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Review: The Lady Boys of Bangkok – Summer of Fun

Review: The Lady Boys of Bangkok – Summer of Fun

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews The Lady Boys of Bangkok – Summer of Love Tour at the Sabai Pavilion at the Trafford Centre
The Lady Boys of Trafford

The Lady Boys of Trafford

The Lady Boys of Bangkok (complete with the newly made-over Sabai Pavilion) comes to the Trafford Centre as part of its brand-new Summer of Fun UK tour
Government’s conversion therapy ban to exclude trans people

Government’s conversion therapy ban to exclude trans people

Johnson’s exclusion of trans people from the conversion therapy ban will not be taken lying down
The real transgender issue: a review of Shon Faye’s new book

The real transgender issue: a review of Shon Faye’s new book

Aileen Loftus reviews Shon Faye’s new title The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice, after hearing Faye speak about the book
‘Being trans and doing trans’ in Detransition, Baby

‘Being trans and doing trans’ in Detransition, Baby

Detransition Baby has faced online hate from conservative groups in the form of an open letter, but that only intensifies the importance of the novel so consider it a must-read for 2021.
Essential LGBT biopics

Essential LGBT biopics

To celebrate this year’s LGBT History Month our writers picked the essential LGBT biographical films
Troubled Blood by J.K. Rowling: More troubling than troubled

Troubled Blood by J.K. Rowling: More troubling than troubled

Now the Twitter storm has died down, Aileen Loftus reads Troubled Blood in light of Rowling’s problematic views on transgender identity

LGBT History Month: body issues

In the last of this four-part series, Michael Petch looks at how unattainable beauty standards harm LGBT people

LGBT History Month: Blood Donation

Part three of four in the LGBT History Month series: this time, Michael Petch takes to task the barriers that make donating blood a problematic experience for LGBT people

LGBT History Month: coming out

In the second of this four-part series, Michael Petch discusses the dilemma of coming out, and the societal problems that stem from it

Can language eliminate discrimination?

With the word ‘cisgender’ established in the dictionary, does the term help or hinder the cause for transgender and other LGBT+ people?

Same-sex schools “ill-prepared” in dealing with transgender pupils, ATL warns

The conference aimed to encourage schools and colleges to be better informed and more sensitive when dealing with future cases of transgender students

Understanding the media’s transgender explosion

Harriet New discusses the powerful impact of the media’s influence on the narratives of the transgender community, and questions the future of the perception of trans men and women

Stonewall event to be held at North Campus

An LGBT+ panel discussion hosted as a collaboration between charity Stonewall, the Albert Kennedy Trust, and Sparkle, will be hosted by the University of Manchester this Sunday

Review: Vagina Monologues

The eye-opening and thought-provoking performance never lost its humour, despite the seriousness of the content, writes ‎Aimée Grant Cumberbatch

Fifty per cent of trans students consider dropping out

A 2014 study by the NUS also flagged up issues with LGBT harassment and bullying in UK universities