Gender and Sexuality
11 stories, 104 sources cited
US Supreme Court upholds state bans on trans girls in school sport, six to three, on 30 June 2026
The Supreme Court of the United States decided Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. on 30 June 2026, six to three on the Constitution and nine
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Slovakia put a two sex rule in its constitution by 90 votes, and Brussels opened a case
On 26 September 2025 Slovakia's National Council passed a constitutional amendment by 90 votes, the exact three fifths minimum in a 150 seat chamber.
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Three randomised trials found no gonorrhoea protection from the vaccine England still offers
The GoGoVax trial, published on 8 July 2026, put 4CMenB vaccine efficacy at minus 0.5 per cent, with 48.1 gonorrhoea infections per 100 person-years i
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EU top court rules Bulgaria's refusal to amend gender records breaches free movement law
On 12 March 2026 the Court of Justice of the European Union held in Case C-43/24, Shipova, that a member state offering its nationals no route to amen
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Australia's employer pay gap fell to 11.2 per cent, and its new targets regime carries no fine
Equal Pay Day fell on 17 August 2026, 48 days into the new financial year. Employer data published on 3 March covering 10,500 employers and 5.9 millio
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England scraps standalone school gender guidance and puts the rules inside statutory safeguarding
Two rewritten instruments bind schools in England from 1 September 2026: RSHE guidance telling teachers not to present gender identity as fact, and Ke
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IOC restores sex testing for the 2028 female category as the evidence stays contested
On 27 March 2026 the International Olympic Committee limited female Olympic events to athletes without the SRY gene, effective from Los Angeles 2028.
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US Supreme Court stays Fifth Circuit order that would have ended abortion pills by post
On 14 May 2026 the Supreme Court stayed a Fifth Circuit ruling of 1 May that suspended the FDA's 2023 mifepristone rules nationwide. Thomas and Alito
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Two statistical agencies counted same-sex couples in April and warned about the numbers
The Office for National Statistics counted about 216,000 civil partner couples in the UK in 2025, against about 48,000 in 2015. Sixteen days earlier t
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Four countries on the EU's new safe list still jail people over same-sex conduct
On 10 February 2026 the European Parliament voted 408 to 184 to create an EU wide safe country of origin list. Four of the seven countries named, Bang
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UK ad regulator bans an AI girlfriend advert for selling female compliance
The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a single complaint on 12 August 2026 against EverAI Ltd over a Candy AI advert seen on 13 May, finding brea
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