Category: Law

Articles Crystal Drag Drag Race UK Interview Laurence Fox Law LGBTQ+ News Life News Originals

“It’s relief, it’s satisfaction”: Drag Race star Crystal on winning libel case against Laurence Fox

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Drag Race UK star Crystal says she is feeling “a mix of emotions” after winning her libel case against Laurence Fox. Yesterday (29 January), a High Court judge ruled that the right-wing commentator and actor had libelled both Crystal, who is known as Colin Seymour out of drag, and former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake when he falsely branded them “peadophiles” on social media in October 2020.  He had used the term against the pair after they and actress Nicola Thorp accused him of being racist over his response to Sainsbury’s…

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Alicia Kearns Articles Caroline Nokes MP Conservative Party Conversion Therapy Government Jayne Ozanne Labour Party Law LGBTQ+ News Life News Politics

UK MPs to introduce draft bill banning all forms of ‘conversion therapy’

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Backbench MPs from multiple political parties have worked together to draft legislation that would ban all forms of so-called ‘conversion therapy’. According to ITV News, the bill will “prohibit practices whose predetermined purpose is to change or suppress a person’s sexuality, or change or suppress a person to or from being transgender.” It is set to be introduced in the House of Commons on 6 December. Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle drafted the legislation, with nine Conservative MPs supporting it. These include Caroline Nokes, Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee,…

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Articles Channel 4 News Conservative Party gender Gender Recognition Act Government GRA Law LGBTQ+ News LGBTQ+ survey Life News Originals Study Survey UK

Exclusive: 80% of LGBTQ+ people want the Gender Recognition Act reformed

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Reforming the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA) is ‘very important’ to a majority of LGBTQ+ people, a joint survey from GAY TIMES and Channel 4 News has found. The Act is what allows transgender people to change their legal gender by applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). However, doing so is a lengthy and complicated process which includes the requirement for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, as well as the need for a medical report detailing all treatment. In September 2020, the UK government published the results of a…

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America Anti-LGBTQ discrimination anti-LGBTQ+ legislature Anti-trans legislation Articles Biden Biden Administration Government Joe Biden Law LGBTQ+ News Life News President Joe Biden

President Biden signs executive order to fight “hateful” anti-LGBTQ+ state bills

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President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to protect LGBTQ+ people from laws targeting them in conservative states. The measure includes efforts to dry up funding for so-called ‘conversion therapy’ by asking federally funded programs to ensure they are not offering it. The harmful practice has been widely condemned by health experts all over the world, including the National Health Service and World Health Organisation. It also includes a request for the Federal Trade Commission to consider determining that ‘conversion therapy’ is an unfair and/or deceptive act that warrants…

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Alabama America Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Anti-LGBTQ+ law anti-trans Articles Law LGBTQ+ News Life News Trans

Law banning gender-affirming care for trans youth takes effect in Alabama

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Alabama has implemented a law that makes providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth a felony. Those giving trans people under the age of 19 puberty blockers, hormones and medical procedures could face up to 10 years in prison. US District Judge Liles Burke has not yet indicated when he will rule on a motion seeking to temporarily halt the ban after a two-day hearing reached its end on 6 May, two days before the law went into effect. A lawsuit against the legislation, which was signed by Governor Kay…

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Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Anti-LGBTQ+ law Articles Guatemala Law LGBTQ+ News Life News Same-sex marriage Sexuality

Guatemala Congress votes to ban same-sex marriage and teaching of sexual diversity in schools

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Guatemala’s Congress has voted to ban same-sex marriage and teaching that “anything other than heterosexuality is normal” in schools. The Protection of Life and Family law was passed by 160 votes in favour to just eight votes against on 9 March. It predominantly targets the LGBTQ+ community, as well as worsening punishments for those seeking an abortion – a practice that is already illegal in the country except in cases where the pregnancy poses a threat to life. Alejandro Giammattei, Guatemala’s president and a conservative, will have to give the…

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America Anti-LGBTQ+ law Articles Florida Joe Biden Law LGBTQ+ News Life News President Joe Biden

‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill amendment would require Florida’s schools to out students within six weeks

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Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill has been amended with a requirement for schools to out students once they learn of them being LGBTQ+. The bill, which is part of a Parental Rights in Education proposal, was altered by Rep Joe Harding on 18 February. His amendment states that “the school principal or his or her designee shall develop a plan, using all available governmental resources, to disclose such information within [six] weeks after the decision to withhold such information from the parent.” This would be done “through an open dialogue…

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anti-gay Anti-LGBTQ discrimination anti-LGBTQ+ Anti-LGBTQ+ law Articles Europe European Union Law LGBTQ+ News Life News Parliament poland Sejm

Polish govt introduces ‘de-facto ban’ on LGBTQ+ teaching in schools

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Poland’s parliament has approved a law that will essentially ban teaching LGBTQ-inclusive topics in schools. On the afternoon of 13 January, the educational reform was adopted into law after being debated in the Sejm (the lower house of Poland’s parliament) a day earlier. Named ‘Lex Czarnek’ or ‘Czarnek’s Law’ after minister of education Przemysław Czarnek, its contents bring the country in line with Hungary and Russia who previously adopted similar anti-propaganda legislation. It gives superintendents the power to overrule any teaching materials that are given to schools by outside groups,…

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Articles Asia Court Law LGBTQ+ equality LGBTQ+ News Life News same-sex Same-sex marriage Same-sex parenting Taiwan

Taiwan court allows same-sex partner to adopt child in historic move

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A Taiwanese court allowed a married gay man to legally adopt his husband’s non-biological child in a historic case. On 25 December 2021, a family court approved an appeal allowing a same-sex partner to adopt the child adopted by his husband prior to their marriage. Wang Chen-wei (王振圍) and Chen Chun-ju (陳俊儒), the child’s adopted parents, were told it is in the best interests of their child by the court in the ruling. According to Taipei Times, this marks the first time a same-sex couple has been permitted to adopt…

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Anti-LGBTQ discrimination Anti-LGBTQ+ law Articles Government Law LGBTQ+ News Life News Priti Patel same-sex Sex UK UK Government

Gay sex convictions under now-abolished laws to be wiped by UK govt

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Priti Patel is set to announce a pardons scheme expansion covering any conviction given to those engaging in consensual homosexual activity. The Home Secretary is reportedly planning to broaden the government’s Disregards and Pardons scheme, meaning that those who were convicted of a crime under the now-abolished legislation can apply to have it wiped from their criminal record with no requirement to disclose it in the future. The Home Office said that the nine former offences currently included on the specified list “largely focused on the repealed offences of buggery…

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