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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. […]
New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte has signed legislation requiring public school employees to disclose information about transgender students to their parents or legal guardians. The law reverses the effect of a 2024 New Hampshire Supreme Court ruling that upheld students’ privacy rights in certain circumstances. Ayotte’s office announced on 2 July that SB 430 had […]
Historian Gareth Watkins reflects on important July dates for the progress of New Zealand’s rainbow communities. Late July 1970 At the National Party’s annual conference in Rotorua, delegates endorsed a proposal urging the Government to liberalise the law relating to homosexuality. Moving the remit, Mr Sutton of Miramar said the question of homosexuality was charged […]
With the commemoration of Matariki and the anniversary of Homosexual Law Reform both landing in July, the Burnett Foundation is drumming up momentum for an exciting year of change ahead, writes Content Manager Ethan Christensen We’re stoked to see recorded HIV diagnoses trending downwards for another year. From our good friends at the University of […]