Category: Justice

The UK’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission has issued bizarre interim guidance on the implementation of the UK Supreme Court ruling. Here’s what you can do to help. TW: transphobia, transphobic terms used when quoting official documents.  On 15 April, in a devastating blow to trans rights, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex alone.  We are already seeing the negative effects come into play: last night, the EHRC (the Equalities and Human Rights Commission) issued disappointing interim guidance on…

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The US President’s first actions have waged a war on queer rights. But the community is fighting back. When President Trump assumed office on 20 January, 2025, he began signing a stack of executive orders taking aim at LGBTQIA+ rights, DEI and migrants.  In order to learn more, we’ve compiled a running list of the executive orders targeting LGBTQIA+ rights, as well as a list of the lawsuits challenging these directives. [Editor’s note: This is a developing story and this article will be updated as and when further developments arise]…

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Yesterday (5 February), US President Trump signed yet another executive order targeting the trans community. After taking aim at trans women’s access to single-sex spaces and undermining youth access to gender-affirming care, Trump is also homing in on trans women and girls in sport. The executive order, named ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’, takes immediate effect and concerns school, university and grassroots sports.  The order announces an intention to effectively ban all trans women and girls from female locker rooms and female sports. It also announces a desire that…

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Idaho House lawmakers are calling on the US Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 2015 decision to legalise same-sex marriage across all states. Will they succeed? Since Trump’s reelection in November  –  which saw a 700% increase in LGBTQIA+ youth crisis calls – anti-LGBTQIA+ voices in government and everyday life have been emboldened.  In the days since assuming office, Trump has signed a number of executive orders taking aim at DEI, as well as targeting the trans community: banning them from the military, removing ‘X’ gender markers and barring their…

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Today (28 January) Donald Trump signed an executive order titled ‘Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation’. The order bans so-called ‘chemical and surgical mutilation’ for under-19s: a term which is used throughout the document to describe gender-affirming care by way of hormone therapy (such as puberty blockers and ‘cross-sex hormones’) and surgeries (such as top surgery or bottom surgery).  Specifically, it states: “it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex…

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The human cost of Trump’s culture wars are impossible to ignore as vital protections are stripped away from trans people. TW: This article contains mentions of transphobia, transphobic violence and sexual assault. One of the cruelest tricks in the transphobic toolkit? Framing trans people as some invincible, mythical threat to cis safety.  Trans folks aren’t a danger to cis society, it’s very much the other way around. Research suggests that between 50 and 66 per cent of trans people experience some for of sexual abuse or sexual assault in their…

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For the GAY TIMES’ justice column, “Let’s Create Some Good In The World”: how to turn your election disappointment into action. WORDS ELIEL CRUZ The devastating results of the US presidential election, which will bring back the right wing extremist politics of Donald Trump, show us what is true: while voting is important, community organising will be life-saving. Every four years, many people zero in on the presidential election almost as if it is the pinnacle of political engagement. Voting can seem so important because, for many, it’s the bulk…

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