with Alan and Stephanie.

The headlines. Isle of Bute woman to pay compensation over 'horrific' transphobic messages, attacks on LGBT+ health are a threat to all, haters are targeting a beloved trans teacher. Her defenders are fighting back, Moms for Liberty co-founder who had bi threesome rape scandal to lose school board seat, gay Republican group abandons transgender people, calling decision a return to ‘moral’ clarity, and confused Trump claims hospitals now perform “reverse surgery” on trans people “at my order”.

In the US, conservatives fume over fake claim Disney is making Mickey Mouse transgender, and controversial owner says Old State Saloon in Eagle is for sale. Here’s why, whilst in Africa, Niger criminalises same-sex intimacy for the first time in its history and Anglican archbishop in Ghana states, ‘We do not support criminalisation’.

In the good news, Texas drag ban shut down as judge cites Dolly Parton in ruling.

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