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Outgoing minister Franc Weerwind (legal protection) does not intend to withdraw his bill to expand the Transgender law, which the lower house of Dutch parliament, the Tweede Kamer, has asked him to do. A motion from NSC and SGP requesting the bill be withdrawn was approved by a small majority (73-70). The minister had advised against the request earlier, and he is sticking with that opinion. “I have informed that I cannot or will not carry out this motion,” he said. He also added that he is not planning on resigning.

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Members of the trans, two-spirit and non-binary community and their allies will gather at the Beaconsfield Carriage House in Charlottetown on Sunday to support and celebrate transgender people.

Several LGBTQIA+ organizations are angry about the negative focus on transgender and non-binary people in the election campaign. "I have never seen this to this extent before," says chairwoman Remke Verdegem of the Transgender Network. Philip Tijsma from COC Netherlands also sees "a striking number of examples" of negative attention in the election campaign.

Mahsa Amini's death prompted Iran's largest wave of protests in years, bringing the fight for women and LGBTQ+ people to global attention.