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IBAC is appealing to anyone who may have information in relation to allegations a photograph taken of former AFL coach Dani Laidley at Geelong Racecourse was shared by Victoria Police officers via text message alongside transphobic comments.

Pauline Hanson has begun to gather her troops in the lead up to next year’s Federal Election.

Newly released emails have highlighted the distress caused to LGBTQI Australian Defence Force employees following Defence Minister Peter Dutton’s ban on events with “particular clothes in celebration” earlier this year.

The Bondi Memorial – a public artwork dedicated to the victims and survivors of homophobic and transphobic attacks that gripped Sydney from the 1970s to 1990s, was unveiled at Marks Park in Tamarama. “For decades, our communities have endured the pain and trauma of these horrific acts of violence. We know that many gay men and trans women were killed, tortured or assaulted across Sydney, including along the city’s coastline and eastern suburbs.

Hobart City Council has received criticism from a number of trans rights advocates after it was revealed that Women Speak Tasmania, a group that likens the transgender community to a “cult” and a “social contagion”, have booked Hobart Town Hall for an upcoming public forum on November 27.The concerns were first raised by Hobart Councillor Jax Fox, who told Star Observer that when the event was first booked for back in August, they adamantly tried shut it down but were told there, “wasn’t the

Warning: This story has details of violence against a trans person and might be distressing to some readers. Twenty-seven-year-old David Bogdanov had contacted Kuhnhausen though Snapchat and the pair had arranged to meet up for a “sexual encounter”.

NSW Parliament’s Education Committee which inquired into Pauline Hanson’s One Nation MLC Mark Latham’s anti-trans education bill, has made a series of recommendations that LGBTQI+ rights advocates have said are a “direct attack on the safety of trans and gender diverse young people in schools.”   Activists have said that the report on the Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020, proposed by Latham, include recommendations that if enacted would erase the rights of trans

The students of Valor Christian High School in Colorado walked out of their classes earlier this week after volleyball coach Inoke Tonga was forced to quit for being gay.During their afternoon classes on Tuesday August 24, around 50 students, parents and alumni gathered outside the school and called out the management for firing TongaThe walkout was organised by Valor Christain Junior Lucy Sarkissian who said in an interview with Arvarda Press that the school does not have a great history of

As reported last month by Star Observer, Senator Chandler has long been a staunch opponent to trans inclusion in sport.

as reported by The Sydney Morning Herald, the centre is also currently representing a woman accused of vilifying trans people.Lord Mayor Clover Moore told told Star Observer that the City Of Sydney stands with the trans community and against all forms of exclusion and that  “all women, including trans women, deserve to be respected, included and safe in the City of Sydney.”Clover Moore at the Mardi Gras flag-raising.

Courtney Act recently steered her career to a new direction as the host of ABS’s One Plus One. Act also featured on ABC’s Little Kids, Big Talk.

Two transgender women and a gay man were murdered in Guatemala in three separate attacks. All of which occurred within one week during Pride month.Andrea González, a 28-year-old activist and leader of the organisation Otrans Reinas de la Noche (Queens of the Night) was shot only metres from her home in Guatemala city on June 11.

on track to be bought before the Australian Parliament by the end of 2021, would, among the many other detrimental effects on LGBTQI+ and other minority communities, allow doctors to refuse to perform abortions or to provide any healthcare for LGBTIQI+ people or families and give legal protection to institutions or individuals who object to same-sex marriages.Many still believe that the bill was only put forward to appease the conservative right, following Australia voting yes to marriage

violate the Lateran Treaty, signed by the Vatican City and Italy in 1929, which recognised Vatican City as an independent state.

Laurel Hubbard in its women’s weightlifting team for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Forty-three year old Hubbard will be the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Games, following modification of qualifying rules.

bizarre scenes, Hanson appeared to forget her own birthday as she argued for an amendment to superannuation legislation.The bills passed by the Senate aimed to prevent underperforming funds from recruiting new members, and to prevent the creation of duplicate accounts.

The Scott Morrison government is on track to bring back its controversial Religious Discrimination Bill before the Parliament by December 2021. Attorney General Michaelia Cash, who voted this week to delay medical treatment for trans children, has indicated that a fresh draft of the Bill will be placed before the Parliament by the end of the year.

In Robert’s motion, it was noted that “broad scale genuine inclusion cannot be achieved through distortions of biological and relational descriptors”  and that “an individual’s right to choose their descriptors and pronouns for personal use must not dehumanise the human race and undermine gender”.Roberts in March concluded his speech to the Senate by asking “Breast milk or chest milk? Father or non-birthing parent? Mother or gestational parent? My motion has the effect of about preventing this

“It was the end of a long week in Canberra. I’d backed into a car that morning, got a speeding ticket on the way to work, and my flight home was delayed,” Lambie told Fairfax.“It was a bad day for me.

reported on an interaction involving Senior Constable Mark Follington of New South Wales Police, and transgender woman Anya Bradford, which saw the woman pepper sprayed and left with a black eye and cuts to her wrist, after being unable to provide photo ID while at the Railway Hotel in Liverpool in May 2019.“The larger officer picked me up by the handcuffs, like I was on a leash, like I was a dog, then he dragged me out… laughing,” Bradford said. “My head hit the corner of the room and then he

In May 2020, vandals sprayed Nazi swastikas and homophobic graffiti on to the green at the Cranbourne Golf Club in Melbourne. If the recommendations made by the cross-Parliamentary committee that inquired into the effectiveness of Victoria’s anti-vilification laws are implemented, such vandalism could  invite tough penalties. The Legal and Social Issues Committee tabled its inquiry report in the Victorian Parliament on Wednesday.

17-minute-long speech, including his attempt to mock safety protocols related to masking amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Cruz focused his remarks around COVID-19 on the shutdowns imposed by larger states like California and New York, expressing skepticism about actions taken to shut down public parks or limit the numbers of people allowed to attend religious services at churches and synagogues.“We see Bill de Blasio in New York sending people in to shut down parks, and to throw young Orthodox Jewish

The New South Wales Parliament has permitted One Nations leader Mark Latham to lead an inquiry into his controversial Bill that seeks to ban schools from teaching about gender and sexuality. The Parliament committee headed by Mark Latham is inviting submissions through an online questionnaire and LGBTQI advocacy organisations are asking the community to register their protest against the Bill. The Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020 says its aim is to give parents, not

Reports that controversial former tennis player Margaret Court will be honoured with Australia’s highest honour – the Companion of the Order of Australia, has invited a fierce backlash from the LGBTQI community and allies. Since her retirement from tennis , Court, has been a minister with the Pentecostal Church. Court preaches at Perth’s Margaret Court Ministries, that she founded, and now uses the title ‘Reverend’.

The incoming US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration is by any measure a historic one when it comes to diversity. Now, in another momentous decision, Biden on Tuesday nominated Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine as his pick for Assistant Health Secretary. Dr Levine – paediatrician and former Pennsylvania physician general – will become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate and the highest ranked transgender official in the country. Dr.

Transgender athlete Hannah Mouncey has said that she is planning to initiate legal action against the Australian Football League (AFL) over its new Gender Diversity Policy for elite footballers. Mouncey slammed the policy that was introduced in October 2020 to allow participation of trans and gender diverse athletes in elite football competitions as “discriminatory”.

Metro.Police initially described the victim as a woman. But later, family members, friends, and local LGBTQ activists, including the group Puerto Rico Para Tod@s identified the victim as Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín, a transgender man.“One of the most serious problems we have with the Police and the Department of Justice is that they do not identify LGBTTIQ+ people in their incident reports,” Pedro Julio Serrano, a spokesperson for Puerto Rico Para Tod@s, said in a statement.

Following their recent failed attempt to ban police from marching in the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade, the people behind Pride In Protest have scheduled a controversial march down Oxford Street on the same day as the annual Mardi Gras Parade. Scheduled for March 6, 2021, the Mardi Gras parade was forced to relocate from its traditional route along Oxford Street because of COVID-19 regulations.

See also: NBJC’s David Johns on race, justice, and the importance of replacing Trump“In the work of advancing equity and justice, our communities are too-often overlooked, even as they spearhead the most revolutionary efforts, shape culture, and innovate around making a way out of no way,” Darling-Hammond said in a statement.

As controversy around the embattled author continues to grow, Warner Bros Games has become the latest company to distance themselves from J.K. Rowling. The move comes ahead of the preeminent release of Hogwarts Legacy, an open-world adventure game coming soon for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One and Xbox Series X.“J.K.

Homophobia and transphobia continue to ail Australia’s sports clubs, and a new study reveals that nearly half of the players, coaches and staff in these clubs believe to varying degrees that homosexuality is wrong or unnatural. Conducted by the Faculty of Education, Monash University and VicHealth the study looked into how the hosting of the Pride Cup has impacted attitudes towards LGBTQI communities.Around half of the clubs who were part of the survey said they strongly disagreed that

targeted by transphobic memes on Facebook, including one that called her a “guy who wears a bra.” Last week, a Tioga County restaurant, Crossroads Tavern, made headlines for printing a menu that offered an item called “Levine Balls,” with the description reading: “Two spicy cheese balls named after Health Secretary Levine since he/she does not realize he has a set and would not miss them,” reports Central Pennsylvania CBS affiliate WETM.Also last week, organizers of the Bloomsburg Fair were

York Dispatch.A copy of the meme shared on the Hellam Recreation Facebook page – Photo: Glenn Wascovich.Nonetheless, Hallam Borough Mayor Glenn Wascovich, who is openly gay, shared a screenshot of the post, condemning the message and calling for consequences for whoever shared it to social media.“Hate has NO home in Hallam,” Wascovich wrote.

A 14-year-old in South Australia has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for her trans mother to have gender affirmation surgery.Leah Ewart, started the campaign on July 11 to fund her mother, Saoirse Ewart’s surgery. Saoirse was born intersex and raised as a boy by her Irish family.

J.K. Rowling managed to spring an entire world of witchcraft and wizardry from her mind, but apparently can't be bothered to read some history on one of the biggest controversies in the overlapping queer rights and feminist movements.

2 min read JK Rowling is once again facing criticism after the Harry Potter Author liked anti-transgender tweets that targeted a trans woman facing online bullying.