with Alan, Stephanie and Lex

The headlines: toll of LGBT+ education debate laid bare inside council chamber, Glasgow LGBT+ bookshop 'blown away' by support after 'transphobic attack', Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBT+ activists and journalists, critics claim trans people ‘defy biology’. New research suggests otherwise, and opposing gay actors in straight roles is ‘prejudice’.

In the US, a school banned all clubs rather than allow a gay-straight alliance. Students sued & won Elon Musk is reusing Trump’s anti-trans strategy. It’s unlikely to work, Vivian Jenna Wilson tells fans: “Disobey” — don’t be a Republican “scapegoat”, right-wing pastor reckons ‘uncircumcised people’ are trying to ‘steal’ the US, and San Francisco opens world’s first Chinese LGBT+ museum

In the good news, in Canada, Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven.

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