December 2022 news summary

Grab a cuppa and catch up on some news, commentary, videos, and tweets from around the internet.

Warning: these links will sometimes lead you to places, language, and news that you may find upsetting or ridiculous.

• Fri, Dec 30, 2022 Trans woman sues female social media site #sallgrover #law #wa
  A transgender woman barred from using the female-only platform Giggle for Girls has accused the social media site of discrimination. In a Federal Court lawsuit filed on December 22, Roxanne Tickle claims she was unlawfully barred from using Giggle in September 2021 after the firm and its CEO Sally 'Sall' Grover said she was a man.

• Mon, Dec 26, 2022 The 555k followers of Glinner are glad to have him back on Twitter. #grahamlinehan

• Mon, Dec 26, 2022 Fred Sargeant pokes OJ on Twitter.

• Mon, Dec 26, 2022 Link to all of The Conversation's articles on homosexuality. You’ll have to make up your own mind about whether they’re doing a good job commenting on actual news about ‘homosexuality.’ #lgb #australia

• Sun, Dec 25, 2022 What are your rights and how can you seek support when coming out at work #work #comingout #IsaacHumphries

• Fri, Dec 23, 2022 UK: Serial Pedophile Complains About Being “Misgendered” During SECOND Arrest For Child Sexual Predation #pedophile #quote
  Hicks also insisted multiple times he was a woman, and that he was being “assaulted” while being held awaiting police under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, which allows for non-police arrests. He accused the volunteers of “misgendering” him, and warned that by doing so, they had committed a crime against him.

• Fri, Dec 23, 2022 The Greens in Victoria have created a special panel of inquiry that aims to investigate misconduct around transgender issues. Something that is predicted to fan the flames of the internal hostilities within the party. »»https://bityl.co/GKa4

• Fri, Dec 23, 2022 Rishi Sunak’s government is threatening to block a new law that would make Scotland the first part of the UK to introduce a self-identification system for people who want to change gender. »»https://bityl.co/GKYJ

• Thu, Dec 22, 2022 Victorian Greens set up panel to investigate and sanction transphobia #LindaGale »»https://bityl.co/GKjb

• Thu, Dec 22, 2022 Spain, Scotland pass laws promoting trans rights, lower age for gender change #spain #scotland

• Thu, Dec 22, 2022 Hecklers interrupt passing of Scottish gender recognition bill – video #scotland #video

• Thu, Dec 22, 2022 Bendigo Pride Festival's new oral history project is turning a queer eye on the region's history #bendigo #history #stories #gaynotqueer

• Tue, Dec 20, 2022 Female Prison Guard Diagnosed With PTSD After Being Forced To Monitor A Trans-Identified Male In A Women’s Prison »»https://bityl.co/GL09 #Canada

• Wed, Dec 7, 2022 Doomed to Repeat: Gender Ideology and the Repressed Memory Movement. #psychiatry #medicine #diagnosis »»https://bityl.co/GLfW
  The current trend to diagnose children as transgender bears an eerie similarity to a previous social panic. As with the previous panic of the 80s and 90s, the current trend is harming those it is supposed to help, and forcing them to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives.

• Tue, Dec 6, 2022 Average of 20 gay men bashed every day for over 40 years, NSW inquiry told #police #nsw #australia #inquiry #men #violence

  And, in case you missed it, another refusal to allow other people to speak …

• Wed, Apr 20, 2022 LGB Alliance (UK) statement on withdrawal of funding to film. »»https://twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1516708561967095809 #film

By Justin Ian, volunteer writer