UK: Exclusive-NHS drafts stricter oversight of trans youth care

October 14, 2022 – 09:19

By Jennifer Rigby

LONDON (Reuters) – England’s National Health Service has drafted new guidelines for treating transgender youth that would call for local authorities to be alerted in some cases where young people have obtained puberty blockers and hormone therapies on the private market, according to a copy of the guidelines reviewed by Reuters.

Read:https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/exclusive-nhs-drafts-stricter-oversight-of-trans-youth-care/47978630

Switzerland: Finance minister takes parting shot at ‘woke’ culture Retiring Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer has tried to explain a controversial comment on gender-neutral people – in which he said he doesn’t want to be replaced by an “it” – by saying it was a deliberate provocation. Maurer, 71, from the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, […]

Switzerland: Finance minister takes parting shot at ‘woke’ culture — LGBTI Recht in der Schweiz – Droit LGBTI en Suisse – by Professor Andreas R Ziegler

Slovakia votes against more rights for LGBT couples

The Slovakian Parliament has decided to keep registration of relationships exclusively for one man and one woman only. On Wednesday, it voted against a proposal that would grant same-sex couples inheritance rights and the right to access medical records, the so-called cohabitation partnership.

More: https://cne.news/artikel/1877-slovakia-votes-against-more-rights-for-lgbt-couples

Singapore seeks to amend constitution to protect its definition of marriage

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s government filed bills in parliament on Thursday seeking to decriminalise sex between men, and to amend the constitution to prevent court challenges to laws and policies concerning marriage.

More: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/singapore-seeks-to-amend-constitution-to-protect-its-definition-of-marriage/47993696

MEPs call on EU governments to combat LGBTIQ+ hatred and crimes

In response to a homophobic murder in Bratislava, Parliament asked on Thursday all EU governments to fight hate speech, and investigate and prosecute hate crimes.

More: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20221017IPR43903/meps-call-on-eu-governments-to-combat-lgbtiq-hatred-and-crimes

Further information 

• Adopted text (20.10.2022) 
• Video recording of the plenary debate (18.10.2022) 
• Parliament declares the European Union an ‘‘LGBTIQ Freedom Zone’’(11.03.2021) 
• EP Think Tank: The rights of LGBTI people in the European Union (16.05.2022)

Italy adopts new LGBT strategy just before right-wing takeover

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s outgoing government has adopted a new plan for LGBT rights just before handing over the reins to a right-wing administration that promises to be far more socially conservative.

“We weren’t very ideological, we were very concrete,” Equal Opportunities Minister Elena Bonetti told Reuters on Friday, saying the contents of the document were not controversial.

More: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/italy-adopts-new-lgbt-strategy-just-before-right-wing-takeover/47962066

The Queering International Law 2.0 Workshop will take place November 10-11, 2022, in Melbourne and online.

Those who wish to participate must email anzsil.gsil@gmail.com by October 17, specifying their preferred mode of attendance. The program is here.

UK: Justice secretary announces new restrictions for transgender inmates in women’s prisons

Interesting Article: Shamayeta Bhattacharya, Debarchana Ghosh, & Bandana Purkayastha, ‘Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act’ of India: An Analysis of Substantive Access to Rights of a Transgender Community

in the latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Vol. 14, no. 2, July 2022).

Interesting Publication: Felicity Daly, Phil R Crehan, & Micah Grzywnowicz, The LGBTI Inclusion Index: An Innovative Tool to Incentivize Human Rights and Development Data

in the latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Vol. 14, no. 2, July 2022)