In a poll conducted May 1-17 of this year, the Gallup survey found that only 62% of American respondents regard gay and lesbian relations as “morally acceptable,” down 9% from 2022; support for changing gender is at only 38%, down 8% since 2021. Support for same-sex marriage also declined 6% from its peak in 2022-23. […]
Pride – The Musical!
Pride, a new musical at London’s National Theatre, tells the true story of a London-based activist group, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) who helped financially support the members of the Neath, Dulais and Swansea Valley colliery community during the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The musical is based on the 2014 film, Pride, which tells […]
Pride Festivals in Asia
South Korea’s conservative Protestants represent only a fifth of the population in a country where most people follow no religion, yet they have wielded huge influence over the government which has blocked a comprehensive anti-discrimination law that would protect LGBTQ+ people, women, people with disabilities, and racial minorities. Similar to what is happening in the […]
Detransitioners’ Motivations Studied
37 Youtube videos posted by young people who gender-transitioned as teens and then later detransitioned as adults, a study just published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy has identified five pathways into the transition that they later regretted: (1) about one-third admitted to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or ADHD. For the former, gender […]
India Supreme Court Legalizes Voluntary Sex Work
Public opinion and police enforcement in India have long assumed that all sex work is illegal, and women found engaged in the trade are often confined against their will to “protective homes.” In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court has clarified that the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act only criminalizes public solicitation and third persons profiting […]
Legal Challenges to Trump’s Trans Military Ban
In January of 2025, President Trump signed an executive order targeting active-duty and prospective service members with gender dysphoria. Since then, multiple lawsuits have been filed against the order. Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service is unconstitutional. Judge Robert Wilkins in […]
Losing Time While Doing Time: Is Egg Freezing a Reproductive Right?
Rachel Smith is currently incarcerated in Queensland, Australia. She is serving a ten-year sentence for drug trafficking. Since she will be between 39 and 41 years old when she is released, she sought to freeze her eggs while in prison but was denied because Queensland law treats egg freezing as a form of assisted reproductive […]
Gender Reassignment and Eating Disorders
Previous scholarship has noted an elevated incidence of eating disorders among adolescents who present with gender dysphoria, and has posited that the eating disorders are a response to the patient’s discomfort with their developing body. A study of all 2,080 adolescents seeking gender reassignment in Finland from 1996 to 2019 confirms that eating disorders are […]
University Rejects Textbook in Human Sexuality Course for Images of Sex
The University of Nebraska at Kearney (a branch campus in a very conservative part of the state) has pulled a textbook from its Human Sexuality course after a student complained that the book exposed her to “pornography.” Discovering Human Sexuality, published by Oxford University Press and lead-authored by noted neuroscientist Simon LeVay, is in its […]
Shoot a Sex Offender, Become the Sheriff
Second-degree murder charges were dismissed against an Arkansas man who shot an alleged sex offender attempting to kidnap his 13-year old daughter. Although the exact circumstances of the shooting remain unclear, the judge justified his dismissal due to the loss of possibly relevant video evidence. However, public backlash may have also influenced the decision. In […]