Here’s a bit of good news on the free expression front: Terri Lesley, a former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes, will be paid $700,000 US after settling a lawsuit. Under the settlement agreement, Lesley is dropping her lawsuit. Lesley says she fought to keep […]
Merely weeks after a similar case we reported on, a federal judge has dismissed another defamation suit based on unsupported use of the “P-word.” This case involved the rap star Drake’s ongoing verbal battle with fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar. In the Judge’s ruling, she concluded, “‘Not Like Us’ is replete with profanity, trash-talking, threats of […]
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 […]
In the wake of a $40 million judgment in July against an Atlanta-area motel for ignoring signs that a minor was being trafficked on its premises, a similar lawsuit has now been filed on behalf of another victim against chains ranging from the Ritz-Carlton to Motel 6. The suit argues that staff ignored obvious signs […]
In a recent landmark ruling in Kenya, a judge has just confirmed that a trans woman’s rights had recently been violated, and in response has ordered his government to either introduce a new transgender rights act or amend the current Intersex Persons Bill. Considering Kenya’s poor track record on queer rights – it criminalizes same-sex […]
Although a total of 27 states – in addition to the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and more than 100 municipalities – have banned the practice of conversion therapy as well as on governmental funding for it, all mostly within the last ten years, there is growing paranoia that popularity for the pseudoscientific and downright abusive practice […]
Gerika Mudra is a non-trans 18-year-old lesbian woman who is filing a charge of discrimination against a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Minnesota because an employee followed her into the women’s bathroom and tried to prevent her from using it upon suspicion of her being a man. While being harassed Mudra revealed her breasts to […]
A high-profile Canadian case involving five ex world junior hockey players ended on July 24th when all players were acquitted of criminal charges. The case revolved around a group sex episode, seven years prior, that occurred after a Hockey Canada Foundation Gala & Golf event the players had attended. A lawyer for one of the accused referenced the […]
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld a law criminalizing third-party benefits from sex work, despite a lower court ruling that the law jeopardized sex worker security. The case concerned the conviction of two men in Alberta who were drivers for an escort service and provided protection for the escorts if something went wrong. READ THE […]
