by Beth Huffington | Apr 9, 2021 | Education, Gender, Transgender
In 2016, Shawnee State University in Ohio instituted a school policy requiring that students be addressed by the pronouns that match their gender identity, after an Obama-era directive that schools do everything in their power to make gender-non-conforming students...
by Beth Huffington | Apr 2, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gender, Human Rights, Politics, Power LGBT, Transgender
In July 2017, former President Trump casually ordered a ban on allowing transgender troops to transition while serving in the American armed forces via his Twitter account. A panel in the Defense Department drew up official regulations, and the ban fought through the...
by Beth Huffington | Mar 26, 2021 | Civil Rights, Equality, Gay and Lesbian, Homophobia, Human Rights, Science
On June 23, 2021, the Bank of England will celebrate the 109th birthday of Alan Turing, the English mathematician, by putting his face on the new £50 note. Turing’s codebreaking skills were instrumental to the victory of WWII and to the early days of compute...
by Beth Huffington | Mar 18, 2021 | International, LGBTQIA+, News
For years, a line in Japanese law meant to ensure that marriage is consensual and free from coercion has been interpreted to keep same-sex marriage illegal. Under Japanese law, marriage must be based on “the mutual consent of both sexes.” Under this stance, Japan is...
by admin | Mar 11, 2021 | Featured, International, LGBTQIA+, Politics
On Wednesday, March 10, members of the European Parliament sat to debate a motion that would see all of the European Union officially declared a “freedom zone” for LGBT people. The EU already protects LGBT rights with regards to discrimination in employment and...
by admin | Mar 5, 2021 | Articles, Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Politics
On Thursday, February 25, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Equality Act for the second time. The House first passed the Equality Act in 2020, but it predictably died in the Oval Office under President Trump and never moved to the Senate. This time, it...
by admin | Feb 24, 2021 | Featured, Health
New Zealand is unquestionably a first-world country, similar in income and GDP to the United States. Despite this, education officials estimate that one in twelve students miss school occasionally due to lack of access to period products. “I would see so many young...
by admin | Feb 18, 2021 | Entertainment, Featured, International, LGBTQIA+, News
On February 5 2021, German entertainment magazine Süddeutsche Zeitung published a letter signed by 185 German actors. With their signatures, each came out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, non-binary, or queer, an incredible thing in a relatively conservative sector...
by admin | Feb 17, 2021 | Articles, Education, Equality, Featured, Transgender
Georgia is one of more than twenty states where gender identity is not a protected class, leaving trans men and women vulnerable in their employment, their housing, and their schools. Three cities in the state have employment protections for trans people, five...
by admin | Feb 5, 2021 | Featured, News, Power LGBT
In 2004, Janie Gullickson was in prison for drug use. She had lost the custody of her five children, lost her job, and lost her freedom to addiction. For her, prison led to a connection that dug her out of that pit. But for most, exactly the opposite happens. Today,...
