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South Africa’s trans community hit by ‘serious’ shortage of ‘life-saving’ testosterone

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South Africa’s trans and non-binary community is facing a worrying shortage of testosterone, leaving many at serious risk. The shortage is down to manufacturer Pfizer restricting its production of its Depo-Testosterone, a prescription hormone replacement therapy that helps many transmasc people, in favour of producing COVID-19 vaccines. Dr Anastacia Tomson told IOL that the current shortage is “serious” as the “communication from the company anticipates stock to be restored only in or after the second quarter of 2022”. As such, Dr Tomson warned that many trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming patients could be without the “essential and often life-saving” treatment potentially for months. She added that […]

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Navy veteran jailed for almost two years for having consensual sex in nursing home

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A gay elderly man was jailed for years simply for having oral sex. (Stock photograph via Envato Elements) A gay senior with Parkinson’s disease spent 22 months in jail after care home staffers saw him giving oral sex to a fellow resident. At the Southampton Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, Leroy Martin, an 81-year-old Navy veteran, had consensual sex with at least two men during the summer and autumn of 2019. But staffers at the centre saw it differently. They sought to paint Martin as a “sexual predator” by phoning the police on him because he is […]

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UK urged to change ‘outdated and discriminatory’ birth certificate rules for LGBT+ families

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The British government’s policy on birth registration “is outdated and discriminatory” against LGBT+ people and their children, a new petition states. Currently, the children of many queer and trans parents face a lifetime of disadvantage because birth registration policy doesn’t legally recognise their family structure. This means these children have inaccurate birth certificates, putting them at risk of discrimination and harassment for their entire lives. This situation is particularly acute for families where one or more parents are trans or non-binary: as PinkNews reported last month, an archaic UK law from the 1950s insists whoever gives birth to a baby can only […]

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All EU nations must recognize children of same-sex parents

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The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that Bulgaria must issue identity papers to the child of a same-sex couple. The European Union’s (EU) top court has ruled that Bulgaria must issue identity papers to a child of same-sex parents, and that all EU nations must respect such families. The ruling came after authorities in Bulgaria refused to issue a birth certificate for a child, named Sara, who was born in 2019 to a married same-sex couple: Bulgarian born Kalina Ivanova and Gibraltar-born Jane Jones (not their real names). Sara was born in Spain, but she couldn’t be considered […]

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Chilling video shows police officers dropping trans woman on her face in brutal chokehold

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A video has been released of a trans woman, Amber Canter, being held in a brutal chokehold and dropped on her face by officers in a Baltimore corrections facility. Canter has filed a lawsuit against the state of Maryland and several officers involved in the incident, which took place at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center in June 2019, according to CNN. The footage was released by her attorney and shows Canter in a yellow jumpsuit, her body limp, while she is dragged by an officer holding her in a chokehold. She is hauled into the facility’s dayroom, still in a chokehold, before being […]

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Gay man brutally beaten with metal pole and robbed of his walker

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A gay man was brutally beaten with a metal pipe and robbed of his walker while bystanders ignored him in Brooklyn, New York. More than a month since the attack in his hometown of Coney Island, Jawhar Edwards still has a swollen eye after his eye socket was broken when a man and a woman battered him and threatened to kill him. As he ducked out of a birthday honouring his late godmother, Edwards went to pass out food to the homeless on the boardwalk by 19th and 21st Streets on 4 November at around 12:30am. That’s when two people […]

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Tragic 12-year-old boy dies by suicide after relentless anti-gay bullying

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A 12-year-old boy took his own life after being tortured by bullies and told he would go to Hell because he is gay. Eli Fritchley was a seventh-grader from Shelbyville, Tennessee, who adored Spongebob Squarepants and played the trombone. He died by suicide on 28 November, no longer able to bear the “pain and torture” from kids at his school, his parents said. Eli was never afraid to be himself, Debbey and Steve Fritchley told WKRN-TV, and they were in awe at his bravery in the face of bullies at his school, Cascades Muddle School in Bedford County. “He was told because he […]

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Young woman ‘with so much life ahead of her’ shot dead. She’s the 50th trans person killed this year

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Nikai David, a “sweet”, spirited Black trans woman, has been shot dead in the US. She was 33. The model, described by those who knew her as a “happy, fun person”, was killed in the early hours of Saturday (4 December) in Oakland, a port town in California. Local law enforcement responded to a report of shots fired at 4am on Castro Street, West Oakland. David was found suffering from a gunshot wound only to die at the scene, FOX KTVU2 reported. The Oakland Police Department said that there is no evidence of a hate crime. An aspiring social media influencer who hoped to […]

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New Zealand unanimously passes gender self-ID law in historic move for trans rights

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After four years of debate, New Zealand has unanimously passed a self-ID bill for trans people, voting “in favour of inclusivity and against discrimination”. The self-ID bill was introduced in 2018, and was finally passed by New Zealand’s parliament on Thursday (9 December) after its third reading. It will remove the requirement for medical intervention to change legal gender marker in favour of a “statutory declaration”. The changes will come into force in 18 months time, allowing for consultation with the LGBT+ community on how the process should work, how young people can access correct gender markers, and how to be inclusive of non-binary people […]

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Sharp drop in new UK HIV cases due to people having less sex during COVID, data suggests

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(Wallocha/ullstein bild via Getty Images) People changing their patterns of sexual behaviour because of COVID has led to a staggering drop in new HIV diagnoses, according to UK government data. On World AIDS Day 2021 (1 December), the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) released data about HIV testing, new diagnoses and the ability to access HIV services in 2020. This new data revealed that the total number of new HIV diagnoses in England dropped by 33 per cent. According to the data, there were 2,630 new diagnoses in 2020 compared to 3,950 in 2019. Among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex […]

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