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US senate passes defence bill that strips trans healthcare from kids of military personnel

The US senate has passed a bill – The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year – that will increase annual military spending to $895 billion (£712.5 billion). However, it also contains a provision that blocks coverage of gender-affirming care for the transgender children of members of the armed services. It is the most recent […]

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Squid Game creator defends controversial decision to cast cis man as a trans woman

Squid Game director and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has defended the controversial decision to cast a cisgender man as a trans woman in season two of the hit Netflix show. Park Sung-hoon plays Hyun-ju, also known as Player 120, in the second season of the survival thriller series, which has left many people wondering, why, in […]

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Womonspace Feature

A Dance-Hall of One’s Own: The Quietly Loud Queerness of Womonspace

Womonspace emerged as a response to the glaring lack of safe spaces where lesbians could socialize and participate in activities without facing judgment at best and outright discrimination at worst. Two women, Jeanne R. and Ann E., were inundated with complaints from the women they counseled at Gay Alliance Toward Equality (GATE) — concerns about the absence of a lesbian social scene — and decided to do something about it.

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Outrage as Saudi Arabia, which carries the death penalty for being gay, awarded FIFA 2034 World Cup

Human rights advocates have responded after Saudi Arabia was awarded as hosting the men’s football World Cup in 2034, despite anti-gay laws in the country. The 211 nations represented during a three-hour FIFA Extraordinary Congress meeting on Wednesday (11 December) voted in favour of the Middle Eastern country’s bid, as well as deciding on the […]

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