Sports and Culture

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Meet Solongo Batsukh, Mongolia’s transgender beauty queen who refuses to stay hidden despite backlash on social media

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She is among the few LGBT people who have dared to come out in Mongolia, where some 80 per cent of the community remain in the closet, according to a UN survey

Batsukh wants to dispel the image that transgender women can only be sex workers or strippers living on the fringes of society, instead becoming a celebrity in her home country

UK: Buzzfeed's LGBT editor worried by transgender media coverage as Times columnist Janice Turner urges free debate on issue

Buzzfeed’s Patrick Strudwick said he worries about the effect the media has on transgender people as he collected the prize for Specialist Journalism at last night’s British Journalism Awards.

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US: Anti-LGBTQ Activist Admits Bathroom Predator Myth Was 'Concocted'

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“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions. It worked in Houston a few years ago,” reads the post.

US: "Man Made" a Film About Transgender Bodybuilders, Upends the Traditional Documentary Gaze

On a Friday evening in October, before the New York première of “Man Made”—a documentary about the world’s only all-transgender bodybuilding competition—the film’s creators gathered at a tin-ceilinged bar in Chelsea called Underballs.