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US: Education Dept. Begins Dismissing Civil Rights Cases in Name of Efficiency

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The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has begun dismissing hundreds of civil rights complaints under a new protocol that allows investigators to disregard cases that are part of serial filings or that they consider burdensome to the office.

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Australia: Israel Folau’s comments remind us homophobia and transphobia are ever present in Australian spor

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Homophobia and transphobia are becoming a regular fixture in the Australian sporting calendar. 

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US: Plan Would Cut Back Health Care Protections for Transgender People

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The A.M.A. “stands behind” those protections and “opposes any modifications to the rule that would jeopardize the health and well-being of vulnerable populations.”

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Acceptance of LGBT people and rights has increased around the world

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New Global Acceptance Index ranks 141 countries on LGBT acceptance and legal protections and provides a link between inclusion and GDP per capita. 

Kenya: Falsehoods in newspaper trigger anti-gay abuses

It could have been an informative newspaper article about an anti-AIDS clinic serving LGBT people in West Kenya. Instead, the reporter’s error-filled, scare-mongering account of a visit to the clinic “put the lives of most gays and lesbians in Kisumu at risk,” a local LGBT rights activist said.