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Barbados' top court repeals laws that criminalize gay sex
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By DÁNICA COTO 2 hours ago
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A top court in Barbados has struck down colonial-era laws that criminalize gay sex, becoming the third nation in the conservative Caribbean region to do so this year.

The ruling issued Monday by the Barbados High Court is a pivotal moment for activists and nonprofit organizations who have long fought against such laws on the eastern Caribbean island, including one that demands up to a life sentence for gay men found guilty of having sex.

“It’s gone from a certain ripple effect to a tidal wave in the Caribbean, which is what everyone involved set out to achieve,” said Téa Braun, chief executive of the London-based Human Dignity Trust, a human rights organization.

While the laws were rarely invoked, they signal that LGBTQ people are criminal and lesser citizens, Braun said.
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Texas attorney general's office sought state data on transgender Texans
Source: Washington Post
HOUSTON — Employees at the Texas Department of Public Safety in June received a sweeping request from Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office: to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender on their Texas driver’s license and other department records during the past two years.

“Need total number of changes from male to female and female to male for the last 24 months, broken down by month,” the chief of the DPS’s driver license division emailed colleagues in the department on June 30, according to a copy of a message obtained by The Washington Post through a public records request. “We won’t need DL/ID numbers at first but may need to have them later if we are required to manually look up documents.”

After more than 16,000 such instances were identified, DPS officials determined that a manual search would be needed to determine the reason for the changes, DPS spokesman Travis Considine told The Post in response to questions.

“A verbal request was received,” he wrote in an email. “Ultimately, our team advised the AG’s office the data requested neither exists nor could be accurately produced. Thus, no data of any kind was provided.”
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People aged 16 and 17 to be allowed to change gender

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Young people aged 16 and 17 will be allowed to change their legal gender after the Scottish government rejected moves to keep the minimum age at 18.

Some SNP MSPs were among those who argued that 16 is too young to make such a "profound change".

But the government said lowering the age was in keeping with other rights and responsibilities people gain at 16.

It came during a marathon debate on controversial plans to make it easier for trans people to change gender.

The Scottish Parliament was due to discuss and vote on more than 150 proposed amendments to reforms of the Gender Recognition Act on Tuesday ahead of the final vote on Wednesday.

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Spain passes landmark trans rights law to make gender recognition simpler

Dec 22
Written by Chantelle Billson
https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/12/22/ ... n-simpler/
Spain has passed a trans rights bill

Spain has approved a gender recognition bill which will make it easier for trans people to update their legal gender marker.

Approved by 188 votes to 150 with seven abstentions on Thursday (22 December), the bill will now move to the Senate, where, if unchanged as expected, it will become law within weeks. 

The draft bill allows trans people in Spain over the age of 16 to update their gender maker and name on official documents based on a simple request. 

It allows anyone from the age of 16 to apply, with those as young as 12 being able to do so under certain conditions. 

The demand must be confirmed by the applicant three months after they submitted the request, for the change to become valid. 
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wjfox wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 9:59 am People aged 16 and 17 to be allowed to change gender

2 hours ago

Young people aged 16 and 17 will be allowed to change their legal gender after the Scottish government rejected moves to keep the minimum age at 18.

Some SNP MSPs were among those who argued that 16 is too young to make such a "profound change".

But the government said lowering the age was in keeping with other rights and responsibilities people gain at 16.

It came during a marathon debate on controversial plans to make it easier for trans people to change gender.

The Scottish Parliament was due to discuss and vote on more than 150 proposed amendments to reforms of the Gender Recognition Act on Tuesday ahead of the final vote on Wednesday.

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Think NZ a month ago or so wanted the same age range to vote or something. It was out of the blue I tell ya.
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wjfox wrote: Sat Dec 24, 2022 7:48 am
A lot of good points, but I could have done without the heavy reliance on the f word. This can affect the family friendly rating of a site, as well as be a turn off to the older generation. A pity that it becomes a consideration in whether to cite the video in a community forum.

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How a Single Oxygen Atom Can Change a Person’s Sex
by Stephen Luntz
December 27, 2022

Introduction:
(IFL Science) The molecular basis for a mutation that causes some people with XY chromosomes to have wombs and vaginas has been identified, demonstrating how minor the differences can be that shape people’s sex.

Swyer Syndrome (also known as 46, XY gonadal dysgenesis with female somatic phenotype) occurs in people whose sex chromosomes match most biological males, but who not only appear female, but can often give birth using IVF and donated eggs. In at least one case, a woman with a form of Swyer Syndrome became pregnant naturally, and didn’t know there was anything unusual about her chromosomes until her daughter was diagnosed with the same condition.

The syndrome involves modification to one of several genes on the Y chromosome, frequently the Sex-determining Region Y protein (SRY), the gene that usually starts the process of an embryo becoming male. One cause of Swyer Syndrome can be the replacement of tyrosine with the similar molecule phenylalanine, best known as a component of the sugar substitute aspartame. Two new papers explore how the change between these molecules – so similar they are interchangeable for many biological functions - can have such big effects.

“Loss of a single atom in SRY, an oxygen atom in a critical tyrosine, impairs the robustness of male development,” Professor Michael Weiss of Indiana University School of Medicine said in a statement.

The authors call it a "humpty-dumpty" model, because a small change can cause everything to break apart in a way that is apparently impossible to reverse.
Read more of the IFL Science article here: https://www.iflscience.com/how-a-singl ... sex-66831

The papers are published in Frontiers in Endocrinology here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/1 ... 5030/full and here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/1 ... 9177/full .
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It more or less creates the brain up of the opposite sex and forces a person to need to be that. Of course, very few people have this in reality...Probably below .5% of the population but based on everything I've read over the years a test could be developed and made fairly accurate to test rather or not a person is or isn't.
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Kentucky's first transgender elected official wins 90% of write-in votes to secure term in Berea
By Diamond Palmer Kentucky
PUBLISHED 2:45 PM ET Jan. 11, 2023
https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/lexington/ ... d-official
Rebecca Blankenship says she noticed only two candidates filled for three seats on the Berea Independent School District board, with nobody else willing to be the third candidate. Before the race, Blankenship was thinking like any mom and wanted her children to have a great school board. Believe it or not, it’s something she says she never intended to run for, let alone be a historic win. But she knew she needed to when nobody else stepped up to the plate. 
Rebecca Blankenship smiles with her children, family. (Rebecca Blankenship)

“I’m grateful for my community. I’ve always known that it was a great community, but to be embraced like this is more than I had any right to expect. I feel grateful,” said Blankenship. 
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