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The comedian said he went in the hopes of mending his relationship with his parents. SNL star Bowen Yang has revealed that when he was 17 years old, he underwent gay ‘conversion’ therapy. Speaking to the New York Times, he said his sexuality had caused conflict with his parents. Yang said he told his parents about his sexuality when he was 17 on a messaging chat, which led to his father telling him that he’d booked Yang eight sessions with a “specialist.” “They just sat me down and yelled at…

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Aminat Lorsanova says her parents watched her get beaten. Aminat Lorsanova, a 22-year-old bisexual woman from Chechnya, is calling for her parents to charged following her torture in the Russian region. With the support of the Russian LGBT Network, Aminat managed to flee Chechnya, and now lives safely outside of Russia. And now VICE reports that she has filed charges with the Federal Investigative Committee of Russia against a clinic in Chechnya and against her parents. Aminat says that she was held in the capital of Grozny during August 2018…

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Byun Hui-soo accused the South Korean military of “deep-rooted intolerance.” The first ever soldier to come out as transgender while serving in the South Korean military has been discharged. Following the dismissal, Byun Hui-soo confirmed that she was going to take legal action against them. Under South Korean law, trans soldiers are not allowed to join the military, although there are no guidelines for what to do if someone begins to transition while serving. Byun had not planned to have gender reassignment surgery when she entered the military, but the…

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Access to puberty blockers can be ‘life-saving’ for trans youth, a new study has found. We already know that trans youth have a disproportionate risk of suicide when compared to their cisgender counterparts, a statistic that’s been acknowledged by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, a new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics has become the first to examine the link between access to puberty blockers as an adolescent and future suicidal ideation among trans adults. Researchers on the study analysed a survey of 20,619 trans…

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