Queen guitarist Brian May has posted a social media rebuttal to a published account of comments that he allegedly made on the trans community.

“We would be forced to have people of different colours and different sexes and we would have to have a trans [person].

He blamed “predatory Press hacks” that made him seem “unfriendly to trans people.”.

And it’s led to a whole mess of press stories making it look like I’m unfriendly to trans people.

My heart is open as always to humans of all colours, all creeds, all sexes and sexualities, all shapes and sizes – and all creatures