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Kyle Knight

Kyle Knight

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

Kyle Knight is a senior 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 School of Law, and a Fulbright scholar in Nepal. As a journalist he worked for Agence France-Presse in Nepal and for 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 sits on the editorial board of the Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health Journal, and the advisory group of the Women’s Refugee Commission’s sexual violence project. He studied cultural anthropology at Duke University.

Articles Authored

  • February 13, 2016 Commentary

    Recognizing the Rights of Transgender People

    Published in The Guardian
  • January 27, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: LGBT Backlash in Indonesia

  • January 6, 2016 World Report Chapter

    Rights in Transition

  • November 20, 2015 Commentary

    Remember Today That Transgender Kids Are Kids First

    Published in Huffington Post
  • November 18, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: UN Takes On LGBT Bullying in Asia

  • November 17, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Ukraine Bans Anti-LGBT Discrimination at Work

  • October 27, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Sweden’s Inclusive Rape Care Model

  • October 26, 2015 Dispatches

    Dispatches: The Courage to Combat Indonesia’s Homophobia

  • October 26, 2015 Commentary

    Nepal's Third Gender Passport Blazes Trails

    Published in Advocate
  • October 14, 2015 Commentary

    How Nepal’s Constitution Got Queered

    Published in The Los Angeles Review of Books

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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

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    March 19, 2019

    “A Really High Hurdle”

    Japan’s Abusive Transgender Legal Recognition Process

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    December 11, 2018

    No Support

    Russia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law Imperils LGBT Youth

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    July 1, 2018

    “Scared in Public and Now No Privacy”

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

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    October 26, 2017

    A Changing Paradigm

    US Medical Provider Discomfort with Intersex Care Practices

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    July 25, 2017

    “I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me”

    Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US

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    December 23, 2016

    “I Want to Live With My Head Held High”

    Abuses in Bangladesh’s Legal Recognition of Hijras

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    August 10, 2016

    “These Political Games Ruin Our Lives”

    Indonesia’s LGBT Community Under Threat

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    May 5, 2016

    “The Nail That Sticks Out Gets Hammered Down”

    LGBT Bullying and Exclusion in Japanese Schools

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    July 23, 2015

    “That’s When I Realized I Was Nobody”

    A Climate of Fear for LGBT People in Kazakhstan

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