Category: Around the World
In a landmark decision for LGBTQ+ rights, the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic has declared unconstitutional longstanding laws that penalised consensual same-sex relations within the country’s National Police and Armed Forces. Previously, the Codes of Justice governing both security bodies criminalised so-called “sodomy” among officers, imposing prison sentences of up to two years. Importantly, […]
The Trump administration has acknowledged that it “inadvertently” deported a transgender woman to Mexico, despite a federal court order explicitly blocking her removal due to the risk she could be tortured or killed there. In a filing lodged last week, officials confirmed that Britania Uriostegui Rios was sent to Mexico in violation of a 14 […]
The US government has reversed a recent policy shift that implied passports showing a trans person’s affirmed gender identity could be invalidated. Less than a week after the change appeared on the US State Department’s website, a section referencing the invalidation of passports not reflecting a person’s “biological sex” has been quietly removed. The change, […]
Florida lawmakers have once again introduced a statewide Pride Flag Ban — the first openly anti-LGBTQ+ bill of the state’s 2026 session. Filed by State Representative David Borrero (HB 347) and Senator Clay Yarborough (SB 426), the proposal would prohibit any state or local government building from displaying flags that represent “race, gender, or sexual […]
The popular American children’s animated series Santiago of the Seas has been temporarily removed from Malaysian television following viewer complaints about alleged LGBTQ+ themes. The CGI action-adventure cartoon, which follows eight-year-old pirate Santiago and his crew as they defend their Caribbean homeland, aired an episode on Sunday 16 November at 10pm on TV2, one of […]
A newly released tranche of emails from the estate of late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has sparked fresh controversy, with one cryptic exchange referencing former President Donald Trump in a way that top Democrats say raises serious questions—questions they claim are being blocked by the Department of Justice (DOJ). At the centre of the […]
A group of cisgender women have come together under the banner “Not in Our Name”, publicly rejecting the media and political narrative that claims to represent all women in the debate over transgender rights. Their collective open letter, published in collaboration with the Good Law Project, has garnered over 61,500 signatures so far — including […]
Kazakhstan is moving to adopt legislation that mirrors Russia’s controversial anti-LGBTQ+ laws, sparking alarm from human rights groups and LGBTQ+ advocates. On Wednesday, Kazakhstan’s lower house of parliament, the Mäjilis, advanced a bill that would ban the “dissemination of information containing propaganda of pedophilia and/or non-traditional sexual orientation” in public spaces, media, and online. Framed […]