Activists hail ‘monumental step’ as Thai king signs the country’s marriage-equality bill into law. Thailand’s king has signed a landmark marriage equality bill into law, making the kingdom the first country in Southeast Asia to recognise same-sex marriages. King Maha Vajiralongkorn endorsed the new law on Tuesday, according to the…
‘Family values’ bill is adopted despite being denounced by the president, rights groups and the European Union. Georgian politicians have approved the third and final reading of a law on “family values and the protection of minors” that would impose sweeping curbs on LGBTQ rights. The bill, adopted on Tuesday,…
Australian judge orders trans woman be paid $6,700 in compensation over exclusion from Giggle for Girls networking app. A transgender woman in Australia was unlawfully discriminated against when she was barred from a female-only social media community, a court has ruled. Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from the state of…
Activists welcome the ruling but systemic discrimination persists in the country where gay marriage is not legally recognised. South Korea’s top court has said that the state must provide health insurance for same-sex partners. The Supreme Court delivered the landmark ruling on Thursday, opening the way for common-law couples of…
Billionaire says he will relocate headquarters of SpaceX and X to Texas over parental notification law. Elon Musk has said he will move SpaceX and X out of California over a law that bans schools from forcing teachers to notify parents when their child changes their gender identity. Musk said…
Bangkok, Thailand – For three decades, Dujruedee Thaithumnus has presided over symbolic weddings between same-sex couples on the white sand beaches of Thailand’s Samui island. As Thailand prepares to legalise LGBTQ marriages, Dujruedee is looking forward to officiating legally recognised ceremonies for the first time – and cashing in on…
Tokyo, Japan – When Japanese book publisher Kadokawa announced last year it would publish a translation of Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, it ignited a culture-war skirmish of the kind rarely seen in Japan. Trans rights activists organised a protest in front of Kadokawa’s Tokyo…
The law is backed mainly by Shia Muslim parties who form the largest coalition in Iraq’s parliament. Iraq’s parliament has passed a law criminalising same-sex relationships with a maximum 15-year prison sentence, in a move it said aimed to uphold religious values, but was condemned by rights advocates as the…
Sydney, Australia – Sall Grover says she did not think twice when she blocked Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman, from her Australian-based women-only app Giggle for Girls. “It did not register, as we get men trying to enter all the time. Mr Tickle passed our AI facial recognition test, which…
Study commissioned by England’s health service says hormones should only be prescribed to teens with ‘extreme caution’. The evidence behind medical intervention for youth questioning their gender is “remarkably weak”, with some doctors abandoning “normal clinical approaches” to prescribe hormones to teens, a landmark review in the United Kingdom has…
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