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1 week ago | wearequeeraf.com | Jamie Wareham

šŸ’” 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: NHS England guidance has instructed GPs to refuse any care that supports under 18s to receive gender affirming care like puberty blockers and hormones.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

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 7,100+ 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.

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 7,100+ 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.