The Law Society, 2 November 2016 The Law Society and University of Adelaide have launched a new digital cyberbullying resource which deals with new revenge porn laws that came into force in SA on Friday. A cyberbullying section has been added to the app Out of Bounds (previously called The Naked Truth), which also explains the laws surrounding unlawful sexual intercourse and sexting. The new...
Terrence Higgins Trust, July 2016 ‘SRE: Shh… No Talking’ report, published in July 2016, highlighted that sex and relationships education (SRE) is inadequate or absent in many schools in the UK. The report was published following a survey of over 900 young people aged 16-24 and it revealed that: 99 per cent of young people surveyed thought SRE should be mandatory in all schools 97 per cent...
Star Observer, MARCH 15, 2016 AUSTRALIA’s most popular and influential sporting codes have committed to creating more inclusive environments for LGBTI people by participating in a new Pride in Sport Index. The initiative is similar to Pride in Diversity’s corporate program and its Australian Worplace Equality Index (AWEI), and will work with sporting codes to create sustainable change. Read more...
The Conversation, February 16, 2016 10.14am AEDT By Lucy Nicholas, Discipline coordinator and Lecturer in Sociology (gender and sexualities), Swinburne University of Technology Moralising commentaries about the Safe Schools Coalition are dangerously out of touch with the science of sex, the social research about gender and the realities of the ways that young people already understand their own...
University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, January 25, 2016
When compared with their heterosexual peers, sexual-minority youth score lower on key indicators of positive youth development–and those disparities may be due in part to more bullying of these adolescents, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers have found.
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Intersex Australia, 3 February 2016 The 2015 survey of people born with atypical sex characteristics has now been published. Here is a quick summary of some key points: “52% of the participants were allocated a female sex at birth, 41% male, 2% X, 2% unsure and 4% another option. Whilst most identified as female or male now, a smaller portion now identified as male compared to the portion...