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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 joint First Minister role at the Stormont Parliament. There was no ratification on the decision by Parliamentary debate, according to the BBC News Channel. Keighley Duffy from the ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement told BBC News NI that "we are as much a part of this country as anyon

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

Celebrating Elizabeth Taylor's Allyship

Posted on 24 Nov 2024 in Health

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 as one of the first high profile activists for AIDS research and care, when that syndrome was rocking

New Gender Identity Clinics to Come Online

Posted on 22 Nov 2024 in Health

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 NHS in England. They will join two existing clinics, as part of an overhaul of gender services for ch

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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

Nov

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

Nov

LGBTQIA+ Support for Drug Reforms

It would be fair to say that many in the LGBTQIA+ communities take a liberal or libertarian approach to regulation of marijuana, recognising the benefits of the drug in many areas of physical and e

Oct

Call for Earlier Cervical Cancer Screening

Sandra Telfair writes on the Change.org petition website why she is campaigning for age at which routine cervical screening is offered to women be lowered. Sandra says "My daughte