171 men arrested in a high-profile police raid of a gay sauna in Kuala Lumpur under suspicion of “immoral activities” had to be released on bail, as the court found there was no evidence to support charges of “unnatural intercourse” or “prostitution exploitation” (offenses under the penal code), since none of the men admitted to […]
Ex-husband Fabricated Lurid Sex Abuse Charges Against Boys’ Mom
In an all too familiar pattern, a custody dispute between divorced parents was weaponized into headline-grabbing charges of child rape and livestreamed pornography due to the gullibility of police, press, and prosecutors. Two weeks before the scheduled trial of a Boca Raton mom, her boyfriend, and oldest son by a prior marriage, Florida prosecutors dropped […]
Protecting Rape Victims is Complicated
As we reported in our last edition, France recently legislated a major change to redefine rape as sex without clearly expressed consent. However, a similar proposal in Italy, supported by both Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her center-left rival Elly Schlein, has run into political obstacles due to objections from Meloni’s coalition partner, Deputy PM […]
Supreme Court Continues to Weigh In On Sex and Gender
On November 10 the Supreme Court kiboshed an opportunity to overturn the constitutional right to same-sex marriage by denying an appeal from Kim Davis. Davis, if you recall, is that troll of a county clerk from Kentucky who has been married four times and who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015 […]
France Redefines Rape
In the wake of the sensational Gisèle Pelicot gang-rape trial, the French Senate unanimously approved a bill, previously approved by the National Assembly, to redefine rape as any sexual act without consent, defined as “freely given, informed, specific, prior, and revocable.” This makes rape easier to prove than the previous standard, which required an expression […]
Colorado Court Considers Whether Sex Offender Registration Is Punishment
The Colorado Supreme Court has heard a case arguing that lifetime registration is “cruel and unusual punishment” due to the use of flawed and uncertain assessment tools to predict the likelihood of an individual re-offending and the generally low rate of re-offense in this population. The federal courts, including the Supreme Court in a 2003 […]
Pray and Prey: Fundamentalist Pastors and Child Abuse
An investigation by NBC news reveals a 50-year pattern of covering up child abuse by pastors, youth leaders, and church volunteers in the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. Aspects of the church’s theology, which emphasizes both forgiveness and divine “anointment” of pastors gifted with charismatic powers, have created an environment of reluctance […]
25 Arrested for Attending Same-Sex Wedding in Nigeria
The Hisba Board (religious police) in Kano, a mostly Muslim region in Northern Nigeria, have arrested 25 people attending the wedding of two men, accusing them of “organising same sex marriage.” The situation for LGBT people in Muslim countries continues to deteriorate, as we also see with new anti-LGBT legislation proposed by the government even […]
Sexual Vigilantes Arrested in Texas
The Sheriff’s Department in Waco, Texas, arrested three members of the Oklahoma Predators Prevention Group after a confrontation they organized that caused a local man to be injured. This group mimics police tactics by posting fictitious profiles of underage girls and luring their victims into explicit conversations and an arranged meeting, which the group monetizes […]
Federal Appeals Court Says Inmates Have No Right to Medical Transition
The federal appeals court for the 2nd circuit overturned a trial court decision to rule that prison inmates “have no clearly established rights to be treated by gender-dysphoria specialists or to receive specific treatments for gender dysphoria.” The case concerned a biologically male inmate serving a 75 year sentence for murder in Connecticut, who sought […]