A Legal Precedence in keeping Deadnames Buried.

A law firm has been ordered to compensate a transgender client after it referred to her by her birth name setting a national precedent on the rampant misuse of deadnaming. Deadnaming is the act of referring to a transgender person’s birth name instead of their chosen name. The law firm is understood to have misnamed […]

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Eureka, CA hospital being sued by Transgender Man turned away minutes before major surgery

Oliver Knight was thoroughly prepared to undergo a hysterectomy, having consulted with his surgeon before scheduling the surgery for late August 2017. According to The Los Angeles Time He completed pre-operative procedures and upon arrival at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka was asked to put on a pink hospital gown and booties. Now, his doctor […]

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Israeli Stressors: Liberty amid tension between democracy and theocracy

It isn’t a perfect democracy. It isn’t a perfect theocracy either. Which form of rule appears more perfect probably has more to do with one’s own religious orientation than fact. But the modern State of Israel continues to be a land of struggle, not only between Jew and Arab, but also the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox partisans) […]

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Prospective Terror in the Tropics: a new Brazilian LGBTI holocaust?

It seemed like a brief reprieve.  Many who have been following the current election cycle in Brazil watched with deep apprehension.  Jair Bolsonaro of the “Social Liberal Pary” (PSL) led the October 7, 2018 presidential election by almost 16 percentage points.  But achieving only 46% of the vote, he fell just short of the 50% […]

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