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 17, 2020
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December 13, 2019
Massachusetts Medical Society Supports Intersex Rights
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December 10, 2019
Transgender Parent in Japan Banned from Changing Legal Gender
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December 5, 2019
India’s Transgender Rights Law Isn’t Worth Celebrating
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November 21, 2019
Outcry as Japanese TV Show Mocks Transgender Woman
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October 8, 2019
Russia Censors LGBT Online Groups
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October 1, 2019
Polish Police Protect Pride March Amid Anti-LGBT Crackdown
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September 24, 2019
Kazakhstan Supreme Court Upholds Privacy Rights
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August 29, 2019
Indian State Bans Unnecessary Surgery on Intersex Children
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August 1, 2019
Polish Court Rebukes “LGBT-Free Zone” Stickers
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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