Homophobic taunts by spectators, anti-gay on-field sledging between players and homophobic harassment in locker rooms could all be banned soon in Australia under the government’s draft Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill.

Australia to ban homophobia in sports | Gay Star News

But it won’t apply to churches cause, you know, they only spread love… -Q.

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Portugal adds 'Gender Identity' to discrimination laws.

“Portuguese law recognizes finally discrimination against transgender people.
Yesterday (11.01.2013) was approved in a final vote in the Assembly of the Republic a global revision of the Criminal Code that establishes the “gender identity” as a category of discrimination which require attention on the part of the law.

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US Bureau of Prisons revises rules for trans inmates (in a good way!)

fuckyeahgenderstudies:

Transgender prison inmates who did not begin treatment prior to entering federal custody can now receive hormones, specialized mental health counselling and possibly gender reassignment surgery while they are in prison, according to new rules adopted by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons as part of a court settlement.

(Under the bureau’s previous policy, issued in 2005, only federal inmates with a preexisting diagnosis were eligible for transgender-related care, which was limited to treatments that would maintain them “only at the level of change which existed when they were incarcerated.”) 

I continue to believe that the [Supreme] Court will rule, five-to-four, in an opinion authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, that laws prohibiting marriage equality violate the United States Constitution. Kennedy wrote the Court’s opinions in Romer v. Evans (1996) and Lawrence v. Texas (2003), and I think that he will see his longest-lasting legacy from over a quarter of a century on the Court being in the area of eliminating discrimination against gays and lesbians. I believe that his opinion will emphasize, as he did in Romer and Lawrence, the absence of any legitimate interest for prohibiting marriage by same-sex couples. As in Lawrence, and other opinions, he will point to the trend across the world
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Irvine’s law school. (via bencrowther)

Fifth of lawyers experience anti-gay abuse, study finds

queerwatch:

A study by leading professional publication The Lawyer has found that one in five solicitors or barristers experience homophobic abuse at work.

The office-based discrimination has sparked “a small but rapidly growing number of employment tribunal claims,” the magazine adds.

This results stem from the 2009-10 LGB Careers Survey, which is billed as the most comprehensive research of its kind ever carried out for the profession.

In addition to this, the research also found that many professionals in the sector are not openly-gay for fear of negative fall-out.