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 […]
Conceiving of gender and sex as binary concepts is a stubborn means of categorization that has long limited human understanding of important aspects of identity and experience. In most cultures humans become binary subjects at birth in two major ways: 1) we are corralled into either male or female sexed body designations based on anatomical […]
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 […]
With support from Irish sex worker organizations, parliamentarian Ruth Coppinger has introduced a bill to repeal key provisions of Ireland’s Sexual Offenses Act 2017, which decriminalized the selling of sex, but outlawed its purchase or the keeping of brothels. Sex workers have argued that the bill has failed in its intent to reduce the prevalence […]
We have featured stories in the past where suspicions of sexual immorality are manipulated as excuses to apprehend immigrants. In one of the latest examples of this phenomenon, Customs and Border Patrol agents used trumped-up charges of possessing illegal images of minors to coerce 18 Filipino workers on a Carnival cruise ship, who had valid […]
No, this is not a headline from The Onion. In his crusade to find the causes of the autism “epidemic” (which is mostly a function of an expansive definition and willingness to diagnose the condition), Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has now identified a new culprit: male circumcision. This is based […]
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 […]
In a new documentary, British investigative reporter, Stacey Dooley, who has previously produced work on the exploitation of women and children, examines the harsh restriction placed on individuals on Florida’s sexual offence registry. The restrictions leave individuals with very few options for housing and jobs, making it difficult for those individuals to move on from […]
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 […]
