Category: Around the World
A conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives has launched a legal battle against the University of Michigan and its student-run Michigan Law Review, claiming that straight white cisgender men are being unfairly discriminated against. Faculty, Alumni, & Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP), a non-profit group advocating for “meritocracy in academia”, filed the lawsuit in […]
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has declared that the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the UK was a “mistake”, stating he did not support the move at the time. Speaking during a phone-in segment on LBC with presenter Nick Ferrari, the Clacton MP reiterated his opposition to the legislation passed in 2013, which led to […]
The United States Supreme Court is set to hear two high-profile cases involving state-level bans on transgender women participating in women’s sports—an issue at the centre of ongoing political, legal, and cultural debates in the country. The upcoming rulings could become pivotal for the future of transgender rights nationwide. This follows President Donald Trump’s post-election […]
Openly gay Democrat Pete Buttigieg has emerged as the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2028 US presidential race, according to a new poll by Emerson College Polling. Buttigieg, the former US Secretary of Transportation under the Biden administration, topped a list of high-profile potential nominees. Participants in the survey were asked who […]
Craig Young reflects on the UK’s contradictory reforms—advancing abortion and euthanasia rights while backsliding on trans issues, and warns NZ not to follow suit. The United Kingdom has always struck me as a country of contradictions—but perhaps that’s just part of its evolving character. Lately, I’ve been observing a curious blend of progressive reform and […]
At least 30 individuals, most of them women in their twenties, have been arrested in China for writing and sharing gay erotica, in what human rights observers are calling a renewed crackdown on creative expression and LGBTQ+ content. The arrests, which date back to February, target writers who published gay romantic fiction—known as danmei—on the […]
More than 100 individuals in Russia have been convicted under the country’s sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ “extremism” law, which criminalises virtually all forms of LGBTQ+ expression and activism. Human Rights Watch reports that since the law took effect in January 2024, Russian courts have issued 101 convictions tied to alleged involvement in the so-called “international LGBT movement” […]
Transgender service members in the United States military have condemned a looming ban on their continued service, calling it “horrific” as the enforcement date rapidly approaches. The policy, initiated by a January executive order from then-President Donald Trump, classifies personnel with a “history of gender dysphoria” as “morally unfit” to serve. Following the order, the […]