For the first time since gender identity was added to the Sex Discrimination Act, it’s being tested in court. At its heart, the case looks at the rights and recognition of transgender people.
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We don’t ban queer teachers in public schools anymore, but it’s still allowed in some religious private schools – which the new Law Reform Commission report wants to address. What can history teach us?
The question of whether local declarations offering sanctuary for LGBTQIA+ people place local law above federal law depends on what the statements actually promise.
This year, there are more than 400 active anti-trans bills across the U.S. What do things look like in Canada? Are we a safe haven or are we following those same trends?
Trans activists are running a campaign against University of Melbourne philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith. It raises a host of challenging ethical questions.
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, first established a set of political decorum rules in legislatures to help establish stability during the country’s early years.
The first transgender medical clinic opened in the US in the 1960s. But cisgender and intersex children began receiving similar treatments even earlier – often without their consent.
Immigration NZ banned hip hop collective Odd Future on the basis of public safety in 2014. Will it do the same for anti-transgender rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull?
Simplifying how people change their gender will be helpful to trans people, but the government’s latest move risks prolonging a toxic debate.
NHS trust could face compensation claims for millions in a litigation of the Tavistock Centre. But what claims would the courts consider?
Over the last century, progress for trans people has been met with political and cultural backlash at every step.
Over 300 companies so far have closed stores, reassigned staff or halted sales in Russia in the two weeks since the invasion began.
Discrimination against trans women at Sydney’s McIver’s Ladies Baths is, sadly, just the latest in a long history of some Australians being excluded from the water.
Delaware’s Sarah McBride made history on Tuesday when she won a state Senate seat, becoming the US’s highest-ranking transgender politician. A record 1,006 LGBTQ candidates ran for office this year.
We have been writing to trans and non-binary prisoners in the UK since before the pandemic began. This is what they say about lockdown.
TERF is not a slur. Instead, we should use words that accurately describe how some feminists are actually anti-trans activists.
Being a trans parent isn’t easy. Consistent legal recognition would change lives for the better.
Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, what is their political legacy for LGBTQ activism?
Now that the U.S. government is threatening to define sex as either male or female, we need to fight more than ever for trans rights. But let’s give up the utopian ideal of a label-free future.
The British government is consulting on changes to the Gender Recognition Act, including whether to allow gender self-identification.
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