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Social media giants failing LGBTQIA+ users

The latest Social Media Safety Index report from American LGBTQIA+ media advocacy organisation GLAAD has found that the six leading social media platforms - TikTok, YouTube, X, and Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and Threads - are all failing dismally when it comes to providing basic protections for the safety of their queer users.

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Why Ali France’s election is a big deal for Australians with disability

Ali France’s election to parliament following her shock defeat of former Liberal leader Peter Dutton at the recent Australian federal election has generated a lot of excitement amongst Australia’s disability community. Much of this excitement comes down to the fact that Ms France’s election means greater representation in parliament for those of us with disability.

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US stops monitoring violent crime against trans people

In its ongoing efforts to erase trans people, the Trump administration has reportedly stopped monitoring violence against trans people by removing questions relating to gender identity from federal surveys on violence in the United States.

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Alarming: US Health Secretary Seeks to Subject Trans Youth to Conversion Therapy

In alarming news from the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Department of Health and Human Services secretary, has dispensed with decades worth of research and evidence from leading medical organisations to pander to the views of fringe far-right groups advocating for transgender youth to be ‘treated’ with conversion therapy.

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Australia’s First Deaf Queer Festival

Melbourne will this weekend play host to Australia’s first Deaf Queer Festival. Described by the organisers as “A weekend packed with accessible celebration, expression and empowerment for our community”, the festival will run from 2 - 4 May at the Victorian Pride Centre.

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Populist party in NZ introduces Gender Bill

Less than a week after the UK Supreme Court declared that the term “woman” refers exclusively to biological sex assigned at birth, the populist New Zealand First party, which forms part of the country’s conservative coalition government, has introduced a bill to parliament to define men and women by their biology

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SA bans conversion therapy

South Australia has become the latest Australian jurisdiction to ban the harmful practice of conversion therapy, but the state’s new laws are among the weakest in the world.

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