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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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AI is Reshaping Online Dating and Sex

Reporter Anna Louie Sussman discusses the growing trend for users of online dating platforms to employ AI chatbots to create their romantic profiles, flirt, and arrange dates. As the skill for writing original prose or even grammatically correct sentences becomes a lost art for many, AI fills the breach but reduces the most intimate forms […]

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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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Violence Against Intersex People

Since 2019, the rates of violence and harassment against intersex people have sharply increased within the European Union as found by the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights. The Vienna-based agency linked the rise to a wider climate of “increasing or persisting intolerance and bigotry, as well as intense online hatred campaigns.” Sirpa Rautio, director of […]

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- October 1, 2025
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Atlanta Hotels Sued for Sex Trafficking on Premises

In the wake of a $40 million judgment in July against an Atlanta-area motel for ignoring signs that a minor was being trafficked on its premises, a similar lawsuit has now been filed on behalf of another victim against chains ranging from the Ritz-Carlton to Motel 6. The suit argues that staff ignored obvious signs […]

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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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