Long walk to Transgender Rights and Gender Equality

‘Alarming backlash and resistance,’ advocates say

By: Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant

Although governments have committed to achieve gender equality by 2030 as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said recently that it will take another 300 years to achieve it fully. More worrying is that attitudes in some countries, particularly South Korea, Ru…