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.

If you have any comments or questions, email lgbt@shmu.org.uk and we’ll get back to you next week, and please follow this show on Spotify. It really helps!

This podcast is lifted from the Aberdabbadoo radio show, the UK’s longest running LGBT+ radio show, on shmuFM. Sundays, 11am to 1pm, on 99.8FM and DAB in and around Aberdeen and around the world on radio streaming platforms and shmu.org.uk or ask your smart speaker to play ‘Station House Media Unit’.

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.

If you have any comments or questions, email lgbt@shmu.org.uk and we’ll get back to you next week, and please follow this show on Spotify. It really helps!

This podcast is lifted from the Aberdabbadoo radio show, the UK’s longest running LGBT+ radio show, on shmuFM. Sundays, 11am to 1pm, on 99.8FM and DAB in and around Aberdeen and around the world on radio streaming platforms and shmu.org.uk or ask your smart speaker to play ‘Station House Media Unit’.

with Alan and Stephanie.

The headlines. Police Scotland's transgender strip search rules endorsed by judge, women’s and trans rights dominate Scottish Labour leadership hustings, I write queer romance so that people feel seen, NHS to roll out ‘life-saving’ medication to combat drug-resistant HIV, and we share the cabinet office’s response to two LGBT+ petitions.

In other news, new study challenges trans ‘advantage’ argument in women’s sports, know your rights: What to do if you’re stopped, challenged or photographed, Christians, If You’re Afraid of Trans People, Read This, and Gay principal accuses school board members of faking ‘grooming’ claims to fire him.

In the good news, new study finds that affirming teachers can have the biggest impact on trans kids’ success in school.

If you have any comments or questions, email lgbt@shmu.org.uk and we’ll get back to you next week, and please follow this show on Spotify. It really helps!

This podcast is lifted from the Aberdabbadoo radio show, the UK’s longest running LGBT+ radio show, on shmuFM. Sundays, 11am to 1pm, on 99.8FM and DAB in and around Aberdeen and around the world on radio streaming platforms and shmu.org.uk or ask your smart speaker to play ‘Station House Media Unit’.