News Archives: 01/2025

From Trump’s anti-trans policies to Thailand’s historic same-sex marriage law, explore the week’s highs and lows in global trans rights.

Two talks under the LGBTQ tag on Oxford Literary Festival have attracted widespread condemnation due to being held by anti-trans campaigners Julie Bindel and Helen Joyce, with Joyce being a straight cisgender woman and in no way LGBTQ. Previous years for Oxford Literary Festival have included a talk by Sharron Davies spreading anti-trans propaganda about the unfairness of leaving trans athletes alone and not being weird about them.

UK Press outlets are choosing to focus on attempting to manufacture a “queer panic defense” in which the actions of the attackers are excused due to the victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation. While also actively ommitting details which harm that; such as the fact that this attacker was recording sex without consent or that the attack happened over a week after the sex act took place.

Meta’s overhaul of its “Hateful Conduct” and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies has drawn sharp condemnation after the company explicitly allowed users to label LGBTQ+ people as “mentally ill.”

Sarah Morrison, a Gender Critical activist, has offered refunds to donors of her legal crowdfunder after admitting that the campaign misrepresented key details about her case.

A recent House of Lords debate on NHS single-sex spaces, prompted by the anti-trans Baroness Fox of Buckley, focused on the alleged need for guidance regarding single-sex provisions for NHS staff and patients, raising further questions about the treatment of transgender people in such contexts.