Trump and Barrett's threat to abortion and LGBTQ rights is simply un-American
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2...tion-gay-rights



Trump and many Republicans insist that whether to wear a mask or to go to work during a pandemic should be personal choices. Yet what a woman does with her own body, or whether same-sex couples can marry, should be decided by government.

It’s a tortured, upside-down view of freedom. Yet it’s remarkably prevalent even as the pandemic resurges – America is back up to more than 60,000 new cases a day, the highest rate since July, and numbers continue to rise – and as the Senate considers Trump’s pick for the supreme court.

By contrast, Joe Biden has wisely declared he would do “whatever it takes” to stop the pandemic, including mandating masks and locking down the entire economy if scientists recommend it.

“I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,” he said.

Biden also wants to protect both abortion and same-sex marriage from government intrusion – in 2012 he memorably declared his support of the latter before even Barack Obama did so.

Trump’s opposite approaches, discouraging masks and other Covid restrictions while seeking government intrusion into the most intimate decisions anyone makes, have become the de facto centerpieces of his campaign.

At his “town hall” on Thursday night, Trump falsely claimed that most people who wear masks contract the virus.

He also criticized governors for ordering lockdowns, adding that the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, “wants to be a dictator”. He was speaking just one week after state and federal authorities announced they had thwarted an alleged plot to kidnap and possibly kill Whitmer.

The attorney general, William Barr – once again contesting Trump for the most wacky analogy – has called state lockdown orders the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history” since slavery.

Yet at the very same time Trump and his fellow-travelers defend people’s freedom to infect others or become infected with Covid-19, they’re inviting government to intrude into the most intimate aspects of personal life.

Trump has promised that the supreme court’s 1973 Roe v Wade decision, establishing a federal right to abortion, will be reversed [B]“because I am putting pro-life justices on the court”.

Much of the controversy over Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett hinges on her putative willingness to repeal Roe.

While an appeals court judge, Barrett ruled in favor of a law requiring doctors to inform the parents of any minor seeking an abortion, without exceptions, and also joined a dissent suggesting an Indiana law requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains was constitutional.

A Justice Barrett might also provide the deciding vote for reversing Obergefell v Hodges, the 2015 supreme court decision protecting same-sex marriage. Only three members of the majority in that case remain on the court.

Barrett says her views are rooted in the “text” of the constitution. That’s a worrisome omen given that earlier this month justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito opined that the right to same-sex marriage “is found nowhere in the text” of the constitution.

What’s public, what’s private and where should government intervene? The question suffuses the impending election and much else in modern American life.

It is nonsensical to argue, as do Trump and his allies, that government cannot mandate masks or close businesses during a pandemic but can prevent women from having abortions and same-sex couples from marrying.

The underlying issue is the common good, what we owe each other as members of the same society.

During wartime, we expect government to intrude on our daily lives for the common good: drafting us into armies, converting our workplaces and businesses, demanding we sacrifice normal pleasures and conveniences. During a pandemic as grave as this one we should expect no less intrusion, in order that we not expose others to the risk of contracting the virus.

But we have no right to impose on others our moral or religious views about when life begins or the nature and meaning of marriage. The common good requires instead that we honor such profoundly personal decisions.

Public or private? We owe it to each other to understand the distinction.

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Trump losing the upcoming Nov 3rd presidential election would be a great boon for LGBT as he intends to revoke more and more LGBT rights in US if he gets his second term.

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‘Concerned’ Mormon sent anonymous complaint to neighbours about Pride flags. They probably weren’t expecting this response
Source: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/19/conce...flags-response/

A “concerned” Mormon who sent letters to their neighbours complaining about the flying of Pride flags has received a forceful response.

Anonymous letters were sent to residents in the Autumn Drive neighbourhood in Sandy, Utah after rainbow flags were flown from dozens of homes to mark National Coming Out Day on October 11.

The anonymous letter complained that the prevalence of Pride flags is “concerning to many” in the heavily-Mormon area, suggesting that “choosing to fly the colours of the LGBT community” is inconsistent “with the covenants you made with God as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints”.

The letter accuses those who flew flags of breaching church covenants, continuing: “Can you truthfully say that you do not support or promote a contrary doctrine when you fly the colours of an organization that is clearly inconsistent with these practices? These are the observations of concerned neighbours and fellow members who desire to share our point of view.”

The anonymous letter attracted a public response from one resident, Cynthia K Phillips.

In her reply, Phillips deconstructed the “cowardly” letter “full of misinformation and self-righteous pretension concerning the Pride flags recently flown by some neighbour’s in their front yards”.

Phillips tore apart the anonymous letter’s argument by highlighting Mormon teachings that would support the welcoming and acceptance of LGBT+ people.

She wrote: “It is highly inappropriate for anyone but my bishop to make a judgment on my temple worthiness or on my position on the covenant path based on whether or not I choose to demonstrate my civic and moral support for the LGBQA+ community’s right for equal protection of laws and non-discrimination.

“If as a kind and interested neighbour, you wish to invite me to conduct a prayerful search to review my values, my understanding of the teachings, practices, and doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the way that I am exercising my moral agency, please do so to my face.”

She continued: “You may be interested to know that my father, the honourable Dale A. Kimball, a federal judge in the District of Utah and a faithful, lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was the judge who confirmed the same-sex marriages [are valid in the state].

“His reasons for doing so were consistent with statute, equal protection of the laws, and non-discrimination.

“I have always been proud of the way in which my father has refused to legislate from the bench, has exercised fairness and temperance in his judgments, and has always resisted the temptation to impose his own personal moral beliefs on others.”

The response has since gone viral on Twitter, after it was shared by Phillips’ son.

Phillips told 2News said she opted to respond publicly to the letter to “set the record straight to my non-member neighbours and my church member neighbours,” adding that the true focus should be on the pro-LGBT+ actions within the tight-nit community to fly rainbow flags and champion queer acceptance.

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This gave me loifeeee.

Disgusting behavior by the medical professionals. Questioning the patient's gender and asking her to repent is totally uncalled for.

He believes in climate change too and urges the world to take the environment more seriously. This guy never cease to amaze.

They were released purely based on luck because the prosecutors are crap at their job but good for them!

We have several pending cases against LGBT here in Malaysia and unlike them our local prosecutors are very thorough.

China’s Stance on Homosexuality Has Changed. Its Textbooks Haven’t.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/business...ks-lawsuit.html



Early in college, Ou Jiayong had already learned two things. One, textbooks can be wrong. And two, it can be hard to change them — especially on topics as sensitive in China as homosexuality.

In 2016, during her first year at South China Agricultural University in her hometown, Guangzhou, she stumbled across a psychology textbook that described being gay as a mental disorder.

As a lesbian, Ms. Ou felt that was unacceptable, but the complaints she made went nowhere.

So Ms. Ou, who also uses the name Xixi, brought a lawsuit demanding that the publisher remove the reference and publicly apologize. Her case has renewed the conversation about tolerance and human rights in a country where discrimination based on sexual orientation is rampant and where homosexuality has long been seen as incompatible with the traditional emphasis on marriage.

In a letter to the judge, Ms. Ou, now 23, recalled being “deeply stung” when she read the textbook. “It brought back memories of being laughed at by my classmates because of my homosexuality,” she wrote in the letter, which her lawyer read aloud in court this summer, three years after the suit was filed.

The judge was unswayed. Last month, the court in Jiangsu Province in eastern China ruled in favor of the publisher, Jinan University Press, saying the content did not “contain factual errors.”

Ms. Ou’s case stunned many people who had no idea that some textbooks still classified homosexuality as a disease, said Peng Yanzi, director of L.G.B.T. Rights Advocacy China, an influential group that has led many awareness-raising campaigns. Citing a survey that a research group conducted in 2016 and 2017, out of the 91 psychology textbooks used in Chinese universities, almost half of them said that homosexuality was a type of disease. Several have been amended, Mr. Peng said, but “many more” remain.

A hashtag about Ms. Ou’s case on Weibo, a popular social media platform, generated 26.7 million views, and several Chinese newspapers covered the hearing in July. Three weeks after the verdict, a school in Jiangsu said it would amend a health education manual after an internet user highlighted a phrase in it that said: “Homosexuality goes against the laws of nature.”

“Many admire her for doing this for three years, in particular gay people, who are encouraged by this kind of bravery,” he said.

In recent years, L.G.B.T. communities have been asserting their rights more forcefully, suing “gay conversion” clinics, employers and even the government. This year, as China prepared to adopt its first civil code, activists led an unsuccessful push for the legalization of same-sex marriage, flooding legislators with more than 230,000 online suggestions and letters.

Even though China decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and removed it from an official list of psychiatric disorders in 2001, discrimination persists in employment, health care and other areas. Many people, including Ms. Ou, are not open with their families about being gay.

Darius Longarino, a research scholar in law at Yale Law School who has managed legal reform programs promoting L.G.B.T. rights in China, said Ms. Ou’s case had brought “a rights issue into a scientific and technical terrain where the evidence is all on your side.”

LGBTQ Sabahans Help Each Other Survive Covid-19, Politics & Isolation



It’s been a crazy few months. After election day on 26 September 2020, Sabah is now under its second lockdown or Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO).

In the midst of rising COVID-19 numbers, flash floods and politicians tussling for power, we sat down with some members of the Sabahan rainbow community to check-in (socially distanced, of course).

On COVID-19

With 15,692 cases as of 2 November, and no sight of numbers going down soon, Sabahans have been asked to stay home until 9 November.

More worrying are news reports describing Sabah’s understaffed and overburdened hospitals, and food aid distribution in shambles. In one video that’s gone viral, an elderly man chases after a marine police vessel then later asks for food assistance.

Of course, an extended lockdown also means the economy suffers.

“I’m lucky I’m still able to work from home with sewing; doing some hair and makeup for clients. Because it’s the second lockdown so at least I’m a bit more prepared, but I still do hope for assistance from NGOs,” said Angel Azrin, 38.

Some of Angel’s friends are not so fortunate, however, after having experienced some financial setbacks from the first Movement Control Order (MCO).

“I’m worried about sex worker friends of mine who still need to work because they have no other choice. The risks [to contract COVID-19] are there because they are in direct contact with different people every day,” Angel added.

“It’s a problem when us [from the trans community] aren’t able to work professional jobs. So when something huge like a pandemic happens, we’re left without a stable income.”

It’s because of these difficulties that Gender & Sexuality Alliance Kota Kinabalu (GSAKK) and creative collective BENTARAKATA have started a Queer Solidarity Fund to support queer family members in Kota Kinabalu and Semporna affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

It is #rakyatjagarakyat time over here. “We’re taking care of each other, instead of waiting for ‘politicians’ to do the right thing,” said GSAKK Community Organiser Ana Jonessy on the mutual aid fund.

GSAKK Coordinator Kenneth Hiew* said the fundraising was launched on 9 May 2020 when the pandemic began to help as many members of the LGBTQIA+ community in Sabah to get through financial hardships.

Read more: https://www.queerlapis.com/lgbtq-sabahans-h...tics-isolation/

‘Rainbow wave’ of LGBTQ candidates run and win in 2020 election

More LGBTQ candidates ran for office in the United States in 2020 than ever before – at least 1,006. That’s a 41% increase over the 2018 midterms, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund.

While an estimated 5% of the U.S. population identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, just 0.17% of elected officials across all levels of the American government are LGBTQ.

Better political representation could help LGBTQ Americans maintain some of their hard-won rights, which have come under attack over the past four years. Since 2016, the Trump administration has weakened trans-inclusive protections in schools, attempted to remove LGBTQ protections in health care and proposed allowing homeless shelters to turn away transgender people.

Marriage equality, too, may be under threat. In early October, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito suggested that the 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which made same-sex marriage legal across the United States, should be overturned.

In short, candidates and LGBTQ rights were both on the ballot in the 2020 election, either explicitly or implicitly. While many questions remain undecided at press time, here’s the takeaway from four down-ballot races I’ve been following as a scholar of LGBTQ politics.

Delaware

Democrat Sarah McBride made history on Tuesday when she won a state Senate seat in Delaware. In doing so, she’ll become the United States’ highest-ranking transgender elected official and the first openly transgender person to serve in a state Senate anywhere in the nation. McBride defeated Republican Steve Washington.

Previously, Danica Roem, a Virginia Democrat who won a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2017, was the highest-ranking transgender person in elected office. Roem was re-elected in 2019.

Other transgender women, including Taylor Smalls of Vermont and Stephanie Byers of Kansas, also won state-level races on Tuesday in notable victories.

Read more@https://theconversation.com/rainbow-wave-of...election-149066

First Islamic school for transgender Muslims opens in Bangladesh
Source: https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/11/...pens-bangladesh



DHAKA: Bangladesh opened its first Islamic school for transgender Muslims on Friday, with clerics calling it a first step towards integrating the discriminated minority into society.

The madrasa is one of a series of recent moves in Bangladesh to make life easier for the Muslim-majority nation's up to 1.5 million transgender people.

The LGBT community faces widespread discrimination in the South Asian country, with a colonial-era law still in place that punishes gay sex by prison terms, though enforcement is rare.

But about 50 transgender students read Quranic verses to mark the opening of the Dawatul Islam Tritio Linger Madrasa, or Islamic Third Gender School, on the outskirts of the capital on Friday.

"I am ecstatic," Shakila Akhter, a 33-year-old student, told AFP.

"We are grateful to the clerics for this beautiful move."

Akhter was born a girl and had always wanted to become a doctor or lawyer, but those ambitions were thwarted when she left home while still a child to join a transgender commune.

"We are Muslims, yet we can't go to a mosque," Akhter said. "We can't even mix with other members of society."

A group of clerics led by Abdur Rahman Azad transformed the top floor of a three-storey building into the school with funding from a local charity.

Azad's team already offers Quranic lessons to seven transgender groups in Dhaka and said the madrasa grew out of the need for a permanent base for the community.

Up to 150 students – nearly all adults – will get lessons similar to those in a traditional madrasa, where the Quran is taught along with Islamic philosophy, Bengali, English, maths and social sciences.

Azad said transgender people, known as Hijras in Bangladesh, have suffered too much.

"For too long they have been living a miserable life. They can't go to schools, madrasas or mosques. They have been victims of discrimination. We, society and the state are to blame for this," he said.

"We want to end this discrimination. Allah does not discriminate between people. Islam treats everyone as a human being. Hijras should enjoy all rights like any other human being."

In 2015, Islamist extremists hacked to death a leading gay activist and editor of an LGBT magazine, while other prominent homosexuals have since fled the country.

But steps forward have been made for the community. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has since 2013 allowed trans to be identified as a separate gender.

Last year, they were allowed to register to vote as a third gender, and their numbers will be counted in a census to be carried out next year across the country of 168 million. - AFP

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The fact that even a third-world country like Bangladesh can still recognise transgender rights is mind-blowing. What do our officials have to say for themselves?

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Bolsonaro tells Brazil not to deal with pandemic 'like fags'
Source: https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/11/...l-pandemic-fags



BRASILIA: President Jair Bolsonaro drew criticism Tuesday for telling Brazilians not to deal with Covid-19 like "a country of fags," the far-right leader's latest controversial outburst on the pandemic.

Bolsonaro, who has consistently downplayed the virus even as it has killed 163,000 people in Brazil -- the second-highest death toll worldwide, after the United States -- made the comment during a meandering speech at the presidential palace in which he also appeared to threaten US President-elect Joe Biden.

"All anyone talks about these days is the pandemic. We need to stop that," said Bolsonaro during the speech, which was ostensibly on tourism.

It was the latest in a long list of controversial statements on the pandemic from Bolsonaro, who has condemned the "hysteria" around Covid-19, compared the new coronavirus to a "little flu" and asserted that Brazilians' immune systems were so strong they could swim in raw sewage and "not catch a thing."

The president also sparked controversy with a veiled jab at Biden, who has irked Bolsonaro by urging his administration to better protect the Amazon rainforest.

Bolsonaro, an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, is among the few world leaders who have not congratulated Biden on his election win, which Trump has not accepted.

"Recently, a big-shot presidential candidate said if I didn't put out the wildfires in the Amazon he would impose trade sanctions on Brazil," Bolsonaro said, apparently referring to a comment Biden made during his first debate with Trump in September.

"How do you deal with that kind of thing? Diplomacy alone doesn't work.... You have to have gunpowder. You don't have to use it. But they have to know you have it."

His comments triggered immediate outcry from critics.

"Between 'gunpowder' and 'fags,' we have more than 160,000 dead in the country," tweeted the speaker of the lower house of Congress, Rodrigo Maia.

"Our solidarity to all the friends and family of victims of Covid-19." -- AFP

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Balsonaro is the exact copy of Donald Trump. He even caught the Covid19 virus himself once. Hopefully he will share the same fate as Trump by losing the re-election soon.

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Hungarian government mounts new assault on LGBT rights
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/...-on-lgbt-rights



Moments before Hungary entered a second coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday, the far-right government signalled its intention to pass a range of new legislation, including to make it harder for opposition political parties to join forces and to change the constitution to enshrine the defence of so-called “Christian values”.

Opposition politicians criticised both the substance and timing of the moves.

The proposed constitutional amendment, submitted to parliament by the justice minister, Judit Varga, late on Tuesday, is the latest assault on LGBT rights in the country, where legal recognition for gender changes was ended in May.

“Hungary protects children’s right to identify as the sex they were born with, and ensures their upbringing based on our national self-identification and Christian culture,” the amendment states. The constitution already stipulates that marriage must be between a man and a woman, but the amendment says that in a parent-child relationship “the mother is a woman and the father is a man”.

The amendment would ensure that only heterosexual married couples can adopt children. Single people could gain exemptions by special ministerial permission.

The attempted justification for the amendment explains that “new, modern ideologies in the western world raise doubt about the creation of the male and female sex, and endanger the right of children to have healthy development.” The Hungarian language has the same word for[B] sex and gender.

For years, Viktor Orbán’s government has relied on an anti-migration agenda to rally its base, and some analysts suggest LGBT people may be the new target. In Poland, the ruling populist Law and Justice (PiS) party has made the fight against so-called “LGBT ideology” central to its political messaging.

Orbán’s government is facing pressure arising from discussions in the EU to link the disbursal of some European funds to rule of law criteria, as well as pressure over rising coronavirus cases. The new lockdown includes an 8pm curfew and the closure of restaurants and bars. Parliament has voted for a 90-day “state of emergency” during which the government can issue decrees on virus-related matters without parliamentary approval.

The timing of the new legislative initiatives, which were announced with no warning, was reminiscent of an earlier barrage of legislation unrelated to coronavirus that was introduced during the first coronavirus “state of emergency” in the spring.

The independent MP Bernadett Szél wrote on Facebook that “instead of fighting the virus, they wish to fight the LGBT community”. Katalin Cseh, an MEP of the opposition Momentum party, wrote on Twitter: “Parents, schools, hospitals, small businesses are hours away from a lockdown – not knowing what will happen, as details of regulations haven’t even been published yet. On the govt’s agenda: a constitutional amendment to fight gender ideology.”

The new laws will have to be debated in parliament, but Orbán’s Fidesz party has a two-thirds majority, sufficient to make constitutional amendments.

While the gender-related initiatives are the most eye-catching, the political changes could also prove significant. The new rules would make it harder for parties to run joint lists in elections without fully uniting.

Fidesz has dominated Hungarian politics over the past decade, but the fragmented opposition has had success in mayoral elections – including in Budapest – when unifying behind a single candidate. Opposition parties had announced their intention to run unity candidates against Fidesz in parliamentary elections in 2022.

“Viktor Orbán has become unworthy of his office once and for all,” six opposition parties said in a statement on Wednesday, Reuters reported. “This only goes to show that he no longer feels safe even in the election system he wrote for himself, which is fitting because he will lose.”

Cats and Gay Men Take Over #ProudBoys Hashtag During 'Million MAGA March'
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-meme-proud...ancakes-1547497

As the Proud Boys protested the results of the 2020 presidential election in Washington D.C. Saturday, people on Twitter countered the far-right group during the 'Million MAGA March' by flooding #ProudBoys with memes and pictures of cats and pancakes.

In an attempt to drown out videos, pictures and information about the protests, people mocked Proud Boys by using their name literally and reclaiming it as a sense of gay pride. They sarcastically wrote in their support for the march by sharing GIFs and pictures that appear to show support for the LGBTQ+ community.

People also added the #MillionMAGAMarch or variations of the hashtag to also flood the general protest's Twitter feed.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community have shared images of gay couples with the Proud Boys hashtag since October, according to the BBC. Star Trek actor George Takei seemed to have kicked off the trend by calling on young people via Twitter and TikTok to action.

"What if gay guys took pictures of themselves making out with each other or doing very gay things, then tagged themselves with #ProudBoys. I bet it would mess them up real bad," he wrote.

There's also a Twitter account with the handle @ProudBoysUS that seeks to reclaim the term as an LGBTQ+ inclusive term. According to Twitter, the account joined in August 2018 and has over 44,000 followers.

"The Proud Boys are a queer, pan-gender, multi-cultural organization who will not apologize for our space in the modern world," the account's bio says.

Sharing cat pictures with #ProudBoys was another popular meme.

As previously reported, the "Million MAGA March" was scheduled to begin at Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza at noon. The protests are part of rallies like "Stop the Steal" in which President Donald Trump's supporters have protested against unverified claims that the election was "stolen" from Trump.

Trans man loses UK legal battle to register as his child's father
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/no...s-childs-father



A transgender man has lost his legal battle to be registered as his child’s father or parent in the UK after the supreme court refused to consider his final appeal.

Freddy McConnell, a 34-year-old freelance journalist who works for the Guardian, gave birth in 2018 after suspending his hormone treatment. He had hoped to challenge an appeal court ruling this spring that motherhood is defined as being pregnant and giving birth regardless of whether the person who does so was considered a man or a woman in law.

The decision not to consider his case is a blow for LGBTQ+ rights campaigners. The case was seen as key by the campaign group Stonewall, which hoped that the law would recognise all parents “for who they are”.

McConnell began medical transition with testosterone therapy in 2013, and in 2014 underwent a double mastectomy. His passport and NHS records were changed to show he was male, but he retained his female reproductive system. He gave birth after suspending his hormone treatment and allowing his menstrual cycle to restart.

Both the high court, in September 2019, and the appeal court, in April 2020, ruled that even though he was considered a man by law and had a gender recognition certificate to prove it, he could not appear on his child’s birth certificate as “father” or parent. McConnell had argued this breached the Human Rights Act.

In the appeal court, Lord Burnett came down in favour of the right of a child born to a transgender parent to know the biological reality of its birth, rather than the parent’s right to be recognised on the birth certificate in their legal gender.

Burnett said that laws passed by parliament had not “decoupled the concept of mother from gender”. He said any interference with McConnell’s rights to family life, caused by birth registration documents describing him as a mother when he lives as his child’s father, could be justified.

McConnell said it was the “traditional system that does not account for modern families”.

The supreme court’s decision marks the end of the road for McConnell’s legal case in the UK but he said he would apply to the European court of human rights in Strasbourg to hear the case.

A spokeswoman for the supreme court, the highest in the UK, said on Monday that the justices had decided not to consider the case because “the applications do not raise an arguable point of law which ought to be considered at this time bearing in mind that the cases were the subject of judicial decision and reviewed on appeal”.

McConnell said the decision left a “mishmash” of rules in place around the registration of parenthood for LGBT people that “needs fully overhauling”.

“The law around birth registration doesn’t treat LGBT people equally on any level,” he said. “There needs to be a series of cases to address this or a change in the law. I feel I am too deep into this to stop now. I am going to keep fighting and I ask anyone who can contribute to this to reach out.”

Nancy Kelley, chief executive of Stonewall, said the supreme court’s decision was “deeply disappointing”.

“All parents, including LGBT parents, deserve to be recognised for who they are and it’s incredibly frustrating that the supreme court has missed an opportunity to progress equality,” she said.

“The current legislation contradicts the fragile equality trans people currently have, where they can have full recognition on some legal documents, but not on others. Just like any other parents, trans parents should be able to have their relationship to their child recognised on their child’s birth certificates.”

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The fact that they had to fight this for so long just for a simple request. Hopefully bringing the case to the European Human Rights Court will yield a more favourable result.

Lol no worries! Plug away~

The comic looks awesome! Hope lots of people buy it.

The amount of butthurt comments at the post is astounding.