UK: Non-binary and gender fluid people protected under the Equality Act after landmark ruling against Jaguar Land Rover
Read: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/17/jaguar-land-rover-employment-tribunal-non-binary-gender-fluid/
Bolivia: civil unions are for everyone! (Sign the Petition)
In October 2018, David and Guido tried to register their relationship as a Free Union (which, according to Bolivian law, has the same effects as civil marriage, or a civil union). But when the time came for the Civic Registration Service to actually register their union… They just refused to do it.
That started a legal battle. In July 2020, they had great news: the Second Constitutional Chamber of La Paz, in the capital of Bolivia, issued a resolution that would allow the formal recognition of David and Guido’s relationship as a registered and certified Free Union!
All was looking very promising until it was time to go to the Civic Registration Service, and they – once more – refused to comply and register the Union.
The Service even requested that the Bolivian Constitutional Court suspend the resolution, so they could continue denying equal rights to David and Guido – and to all same-sex couples!
This decision is now in the hands of the country’s Constitutional Justice.
The Second Constitutional Chamber should order the Civic Registration Service to act in accordance with the resolution.
If they do so and recognize David and Guido’s union, it will create an important precedent for the equality of LGBT+ people in Bolivia!
Sign the petition and tell Bolivia: civil unions are for everyone!
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This is a campaign of the Comunidad de Derechos Humanos Bolivia.
USA: ‘Vital’ suicide prevention bill becomes first LGBT-inclusive law unanimously approved by Congress in history
USA: The Trump administration has been told by a court to pay spousal survivor’s benefit to lesbian widow
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Intersex: Austria now offers six options on birth certificate
“International einzigartig”: Österreich bietet Intersexuellen mehr Geschlechtsoptionen. LGBTI-Aktivst*innen bemängeln jedoch, dass weiterhin Zwangsgutachten gefordert werden
Read: https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=37039&pk_campaign=Nwsl
Argentina establishes 1% quota for trans workers in civil service jobs
Swiss Federal Supreme Court: Judgment of 25 August 2020 (4A_248/2019, 4A_398/2019) DSD Regulations: Caster Semenya’s appeal against the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed
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Philippines president pardons US Marine convicted of killing transgender woman
A US Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines was released from prison Monday after President Rodrigo Duterte granted him an absolute pardon. Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. announced the decision on Twitter, stating that the president was “cutting matters short” by releasing Lance Corporal Joseph Pemberton.
The pardon, which comes five years after Pemberton’s conviction and days after a blocked attempt at early release, was criticized as a “shameless mockery of justice” by one local human rights group. Some Filipino citizens have interpreted Duterte’s decision as a foreign policy move meant to serve US interests.
Pemberton was stationed in the Philippines for joint military exercises when he met Jennifer Laude in a nightclub in the city of Olongapo. Television footage later showed them entering a hotel room together. Pemberton later admitted to choking and drowning Ms. Laude in the hotel room after discovering that she was transgender.
Although human rights and LGBTQ+ advocates have voiced their displeasure with the pardon, this discretionary act by the president cannot be appealed or reversed.
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USA: Federal prosecutor fired after spouting foul transphobia and homophobia – and warning Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez he’s ‘armed and ready’
International and Comparative SOGIESC Law - Professor Andreas R Ziegler 