New Canadian Sex Offender Database Goes Live

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) recently launched the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database. The national publicly accessible tool is a product of the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database Act brought into force on December 31, 2024. The database lists those convicted of sexual offences against children that pose a high risk of […]

Malpractice Verdict Raises Questions about Pediatric Gender Surgery

In the first successful lawsuit of its kind, a New York jury has awarded a 22-year old detransitioner $2 million in damages against her psychologist and surgeon. Based on the psychologist’s recommendation, she underwent a double mastectomy at the age of 16. She later came to regret it, testified to ongoing physical pain, and no […]

Grok and Deepfake Porn

Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot on his social media platform X, is stirring up controversy. After the AI chatbot spewed nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images, the EU opened a formal investigation into X. The investigation will examine whether Grok is living up to its obligations under the Digital Services Act, the bloc’s wide-ranging rule book for […]

Orthodox Judaism Rejects Conversion Therapy

On a positive note, 75 Rabbis and Rabbaniyot have signed a public letter warning against treatments that claim to change a person’s sexual orientation. The letter states that “It is difficult to imagine a greater denigration…than the degradation and suppression that bring many victims of so-called conversion therapy to the brink of suicide, self-harm, or […]

Trans Refugees Flee US to Claim Asylum

In 2025, 76 Americans fled to The Netherlands to claim asylum based on fears of persecution due to their gender identity, including those who held professional jobs and resided in progressive jurisdictions like San Francisco and Massachusetts. They are detained in a fenced refugee camp alongside other asylum-seekers, mainly from Africa and the Middle East. […]

“Cohabitation” in Poland

Long known as one of the European countries least friendly to gay rights under its previous right-wing government, Poland has seen some progress under the current ruling coalition. While stopping short of sanctioning same-sex marriage, the government has approved a bill allowing for notarized “cohabitation contracts” that can cover housing rights, joint tax filing, and […]

New Study: Male Sexual Desire Peaks in Middle Age

A recent article in Scientific Reports utilizes detailed data from over 67,000 individuals in the Estonian Biobank to determine which demographic characteristics correlate with greater sexual desire in both men and women. Men reported higher sexual desire than women across most ages. Despite common perceptions that men are horniest when young, male desire actually appears […]

Circumcision and FGM

At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures performed as part of traditional initiation activities in South Africa. Traditional initiation is a rite of passage into manhood for young men. Every year some of the initiates die of complications of circumcision. This has forced the government to intervene through legislation to […]