3 h. ago Barclays says bank will bar trans women from using female bathrooms

Boss confirms policy change as businesses move to comply with recent supreme court rulingThe boss of Barclays has said the bank will prohibit trans women from using female bathrooms in its buildings in the wake of the recent supreme court ruling.The bank’s chief executive, CS Venkatakrishnan, told reporters that the group would not allow trans women to use female bathrooms, to ensure that it complies with the law. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Barclays confirms trans women will be banned from using female toilets after Supreme Court ruling

Barclays chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan, known as Venkat, said the group would not allow trans women to use female lavatories to ensure it complies with the law.

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4 h. ago Barclays bank to block trans women from using female toilets

Barclays also ditched the diversity targets at its US business earlier this month

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5 h. ago Barclays confirms trans women to be barred from using ladies’ toilets

Group chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan said the move follows the recent Supreme Court ruling that the term woman is defined by biological sex.

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7 h. ago FA ‘carefully reviewing’ transgender inclusion policy after Supreme Court ruling

The FA’s policy currently permits transgender women to play alongside those born female.

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21 h. ago SFA to ban transgender women from playing in women’s football

Scottish Football Association updates guidelines on issueChange comes a week after UK supreme court rulingThe Scottish Football Association is to ban transgender women from participating in women’s football after updating its guidelines.From next season only biological women will be able to take part in women’s competitive football, a term that applies to matches from under-13s up. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Transgender women unable to compete in women’s football in Scotland next season

The Scottish Football Association is understood to have taken a final decision to update its policy following a Supreme Court ruling on April 16.

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27 h. ago Scottish FA rule on whether transgender women can compete in women's football after Supreme Court verdict

New ruling to come into effect from next season

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28 h. ago Justice for dad bods! After women said Olly Murs looked better before he got ultra ripped, which physique do YOU really prefer?

When the singer, 38, decided to show fans how his body transformed in just 12 weeks, he probably wasn't expecting to become the centre of a heated debate.

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28 h. ago Eurovision star Nemo takes action after UK court ruling on transgender women

Eurovision winner Nemo is standing up for transgender rights

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28 h. ago Britain’s first transgender judge takes UK to European court over controversial definition of a woman ruling

Row is over supreme court ruling trans women are not legally women

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28 h. ago SFA set to ban transgender women competing in women's football

The move comes after the UK Supreme Court announced that the Equality Act's definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

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30 h. ago My mum died in A&E last month – and the place was like a war zone | Zoe Williams

Amid the debate about trans people on hospital wards we have lost sight of dignity, respect and the horrifying reality of a health service in meltdownAnother morning, another absolutely bananas conversation about transgender people, without any trans people involved, following the supreme court ruling that permits the exclusion from single-sex spaces of anyone not born into that sex. On BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Emma Barnett was asking care minister Stephen Kinnock about wards in hospitals, and came out with the immortal line: “Do you think it’s right for trans people to be segregated from other patients, as an interim measure, or for the future?”Great save, that “for the future” – because if you’re going to interpret this ruling as a requirement to exclude trans people, what does that mean in practice? Trans women on men’s wards, trans men on women’s wards? This delivers dignity and respect to precisely no one; so, sure, “segregate” away, and it would have to be for ever, beca...

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31 h. ago Doctors condemn Supreme Court ruling on trans women as ‘scientifically illiterate’

The resident doctors’ wing of the BMA argued that a binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender-diverse people’

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39 h. ago Doctors label Supreme Court's ruling on women 'scientifically illiterate' as trans row continues

The union's wing of resident doctors passed a motion at a conference, criticising the ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex.

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42 h. ago Women deported with US citizen kids denied chance to transfer custody, says lawyer

Mothers and kids held in ‘complete isolation’ and unable to coordinate childcare before being put on flight to HondurasTwo women who were deported to Honduras alongside their US citizen children were held in “complete isolation” and denied any opportunity to coordinate the care and custody of their children before being put on a flight, according to one of the lawyers representing them.The mothers were unable to contact attorneys or loved ones, and were not allowed the option to transfer the custody of their citizen children to another parent or caregiver, said Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project who is representing one of the families and coordinating with the team representing the other family. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Trump administration says Penn violated sex discrimination laws after transgender swimmer competed

The Trump administration says the University of Pennsylvania illegally denied women equal opportunities by letting a transgender swimmer compete on the school’s women’s team and into team facilities

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47 h. ago What does the Supreme Court 'biological sex' ruling mean for trans men and women?

Here’s a breakdown of what we know so far about the Supreme Court’s highly debated ruling

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51 h. ago Snooker’s transgender inclusion policy to be reviewed after Supreme Court ruling

The sport currently allows trans women to compete in its female category.

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66 h. ago LAURA TROTT: Labour MUST issue guidance to keep our children safe

Ten months ago, the Education Secretary (pictured) had no issue with trans women using female toilets.

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