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On October 26, 1996, a handful of intersex activists protested outside a paediatricians' conference in Boston. Thirty years on, Europe has its first intersex rights standard, but ILGA-Europe counts just six countries that ban unnecessary interventions on intersex children, and none that properly enforce it.
A government draft to replace Ukraine's 1971 Labour Code cleared a key parliamentary committee on September 25. It keeps the ban on discrimination over sexual orientation and gender identity at work. LGBTQ+ groups are pushing to add gender expression and sex characteristics before the final vote.
A new EU Asylum Agency report tracking 20 months of case law finds real progress for queer and trans asylum seekers in Europe, and a persistent gap for intersex applicants that only a handful of countries address directly.
Seven applicants have taken Zimbabwe to court over decades of exclusion and nonconsensual surgery on intersex children. It's a landmark case in a part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum that rarely makes headlines.
