Substantial progress has been made this week in protecting transgender rights. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled Tuesday to extend sex-discrimination protection to transgender women. Meanwhile, in Nepal, a ground breaking ruling established a national third gender. It also pledged to abolish all laws that discriminate based on gender, to protect people who identify with ...
The ban on gay marriage in California, Proposition 8, has been ruled unconstitutional according to an appeal court in San Francisco. The long-standing battle about whether to allow gay marriage in California will now likely make its way to the Supreme Court where opponents want to make sure the ban stays in place. The recent ...
Although medicine continues to make tremendous leaps and bounds (just look at Charla Nash’s new face), it’s certainly not infallible. Amy Colton is just one woman who has first hand experience of its imperfections. When she hit 40, she was diligent about getting regular mammograms. But seven years after her first one, she discovered the ...
Knowing the law gives you the best tool to bend it but it doesn’t ensure you’ll get away clean, especially when your shady line of business means making big bucks from people’s desperation. Theresa Erickson, a lawyer specializing in reproductive law, pleaded guilty to wire fraud for faking surrogacy documents she presented to the San ...
Two porn producers have been fined by California regulators for filming condom free porn. Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video was fined $14,175 for three violations. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health also fined Forsaken Pictures $12,150 for similar infringements. The complaints were brought by the AIDS Health Foundation. Presently, porn studios are required to maintain ...
Break out the rainbow confetti! A California judge has struck down Proposition 8 has being unconstitutional. However this is just one more step on the way to the final decision of the Supreme Court. Today District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage is unconstitutional. His ruling reads: Proposition 8 fails ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
