Armenia’s first passport-registered transgender woman has received death threats following an impassioned parliamentary speech. Lilit Martirosyan became the first member of the country’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community to take to the parliamentary podium, speaking out against discrimination at a session before the committee on human rights. The speech, delivered a fortnight ago, has sparked a vicious backlash in Armenia, where homosexuality has been decriminalised but discrimination against LGBTI people remains rife

Armenian MPs call for trans activist to be burned alive after historic speech