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Your Queer Weekly Horoscope: March 31-April 6 (www.them.us)
 

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US Health Agency Calls for Intersex Informed Consent in c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
[–] melp@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

Thanks for the notice. Also,,, ugh.

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US Health Agency Calls for Intersex Informed Consent (www.hrw.org)
 

Article from January 2025:

The United States Health and Human Services Department (HHS) published a landmark report on intersex health equity last week, calling for an end to medically unnecessary non-consensual surgeries on children born with intersex variations.

The report, based on a literature review and listening sessions with intersex people, ethicists, and medical professionals, states that “the over 5 million intersex people in our nation deserve to live healthy and fulfilling lives free from stigma and discrimination.”

Children born with variations in their sex characteristics, sometimes called intersex traits, are often subjected to “normalizing” surgeries that are irreversible, risky, and medically unnecessary. Approximately 1.7 percent of people have an intersex trait, meaning intersex variations are not uncommon, but often misunderstood.

Threats, Raids and Potlucks: What it’s like to be queer in Nigeria in c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
[–] melp@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

I was reading a lot of the homophobia in African countries is a white xtian import.

A question about "they" / "them"… in c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
[–] melp@beehaw.org 21 points 9 months ago

When in doubt, I always default to they/them. I also like to be called they/them.

Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ in c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
[–] melp@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Proton has a calendar. Anyone tried it? I just downloaded it.

Grocery co-ops pledge over $28,000 to Twin Cities Pride after Target was uninvited in c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
Grocery co-ops pledge over $28,000 to Twin Cities Pride after Target was uninvited in c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
[–] melp@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Womp womp, Target.

‘How do you even f—?’ In Russia’s anti-queer crackdown, police have spent years raiding nightclubs, private parties, and medical institutions. Now, the authorities have the data for another Great Terr in c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
[–] melp@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago

It's funny how a lot of the bigotry that has been in Russia has magically spilled over to the rest of the world in the last decade.

Trans Kids, Here's What You Need to Get Through the Trump Administration in c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
[–] melp@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

We all need some major slef defense training. As @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone mentioned below. Like... the proud boys are taking paramilitary training with creeps in the woods. We need self defense.