Category: News
The Trump administration has formally rescinded a Biden-era regulation intended to help LGBTQ+ children in foster care access safe, supportive and affirming placements. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families removed the rule from federal regulations on 14 July 2026. The rescission took effect immediately. Introduced in April 2024, the […]
OutRunnerz founder Ken Ogg and lead runner Josh Martin share the keys to the growing success of Auckland’s LGBTQ+ running club, where fitness meets friendship When Ken Ogg first joined LGBTQ+ sports clubs, he was searching for something he felt had been missing in his youth: a sense of belonging. After competing in swimming at the […]
Jessie Lewthwaite wants a drink, as she reflects on NZ’s history of lesbian watering holes and why we still need them It’s 2010, and a 21-year-old Jessie had just graduated from university as a high school teacher. Having grown up in central Queensland and been to uni in north Queensland, my first priority was to get the fuck out of Queensland. With […]
The Department of Corrections has settled a Human Rights Act claim brought by a transgender employee who alleged he was prevented from carrying out prisoner searches in a way that recognised his gender. The employee, known as Adam because of a non-publication order, filed proceedings with the Human Rights Review Tribunal in 2024. He claimed […]
A viral Instagram post by transgender author and actress Jesse James Rose has made an explosive and unverified allegation about the late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, claiming he once hired her as a sex worker. Rose, the author of the memoir Sorry I Keep Crying During Sex, shared her account following Graham’s sudden death on […]
Schools in England will be required to prevent transgender pupils from using toilets and changing rooms that do not correspond with their “biological sex” from September, under new statutory safeguarding guidance. The updated Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, published by the Department for Education, will take effect on 1 September. It states that schools […]
A group challenging New Zealand’s puberty blocker ban has told the High Court at Wellington that the decision was never really about medication, but about the identity of the young people seeking care. “This is self-evidently about the identity of these particular users. It’s about who this very small group of young people are,” Victoria […]
Senegal’s lawmakers have continued their crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights, this time by constitutionally outlawing same-sex marriage. On 29 June, the West African country’s National Assembly voted to amend the Constitution to define marriage exclusively as “the union between a man and a woman”. The measure passed unanimously, with 129 votes in favour and none against. […]