Category: News
On 9 April, renewed attention fell on the US Selective Service System after it became clear that automatic draft registration is due to begin by December 2026. Under the change, responsibility for registration will shift from individual men to the Selective Service System itself, using federal data sources, instead of requiring eligible people to register […]
Mississippi is poised to become the latest US state to restrict how transgender people are identified on official documents, after lawmakers passed a bill requiring driver’s licences to reflect sex assigned at birth. Senate Bill 2322 was approved on Monday, 6 April, and now heads to Governor Tate Reeves, who is widely expected to sign […]
A father in the US has been publicly rebuked by a television judge after suing his gay son for the cost of sending him to conversion therapy. Gregory Talbert, from Memphis, Tennessee, took legal action against his 18-year-old son, Michael Talbert, after spending US$6,000 on a conversion therapy programme he believed would “cure” his son’s […]
Constitutional lawyer and human rights advocate Menaka Guruswamy has made history as the first openly LGBTQIA+ person to sit in India’s national parliament. Guruswamy took her oath of office on Monday after being elected to the Rajya Sabha, India’s upper house of parliament, where she will represent West Bengal for the Trinamool Congress party. The […]
Several employees of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) who identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community have spoken anonymously about the broadcaster’s decision to end its partnerships with ACON’s Pride in Diversity program, with one describing the move as a “kick in the teeth”. Staff members told Star Observer the decision had left them feeling […]
Two former members of the armed forces are taking legal action against the Ministry of Defence, arguing that they were unfairly denied proper compensation under the UK’s scheme for LGBTQ+ veterans affected by the military ban. Mark Shephard and Steven Stewart say they suffered lasting harm after being forced to leave military service because they […]
A recent RNZ Pacific article reported that the number of Fijians living with HIV has risen to at least 9,000—almost one percent of the population. To put this in perspective: New Zealand, with a population five times larger than Fiji’s, has around 3,500 people estimated to be HIV-positive—less than 0.1 percent of our population. Fiji’s […]
The Trump administration has withdrawn from an agreement designed to protect trans students in five school districts and one college. According to AP, the US Department of Education terminated the agreements on 6 April. The protections had originally been negotiated under Title IX by the Obama and Biden administrations. Title IX is a civil rights […]