Sir Ian McKellen will open a historic production of Twelfth Night, featuring an all-trans and non-binary cast.
The one-night-only rehearsed reading, staged by the theatre group Trans What You Will, will take place at The Space Theatre in London on July 25, 2025, and will be livestreamed globally. All profits will go to the UK-based trans charity Not A Phase.
The UK Supreme Court’s recent ruling on gender recognition has sparked division within the Labour Party, despite leader Keir Starmer’s claim that it provides “clarity.” The ruling defines “woman” in the Equality Act as referring only to biological women, leading the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to advise that transgender people should not be allowed to use toilets corresponding to their gender identity. Labour MPs, human rights groups, and campaigners argue that this decision creates confusion rather than clarity, with concerns about its impact on trans constituents.
JK Rowling has once again entered the political spotlight, this time by publicly offering to bankroll lawsuits from women incarcerated in facilities that also house transgender women. The controversial author, whose advocacy against trans inclusion in women’s spaces has drawn criticism from LGBTQ+ communities worldwide, made the pledge as part of an emerging wave of potential legal actions against the Scottish Prison Service (SPS).
(Variants of the Othala rune to the right. The winged one was used by the SS in nazi Germany).
So basically they have given the feminine Venus sign a square masculine shape. Is this deliberate? Probably not, but the fact that they like this kind of iconography says a lot about the psyche of the people running this fund.
LGBTQ refugees in the Gorom camp in South Sudan are facing forced eviction by the South Sudanese government, which wants them to relocate to Juba city. This move would leave them with less protection and limited support from the UN refugee agency UNHCR.
UNHCR has attempted to protect LGBTQ refugees in Gorom and Kakuma camp in Kenya, but resettlement quotas have dropped, leaving most refugees without immediate relocation prospects.
A UNHCR spokesperson has confirmed that hostility from local communities has increased, prompting the South Sudanese government to push for relocation. While UNHCR is advocating against forced evictions, it lacks funding for emergency responses, leaving refugees vulnerable to homophobia, transphobia, and displacement. The situation remains dire. Moving LGBTQ refugees into Juba without proper support could lead to disaster.
A group of LGBTQ climbers and advocates hung a large transgender pride flag in the middle of Yosemite’s famous El Capitan rock formation on Tuesday.
Trans Is Natural, which describes itself as a coalition of transgender, queer and ally climbers, said in a statement that its members unfurled the flag “in an act of solidarity and resistance.”
