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The bill would also ban surrogacy. A proposed Indonesian bill, called the Family Resilience bill, aims to ban surrogacy and send all LGBTQ people to rehabilitation centres for ‘treatment.’ The bill wants all people suffering from what it defines as a ‘sexual deviation’ including homosexuality, incest and sadomasochism to be sent to state-run rehabilitation centres. Part of the draft bill, obtained by The Jakarta Post, reads: “Families experiencing crises due to sexual deviation are required to report their members to agencies handling family resilience or rehabilitation institutions to undergo treatment.”…

The former Labour leader warned leadership hopefuls not to get involved in a “culture war.” Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose Labour government delivered the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, has said he would refuse to sign Labour’s trans rights pledge. The 12-point pledge says that “there is no material conflict between trans rights and women’s rights” and calls on anti-trans activists to be removed from the party. Leadership contenders Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy have signed it, while Sir Kier Starmer has not, although he signalled his support for trans…