School Days

US: ACLU responds to lawsuit attacking transgender student athletes

“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.”

Guyana: LGBTQ+ community makes demands ahead of elections

General and regional elections is less than a month away and Guyana’s leading gay rights activist group –the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) – has launched what it calls a manifesto with a list of changes it wishes to see from a new Government.

US: HRC Releases Annual State Equality Index Ratings

HRC Foundation and the Equality Federation Institute released their 6th annual State Equality Index (SEI), a comprehensive report detailing statewide laws and policies that affect LGBTQ people and their families and assessing how well states are protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination.

Thailand: Key population-led organizations delivering health services in Bangkok

RSAT is one of seven community-based organizations in Thailand that provide PrEP services free of charge through lay providers under the Princess PrEP Project. 

Eswatini: Ending Bullying and Humiliation over Menstruation as Girls and Boys are Educated about Reproductive Health

“There’s a lot of stigma associated with menstruation. When a woman is on her periods, she is said to be in ‘cleansing’ something that portrays her as dirty.”