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Setback for Sex Worker Safety in Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCOC) on the banks of the Ottawa River is pictured in Ottawa on Monday, June 3, 2024. Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick via Coast Reporter. Caption also via Coast Reporter.

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 […]

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Cuba Eases Process for Trans People to Change ID

A transgender Pride flag flies over Mi Cayito, a beach east of Havana. Cuban lawmakers have approved an amendment to the country's Civil Registry Law that simplifies the process through which trans people can change the gender marker on their ID documents. Photo credit: Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers. Caption courtesy of Washington Blade.

Once known as one of the most homophobic countries in Latin America, Cuba continues to liberalize. Its parliament voted on July 18 to make it easier for trans people to change the gender marker on their ID without having undergone surgery. Gender-transition surgery has nominally been available in Cuba for free since 2008, but dissidents […]

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