<span class="vcard">Yasemin Smallens</span>

Yasemin Smallens

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Yasemin Smallens (Bluesky) is a Chicago-based acting researcher in the LGBT Rights Program of Human Rights Watch and author of the 2025 report “They’re Ruining People’s Lives”: Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US.

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People attend a Trans Day of Visibility rally in Washington, DC, on March 31, 2025.

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