“Instead of relying only on couples living together, researchers will be able to understand the health of people with diverse sexual orientations much more comprehensively.” A promising change to the Australian Census. We need better data practices to account for the rich diversity of queer lives.

For the first time, the census will ask your sexual orientation. My new study shows why it matters

Are you straight, lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, asexual or another sexual orientation? The census wants to know. Here’s why.

theconversation.com

📢 The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’.

“Every single person who marched today is proof that we are not going anywhere, that our joy is louder than their hate, and that London Trans+ Pride will keep fighting, keep loving and keep growing until every trans person is safe, seen, and free.” Solidarity with all marching for trans justice. 🏳️‍⚧️

150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers say

Protesters voiced anger at the new guidance on single sex-spaces and fears that trans people are being excluded from society.

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Over 150,000 came out in full force for London Trans+ Pride to say loud and clear: Trans rights are human rights 💖

Solidarity with all of our queer siblings in Berlin. No-one should be made scared to march in defence of their community, and in celebration of who they truly are. It is more important than ever that we all come together with pride, and look after one another.

Well, the @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social has got how to label toilets properly... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

It’s official: I’ve been promoted to Professor of Legal Humanities and Human Rights at Manchester Law School. My ability to think/research/write/teach anything is only possible because of the communities that continue to nourish me. So now, I’m just going to keep on sparkling. 🌈✨

I won't say that this was enjoyable to record because talking about how my queer community is being demonised is always awful, but it is an important conversation with people whose company I value and enjoy. Thanks to @sandraduffy.bsky.social, @senthorun.bsky.social, and @adrienneringin.bsky.social

Douglas Guilfoyle@djag2.bsky.social · 3w ago

New #CalledToTheBar episode! How did the UK become a focal point for escalating anti-trans policy? What role have law, human rights, activism and the media played? @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social is joined by Sandra Duffy, Senthorun Raj and Adrienne Ringin. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Join us for the launch of the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network on 14 Sept 2026 at the University of Bristol (hybrid event). We'll explore how legal education can engage with race, empire, colonialism, and global justice www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...

Launching the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network

Join us to kick off a fresh network diving into race, empire, and legal education with some great minds.

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The Scottish Parliament's decision to collect and present data based on 'biological sex' has made it harder for researchers to use data to understand and tackle inequalities. 📝 I've written to the Scottish Parliament requesting information on this change: kevinguyan.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Just finished reading this fab collection of critical-creative writing pieces (“Abolition Science Fiction”) that invites us to imagine a world beyond prisons. We need more of this utopian thinking in our pursuits of justice and community. You can download the book for free here: abolitionscifi.org

Flaunting some gay propaganda at work.

The Queer Judge is taking a new shape and going places. It was written in the stars that the Queer Judge had to visit the UK Surpreme Court sooner or later. We got up to listening to poetry and doing some dancing. Watch this space - the Queer Judgments Project is letting its creative juices flow!

I’m so excited to be back in Oz to teach a course on Law, Gender & Sexuality with a focus on feminist and queer judgment writing. At a time when many public institutions are censoring so-called “woke” subjects, it’s a privilege to be able to research and teach things that matter to our communities.

“The conservative judges’ written opinions were replete with transphobia — and even the dissenting, liberal position from the court failed to fundamentally uphold the rights of transgender athletes.” We have to dismantle institutionalised transphobia that results in these horrific legal decisions.

Supreme Court Rules Against Trans Athletes in Verdict Replete with Transphobia

Even the dissenting, liberal position failed to fundamentally uphold the rights of transgender athletes.

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The US Supreme Court has upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams. Transgender kids should have the same opportunities as any other kids — lawmakers in the US and elsewhere should make sure of it.

The scale of disinformation about trans people is breathtakingly painful. These moral panics are orchestrated by institutions that seek to normalise transphobic segregation. We must continue to challenge media, political, legal rhetoric that erodes trans lives under the guise of “defending biology.”

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last mo.

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

For years, originalists have lectured us that they no longer look to "the Framers' intent," but to the "original public meaning" of the Constitution. Here, Kavanaugh throws all that out the window to lash the citizenship clause in his subjective guess as to what its Framers intended it to do.

My cool colleagues and I have just published a conversation in Feminist Legal Studies about the political, poetic, and pedagogic possibilities of writing legal judgments using critical (Indigenous, Feminist, Queer) perspectives. You can read our reflections here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

57 years ago, queer and trans folk who frequented a bar called Stonewall decided to push back against state persecution and policing. They sang, threw things, shouted, danced, and were joined by many more people in solidarity. We mark this as the start of Pride. Pride is joy. Pride is resistance.

Stonewall riots: global legacy shows there’s no simple story of progress for gay rights

Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, what is their political legacy for LGBTQ activism?

theconversation.com

We joined some critical legal scholars to discuss how Indigenous, Feminist, and Queer perspectives might be used to write judgments that better support the lives of minoritised people. We explore the political, poetic, and pedagogic possibilities of using critical-creative judgment writing methods.

Critical Judgments in Hostile Times: A Roundtable on Indigenous, Feminist, Queer Perspectives - Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Legal Studies -

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Much of the anxiety around representation would evaporate if more media was okay with depicting multiple trans and queer characters, so that identity was less foregrounded and a character's individual issues and traits weren't analysed through a lens of "does this reflect poorly on the group?"

“Harmful medical experiences, stigma, misinformation and lack of transparency have all made it hard to talk about being intersex, difficult to access safe, informed and accessible services, and hard to collect data on the experiences and needs of adults with innate variations. This needs to change.”

What people with intersex traits want you to know

People born with variations of sex characteristics have bodies that are a little different to social and medical expectations.

theconversation.com

It’s World Refugee Day. So, like any other day, let’s keep working towards a world that safeguards the flourishing of all people rather than trying to police bodies and borders.

A queer joy to be in Warsaw this week and to join scholars confronting fascist movements in Europe. It’s a privilege to be here to give a talk about my book and chat with critical scholars about acknowledging and re-imagining how emotions shape socio-legal struggles over queer and trans rights. 🇵🇱🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Growing up as a shy gay kid, online spaces gave me a vocabulary to understand my homosexuality and find community. The internet was a lifeline. And given how politicians debate our lives as “ideologies,” and viciously censor us, bans on young people using social media will hurt lots of LGBTQ+ youth.

I'm in my 20s. I grew up with social media. Without that and video games, I would have been so completely isolated. We should be making the world safer for kids, not trying to ban them from it.