Last week I made the decision to resign from the NHS LGBT Soundingboard. At this point some of you are probably going, ‘Huh, what’s that then?’, so some background is probably in order first. The Soundingboard started about three years ago as an initiative between NHS England and LGBT Foundation, Continue Reading
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Osaka High Court Overturns Lower Court Ruling, Finds Lack of Marriage Equality Unconstitutional [Updated]
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(Photo: Osaka High Court, by Topgun1997 via Wikimedia Commons) On 25 March, the Osaka High Court found that the country’s lack of marriage equality was unconstitutional. This makes the fifth high court finding Japanese law to be out of step with the country’s constitution in regards to marriage equality. Significantly, Continue Reading
Trans Woman’s Petition to Change Legal Sex Without Divorce Rejected by Kyoto Court
(Photo by Mikhail Pavstyuk at Unsplash) On 19 March, the Kyoto Family Court rejected a petition brought by a married trans woman to change legal sex. The petition stemmed from the fact that Japan’s legal transition law requires a person to be unmarried. The petitioner has already expressed her intention Continue Reading
Liberal Voices for Women member harasses LGBT members at 2024 conference.
On the 19th March the Liberal Democrats LGBT Committee released a statement that said members of their group were harassed at the Liberal Democrat Autumn conference in 2024 by the anti trans activist group Liberal Voices for Women. Explaining that a LVW member had harassed a member of the “LGBT+ Continue Reading
Fourth Japanese High Court Finds No Marriage Equality Unconstitutional
PHOTO: Nagoya High Court building, by Evelyn-Rose, via Wikimedia Commons. So many courts in Japan have found the country not allowing same sex couples to marry unconstitutional that we are having trouble thinking of new, catchy titles for articles. Hopefully, parliament will listen and we won’t have to! (See our Continue Reading