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- October 15, 2025
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India’s Supreme Court Urges Early Sex Education

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In granting bail to a 15-year old boy who lured a female classmate into a sexual encounter at his house, India’s Supreme Court urged the state of Uttar Pradesh to institute comprehensive sex education earlier than the 9th grade, “so that children are informed of the changes that happen after puberty and the care and […]

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- October 1, 2025
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Will Michigan Declare Trans Visibility “Obscene”?

Michigan state Rep. Josh Schriver (R) introduced a bill, the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act, that proposes banning pornography and depictions of transgender people, real or imagined, under very broad terms. This pushes criminal penalties, heavy fines, possible sexual-offence charges. Critics argue that the bill is unconstitutional and say it conflates trans existence with obscenity […]

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- October 1, 2025
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Trans People May Be Banned from Owning Guns

In the wake of the mass shooting at a Minneapolis school perpetrated by a young trans woman who regretted her transition and the earlier shooting by a trans man at a Nashville religious school, the Trump DOJ is reported to be considering a proposal to declare gender dysphoria a disqualifying form of mental illness that […]

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- October 1, 2025
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How the Sex Offender Registry Kills

Sexual offense laws require anyone who is convicted of a sexual offense to be put on a registry once the individual has served out their sentence. Public registration and restrictions extended beyond an individual’s sentence are punitive and put the registrant and their families at risk. A 71-year old man who was on California’s online […]

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- October 1, 2025
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Tea Room Crackdowns as a New Tool for ICE?

Since Pride Month in June, the New York City Police Department has cracked down on “cruising” (public sex) in Penn Station using gay Hookup apps like Sniffies. Some queer community members are alarmed and argue such crack downs are unethical and unjustly targeting of LGBTQ+ people. Immigrant justice advocates are also concerned because these arrests […]

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- October 1, 2025
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When is it OK to Call Someone a “Pedophile”?

In a defamation action brought by a man with a decades-old conviction for statutory rape involving a consensual relationship with a 15-year old while he was in his 20s, a federal court ruled against him, finding that it is “substantially true” to call such an individual a “pedophile” even though nothing in his background or […]

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- October 1, 2025
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Saving the Suicide Hotline for LGBTQ+

In July, the Trump administration shut down LGBTQ+ youth support options on the national suicide hotline, putting the lives of LGBTQ+ kids and teens at risk. New bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) looks to restore the vital “option 3” which offers support to LGBTQ+ youth. The new 988 […]

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- October 1, 2025
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China Erases Gay Marriages

The Hong Kong legislature, packed with pro-Beijing loyalists, voted 71-14 to reject a modest bill recognizing same-sex partnerships that had already been registered abroad. This vote defies a ruling by Hong Kong’s highest court that the government should recognize such unions. In a similar move, gay marriages in Western-produced films are now being converted by […]

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- October 1, 2025
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More Trans Bathroom Bans

Texas has passed the so-called Texas Women’s Privacy Act, S.B. 8 which prohibits transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity in schools and government buildings. This bill also bans women’s violence shelters from providing services to anyone not assigned female at birth unless they are younger than 17 and a child […]

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- October 1, 2025
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Eliminating the “X” Gender Marker on Passports

The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a policy requiring passport gender markers to match the sex listed on one’s birth certificate. The policy would undo lower-court rulings that allow transgender and nonbinary individuals to use identity-consistent markers, including an “X.” This dispute is one of several over an executive order […]

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