Sophie Perry

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BBC ‘apologizes’ to ex-presenter for ‘homophobic abuse’

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The BBC has allegedly issued a “formal, full and unconditional apology” to a former radio presenter for “repeated incidents of homophobic and discriminatory abuse” which he received while working at the corporation.  Jack Murley, who worked as a presenter for BBC Radio Cornwall for five years, was sacked in 2024 for breaching the BBC’s editorial and social media policies with posts that criticised cuts to local radio and which the broadcaster said failed to be impartial.  Murley took the BBC to employment tribunal in which he alleged he was discriminated against for being a gay man as well as a union […]

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Trans National Security Agency employee sues Trump administration for ‘denying her existence’

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A trans employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) is suing the Trump administration over its anti-trans executive orders and policies, which the employee says violate federal civil rights law. Sarah O’Neill, a data scientist at the intelligence agency, has disputed the legality of Executive Order 14168, which was signed by Donald Trump in January following his return to the White House for his second term and stated that the US would henceforth only recognise “two sexes, male and female” and these are “immutable”.  The executive order, titled ‘Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the […]

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All-female college says it will continue to welcome trans women despite gender-critical complaints

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Cambridge University’s women-only college is reportedly continuing to welcome trans women, despite the UK Supreme Court ruling on gender. Newnham College, founded in 1871 and which counts broadcaster Clare Balding, novelist Iris Murdoch and actress Miriam Margolyes among its alumni, is believed to have created a new policy document that allows trans students to access single-sex spaces and facilities. The decision, reported by MailOnline, comes little more than six months after a decision was handed down in the case of For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers, which deemed the definition of “sex” for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act meant biological sex only.  […]

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Swimmer banned after refusing gender test: ‘My life and privacy have been invaded enough’

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Hannah Caldas has been banned by World Aquatics for five years for refusing to take part in a gender-verification test, but she says if the suspension is the price she has to pay to “protect my most intimate medical information” then she is “happy to pay”. Caldas, who also goes by Ana, took part in the World Aquatics Masters Championships in Doha in 2024, finishing first in her age category in the women’s 100m freestyle, and also competed in the Spring Nationals run by US Masters Swimming (USMS) in San Antonio, Texas in April, winning several events. In response to the […]

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What – or who – is behind the troubling and sinister rise in fake LGBTQ+ news on Facebook?

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Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb refused to wear a rainbow armband during a game, Olympian Mollie O’Callaghan pledged to no longer compete if trans swimmer Lia Thomas is allowed to, and singer Sam Smith took issue with conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel, as two individuals, using they/them pronouns.  You might have seen these divisive posts on Facebook, you might even have been outraged by them or shared them, but they’re not real – they are anti-LGBTQ+ disinformation falsely framed as legitimate news content.  You only need to make a cursory Google search to see the claims can be […]

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UK Home Office releases updated hate crime statistics – but they don’t tell the full story

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The number of anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales have marginally decreased, but they are still not figures to celebrate. Home Office figures published on Thursday (9 October) show in the year ending March 2025 there were a total of 115,990 hate crime offences, up from 113,166 the year previous year, which marks a two per cent increase. Notably, these figures exclude the Met Police due to a change in the way in which the force’s data is recorded, hence its numbers are excluded from year-on-year comparisons. Because the Met Police covers the UK’s largest LGBTQ+ population (London), its exclusion likely […]

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For many LGBTQ+ refugees, coming out isn’t a choice

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LGBTQ+ refugees may face outing in their home countries before being dragged through an archaic asylum system that forces them to ‘prove’ their identities to complete strangers, case studies from a refugee charity shared for National Coming Out Day show.  National Coming Out Day takes place every year on 11 October and was first celebrated in 1988, with the date marking the one year anniversary of the the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. It was created to honour LGBTQ+ people who decided to come out and live their lives openly as queer people.  Coming out is a […]

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Plane forced to land after passenger wearing 15 masks claims LGBTQ+ people are giving him cancer

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A domestic flight in the US was forced to make an unscheduled landing after a passenger shouted out that LGBTQ+ people were giving him cancer and that “the plane is going down”. The Sun Country Airlines plane left Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport at around at 7.15am on Friday (3 October) bound for Newark, New Jersey, but was forced to land in Chicago little more than an hour later – about halfway through the scheduled flight time.  Speaking to The Minnesota Star Tribune, passenger Seth Evans said the unruly man was sitting across the aisle from him and acted erratically throughout the […]

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Milwaukee Gets Two New Rainbow Crosswalks

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: New street art in Walker’s Point commemorates the neighorhood’s rich LGBTQ history. Crosswalks at the intersection of 2nd Street and National Avenue are now painted rainbow, in a design by street artist Jeremy Novy. The project was led by the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project, as a way to show the neighborhood’s pride and inclusiveness as a safe space for all. The new artwork was unveiled at a dedication ceremony Oct. 6, with remarks from Milwaukee leaders including Mayor Cavalier Johnson. “Today we’re here to celebrate legacy. For more than 80 years, the Walker’s Point neighborhood has been […]

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Bodies of three trans women found ‘bullet-riddled’ in Pakistan’s largest city

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The bodies of three trans women have been found dumped on the side of the road in Karachi, Pakistan. The gruesome find was made in the Memon Goth area of the city, the largest in Pakistan, on Sunday (21 September). Police spokesman Javed Ahmed Abro told the AFP news agency that the bodies were “bullet-riddled”. All three victims were shot at close range. Syed Murad Ali Shah, the provincial chief minister for Sindh, the province in which Karachi is located, said: “Transgender persons are a vulnerable segment of society and we must all give them dignity and respect.” Meanwhile, activists in the region described the […]

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