International Transgender Day of Visibility < SRHM

March 31 is celebrated annually as International Transgender Day of Visibility to raise awareness of the discrimination and struggles faced by transgender people and to celebrate their contributions to society. Although the transgender movement has grown significantly in recent decades, several challenges remain, including the push from anti-trans groups and right-wing political actors, which undermine transgender rights, making them more prone to discrimination, poor health. and violence. This has serious negative consequences for the transgender community, particularly in terms of access to safe, inclusive and affordable sexual and reproductive health care. (Human Rights Campaign).

Although research and advocacy on this topic has grown over the past ten years, the current research literature on transgender rights remains limited in terms of geographic locations, reproductive health issues, study designs, analytic strategies, and the types of populations studied, study published in SRHM in 2021: Mapping the scientific literature on reproductive health among transgender and intersex individuals. She emphasizes that additional research needs to be conducted on transgender SRHR, not only in Western regions, but particularly in the often underrepresented Global South, with an emphasis on rural and indigenous populations.

In 2020, a roundtable discussion – Young people’s views on religious fundamentalism, ethno-nationalism and SRHR: a South Asian SRHM virtual roundtable discussion – published in the journal SRHM, which explored the perspectives of young people from five South Asian countries on how their social identity and location affects their SRHR. This discussion explored how religious fundamentalism affects key national laws, citing how India’s Supreme Court drew on Hindu scriptures and the connection between Hinduism and transgender identities to issue a judgment on transgender rights. This is one of many examples where conservative religious norms, nationalist discourse and discriminatory legislation limit the SRHR and autonomy of young people, especially transgender people.

SRHM magazine regularly publishes articles on the status and progress of transgender rights and the challenges faced by transgender people from different regions of the world in trying to access fair and inclusive sexual and reproductive health care. These papers offer critical insights into the lived experiences of transgender people that vary by geography and socioeconomic status, as well as recommendations for translating research into action to affect policy changes that can improve transgender rights and access to sexual and reproductive health and empower them.

Below you will find a list of documents addressing different aspects of transgender rights published by SRHM over the past ten years.

2023:

Advocacy to find resources for feminist and women’s rights movements: an interview with the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)

Cindy Clark, Kasia Staszewska, Tenzin Dolker & TK Sundari Ravindran

Decriminalizing and ending AIDS: keep the promise, follow the science and fulfill human rights

UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights

Forgotten by donors: a call to action by people with disabilities to fund disability justice in sexual and reproductive health rights funding

Lisa Adams

“I wish there weren’t so many hoops…”: recommendations for improving access to abortion services and experiences made by Indigenous and 2SLGTBQIA+ women in Canada

Renée Monchalin, Danette Jubinville, Astrid V. Pérez Piñán, et al.

2022:

Self-administration of sex-affirming hormones: a systematic review of effectiveness, costs and values and preferences of end-users and health workers