Sarah Clarke

The sacking and eventual banning from teaching of evangelical Christian teacher Joshua Sutcliffe over what the BBC calls a “transgender row” generated a lot of breathless headlines. With claims from the press that Sutcliffe was sacked for misgendering. But as Sarah Clarke writes, there’s always more to the story than the headlines will tell you.

Disinformation about queer rights history is rife and often spread by people pushing an anti-trans agenda by, somewhat successfully, arguing that T is new and dragging the rest of the acronym down. But is that true? Answering the question when was the T added to LGBT, Sarah Clarke writes;