with Alan, Stephanie and Lex.

In the news, Glasgow trans teens say they've been 'spat at' and had ‘stones thrown at them’ in city centre, Andy Burnham failing trans community as Labour policies tighten, report finds NHS England policy for trans people could have ‘a number of adverse impacts’, and researchers warn that heart disease risk in transgender adults remains dangerously understudied.

In other news, it’s time to stop fighting each other & remember why queer media exists at all, the anti-LGBT+ political climate isn’t driving folks back into the closet. It’s doing the opposite, Ted Cruz rants about “transgender witches” in bizarre plea for “ordinary Americans” to vote, and a Republican leader called 2 trans Democrats mentally ill. They minced no words in their scathing replies.

Also in the US, Fox News tried to get Pete Buttigieg to slam a Democrat Senate candidate. He turned the tables instead. Elsewhere, anti-LGBT+ countries get to guard human rights for the U.N. and Hungarian lawmakers vote to cut anti-LGBT+ legislation from Orbán-era law.

In the good news, Zelenskyy signs new human rights strategy that includes protections for LGBT+ people.

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 your podcast platform. 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, Stephanie and Lex.

In the news, councillor cleared over gender debate comments, restoring trans rights, why older LGBT+ people fear losing identity, Seattle passes measure to protect non-monogamous people as protected class, three people in hospital after stabbing near LGBT+ bar in Liverpool and giving in to anti-trans hysteria is not a winning strategy for democrats.

In other news, history will damn us for our treatment of trans kids, Republican attacks on Democrat Chris Gallant’s X-rated past backfire in the wildest possible way and she spouted anti-trans lies to oppose a rainbow crosswalk. Now she’s facing consequences.

In the good news, a queer Torah study group is showing LGBT+ people they have always belonged in Judaism.

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 your podcast platform. It really helps!

We’re taking a mental health break. Normal service will be resumed on Monday 26th October. If you listen to the radio show, you’ll get a chance to hear the repeat of my special coming out series. The radio show returned on Sunday 25th October.

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, 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.

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’.