#JAPAN: Many people were trapped in a collapsed shopping centre in Japan following a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the country. Advertisement#EUROPE: Firefighters in Spain and France continued to battle wildfires that have led to mass evacuations. Anti-trans sentiment has bled into many areas of public conversation, often echoing the homophobic tropes of the late 20th century. Over the last couple of decades, we’ve seen outdated societal attitudes towards gay, lesbian and bisexual people abandoned, to the point where it’s widely accepted that these misconceptions are wildly inappropriate. To complicate things further, there’s a new layer of amplification in the age of social media, which means that unfiltered, unmoderated and factually inaccurate prejudices can spread like wildfire.