Fear and Loathing

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Russian Court Declares Mom A 'Man'

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“I didn’t plan to grow a penis. I didn’t plan to take hormones,” she said in an earlier interview with Current Time TV, a Russian-language network run by RFE/RL jointly with VOA. “All I wanted to do was get rid of an unsightly chest. And it’s my business what I do with my body.”

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Indonesia: Criminalizing Indonesia’s LGBT People Won’t Protect Them

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It may seem preposterous, but some Indonesian politicians are attempting to portray the criminalization of adult consensual same-sex conduct as somehow protecting against vigilantism.

Canada: Killings in Toronto’s Gay Community Expose ‘an Open Wound’ With Police

“The symptom is missing and murdered people,” said Nicki Ward, a director of the neighborhood association for Church-Wellesley, an area also known as the Gay Village, where the cases were concentrated. “The disease is how police manage the job of taking care of the community.”