Hundreds attend a Pride festival in Nepal's capital, a campaign for LGBTQ inclusion in sports returns to Guernsey, and a court in Australia rules that a trans woman's ban from a female's-only app is discriminatory.
Hundreds Attend Pride Festival In Nepal’s Capital
Hundreds of people attended the Pride festival in Nepal's Capital city, Kathmandu. It became the first Pride since couples have been able to legally register same-sex marriages.
According to Pink News, the festival coincided with the festival of Gai Jatra, which celebrates those who have died in the past year.
“Gai Jatra festival is a festival that has a long tradition, and we all are here to help preserve and continue the tradition, and as a sexual minority are doing our part to save the tradition,” said Bhumika Shrestha, a gay rights activist. “We also celebrate the day as a Pride parade.”
Nepal is the second Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage, following Taiwan.
Campaign For LGBTQ Inclusion In Sports Returns to Guernsey
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Pride in Sport, a campaign aimed to help LGBTQ people in sport overcome discrimination and feel included, has returned to Guernsey.
According to the BBC, the group has been handing out rainbow laces and sweatbands for people who want to support the LGBTQ community.
"When you look at the statistics of young LGBTQ+ people, they pull out of sport in huge numbers,” said Ellie Jones, chief executive of Charity Liberate.
Liberate has partnered with accounting firm Ernst & Young, so the laces and bands can be handed out for free.
"Sports should be available to everybody and nobody should be put off by it just because of who they are and how they may then be treated."
Court Rules Trans Woman’s Ban From App Discriminatory
Roxanne Tickle. Photo via The Roxy Epoch, Facebook.
A court in Australia ruled that a transgender woman was unlawfully discriminated against when she was barred from a female-only social media application.
According to Al Jazeera, Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from the state of New South Wales, was subjected to “indirect gender discrimination” when she was blocked from the Giggle for Girls app in 2021 on the basis that she was born a man.
Tickle is considered female under the law, as per her birth certificate, and underwent gender-affirming surgery in 2019.
Sall Grover, the creator of the app, argued that women-only spaces should be allowed to limit access to “cisgender” women, or those whose birth sex aligns with their gender identity.
However, this argument was to no avail, as the court held that the app had discriminated against Tickle as its use was conditioned on her having the “appearance of a cisgender woman.”
The court ordered that Tickle be paid 10,000 Australian dollars ($6,700) in compensation, plus legal fees. The court declined Tickle’s claim for an apology, saying that it would be “futile and inappropriate to require an inevitably insincere apology to be made.”
