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Doug Ford's unveiling of a new Grade 1-8 sex education curriculum is strikingly similar to the maligned 2015 version. The result is confused Ontario parents.
While US companies have made significant strides in creating workplaces that are more inclusive of transexual individuals, discrimination and employment penalties remain.
Men and women are not unified voting blocs. We must consider how voters identify themselves in terms of gender to truly understand how women and men think about politics.
Outed. Denied care. Openly harassed. These are just a few of the experiences reported by American transgender and non-binary individuals when seeking medical care or social services.
The UK government is consulting on changing gender recognition laws. Here's what you need to know.
Despite the "Yes" vote, Australia has a long way to go in accepting sexuality and gender fluidity, especially in schools. Changing strict uniform rules is a small step in the right direction.
If we're keeping him, it's time to reinvent James Bond for the digital post-Weinstein age.
'LGBTIQA+' is a term often employed to be inclusive – but it runs the risk of being so inclusive it loses all meaning.
New guidance urging schools to stop making pupils conform to gender stereotypes is a step in the right direction.
The UN has finally created a specific role to uphold LGBT rights, but its first mandate-holder is resigning after just a year.
The new program for Catholic schools draws on the same research as Safe Schools (so perhaps it wasn't part of a 'Marxist agenda' after all).
Many people use religion and culture as explanations for their homophobic attitudes.
There's a simple solution to the school uniform conundrum: have a range of sanctioned options and allow students to choose, no matter their gender.
States who want to keep criminalising LGBT people are trying to stop the UN from creating a way of investigating them.
The Crossroads program provides students with meaningful and accurate information about gender diversity in order to challenge homophobic and transphobic discrimination and violence.
Is our gender determined by our bodies or our culture?
Gender is more of a flexible state than most people think. And as children, we start out thinking more flexibly about gender than we end up as adults.
The Australian Christian Lobby's Lyle Shelton said he was concerned about body modification, gender reassignment surgery and future suicide risk. We check the research.
Safe Schools Coalition has been the focus of hot debate, but there is little evidence to support the anxieties around its mission.
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Discipline Co-ordinator and Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Academic Fellow, University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention, Griffith University
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Professor of Education and Equity, University of Sydney
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Researcher, Sexualities & Gender Research Network, Victoria University
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Professor of Cultural Studies, Director, Graduate Program in Gender Studies and Feminist Research, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross
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Lecturer in Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Psychology and Head of school, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Fellow, Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, UNSW
