Lily Wakefield

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‘Former detransitioner’ Ky Schevers on rebuilding her life after falling for ‘cult-like’ TERFs

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Ky Schevers was confused about her gender, and detransitioned after being “sucked in” by “gender-critical feminism”. Now, she’s rebuilding her life. Schevers, who is transmasculine, genderqueer and uses she/ her pronouns, began medical transition by taking testosterone when she was 20, after coming out as a trans man. But Schevers soon realised that her gender wasn’t binary. “I had tried living as a more binary trans guy but that didn’t really work out, and I felt more genderqueer,” she tells PinkNews. “Then I thought I felt more like a butch dyke, and I kind of wanted to explore that part of myself.” Looking […]

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Same-sex couples have less stressful marriages, according to science

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Same-sex married couples handle stress better than different-sex spouses do, according to a new study. The study, published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships by researchers at the University of Texas Austin, found that while stress is common in all kinds of marriages, same-sex couples are able to deal with it better together. By analysing survey responses of 419 couples on dyadic coping – coping as a couple – in both same-sex and different-sex marriages, researchers revealed that same-sex spouses were able to be more positive and collaborative in handling stress compared to their counterparts. Same-sex married couples handle stress […]

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LGBTQ+ activists are ‘battle-ready’ for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid

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The prospect of another Donald Trump presidency would pose a “serious risk” to LGBTQ+ rights, but queer advocates say they’re “battle-ready”. On Tuesday (15 November), Trump announced he would be running for president in 2024, making him the first president in history to be attempting another presidential bid following impeachment. As the most anti-LGBTQ+ president in modern history, he couldn’t help including a transphobic dig in his announcement from Mar-a-Lago, insisting that if elected, he would not “let men… participate in women’s sports”. During the torturous four years that Trump was in office, he relentlessly attacked the LGBTQ+ community, stripping discrimination protections, banning trans people from […]

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Mexico votes to ban all conversion therapy: ‘A historic advance in human rights’

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Mexico’s senate has voted to ban all conversion therapy that aims to alter sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression – putting the UK to shame. On Tuesday (11 October), 69 lawmakers voted for the bill, with two against and 16 abstentions. It will now head to Mexico’s chamber of deputies for a final vote. The vote has been years in the making, with the bill first introduced by senators from the parties Citizen Movement, Morena and the Green Party in October 2018. LGBTQ+ human rights organisation Yaaj Mexico said in a press release: “The eyes of the world are today […]

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Mutilated body of missing trans person found hidden in killer’s home

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A man has been arrested for the murder of a trans woman in India, after a piece of her body was found in his home. Warning: this story contains graphic content.  Zoya Kinnar, a trans woman in the city of Indore, India, had been missing since Sunday (28 August), according to the IANS news service.  Parts of her mutilated body were discovered on Tuesday (29 August), and on Thursday (1 September), police said officers had arrested a man named Noor Mohammad for her murder. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sampat Upadhyay said that Mohammad had been questioned by police based after a […]

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Monkeypox: ‘Mounting evidence’ suggests current strain can be sexually transmitted

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New research suggests the strain of monkeypox involved in the current global outbreak is predominantly sexually transmitted. As of Wednesday (17 August), there have been more than 35,000 confirmed cases of monkeypox across 92 countries and territories since the beginning of the outbreak in April 2022, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Most of these are among men who have sex with men. In the earlier stages of the outbreak, experts insisted there was no evidence that monkeypox was a sexually transmitted virus, and that it was mostly transmitted by skin-to-skin contact, but mounting research is suggesting otherwise. On Sunday (14 […]

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San Francisco officials declare state of emergency as monkeypox cases surge

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San Francisco has declared a state of emergency, with the city in “desperate need of vaccines” as monkeypox cases skyrocket. The US has seen around 4,600 confirmed cases of monkeypox across the country. Of these cases, 261 have been detected in San Francisco, representing around 30 per cent of all cases in California. On Thursday (28 July), San Francisco mayor London Breed said: “We are at a very scary place. And we don’t want to be ignored by the federal government in our need. So many leaders of the LGBT community have also, weeks ago, asked for additional help and support […]

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Man living with HIV died in prison because officials refused him life-saving medication

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HIV-positive 21-year-old Thokozani Shiri died in prison after officials neglected him and failed to provide life-saving medication, an inquest has found. The inquest into Shiri’s death, which took place at Essex Coroners Court, concluded on Wednesday (8 June). During both periods of time, the prison’s healthcare provider, Essex Partnership University Trust (EPUT), was aware that he was HIV-positive. However during his first stretch at the prison, Shiri was not seen at an HIV clinic until six days before his release, and was not provided with any antiretroviral medication, a life-saving treatment which suppresses the virus and makes it untransmittable. During his second stay […]

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Anti-LGBTQ+ hate comes from just tiny minority of UK public: study

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The UK public is most likely to have feelings of respect and admiration towards LGBTQ+ community, according to new research from Stonewall. The research – published by the charity on the first day of Pride Month 2022, which also marks 50 years since the first Pride march in the UK – surveyed 2,000 adults across the UK to measure public sentiment towards LGBTQ+ people. Given a choice of words to describe their feelings toward different sections of the community, the most commonly chosen word was “respect”, followed by “admiration”. The proportion of respondents who chose the word “respect” was around a third […]

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Gaming giant EA tells staff it won’t defend trans rights or abortion rights

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Gaming giant EA has told staff that the company will not publicly defend trans rights or abortion rights at a company-wide meeting. The gaming publication Kotaku reported that it had seen and verified a transcript of the town hall meeting on Tuesday (24 May), which allowed employees to raise issues with senior management. Employees had called on EA, the gaming company behind FIFA and The Sims, to make a public statement on the leaked Supreme Court draft opinionwhich showed that the court is poised to strip constitutional abortion rights from US citizens, and on the wave of anti-trans legislation sweeping America,specifically legislation in […]

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