Sian Thompson

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Oklahoma Supreme Court rules against birth certificate sex marker changes, even for clerical errors

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that it was never legal under state law to change the sex marker on a birth certificate, a reading that also blocks corrections for clerical errors. In a 6–3 decision in Fowler et al v Stitt, the court said Oklahoma’s statutes and administrative rules do not allow the state to update sex or gender markers on birth certificates. The decision is set out in the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling (OSCN document). The case was brought by three trans Oklahomans, Rowan Fowler, Allister Hall and Carter Ray, against Republican governor Kevin Stitt and state health officials […]

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Texas school cancels ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ production after girl cast as Seymour

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A Texas school district has cancelled a planned production of Little Shop of Horrors after a girl was cast as Seymour, the show’s traditionally male lead, citing Texas Senate Bill 12. Grand Prairie Independent School District (GPISD), in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, confirmed it had pulled South Grand Prairie High School’s musical after senior Ana Mota was selected to play Seymour, a florist who discovers a bloodthirsty plant while pursuing a romantic relationship with his colleague Audrey. According to theatre writer Howard Sherman, who reported on the controversy through his publication Downstage Center, Mota was told approximately a week into rehearsals that she would […]

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Same-sex parent named on birth certificate not automatically a legal parent, judge rules

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A family court judge has ruled that a woman who was named as a parent on a child’s birth certificate did not automatically acquire legal parental responsibility, meaning she cannot currently apply for a child arrangements order without first getting the court’s permission. The case, Re X (female partner non-acquisition of parental responsibility), involved a former same-sex couple and their child, X. AR began a relationship with BM while BM was pregnant, and when X was born, the two women registered the birth with AR listed as a parent alongside BM. X’s genetic father, LY, has had no involvement in […]

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Renee Good’s family sues Trump officials and US government over fatal ICE shooting

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The family of Renee Good, the US citizen who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis in January, has filed two federal lawsuits against the US government, the agent involved and several current and former Trump administration officials. Both the wrongful death and civil-rights conspiracy lawsuits were filed on Thursday (1 October) by Good’s partner, Becca Good, and her brother Brent Ganger.  At a news conference announcing the cases, Becca Good spoke publicly for the first time since the shooting, describing the loss of her partner and the impact on their children. “Every morning, […]

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LGBTQ+ book shop ‘blown away’ by support after ‘transphobic attack’

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An LGBTQIA+ bookshop in Glasgow has been left “completely blown away” by an outpouring of love and support from its community after one of the shop’s windows was smashed in what the owners have described as a “transphobic attack”. Queer News. Straight Up. The LGBTQ+ stories you don’t want to miss, delivered to your inbox daily. Category Is Books in Govanhill was vandalised on 5 September, with a section of the shop window where the word “TRANS” was painted being smashed. In a 9 September GoFundMe post, the owners said the location of the damage made the attacker’s alleged transphobic […]

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63 detained after gay bars and LGBTQ+ groups raided in Turkey

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Turkish authorities have detained at least 63 people in a nationwide crackdown targeting LGBTQ+ organisations, activists and businesses across some of the country’s biggest cities. Police raided gay bars, organisation offices and activists’ homes in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Mersin on Sunday (13 September). Current and former members of LGBTQ+ rights and HIV awareness groups were among those targeted.  Several organisations had their websites blocked in the days leading up to the raids, Al Jazeera reports. Turkey’s Justice Minister Akin Gürlek said in a social media post on Sunday that prosecutors were investigating 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses as part […]

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Two men charged with brutal assault of trans woman face up to 20 years in prison

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Two men are facing multiple felony charges after allegedly attacking a trans woman at a University of Wisconsin – Madison campus pier in what prosecutors describe as a violent attempted sexual assault. Yorfred Gutierrez, 31, and Arturo Santos Albujas, 27, were arrested at the scene and are each charged with attempted second-degree sexual assault and battery, as well as strangulation, suffocation and false imprisonment as a party to a crime. According to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court on Tuesday (1 September), the woman met the men on Madison’s State Street in the early hours of Saturday morning (29 […]

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San Diego repeals bathhouse ordinance passed during HIV/AIDS crisis

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San Diego has officially removed a decades-old ordinance that targeted LGBTQ+ people from its books. The San Diego City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday (1 September) to repeal a bathhouse ordinance originally passed in 1988 and amended in 1991, during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The law explicitly sought to regulate bathhouses in an effort to prevent gay and bisexual men from having sex and transmitting HIV, as reported by KPBS. The ordinance had effectively been sitting unused for years. Council President Joe LaCava’s office brought the repeal forward after a staffer stumbled across it while searching the city’s municipal code. LaCava said the law […]

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Nepal LGBTQ+ group marks Pride with vigil for flood victims

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Nepal’s Blue Diamond Society (BDS) chose to pause its usual Pride and Gai Jatra celebration this year, instead marking the occasion with a candlelight ceremony in solidarity with a nation facing devastating floods. In an Instagram post on 30 August, BDS said it wanted to “remember, mourn, support and care together” rather than hold its usual celebration. The organisation gathered to remember members of Nepal’s gender and sexual minority communities who had died over the past year, while also mourning those killed in the recent floods, including Nepali citizens and foreign tourists. The candlelight ceremony honoured those who lost their lives, while […]

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Trump administration report links trans support to political violence

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The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has released a new report claiming that support for transgender rights is associated with “left-wing authoritarianism” and a greater willingness to justify political violence. Critics have dismissed the 20-page report released on 27 August as “junk science” and accused the administration of using taxpayer money to manufacture a justification for targeting trans people and their allies. The Human Rights Campaign released a statement the same day as the report, writing: “The entities that conducted the supposed ‘research,’ the Manhattan Institute and the Network Contagion Research Institute, are both known conservative-leaning think tanks with track records of producing reports that […]

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