On 30 October the Tokyo High Court handed down its decision on a case of three couples who have petitioned the courts to declare the current marriage system unconstitutional and to allow same sex couples to marry and enjoy the privileges that come with it. The court did indeed find Continue Reading
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Revealed: Over 200 Transgender patients have been refused hormone care by GPs
This piece is run in collaboration with QueerAF and was first published in their free weekly newsletter that helps LGBTQIA+ people understand the news This article was first published in the QueerAF newsletter which helps LGBTQIA+ people understand the news every Saturday – try it now TL;DR: New data from Continue Reading
Reported hate crime against trans people collapses
Written By Claire Prosho: https://x.com/CTransTalks?t=acOGp8a4krI7VfEaVF1Zpg&s=09 Over the last 18 months I’ve been gathering data on reported hate crime against transgender people in England & Wales. Every year around September or October, the Home Office releases the data it has collected for the previous year up to March of the current Continue Reading
Trans people are excluded from contributing to a legal case directly affecting them.
On the 8th of October, the Good Law Project put out a statement on their social media stating that the Supreme Court has excluded Victoria McCloud and Stephen Whittle from intervening “in a case trying to strip them of rights they’ve held for 20 years”. They are also adding that Continue Reading
Japan’s Transgender Treatment Guidelines Receive Update
Japan’s Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (JSPN) finalized the 5th edition of their treatment guidelines for gender incongruence (formerly gender identity disorder) on August 21 and released them the following week on the Society’s website as well as on that of the newly renamed Japanese Society of Gender Incongruence (JSGI, Continue Reading