Guidance which could determine transgender people’s right to access the correct single-sex facilities is reportedly being modified to lessen the impact against businesses, the UK’s equality watchdog has said. Government sources have said lawyers are working with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to change elements of the code of practice on single-sex service […]
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Lindsay Church never saw themself as a politician, but – amid their identity being bureaucratically erased, masked ICE agents stalking their neighbourhood and the incumbent Democrat representative locking out all other party members from running this November – stranger things have happened. A veteran, non-profit leader, parent and non-binary person, Church and their wife – […]
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Comedian Megan Stalter has joined other celebrities in claiming TikTok is censoring anti-ICE videos. The actress, who is best known for her role as Kayla in the HBO Max comedy series Hacks, spoke out about abolishing ICE and deleting TikTok after the fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Both were were […]
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Charities don’t need to abandon trans-inclusive policies despite calls to do so, the Charity Commission has confirmed. The UK’s regulator of charitable organisations said that organisations should not rush to scrap or modify their trans-inclusive policies in response to the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on the 2010 Equality Act’s definition of a woman. In April, […]
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A human rights organisation in Uganda that supports members of the LGBTQ+ community was ordered to shut down by the government just days before the country’s election. Chapter Four Uganda, which is dedicated to the protection of civil liberties and promotion of human rights – including LGBTQ+ rights – in the East African nation, had […]
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