“Today’s complaint filed in Connecticut targeting the inclusion of transgender girls in girls’ athletics and specifically naming Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood is a dangerous distortion of both law and science in the service of excluding trans youth from public life.”
South Africa: Christian privilege | Court takes Beloftebos discrimination case
South Korea: Court rules student suspension is invalid
India: Gay couple files plea in Kerala HC for registration of marriage under Special Marriage Act
India: Supreme Court notice to Centre on plea against transgender act
Greece: Bishop appeals his hate crime conviction
Croatia Gay Couple Foster Care Application Rejected: Court Decision Ignored
US: What a Landmark LGBTQ Case Reveals About Two Clashing Visions of America
This is not an essay about lynching. But the curious landmark case of Lawrence v. Texas made me think about it all the same. And not just because it was inflamed by two different kinds of panic over a specific fear in the unpoliced white imagination, what writer Greg Tate once called “the black sex machine gone berserk.”
South Africa: Rejected same-sex couple take Beloftebos to the Equality Court
Chechnya: Young Russian Tries to Sue Over Violent Lesbian ‘Exorcism’ in Chechnya
US: Supreme Court will review religious health care exemptions
In a move that LGBT legal activists see as “deeply worrisome,” the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday (January 17) said it will review two appeals in which the Trump administration is seeking to make it much easier for employers to exclude health insurance coverage for some medical procedures by saying such procedures violate their religious beliefs or moral conscience.