Every year, in the run-up to March 8, we tell the stories of remarkable women. About women artists who broke stereotypes, about women scientists who changed the world, about the women who fought for equality and thanks to whom we today have the right to vote, the right to work, and the right to make decisions about…
Bullying is not just a quarrel or an insult. It is constant, deliberate abuse that has a very powerful effect on a child. In a child who is bullied all the time, the psyche changes: anxiety, fear and a sense of guilt set in. These consequences can stay with a person for many years and can even require treatment…
Homophobia is a set of stereotypes and prejudices about homosexual people, reinforced by an emotional charge: fear, hostility, shame, hatred. It shows up both in judgments and in behavior, from avoidance to open displays of aggression. Spending every day in a school environment that broadcasts homophobia as the norm…
How to respond to a coming out A GUIDE FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS Which questions you can ask, which phrases to avoid, and how to support the person and yourself — explained by the psychological service of Insight NGO. Coming out is the situation in which a person stops hiding their own sexual orientation or gender…
When it comes to coming out to the older generation, it can be a difficult and emotionally demanding process. Parents, grandmothers, grandfathers, or other relatives may hold ideas rooted in traditional or outdated views of sexual and gender identity. Yet it is important to remember that coming out is not only about…
Inappropriate questions to LGBTQI+ people When we talk about respect, we often mean things like equal rights, access to services, freedom of self-expression. But respect begins with the small things: with how we treat one another in everyday life, which words we choose, which questions we ask. LGBTQI+ people, like…
For a long time, diverse expressions of sexuality and gender — such as homosexuality, bisexuality and being transgender — were condemned by society and, accordingly, passed over in silence. As a result, a shortage of information about these phenomena arose, and it was sometimes filled in with stereotypes and myths far…
All Ukrainians suffer in one way or another from Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24. However, some vulnerable groups due to their peculiarities also face additional challenges. Trans people are among such groups. Like the rest, trans people were caught by the war in different…
Due to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, many LGBTQI + people have been forced to flee their homes. Some are forced to travel abroad, others need shelter and food in Ukraine's safe areas. The Insight NGO team collected several stories of people they helped. We publish stories with the permission of storytellers…
Author: Inna Iryskina, Transgender program coordinator of Insight NGO In lieu of an introduction The concept of gender identity is unquestionably central to understanding the phenomenon of being transgender as such. At the same time, a great deal of ambiguity and fog still surrounds this concept, which gives rise to…
Short of well-grounded arguments in discussions defending the LGBTQI+ community? We have gathered a long list of unscientific claims, stereotypes and myths connected with sexual orientation and gender identity, and set out in detail how they fail to match reality and how things actually are.
Transgender family is a family where at least one person has come out as being transgender: the child, one or even both of the parents, etc. Here is a systematized overview of the status of transgender families around the world. Its scope encompasses the details of legal regulations in different countries, remarkable…
