
Kyle Knight
Kyle Knight is a senior researcher on health and LGBT rights at Human Rights Watch. Previously he was a fellow at the Williams Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, and a Fulbright scholar in Nepal. As a journalist he worked for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Nepal and for the UN’s humanitarian news service (IRIN), reporting from Burma, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia. He has worked for UNAIDS, the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and in the children’s rights and health and human rights divisions at Human Rights Watch. He sits on the editorial board of the Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health Journal. He has a BA in cultural anthropology from Duke University and a Masters of Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Articles Authored
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January 30, 2025
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January 21, 2025
US Health Agency Calls for Intersex Informed Consent
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September 4, 2024
Experts Urge End to Nonconsensual Intersex Surgeries
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July 31, 2024
Nepal Supreme Court Rules Trans Woman Is a Woman
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June 18, 2024
Victory for Same-Sex Marriage in Thailand
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December 14, 2023
Did Nepal Achieve Marriage Equality? Not Quite Yet
Other Writing
Reports Authored
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“We Have to Beg So Many People”
Human Rights Violations in Nepal’s Legal Gender Recognition Practices
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“Scared in Public and Now No Privacy”
Human Rights and Public Health Impacts of Indonesia’s Anti-LGBT Moral Panic
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