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Kyle Knight

Kyle Knight

Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program Follow @knightktm

Kyle Knight is a researcher in the LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining the LGBT rights program, he was a fellow at the Williams Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles and a Fulbright scholar in Nepal. As a journalist he has worked for Agence France-Presse in Nepal and for IRIN, the UN’s humanitarian news service, reporting from Burma, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia. He has previously 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 studied cultural anthropology at Duke University.

Articles Authored

  • October 10, 2018 Commentary

    The Intersex Guidelines Doctors Have Been Waiting For

    Published in Into
  • September 20, 2018 Dispatches

    Hong Kong Recognizes Same-Sex Couples in Visa Applications

  • September 17, 2018 Dispatches

    US Medical Association Stands Against Unnecessary Intersex Surgeries

  • July 19, 2018 Dispatches

    Chicago Protest Demands Informed Consent for Intersex Patients

  • June 21, 2018 Dispatches

    American Medical Association Passes New LGBT Policies

  • June 20, 2018 Dispatches

    Japan’s School Uniform Shift Will Help LGBT Students

  • June 19, 2018 Dispatches

    New Global Health Guidelines a Victory for Transgender People

  • May 18, 2018 Dispatches

    Surgery Conference Cuts Intersex Patients Out

  • May 10, 2018 Dispatches

    Russia’s ‘Gay Propaganda’ Censor Attacks Health Website

  • May 1, 2018 Dispatches

    Calling on California To Respect Intersex Children

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Other Writing

  • Humanitarian Exchange: Making disaster risk reduction and relief programmes LGBTI inclusive: examples from Nepal
  • UNICEF/UN Women: Understanding the needs and capacities of LGBTI persons in disasters and emergencies
  • Emory International Law Review: Establishing A Third Gender Category in Nepal: Process and Prognosis
  • Forced Migration Review: gender identity and disaster response in Nepal

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Reports Authored

  • December 11, 2018

    No Support

    Russia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law Imperils LGBT Youth

  • July 1, 2018

    “Scared in Public and Now No Privacy”

    Human Rights and Public Health Impacts of Indonesia’s Anti-LGBT Moral Panic

  • October 26, 2017

    A Changing Paradigm

    US Medical Provider Discomfort with Intersex Care Practices

  • July 25, 2017

    “I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me”

    Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US

  • December 23, 2016

    “I Want to Live With My Head Held High”

    Abuses in Bangladesh’s Legal Recognition of Hijras

  • August 10, 2016

    “These Political Games Ruin Our Lives”

    Indonesia’s LGBT Community Under Threat

  • May 5, 2016

    “The Nail That Sticks Out Gets Hammered Down”

    LGBT Bullying and Exclusion in Japanese Schools

  • July 23, 2015

    “That’s When I Realized I Was Nobody”

    A Climate of Fear for LGBT People in Kazakhstan

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