LGBTQ+

After three consecutive years of failing to pass a ban, Florida is trying yet again.

The ruling bucks a trend set by courts around Japan that had raised hopes for marriage equality.

Turkish authorities on Thursday shelved a draft bill criminalizing behavior deemed "contrary to biological sex and general morality,” LGBTQ+ activists said.

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The Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court recently struck down provisions that criminalized consensual same-sex conduct by officers in the country’s National Police and Armed Forces.

Codes of Justice for the two security forces previously punished same-sex “sodomy” by officers with up to two years in prison. No equivalent penalties existed for heterosexual sexual acts.

The court ruled that those references to sodomy are “not in accordance with the Constitution,” and ordered their removal.

The judge said that Mr Burke and members of his family had engaged in a "concerted attack" on the authority of the civil courts.

He sounds obsessed

WELLINGTON — New Zealand said on Wednesday it was banning new prescriptions of puberty blocking drugs for young transgender people, in a move that critics warned could worsen the mental health of those affected.

Recent incidents show restroom harassment continues even when trans people use birth-sex facilities. Public perception, not policy, drives these conflicts.

New global data Trans Murder Monitoring 2025 reveals a dangerous shift: a growing number of murder victims are trans movement leaders and activists.

So the outfits are not as flamboyant, but i think about half the town showed up to show support.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/34079011

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity.

In a brief, unsigned order, the court said the policy doesn’t appear to discriminate against transgender people. “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth,” it said. “In both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment.”

Sex markers began appearing on passports in the mid-1970s and the federal government started allowing them to be changed with medical documentation in the early 1990s, the plaintiffs said in court documents. A 2021 change under President Joe Biden, a Democrat, removed documentation requirements and allowed nonbinary people to choose an X gender marker after years of litigation.

A judge blocked the Trump administration policy in June after a lawsuit from nonbinary and transgender people, some of whom said they were afraid to submit applications. An appeals court left the judge’s order in place.

As election results poured in on Tuesday night, it became clear that Democrats were winning nationwide against anti-trans opponents.

Just got a 3 day ban on Reddit for expressing I wouldn't be sad about the death of a certain self-described christian nationalist that practically calls for queer people to be killed on a dally basis.

No regrets. Gives me a reason not to go there and use Lemmy more.