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ProChoice Groups Win the Day in Opposed Demos

Posted on 10 Feb 2025 in Health

Abortion Rights UK headed up a coalition of pro-choice reproductive charities and organisations on 31st August to counter the annual anti-choice march in London made up largely of highly conservative religious groups. The Socialist Worker newspaper said that around four hundred people gathered to oppose the anti-choice groups. Flora from west London was on the counter protest for the third year in a row. She told Socialist Worker, “I’m feeling positive that the numbers on their side have shrunk from last year.

Care Home Hope After Report Published

Posted on 6 Feb 2025 in Health

The BBC News Channel reports that New guidance has been written for care homes to support inclusive care practice for older LGBTQ+ people. Researchers from the University of Kent, in collaboration with the University of Surrey and the University of Hertfordshire, have developed

Ireland Rallies Over Access to Puberty Blocks

Posted on 13 Jan 2025 in Health

Several hundred people rallied in both Belfast and Dublin on 26th August to protest against a ban on prescribing puberty blockers to Northern Ireland. To the surprise of many people, Sinn Fein, a party that with a strong record on LGBTQIA human rights made the ratification decision as it holds j

Doctors for Minority Boost Health Confidence

Posted on 5 Jan 2025 in Health

South African LGBTQIA news network Mamba Online reports that a scheme called "Yellow Dot Doctors" allows people on the margins of the gay and trans communities, who perhaps are not out to their regular Doctors or health institutions, to speak clearly and with confidence when deal

Agencies Warn on Anti-Biotic Resistance Bugs

Posted on 5 Dec 2024 in Health

Digital One, a community radio station in North Somerset, says that local and national leaders in sexual health have warned that, as part of general trends towards bacteria becoming resistant to treatment, so gonorrhoea has become harder to treat in recent years. The latest figu

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Celebrating Elizabeth Taylor's Allyship

Elizabeth Taylor, the Hollywood legend, is celebrated in a retro post from the magazine Into. The LGBTQIA+ online portal's Henry Giardina looks back at her time a

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New Gender Identity Clinics to Come Online

The BBC News Channel reports that Six new regional centres created to support under 18s struggling with their gender identity will open over the next two years, according to the NH

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Mental Health Promos Air on ITV Networks

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Secularists Urge End to Circumcision

The National Secular Society, which campaigns against religious infiltration into the life of the state and society, has called on NHS Scotland to follow England a

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BMA Expresses Concern at Lies in Cass Report

The British Medical Association, a professional network which represents the majority of GPs and specialist doctors in the UK, has expressed concerns about the validity of the Cass Review into Tran