Fear and Loathing

US: Cambridge teacher suspended over transgender handout

A school health teacher was suspended with pay and a second day of presentations by a staff member from the Pride Center of the Capital Region was canceled after parents of seventh-grade students raised concerns over a handout about transgender topics.

Egypt: Lawmakers introduce LGBT criminalization bill

“It could be voted on within a week or months,” said @Egaypt. “But either way its terrifying as it sets a new trend that could (and will) spread to other countries in the region that are socially homophobic, but have no anti-LGBTQ laws.”