AUS Hate Debate & Trans Ban Tactics!

The marriage plebiscite debate gets down and dirty Down Under as you’ll hear in comments by Dr. Pansy Lai, Lyle Shelton, Dr. Kerryn Phelps, Tiernan Brady, P.M. Malcolm Turnbull, Lauren Foy, Alex Greenwich and Professor George Williams (music by Michael Ross, and Jade Leonard featuring Dolly Diamond and Luke Gallagher). Canberra correspondent Barry McKay reports.

Queer legal eagles James Esseks of the ACLU and Jillian Weiss of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund make the case against the constitutionality of President Trump’s order to purge the U.S. military of transpeople (with Gay USA’s Ann Northrop and music by The Clash).

And in NewsWrap: wedding dreams come true for Maltese gays and lesbians, Israel’s top court rejects civil marriage suitors, Chile’s Bachelet follows through on marriage proposal, queer Chechens find refuge in Toronto, "X" marks the passport for non-binary Canadians, and more international LGBT news reported this week by Tanya Kane-Parry and Wenzel Jones (produced by Steve Pride, written by Greg Gordon).

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