Minnesota State Senator Erin Maye Quade has introduced a bill (SF1119) to ban the distribution of deepfake apps or software that can transpose faces of real people onto nude bodies. This is the first time that legislation has attempted to penalize not only malicious users of such apps and social media companies that allow such […]
Although trans-female athletes are a tiny group, they continue to attract an inordinate amount of attention from both trans activists and their political enemies on both the national and local levels. The Trump administration’s Department of Education Civil Rights Office has sued Minnesota for allowing trans students to compete in women’s sports, alleging that it […]
In granting bail to a 15-year old boy who lured a female classmate into a sexual encounter at his house, India’s Supreme Court urged the state of Uttar Pradesh to institute comprehensive sex education earlier than the 9th grade, “so that children are informed of the changes that happen after puberty and the care and […]
An Ohio man residing on a busy road has posted a giant banner pointing to the next-door neighbor’s house and identifying him as a sex offender based on a 2002 offense of statutory rape, for which he served two years in prison. Passing motorists are encouraged to honk in support of the effort to force […]
Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver (R) introduced a bill, the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act, that proposes banning pornography and depictions of transgender people, real or imagined, under very broad terms. This pushes criminal penalties, heavy fines, possible sexual-offence charges. Critics argue that the bill is unconstitutional and say it conflates trans existence with obscenity […]
In the wake of the mass shooting at a Minneapolis school perpetrated by a young trans woman who regretted her transition and the earlier shooting by a trans man at a Nashville religious school, the Trump DOJ is reported to be considering a proposal to declare gender dysphoria a disqualifying form of mental illness that […]
Sexual offense laws require anyone who is convicted of a sexual offense to be put on a registry once the individual has served out their sentence. Public registration and restrictions extended beyond an individual’s sentence are punitive and put the registrant and their families at risk. A 71-year old man who was on California’s online […]
Since Pride Month in June, the New York City Police Department has cracked down on “cruising” (public sex) in Penn Station using gay Hookup apps like Sniffies. Some queer community members are alarmed and argue such crack downs are unethical and unjustly targeting of LGBTQ+ people. Immigrant justice advocates are also concerned because these arrests […]
Reporter Anna Louie Sussman discusses the growing trend for users of online dating platforms to employ AI chatbots to create their romantic profiles, flirt, and arrange dates. As the skill for writing original prose or even grammatically correct sentences becomes a lost art for many, AI fills the breach but reduces the most intimate forms […]
In a defamation action brought by a man with a decades-old conviction for statutory rape involving a consensual relationship with a 15-year old while he was in his 20s, a federal court ruled against him, finding that it is “substantially true” to call such an individual a “pedophile” even though nothing in his background or […]
