Six major European LGBTI organisations called on Portugal's Parliament to reject three bills that would dismantle the country's 2018 self-determination law, reintroduce medical gatekeeping for trans people, ban gender-affirming care for minors, and erase protections for intersex children. The joint statement, signed by ILGA-Europe, TGEU, IGLYO, OII Europe, EL*C, and Bi+ Equal, warned that Portugal would drop at least four places on the European Rainbow Map if the bills passed.

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that the UK’s revisions to the Equality Act 2010 risk discriminating against and excluding transgender people.

The UN human rights experts warned that the updated Code of Practice essentially advises service providers that “a women’s service must either exclude transgender women or admit men” and vice versa. The experts cautioned that this “effectively presents exclusion as a means of” legal compliance, and may lead to institutionalized discrimination

The ruling says the administration ignored existing law when it changed the rules that identify “essential benefits” under the Affordable Care Act.

The defense secretary used the slur while campaigning for Republican Rep. Zach Nunn, then called the military “gender-neutral.”

In a significant victory, George H.W. Bush appointee Nathaniel Gorton permanently struck down a Trump administration rule that cut coverage for many trans Americans on ACA plans.

A Douglas County judge on Monday granted a Lawrence transgender woman the temporary restoration of her driver’s license after the State of Kansas invalidated it earlier this year under a controversial anti-trans law known as SB 244.

The late Pope Francis‘ book Hope: The Autobiography has finally been published in Russia, but readers there won’t get to find out about the late pontiff’s thoughts on LGBTQIA+ issues.

Her podcast host also discussed the role of white supremacy and patriarchy in recent anti-trans attacks.

“We will not let authoritarians dictate how we legislate in this state,” Jaelynn Scott said.

The Co-operative Group has removed a policy that explicitly allowed trans and non-binary staff to use gendered toilets where they felt “safest”, following new UK guidance on single-sex spaces.