content tagged with transgender people

Transgender doctor reinstated after being dismissed for 'disrupting general morals'

Transgender doctor reinstated after being dismissed for 'disrupting general morals'

Larin Kayataş was expelled from her profession in 2021, just one month after being assigned to a state hospital in İstanbul.

‘Our trans lives are valuable’: Rights groups to protest mounting hate attacks in İzmir

‘Our trans lives are valuable’: Rights groups to protest mounting hate attacks in İzmir

LGBTI+ and human rights organizations will organize a statement for the press in the face of recent hate attacks and murders targeting trans women in Turkey’s Aegean province of İzmir in the last two months.

27 January 2022

'Police Detain Trans Women to Get Performance Points'

'Police Detain Trans Women to Get Performance Points'

A trans woman named Yıldız İdil has said that she, along with many trans women, was detained and tortured on new year's eve.

14 January 2020

Trans Woman Cannot Go Home Due to 'Protection Order'

TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE

Trans Woman Cannot Go Home Due to 'Protection Order'

Subjected to transphobia and hate speech from neighbors, Ajda now can't enter the block of apartments where she lives.

21 November 2019 Evrim Kepenek

Prisoner Buse Cuts Off Sex Organ After Being Prevented from Undergoing Sex Transition Surgery

Prisoner Buse Cuts Off Sex Organ After Being Prevented from Undergoing Sex Transition Surgery

Buse's friends and lawyer Eren Keskin have announced the establishment of a solidarity network for prisoner Buse Aydın, who is being held at Metris prison and wants to have sex transition surgery.

22 August 2019 Evrim Kepenek

"I Don’t Want to Be Transsexual Mira, I Just Want to Be Mira”

"I Don’t Want to Be Transsexual Mira, I Just Want to Be Mira”

Mira is 22 years old. She started a campaign on indiegogo for her gender-change surgery. Mira says: “I want to be at the forefront as a woman not as a transsexual woman.”

22 June 2015 Dilara Şenkaya

Esmeray Hopes Transgender People Will Follow Example

Police Violence

Esmeray Hopes Transgender People Will Follow Example

Transgender Esmeray has taken two police officers to court for beating her.

29 May 2009 Bawer Çakır