The 2003 law requiring the removal of sex organs to obtain a state-recognised gender change has long been criticised.
We need respectable bedrooms for our neediest children,not grotesque stir-crazy jail cells,or we risk the next generation being even worse off than the current.
The Australian Human Rights Commission rejected the bid on the basis that sex is neither fixed nor binary and transgender women can be lesbians too.
In one hospital in northern Gaza,where there are seven newborns in the ICU hooked up to ventilators,evacuating “would mean death for them”.
The same day that Cheng Lei returned to Australia,the US condemned Beijing for its arrest of another target.
In 2020,Anna was pulled off a Qatar Airways plane and invasively searched. She says the inquiry probing the rejection of more Qatar flights was a wasted chance to question the country’s human rights record.
The rejection is a victory for Ukraine and the US as they seek to keep up pressure on Moscow over its invasion 18 months ago.
“Every single award will make me more intrepid,more resilient and more brave.”
“As months rolled by,Kopi started to behave strangely. We noticed that sometimes she was talking to herself or pulling out chunks of her own hair. At other times,she was still biting her arm.”
Lawyers who have spent years trying to overturn unlawful fines issued during the pandemic also said the federal government had taken a “nothing to see here” approach.
Darryl George,17,was suspended from school over his dreadlocks. His family says this was in breach of new laws preventing race-based hair discrimination.