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20+ min ago (130+ words) Japan's refusal to acknowledge a Japanese-French same-sex couple's marriage is preventing them from starting a family in France, they say. A Japanese-French same-sex couple married in France is asking a Japanese family court to recognize their marriage, the first case of its kind, saying Japan's ban is preventing them from starting a family in France.Petitioners Rei Watanabe Prosper, a Japanese national in her 30s, and Coralie Prosper, a French national also in her 30s, got married in France in 2018, where same-sex marriage was legalized in 2013 The couple currently resides in France.They said Japan's refusal to acknowledge their marriage has prevented them from living together in Rei's home country, as well as causing problems in building a family in France....

36+ min ago (498+ words) Eugene Volokh | 12.9.2025 5:31 PM From Fifth Circuit Judge Priscilla Richman, joined by Judge Irma Ramirez, in today's Evans v. Garza: Evans argues that the statute is overbroad, but "[t]he overbreadth doctrine is 'strong medicine' that is used 'sparingly and only as a last resort.'"Evans must "demonstrate from the text of [the statute] and from actual fact that a substantial number of instances exist in which the Law cannot be applied constitutionally." By contrast, circumstances in which a prosecution under that subsection would likely be constitutional readily come to mind. For example, it is highly unlikely, to say the least, that there is a First Amendment right to distribute, without their consent, images of a person's genitalia or other anatomy (whether they be an adult, infant, pre-teen, teen) while utilizing bathroom facilities. And the court also held that the law wasn't…...

40+ min ago (403+ words) Defendants" reprehensible and immoral actions capitalize on the mental distress of children," the lawsuit states. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, R-Fla., filed a lawsuit Tuesday against three of the most insidious organizations pushing the mutilation of children in fealty to "transgender" ideology: the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). If successful, the case could be the beginning of accountability for the industry that has made so much money off the physical and psychosocial destruction of children, and could open the door for prison sentences for the predatory groomers involved. The case, which was filed in St. Lucie County, Florida, states that the three organizations violated the state"s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and have been engaged in racketeering for deceiving "patients, parents, insurers, regulators, and courts about…...

58+ min ago (95+ words) Holly Bishop | Tuesday 09 December 2025 22:09 GMT A group of 37 missing goats were found 2,500 metres up a mountain in Italy. Footage released by Italy's fire service shows rescue workers climbing Monte Cardinello on Saturday (6 December) to reach the herd, which had been missing from a farm for several days. Rescuers had to be airlifted by helicopter onto the mountainside to reach the animals, before guiding them down the terrain to a hut at around 600 metres. All of the goats were found safe and in good condition....

1+ hour, 1+ min ago (836+ words) Once again, the Trump administration has triggered the "trans" lobby, and once again, the man-ladies " and lady-men " have turned purple with fury. "Quietly," as the pro-trans media say, the Health and Human Services Department changed the nameplate on former assistant secretary "Rachel" Levine's portrait. The nameplate now identifies Levine, a "trans woman," by his birth name, Richard. Levine was the first "transgender" confirmed to such a position, but not the only one who found a home in the administration. As Fox News reported, until hate-Trump Democrats shut down the government for 43 days, the portrait featured Levine's trans name, "Rachel." An HHS spokesman said the time had come to restore sanity and science of HHS. "Our priority is ensuring that the information presented internally and externally by HHS reflects gold standard science," said HHS's Andrew Nixon: We remain committed to reversing…...

1+ hour, 7+ min ago (1036+ words) The administration says the school violated the Christian students' religious freedom by suspending them for harassing their trans classmate. "Loudoun County's decision to advance and promote gender ideology tramples on the rights of religious students who cannot embrace ideas that deny biological reality," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division wrote, announcing the lawsuit. The suit is based on differing interpretations of Title IX, which has been turned upside down by the Trump administration in its attempted erasure of transgender identity in the United States. Now the DOJ is injecting religious discrimination into the dispute. The Biden administration expanded the definition of Title IX to include discrimination protections for transgender individuals; a series of executive orders has attempted to strip those protections by declaring the existence of only "two biological sexes: male and female,…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago (133+ words) Hegseth, earlier this year, imposed a sweeping ban on transgender military service as part of a broader effort to raise physical and mental standards in the service branches and to remove political elements from military culture. The U.S. Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday sided with the Department of War in an ongoing dispute over the Pentagon's transgender ban. The three-judge panel dissolved the lower court's order staying the ban, but did issue a stay pending appeal. Hegseth, earlier this year, imposed a sweeping ban on transgender military service as part of a broader effort to raise physical and mental standards in the service branches and to remove political elements from military culture. President Donald Trump's Department of Defense imposed a more limited ban in his first term....

2+ hour, 2+ min ago (24+ words) Select LA Board of Supervisors members propose to reinstate a suicide hotline service targeting LGBTQ+ youth. Measure proposed to serve LA County LGBTQ+ youth...

2+ hour, 8+ min ago (294+ words) A total of 78 lawmakers representing the coalition government led by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico voted in favor of the move in the 150-seat parliament, despite critical voices at home and abroad. President Peter Pellegrini, usually an ally of Fico, expressed his reservations. Pellegrini has to sign the legislation to become law, but the government has a majority to override his possible veto. "The level of protection, as well as people's trust in the whistleblower protection system, which we have been working hard to build at the office over the past years, will be significantly weakened by this law," the Whistleblower Protection Office said in a statement. It was created in 2021 under EU rules. The government wants to create a new institution that would deal with the protection of whistleblowers and also crime victims. It said the previous rules were…...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago (932+ words) Here, we don't hit as hard as we can (unlike some Fight Clubs), but as hard as we feel comfortable receiving strikes on our own turn. We run drills with imaginary foes, then our instructors, then our classmates. This fight club is a carefully curated space of safety for queer and femme bodies, for those of us who never quite feel free of the giant target cis men often see on our backs. Here, we cultivate our own safety. We do this with consent, communication, and collaboration. We do this to build one another's strength and confidence. We do this to protect both ourselves and each other from the suffocating weight of the world around us. It's no secret that Florida, my home, is a complicated place " especially for a queer person. I've survived years of DeSantis's fearmongering and targeted…...