In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re talking about a groundbreaking religious school exclusively for Islamabad’s transgender youth, a UK initiative hoping to tackle vaccine scepticism amongst minority communities, and a landmark study reducing cow methane emissions by approximately 82%.
Pakistan opens first transgender-only Islamic school
With the transgender population facing high levels of discrimination in the conservative country, the opening of the first specialised madrasa is a landmark moment in LGBT+ acceptance.
The initiative aims to tackle distrust of vaccines within minority communities, stemming from historic abuses of non-white individuals by medical practitioners.
The new legislation means that Spain has become the fourth country in Europe to allow assisted suicide, providing those with incurable illnesses the dignity to choose.