How do sexual and gender minorities use social media to express themselves construct their identities? We discuss findings drawn from focus groups conducted with 17 minority users who shared experiences of online harms. They include people gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, queer, asexual, non-binary, pansexual, poly, kink (LGBTQ+) identities. find that face several challenges online, but platforms...

Housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a critical problem facing LGBTQ+ people in United States. In addition, people, particularly transgender disproportionately suffer from homelessness face by homeless shelters identity. This both affect color. Note makes two contributions that would enable courts to grant meaningful relief these contexts. First, it a...

and female one, as Eric Vilain from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA, and colleagues have reviewed recently (Nat. Rev. Endocrinol. (2014) 10, 603–615). While these variations of human sex between male and female are not necessarily linked to the psychological issue of gender identity, both display a spectrum of many different shades that is much more complex than the traditional...

The paper considers and rejects two arguments against the performance of sexual reassignment surgery. First, it is argued that the operation is not mutilating, but functionally enabling. Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not know (ordinarily) what it is. The paper is also intended to shed light on wha...