LGBTIQ

ECHR, Case of A.P., Garçon and Nicot v. France, Strasbourg 6 April 2017, (Applications N° 79885/12, 52471/13 et 52596/13) (On French authorities' refusal to allow three transgender individuals to change the gender marker on their birth certificate without having undergone sterilization surgery).

A.S., a Uganda national, applied for asylum in Denmark.  She claimed she was wanted in Uganda and at risk of being killed there because she was a lesbian.  She was forced to marry a man and have three children, and when he died, she made a living working in a bar frequented by lesbians.  Three men made advances to her in the bar, she turned them down, and they became aggressive.  Her home was ransacked and burned, her belongings were stolen, and the police looked for her, including at her mother’s house.

Brazil’s Supreme Court decided by a majority that transgender individuals could change their legal name and gender originally included in their civil registry, without the presentation of psychological or medical evaluation, hormonal treatment, transition surgery, or any other medical procedure. The majority understood that no judicial authorization is necessary for the amendment, stating only a self-written report of the trans person is sufficient to change his/her legal name.

Direct Action of Unconstitutionality No. 5543 – Federal Supreme Court (2020)

Direct Action of Unconstitutionality by Omission No. 26 and Writ of Injunction No. 4733 – Federal Supreme Court (2019)

This Act was enacted to enforce the J.Y. Interpretation 748 and made same-sex marriage legal in Taiwan by legislation.

In Adams v. City of Mobile (S.D. Ala.

The 2017 Act amends and extends the law in relation to the adoption of children and made conforming amendments to other legislation.  Among other things, the Act, in conjunction with the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 (available here), enables adoption by same-sex couples. The Act, in particular, amends use of heterosexual phrases in legislation, introducing more neutral terminology for words such as “parent” and “relative” (Section 3).

Alabama Code § 16-40A-5 governs classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity within the Alabama public schools.

Alabama Code § 16-40A-2, outlines the required elements of sex education in the Alabama's public schools. The statute mandates that instruction emphasize abstinence as the only fully effective means of preventing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, and that abstinence outside marriage is the expected social norm for unmarried students.