Cross-posted from "‘They wanted a name’: how China is hindering LGBT+ events in foreign diplomacy" by @premadekrill@lemmy.blahaj.zone in !lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
Abidjan (AFP) – Military-run Niger has enacted a new penal code criminalising same-sex relations with heavy jail sentences, following other west African countries in adopting tough anti-LGBTQ legislation.
Cross-posted from "Banned Gay Dating Apps Blued and Finka Remove LGBT Features to Comply With Regulations" by @premadekrill@lemmy.blahaj.zone in !lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
The website was created by a trans woman who had been held in a conversion institution for several months from last year through early this year. It went live in early April. Before it was taken down, it had collected 21 accounts submitted by survivors or their friends describing their experiences at such facilities, and — with the help of several volunteers involved in rescuing conversion institution victims — had compiled information on over 900 discipline schools across 17 provinces using publicly available sources.
Democratic State Senator James Skoufis introduced legislation on April 6 that would let New Yorkers sue mental health professionals who perform conversion therapy. After a U.S. Supreme Court decision altered the legal landscape around “sexual orientation change efforts,” S9817 would let survivors seek financial damages in civil court.
“When three transgender women attended Perth Magistrate’s Court on Thursday 26 March court security allegedly told them they should not use the women’s bathroom.
Mirroring the anti-gay movement of the 1970s, Kentucky Republicans are quietly moving to ban trans people from teaching while forcing doctors to consider being trans a mental disorder.
In the short term, this is not as dangerous as an outright ban on estrogen. If implemented and then combined with other methods of suppressing trans people, it might be far more destructive in the long term.
The Trans Continental Pipeline (TCP) is grassroots mutual aid network turned 501c3 nonprofit based in Denver CO that helps Queer and 2SLGBTQIA+ Individuals move from unsafe environments to Colorado and provide connections and resources through our relocation program.
One of the most extreme federal anti-trans bills ever proposed, Republicans’ H.R. 7661 would prohibit schools from “promoting” or “facilitating” anything involving “gender dysphoria” or “transgenderism.”
During his speech, Trump took time to call for harmful forced outing laws and called Democrats ‘crazy’ amid their opposition to federal policies targeting trans youth.
The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them “recover.” It’s trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.
Blåhaj PieFed
Teknevra
Sunshine
Premadekrill(She/Her)
The D Quuuuuill
CombatWombat
