The Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council voted unanimously to restore protections for social workers' LGBTQ and disabled clients after backlash from advocates and lawmakers.
US: Intersex Activists Push Hospitals to Ditch Nonconsensual Surgeries on Children
“For me it’s actually kind of an emotional moment because myself and so many others have been speaking out and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable, talking about our own personal experiences and speaking that truth to power,” Zieselman told Truthout. “To finally have a concrete result like a major institution like Boston Children’s stating that they will end two of the most harmful surgeries is really just quite amazing.”
Jordan: Foreigners Living with HIV Face an Impossible Choice
Intersex Inclusion - How To Be An Intersex Ally
Pakistan: Gender Dysphoria and Comorbid Depression in a Pakistani Transgender Man
US: How Trump success in ending Obamacare would kill Fauci plan to conquer HIV
Canada: Conversion therapy will be banned in Quebec
UK: Writing on the wall: why trans and nonbinary people in Bristol are speaking out
The painting of the mural was prompted in part by the demoralising conclusion to a political rollercoaster of a summer, as trans people awaited a statement on proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) intended to make civil matters such as marriage and funerals more straightforward for trans people.
Poland rules abortion due to foetal defects unconstitutional
UK: Hundreds of gay men 'at greater risk of contracting HIV' after PrEP service closure
HUNDREDS of gay men have been put at greater risk of contracting HIV after being "left without a support service for months and months on end". The warning come as the Belfast trust confirmed its sexual health GUM/HIV Risk Reduction Clinic has no date for reopening - more than six months after it closed as part of Covid-19 reorganisation.