Lawmakers voted in favor of a draft law on Wednesday which will no longer require transgender people to undergo sterilization or a mental health diagnosis in order for their preferred gender to be legally recognized.
Tomoya Hosoda has taken part in various campaigns to raise the profile of LGBTQ in his country.
Majorities of Americans support legal protections for lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender people, opposing laws that force transgender people to use bathrooms according to the gender on their birth certificate and that allow business owners to refuse to service to LGBT people based on religious beliefs.
Pakistan’s honour killing law, passed in October 2016, closed a devastating loophole that had let families “forgive” relatives who killed their own — almost always women — and walk free. The mandatory 25-year sentence arrived months after the murder of social media star Qandeel Baloch galvanized public outrage. It marked a quiet but meaningful shift: the state, not the family, now decides.
Marie Curie made history in December 1903, becoming the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity. Working from a leaking Paris shed, she and Pierre isolated two new elements from tons of pitchblende ore, naming one polonium after her partitioned homeland. Her insight that radiation came from atoms themselves reshaped modern physics.
