Category: Around the World
Community group Trans Justice Meanjin has announced an ambitious new fundraising campaign aimed at supporting transgender young people in Queensland, Australia. To raise funds for Project 491, the group plans to create what they say will be the world’s largest transgender pride flag — a 40-metre by 20-metre banner set to be unveiled on Transgender […]
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution declaring that trans women are women, as part of a broader package of recommendations ahead of next month’s UN Commission on the Status of Women. The resolution was passed on 11 February in a 340–141 vote, with 68 abstentions. Among its key recommendations is a proclamation stressing the […]
Condoms distributed at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics are reportedly being resold online for as much as £90, after supplies in the Olympic Village ran out within days. The Games officially began on 6 February, with around 2,871 athletes staying in the Olympic Village. Free condoms — a long-standing Olympic tradition promoting safe sex […]
LGBTQ+ identification in the United States remained steady at nine per cent in 2025, according to new survey data from Gallup. The findings are based on telephone interviews with more than 13,000 US adults conducted throughout 2025. While the figure is unchanged from 2024, it represents more than double the percentage recorded in 2012, the […]
The High Court of England and Wales has ruled that transgender women are lawfully permitted to use women’s facilities in public services — but not in single-sex spaces within workplaces. The judgment, handed down on Friday (13 February), examined the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) interim code of practice issued after last year’s Supreme […]
Representatives from the 46-member Council of Europe have overwhelmingly supported a resolution urging all member states to outlaw LGBTQIA+ conversion practices — a decade after Malta became the first European country to introduce such a ban. The resolution was put forward by UK Labour MP Kate Osborne and calls for “a ban on conversion practices, […]
The Church of England has formally dropped proposals to introduce stand-alone blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples in its churches, bringing a years-long and costly process to an abrupt end. At this week’s General Synod, members voted to continue discussing the issue in the future. However, bishops had already concluded there were theological and legal barriers […]
Clay Parikh — a special government employee whose election conspiracy claims were linked to a recent FBI raid at a Fulton County, Georgia election office, has described Pride displays in churches as evidence of “the devil trying to brainwash people.” Parikh declined to explain when he became a special government employee or outline his official […]