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- November 15, 2025
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Uganda Bill Criminalizes Identifying as LGBTQ+

Uganda, already one of the world’s harshest anti-gay regimes, is introducing a new bill which would impose up to 10 years in prison for simply identifying as LGBTQ. In 2023 the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, signed into law the “Anti-Homosexuality Act” which brings the death penalty to anyone involved in “aggravated homosexuality”. Prior to that, […]

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- November 15, 2025
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Supreme Court Continues to Weigh In On Sex and Gender

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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 Arkansas who has been married four times and who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015 […]

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- November 15, 2025
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IOC Moves to Ban Trans Women and Intersex Athletes with “Male Levels of Testosterone”

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is likely to introduce a new policy on trans athletes after its director of health, medicine, and science, Dr. Jane Thornton, gave a “science-based review” to its members showing permanent physical advantages to being born male. Thornton, a former Canadian rower, has referenced the use of SRY cheek-swab gene test […]

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- November 1, 2025
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Mourning Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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This earthly world recently lost a trail blazing social justice warrior. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a long time trans activist who was known as “mama” to many, was involved in LGBTQ activism since her participation in the Stonewall Uprising in 1969. She died on Oct. 13 at the age of 78 surrounded by loved ones in […]

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- November 1, 2025
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Gender Trouble Again

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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 […]

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- November 1, 2025
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Federal Appeals Court Says Inmates Have No Right to Medical Transition

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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 […]

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- November 1, 2025
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Decline in Youth Trans and Queer Identification?

A study published by the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham uses three surveys to suggest a substantial drop (about 50%) in non-binary self-identification among American students since 2023, and a smaller but not insignificant drop (about 10%) in “queer” self-identification; however, the rate of identification with traditional labels like gay […]

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- October 15, 2025
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Is Non-Affirming Counseling for Gender Dysphoria “Conversion Therapy”?

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On October 7, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, the case challenging Colorado’s ban on counseling for gender dysphoria that does not seek to affirm gender transition as the best path forward for the patient. Much of the legal debate concerns whether psychotherapy is medical treatment (conduct that can be […]

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- October 15, 2025
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Adolescent Sexual Fluidity

A study of 1,513 Swedish adolescents from age 14 to 17 reveals a surprising degree of variation in sexual orientation during this developmental phase. Most striking is the fluidity of those who at some point in their trajectory identify as lesbian or gay: only 17.6% of girls and 29.4% of boys who so identify did […]

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Heteronormative Family Expectations

Heteronormativity is a cultural, social, and political framework that institutionalizes heterosexuality as the standard and preferred sexual orientation. Heteronormative familial discourses play a significant role in socializing children, and what makes them so influential is their ability to naturalize certain behaviors and desires. Children are taught that “this is how things are” or “how things should […]