Category: gender affirmation

Biden Issues Executive Order Seeking to Restrict LGBT ‘Conversion Therapy’

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that seeks to address conversion therapy, a practice that attempts to change an individual’s sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual or their gender identity from transgender to cisgender using either physical, psychological, or spiritual tactics. The order asks the United States Department of Health and…


ANZ Bank Gives Transgender Staff 6 Weeks of Paid Leave

The ANZ bank will allow transgender and gender-diverse staff in Australia and New Zealand to take six weeks of paid leave and up to 12 months of unpaid leave so that they could affirm their gender. The bank, which is Australia’s second-largest by assets with more than 40,000 staff globally, announced on Monday that the…