UCLA: Accepting Applications for the 2022 Gleason/Kettel Summer Law Fellowship

World Bank Event IDAHOTB 2022 – Inclusive Laws and Policies – May 18, 2022 – 8:30 AM EDT (local time), online

More: https://live.worldbank.org/events/idahotb2022

Trans Ukrainians being forced back into closet as cruel despot Putin’s bloodthirsty war rages on

Read: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/06/gay-alliance-ukraine-russia-war-trans/

USA: Alabama law criminalizing gender affirming care for minors takes effect

The Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCCPA) Sunday went into effect in Alabama while US District Judge Liles Burke considers legal challenges from doctors and families with transgender children.

Plaintiffs sought an injunction against the VCCPA in April 2022, alleging that the law violates their 14th Amendment Rights and strips them of the right to make important decisions about their children’s healthcare. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) intervened in the lawsuit later that month. The DOJ also alleged 14th Amendment violations. The plaintiffs motioned for a temporary restraining order and injunction on April 21. Medical associations submitted statements of support and a brief in support of the plaintiffs’ motion. After a two-day hearing, Judge Burke will decide whether or not to grant the plaintiff’s motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction.

The VCCPA, signed into law by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on April 8, 2022, prohibits persons from “engag[ing] in or caus[ing]” the prescription or administration of puberty-blocking medication, testosterone or estrogen hormones, surgeries that sterilize, sex reassignment surgeries to genitalia and chest reconstruction surgery if such “practice is performed for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor’s sex as defined in this act.” Conviction under the Act is a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $15,000.00.

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Greece bans LGBTQ conversion therapy

Read: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/greece-bans-lgbtq-conversion-therapy/47586122

Call for Papers: Queering International Law 2.0

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on “Queering International Law 2.0,” organized by the ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group and supported by Deakin Law School, the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School, and La Trobe Law School. The call is here.

UK: ‘Disturbing’ anti-LGBT+ views can be protected under law, judge rules

Read: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/29/pastor-pride-christian-cambridgeshire-tribunal/

USA: State lawmakers pledge to create refuge bills for transgender youth

Democratic lawmakers from 16 US states pledged Tuesday to introduce legislation providing legal refuge to transgender youth and their families affected by restrictive state laws which limit the ability of transgender youth to receive gender-affirming healthcare.

The pledge was led by California state Senator Scott Wiener and was announced by LGBTQ Victory Institute, a non-profit dedicated to legal advancements for the queer community.

In a joint statement from the involved legislators, Senator Wiener said:

Today, we’re proud to announce that over a third of the states in our country are pushing back on the horrendous anti-trans legislation we’re seeing in Texas and elsewhere… We are building a coordinated national legislative campaign by LGBTQ lawmakers to provide refuge for trans kids and their families. We’re making it crystal clear: we will not let trans kids be belittled, used as political pawns and denied gender-affirming care.

In 2021 Senator Wiener sponsored SB 107, a California state senate bill which aims to shield trans children and their families from penalties when seeking gender-affirming care. After SB 107 was introduced, similar bills were drafted in New York and Minnesota. Now 16 states from all regions of the US have pledged to introduce trans refuge legislation.

Mayor Annise Parker, President of the LGBT Victory Institute, spoke in firm support of the growing coalition of states, proclaiming:

When trans kids’ lives are on the line, playing defense doesn’t cut it. It’s time to play offense. We are using the collective power of LGBTQ state legislators all across the nation to launch a counter-offensive that aims to protect trans kids and parents while also demonstrating that there is a positive agenda for trans people that lawmakers can support.

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Romania rights groups urge MPs to reject LGBT ‘propaganda’ legislation

Romanian Human Rights group Friday criticized Romania’s so-called LGBT+ “propaganda” bill and called on lawmakers to stop it in its tracks. The bill, which has been approved by the Senate and is to now be decRomania rights groups urge MPs to reject LGBT ‘propaganda’ legislationided by Romania’s lower house, prohibits the use of materials in schools that “promote” being LGBT+.

The bill has been introduced as a measure to prevent “child abuse” by the junior ruling coalition ethnic Hungarian party (UDMR) and the nationalist Alliance for Uniting Romanians (AUR), both of which have advocated for traditional family values. The proposed legislation is analogous to legislation already in effect in Russia and Hungary. Proponents have contended that “in the societies of Western Europe, we are witnessing today an assault on new ideologies, such as gender theory, which endanger traditional values, based on Christianity, and the very core of society, the Christian family.”

LGBTQ Rights group ACCEPT condemned the bill:

Budapest’s education system must not be enforced in Bucharest. Romania must avoid the illiberal drift promoted by Hungary through such measures which were received harshly by the European Union. Adopting explicitly homophobic and transphobic legislation by censoring information about sexual orientation and gender identity is a shame on Romania. The lower house must vote to stop this incitement to discrimination.

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New Book: Hyun Jung Lee, Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation – Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Korea

Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Kore

More: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-95423-9