Myths and facts about sexual orientation and gender identity

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.

19.01.2022

Transgender families: marriage, parenthood and children

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…

18.01.2022

What to read about transgender identity. Coming out, family statuses, history, gender-marked spaces and more

Over the years we have worked with transgender people, providing psychological, legal and medical assistance and offering counseling to trans people, we have published a number of explanatory materials and studies and have collected personal stories. You are unlikely to find a fuller or more comprehensive collection…

17.01.2022

Transgender terminology: a non-pathologizing non-binary approach

Learn about transgender families in our research The existing terminology of transgender identity carries a pathologizing and binary discourse within it. Activists who take a depathologizing stance and dismantle gender binaries need a new terminology, free of the additional meanings that contradict the ideology we…

10.11.2021

Coming out. What loved ones should know and how to leave the closet safely

A selection of the best materials about coming out from the psychological service of Insight NGO . All the materials are available in audio and text versions at the links below. Which questions you can ask, which phrases are off limits and how not to end up in an awkward situation when someone opens up to you What…

19.01.2021
Inclusion for youth: how to protect your own rights?

Inclusion for youth: how to protect your own rights?

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05.01.2021
The forms gender-based violence can take

The forms gender-based violence can take

16 forms of violence that are still present in society, and how everyone can protect themselves Read the file in pdf

25.11.2020

Formation of identity through the prism of the family scenario.

Audiovisual project about the connection between identity and family

28.09.2020
Gender transition in Ukraine: (non-)compliance with human rights standards

Gender transition in Ukraine: (non-)compliance with human rights standards

Introduction 2016 became a landmark year for transgender people in Ukraine, because that was the year when the regulatory framework governing the transition procedure in general and, in particular, legal gender recognition – that is, obtaining personal documents in which the name and gender marker correspond to the…

31.03.2019

An analysis of the text of the Unified Clinical Protocol “Gender Dysphoria”

Insight NGO took part in the public consultation on the medical and technological documents standardizing medical care for gender dysphoria, which ran for a month starting on February 22, 2016. Unfortunately, in the version of the document “Unified Clinical Protocol of Primary, Secondary (Specialized) and Tertiary…

29.09.2016

Mom can do … anything at all. A story of LGBTQI+ parenthood

LGBTQI+ parenthood turned out to be a very important topic, and one our readers really wanted to hear about — some of them decided to share their own experience and advice as well. Below is the story of two moms, Kateryna and Nataliia, told in the first person. We became parents only because we wanted it so badly. We…

08.06.2016

Changing a transgender person’s name to their chosen one: how it works in Ukraine

Even without going through the sex correction procedure, transgender people have the right to change their first and last name — yet at civil registry offices (RATsS) they may be told otherwise. The official procedure for obtaining permission to change the “sex” field in official documents in Ukraine can take several…

24.05.2016
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