Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: Employment tribunal contradicts two other judgments, and will likely force NHS Trust to segregate Trans+ people

It's pretty clear to us. Censorship of LGBTQIA+ content is on the rise, and fighting against algorithms is getting harder. All the while, mainstream media is failing us.

So ahead of our annual LGBT+ History Month crowdfunder in February. We want to hear from you - what do you think is the most valuable way we can improve access to LGBTQIA+ journalism?

We've come up with a long list, but one of our founding values is that our audience is our most important editor. So that's why we want QueerAF newsletter readers to decide which three ideas are the best ways to get even more LGBTQIA+ people the information they need to fight back.

We'll tally up your votes to decide what new initiatives QueerAF will run this year if we meet our annual crowdfunding goal.

Right now, all we want is one minute of your time - to pick which pledges you'd like us to see take forward. This is your chance to shape the direction of our community's media and help us improve access to critical information for our liberation.

The link is at the end of the newsletter too.

Jamie Wareham
Founder of QueerAF

Understand the LGBTQIA+ headlines and keep track of the latest queer content and perspectives. The QueerAF newsletter is written by Jamie Wareham and a different queer creative each week.

💬 This week:

• Darlington Nurses: The long awaited results of the Darlington Nurses tribunal ruled that a trans woman did not harass them. However, its ruling also said their employer did harass them by allowing her to change in the women's changing rooms. We explore.
• Moving Away: A UK health minister says it supports changes that "move away" from medical interventions in young people, amid growing contention around the UK's puberty blocker trial for Trans+ youth.
• Bisexuality: Following ONS data that was widely interpreted as a 'reduction' in people identifying as Bi, Florence Scordoulis explores how the statistics should instead be viewed as a thermostat test on how it’s increasingly difficult to come out as Bisexual.

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Darlington Nurses were not harassed by trans colleague, but court rules trans women in single-sex spaces "violates dignity"

TLDR: The long-awaited results of the Darlington Nurses tribunal ruled that a trans woman operating theatre practitioner who used a women's changing area did not harass or victimise eight nurses, as they have long claimed. However, it ruled that the NHS trust did indirectly discriminate against and harass the nurses by allowing Trans+ people to use the single sex space.