with Alan and Stephanie.

This week’s stories, shocking number of children bullied in Aberdeen schools due to race, body image, disability and sexual orientation, Going back on conversion therapy ban is sign of SNP cowardices, Wales NHS gender surgeries paused for review into referral numbers, and Good Law Project is defending the Greens against a ‘gender critical’ group.

In other news, LGBT+ veterans urged to come forward as hotspots for missing claimants revealed, conservative Americans were asked why queer people bother them – the answers are surprising. We share, ‘Keeping Children Safe In Education’ Guidance: An Explainer for Trans Children and Young People and their Parents and Carers and Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional.

In the good news, Judge in Muslim-majority country defends decision to legally acknowledge trans woman.

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