YEAR 16, NUMBER 1, 29 APRIL 2023

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>>>27 April, 2023 - The European UNIQUE project approaches its final date. Several closing events are taking place, like a conference in Brussels (and online), round tables to discuss policy recommendations and closing events in the participating countries Greece, Cyprus, Croatia, Poland and Bulgaria. Members of GALE can now also give feedback to the UNIQUE policy recommendations!
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>>>4 April, 2023 - On May 2, GALE is hosting a short online information and discussion session on the RAINBO project. The project aimed to reduce the risks of LGBTIQ+ in times of COVID-19 by offering online training to health professionals. The project resulted in a (free) online training platform. The session will take place via Zoom from 16:00-17:00 and will be in Dutch. Similar meetings will be held in Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and the UK.
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>>>March 6, 2023 - UNESCO has published a new set of tools to guide the implementation of the Right to Education. This review of the tools and their background shows how international perspectives gradually embrace a true inclusivity of the Right to Education. International experts include gender identity and sexual orientation in their views, although these views have not yet been legally endorsed by all States. Still, the news tools offer opportunities to include inclusion of SOGIESC in educational monitoring and policy planning of States.

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>>>15 March 1, 2023 - A recent international research by the University of Córdoba and the European BOOST project showed that when schools focus on securing a safer school climate, this also increases the emotional intelligence of students. Although the study did not specifically go into nondiscrimination, it is likely that antidiscrimination programs focusing on LGBTIQ+ should also focus on developing emotional intelligence.

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>>>21 April, 2023 - The UNIQUE project warns against increasing discrimination against LGBTIQ+ through social media. The project, which focuses on integration of LGBTIQ+ topics in institutions for vocational education, is increasingly encountering challenges in their own publications about the project. But the project also notices a wider trend to forbid or restrict the reach of messages about gender and sexual diversity in general.

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OTHER NEWS

• 28 April 2023 – A superintendent from US Florida could lose his job for defying Ron DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” law
• 28 April 2023 – US Texas school district cancels trip to “James & the Giant Peach” play after parent complained about “drag”
• 28 April 2023 – US mother’s involvement with anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Moms for Liberty drove her gay son to attempt suicide
• 27 April 2023 – 1 in 4 U.S. high school students identifies as LGBTQ
• 24 April 2023 – US Alabama governor Kay Ivey forces state education director to resign after she recommended a teacher training book that promotes inclusion of all students
• 21 April 2023 – UNIQUE project warns against increasing discrimination through social media
• 21 April 2023 – US House of Representatives adopts proposal to ban trans kids from sports in states across the US, but luckily Democrats have enough senators to stop such a law
• 20 April 2023 – A third of UK librarians has been asked to censor or remove books, like LGBT books
• 19 April 2023 – Twitter now allows deadnaming again
• 19 April 2023 – US Florida bans teaching about gender identity in all public schools
• 14 April 2023 – Australian Presbyterian Church push to ban gay student leaders sparks backlash
• 13 April 2023 – Hungary adopts law stimulating promoting snitching on “illegal” LGBT families
• 12 April 2023 – US school district punishes teacher for revealing ban on Miley Cyrus & Dolly Parton’s “Rainbowland”
• 11 April 2023 – Students will walk out of more than 300 US Florida high schools to protest increasing number of extremist “Don’t Say Gay” laws
• 10 April 2023 – USA Federal judge says Christian teacher has no right misgender students
• 5 April 2023 – US Idaho approves bill to jail doctors for 10 years if they help trans youth
• 3 April 2023 – US Federal judge gives Texas county 24 hours to return banned LGBTQ+ books to library shelves
• 30 March 2023 – US Californian trans teacher gets death threats after Fox News articles about their LGBTQ+ books
• 30 March 2023 – On March 17 the Kyrgyzstani Parliament started to draft legislation which aims to prohibit so-called propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships
• 29 March 2023 – US Tennessee trans people fear violent backlash as trans identity blamed for school shooting
• 27 March 2023 – US Idaho passes disgraceful law letting students sue for “emotional harm” if they see a trans kid in the restroom
• 27 March 2023 – University students from US Texas sue its president canceling a drag show and comparing it to blackface
• 27 March 2023 – US Wisconsin Heyer Elementary school bans kids from singing Dolly Parton & Miley Cyrus song because it mentions rainbows
• 24 March 2023 – US Utah Republican lawmaker “very sad” that a parent is using his book-banning law to ban the “sex-ridden” Bible
• 22 March 2023 – US Arkansas’s governor signs anti-trans bathroom bill. But schools are required to take "reasonable measures" to provide private bathrooms.
• 13 March 2023 – New Zealand Christian school shuts down instead of closing conversion therapy program
• 3 March 2023 – Anti-LGBTQ+ university’s round-the-clock revival turns into measles superspreader event
• 22 February 2023 – Chinese university students disciplined over rainbow flags file lawsuit against Education Ministry
• 15 February 2023 – US senators Santos and Taylor Greene cosponsor federal book ban bill
• 26 January 2023 – US North Dakota Republicans introduced a bill to ban students who identify as animals from public schools
• 23 January 2023 – US Florida teachers told to remove books from classroom libraries or risk felony prosecution
• 23 January 2023 – European Court of Human Rights fines Lithuania for putting warning label on LGBT children’s book
• 12 January 2023 – 13-year-old boy died in France by suicide after homophobic bullying at school
• 9 January 2023 – Students say Florida school play shut down over Don’t Say Gay
• 4 January 2023 – US federal court rules against trans student’s right to use the correct bathroom

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