News Archives: 11/2022

The Green Party’s Alison Teal has been suspended after Eddie Izzard using the toilet annoyed her.

A tweet in which the BBC apologises to transphobes for not being transphobic enough has attracted widespread criticism; “you should be better than this”.

The aftermath of the massacre at Club Q continues to show clearly how dangerous the world has become for LGBTQ+ people.

When is a report not a report? When it’s a letter seen by a transphobic journalist at the BBC.

“everyone is talking on the scene” – What does the success of Kim Petras and Sam Smith say about the UK’s attitude towards trans people? Oscar Rees writes;

Trans Awareness Week is over for another year, coming to a close with Trans Remembrance Day, but given the silence of the UK’s politicians, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it had been deliberately ignored by many.

Last month, I had the privilege of performing in an original trans play called Real Boy – written by my talented friend (and director) Finn Evans and Ramonah Gibson – which follows a trans boy fighting for a Disney-like Pinocchio dream of ‘becoming a real boy’.

The BBC’s obfuscation of transphobia has reached a new low with a report on social media toxicity. The report has allegedly been censored in “real time” to obfuscate transphobia, with the article also failing to mention transphobia’s contribution to the figures – amongst other issues.

Even now in 2022 the NHS remains the largest non-military public organisation on earth, with values designed to improve the lives of every single person in the UK… Unless, it seems, you’re transgender.