New German Intersex Law: Third Gender but not as we want it

Dr Grietje Baars (Senior Lecturer at The City Law School of University of London) thoroughly breaks down the issues surrounding the new draft law on gender registration, including issues of pathologization, gender self-determination, intersex genital mutilation (IGM), among others.

Ireland: Fr. James Martin Urges Welcome and Respect for LGBT Catholics at WMF

The movement in the United States and around the world to create LGBT-friendly parishes, which has worked for decades to welcome and include marginalized and alienated people, finally came into its own this week when, at the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Jesuit Father James Martin addressed the gathering about creating inclusive Catholic communities.