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’.

with Alan and Stephanie.

This positive stories week, Scottish pub cancels comedy night after backlash over Pride post, Grindr pays £26m to settle UK lawsuit over allegedly sharing users’ HIV status, adolescents report low regret and high satisfaction following gender-affirming chest surgery, man duct taped to plane seat after racist, homophobic tirade, and trans advocates celebrate Bulgarian court’s ruling in favour of legal gender changes.

In other positive news, Swiss government backs federal ban on conversion therapy, how “queercrip” artists have rewritten the language of desire & disability, she was fired for refusing to censor LGBT+ books. She just got a big payback and even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it.

In the good news, Dolly Parton paid for the gender-affirming care of her “good friend” & chauffeur of 30 years.

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’.