Ryan Thoreson
Ryan Thoreson is a specialist in the LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Ryan clerked for the Honorable Scott M. Matheson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was a research fellow at OutRight Action International. He is the author of Transnational LGBT Activism: Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Ryan holds a law degree from Yale Law School, a Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree in government and studies of women, gender, and sexuality from Harvard University.
Articles Authored
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March 16, 2019
Why the US needs the Equality Act
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March 5, 2019
Confronting Discrimination in Georgia
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January 25, 2019
South Dakota Rejects Restrictions on Trans Athletes
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January 22, 2019
US Supreme Court Says Transgender Military Ban Can Go Ahead
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October 15, 2018
Memorializing Matthew Shepard
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September 28, 2018
US Congress Rejects Anti-LGBT Adoption Amendment
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August 28, 2018
Caning for Alleged Lesbian Acts in Malaysia Postponed
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August 8, 2018
Trump’s Health Care Rules a Prescription for Disaster
Reports Authored
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“I Just Try to Make It Home Safe”
Violence and the Human Rights of Transgender People in the United States
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“All We Want is Equality”
Religious Exemptions and Discrimination against LGBT People in the United States
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