance of the Kutupalong refugee camp, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 17, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

A transgender woman's fight for dignity in Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee camps

Honey Maharjan and Mouni Maharjan are running for the post of mayor and ward chair positions of Kirtipur, a settlement on the outskirts of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, in Sunday's elections. Photo: AFP via BSS

Nepal's first transgender candidates run for local office

Sarah McBride, Delaware state senator and candidate for United States Representative, poses for a portrait outside of her campaign office in Wilmington, Delaware, US, October 26, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Rachel Wisniewski/File Photo

Democrat Sarah McBride becomes first openly transgender member of US Congress

Transgender people in Bangladesh face extreme challenges in education and economy. Photo: UNB

Bangladesh's transgender community ready to shatter boundaries with education