Britain’s shadow equalities minister has called for a press that challenges transphobia, rather than fuels it.

Kate Green made the comments at as transgender campaigners and politicians met in Britain’s Parliament to discuss UK press coverage of trans issues and individuals.

The meeting in the House of Commons last night (15 May) was organized by LGBT Labour, the gay and trans group of the opposition party.

An Italian teacher working in the North African country of Eritrea has been deported for his sexuality.

The International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) reported that Paolo Mannina was working as a literature professor in an Italian school located in the capital city of Asmara.

Authorities reportedly forced the professor from his job and made him leave the country without offering an official explanation.

A high school mathematics teacher who openly talked to some of her students about being a transgender woman was summoned to a hearing for her dismissal.

Marina, who has been for the past three years an outstanding teacher and mentor, says Israel’s Center for Educational Technology (CET) wants her fired for merely discussing her gender identity.

A seven-year-old girl has written a poem for her transgender teacher who is believed to have killed herself.

Daisy Moreton read out the poem at a march celebrating the life of Lucy Meadows in Accrington in Lancashire, England.

It reads:

‘Makes you happy
in high spirits
smiles
said kind things

Fifty three students have been expelled from two of the leading high schools in Ghana for being gay.

The events have erupted into an anti-gay media frenzy in Ghana.

Ninteen pupils at Opoku Ware Secondary High School in Ashanti Ghana were dismissed for ‘practicing homosexuality’ in the school.

Ghanaian human rights activists are condemning the school’s action as ‘evil’ and ‘bad’ and are calling for the government to intervene.

Thousands are calling for a fired lesbian coach to be reinstated after her Catholic school discovered her sexuality through her mother's obituary.

An online petition, supported by teachers and alumni has received more than 10,000 signatures.

Carla Hale was fired from Bishop Watterson high school by the Columbus Diocese in Ohio over her sexuality.

After 19 years, Carla Hale was fired from her job as a physical education Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, Ohio.

The firing from the Catholic high school came shortly after a parent complained about the name of Hale's female partner appearing in a newspaper obituary on 28 March for Hale's mother who recently died.

A female teacher was found dead last month at her home in Accrington, Lancashire, north-west England. The police have said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. Although the coroner is yet to release the cause of death Twitter and Facebook are awash with allegations of transphobic bullying from the mainstream press with the suggestion that led Lucy Meadows to take her own life.

A parliamentary debate is being planned in order to learn lessons from the treatment of transgender teacher Lucy Meadows, who died last week.

Her MP Graham Jones, Labour backbencher, is seeking to debate in parliament about the circumstances leading to Meadows’ death.

After a local newspaper ‘outed’ her last December, the Daily Mail also reported on her transition and columnist Richard Littlejohn wrote an opinion piece stating she was ‘in the wrong job’.

British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mail is being urged to fire columnist Richard Littlejohn over the untimely death of a transgender primary school teacher.

Lucy Meadows, who died at the young age of 32, was the subject of a ‘shock’ story about her transition last year.

While some commentators are claiming the death was a suicide, it is important to note a coroner has not verified this.

It is also a possibility Meadows’ death had nothing to do with the tabloid press reporting on her transition.

A primary school transgender teacher – who was subject of a ‘shock’ story about her transition in British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail – has been found dead.

Some commentators are claiming the death was a suicide, although this has not yet been verified.

The death of Lucy Meadows, 32, was announced to pupils and staff at St Mary Magdalen’s School, in Accrington, Lancashire, north west England where she taught.

A gay bar in a wet mid-winter London may seem as far from Tennessee as you could get. But one proud Redneck is sparking a new trend in Britain’s LGBT scene by bringing country music and Southern hospitality to the UK capital.

The Tennessee many gay Brits imagine is the one that is currently debating a bill aimed at outing school kids and making it illegal for teachers to discuss LGBT issues. But that’s not what the South is really about – and Tennessee boy Baylen Leonard is determined to prove it.