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1 month ago | wearequeeraf.com | Jamie Wareham

čĺí This article is from our (award-winning) free weekly newsletter that helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ news and support queer creatives to change the media. Join 7,300+ curious queer readers every Saturday morning. TL;DR: An appeal court in Trinidad and Tobago has overturned a court ruling that helped multiple countries across the Caribbean overturn colonially rooted laws that made same-sex intamacy illegal. The country will now punish gay sex with prison terms.

1 month ago | wearequeeraf.com | Jamie Wareham

💡 This article is from our (award-winning) free weekly newsletter that helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ news and support queer creatives to change the media. Join 7,300+ curious queer readers every Saturday morning. TL;DR: The UK university regulator has fined the University of Sussex over a policy which was designed to prevent hateful and bullying views being shared toward transgender people on campus, under what's been decried as an "absolutist" approach to free speech.

2 months ago | wearequeeraf.com | Jamie Wareham

💡 This article is from our (award-winning) free weekly newsletter that helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ news and support queer creatives to change the media. Join 7,100+ curious queer readers every Saturday morning. TL;DR: A trans refugee's challenge of Hungary's refusal to recognise his gender identity on legal documents has set a precedent for the whole European Union that could lead to changes all over the continent.

2 months ago | wearequeeraf.com | Jamie Wareham

💡 This article is from our (award-winning) free weekly newsletter that helps you understand the LGBTQIA+ news and support queer creatives to change the media. Join 7,100+ curious queer readers every Saturday morning. TL;DR: £10.7m in funding for the proposed puberty blocker trial for transgender children and teenagers has been announced, along with some limited initial details. However, it is still pending regulatory approval, so its start date is still a way off.

2 months ago | wearequeeraf.com | Jamie Wareham

Data from Jan 20th 2024 - Jan 17th 2025. Data sets can add up to more than 100% as people identify with multiple intersectionalities. This data is based on contributors optionally sharing their intersectionalities in an open box rather than an extensive DEI monitoring tick box exercise so many data points will not be reflected. One in ten of our writers identified as attracted to multiple genders, whether because they were bisexual, pansexual or another M-spec identity.