16 h. ago No state is safe: Trans people are planning to move overseas rather than live in Trump’s America

Conservatives’ increasingly frenzied attacks on trans rights have made many people feel the USA is no longer safe for them — and the Court’s ruling in US v Skrmetti is just the latest ‘domino’, Io Dodds reports

Politics

43 h. ago ‘No one is coming to save us’: Trans people are planning to move overseas rather than live in Trump’s America

Conservatives’ increasingly frenzied attacks on trans rights have made many people feel the USA is no longer safe for them — and the Court’s ruling in US v Skrmetti is just the latest ‘domino’, Io Dodds reports

Politics

4 d. ago They are forced to travel 1,000 miles to get healthcare for their trans kid. But they still refuse to leave Tennessee

After the USA’s highest court backed states’ rights to block transgender under-18s from lifesaving medical treatments, one Tennessee mother tells Io Dodds why she and her family plan to stay and fight

Science

4 d. ago Police Scotland say transgender suspects have the right to ask for a male officer to search one half of their body and a female officer to search the other half

Gender-critical campaigners have accused Police Scotland of putting female staff at risk with new rules drawn up after a recent Supreme Court verdict.

Events

4 d. ago Transfer trash talk between Celtic and Rangers fanatics erupts on the Hotline as Igamane and Kuhn spark debate

Scott McDermott manned the phone as the transfer trash talk ramps right up

Sport

5 d. ago California violated Title IX by allowing trans athletes on girls teams, Trump administration says

US education agency’s resolution proposes barring trans women from women’s sports and stripping them of prizesThe Trump administration has found that the California department of education and the state’s high school sports federation violated civil rights law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams.The federal education department announced the finding Wednesday and proposed a resolution that would require California to bar transgender women from women’s sports and strip transgender athletes of records, titles and awards. It’s the latest escalation in the Republican administration’s effort to bar transgender athletes from women’s sports teams nationwide. Continue reading...

Politics

6 d. ago In line with Trump, North Carolina legislature takes aim at transgender rights

The North Carolina Senate advanced two bills that deal with transgender issues as lawmakers prepare for their anticipated summer recess by this week's end

Politics

6 d. ago With Andrew Cuomo, Democrats are doing a disastrous imitation of Trump | Moira Donegan

The former governor, now a New York City mayoral candidate, marks the party’s drift into boorishness and crueltyAs the far right has gained ascendancy, and the 2024 election is historicized as a blowout victory for Donald Trump rather than the relatively close contest that it actually was, members of the Democratic establishment and party leadership seem to be settling on the lesson that they will take into the second decade of the Trump era: if you can’t beat him, imitate him.It’s long been the impulse of the party to move right, chasing Republican victories by replicating Republican policy positions, and since their loss last November many Democrats have followed in this decades-old tradition, shifting their rhetoric still further rightward on border policy, crypto, foreign policy, trans rights and DEI. They respond to polling and to a vague sense of the cultural zeitgeist, aiming less to persuade than to imitate. Often, Democrats seem as if they are not offering a different polic...

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7 d. ago Alejandro Garnacho proves Manchester United right amid transfer decision

A look at the latest Manchester United headlines on Monday, June 23

Sport

8 d. ago Trans support is on the rise as rights left at risk after UK Supreme Court ruling

Google Trends analysis shows that support and ally-ship for the trans community has doubled since last June with searches for "transgender" and "trans flags" peaking after UK Supreme Court ruling

Events

8 d. ago JK Rowling hails BBC newsreader Martine Croxall after she overrules autocue's 'pregnant people' line to say 'women'

The Harry Potter author, 59, who has been vocal on the subject of trans people and what she calls 'sex-based rights' for several years, has praised the journalist (pictured), 56, for it on social media.

Politics

8 d. ago Manchester United are doing what they should have done 12 months ago in the transfer window

Man United have shown plenty of ambition at the start of this summer's transfer window - and in exactly the right way.

Sport

1 week ago From LA to Paris, the populist right hates cities – and it’s fuelled by a sense of bitter defeat | Andy Beckett

LA was once a conservative stronghold; now the military is occupying it. Liberal cities have become targets for politicians looking to stir up their voters elsewhereFrom Los Angeles to London, Istanbul to Warsaw, cities are making rightwing populists angry. Their liberal elites, immigrants, net zero policies, leftwing activists, globalised businesses, expensive transport infrastructure and outspoken municipal leaders – all are provocations to populist politicians whose support often comes from more conservative, less privileged places.Three years ago the founders of national conservatism, the transatlantic ideology on which much of modern rightwing populism is based, published a statement of principles. One of these, surprisingly little noticed at the time, declared with some menace: “In those [places] in which law and justice have been manifestly corrupted, or in which lawlessness, immorality, and dissolution reign, national government must intervene energetically to restore order....

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1 week ago Stephen Fry turns back on Harry Potter author JK Rowling, calling her a 'lost cause' over trans views

Star joins Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in publicly distancing themselves from Rowling’s views on gender identity and trans rights

Culture

1 week ago Abortion remains a criminal offence in the UK because of the left’s timidity. We must learn from that – and fast | Stella Creasy

Tuesday’s vote in parliament was a missed opportunity – and proof that progressives are allowing the right to shape the key debatesAround the world, the antis are joining forces. Whether anti-abortion, anti-transgender, anti-immigrant, anti-human rights or just anti anyone who doesn’t look like them, they are collaborating; amplifying one another and sharing their political and cultural successes. Their rhetoric now dominates our discussions, and increasingly our ballot boxes. In response, some argue caution or even capitulation – as if we can stop the public being dragged to the extremes if we speak in hushed tones or water down our ambitions for social justice. As we witness the consequences of this, it is time to speak up for those values that drive us to show that another future is possible.On Tuesday, parliament had the opportunity to set abortion in England and Wales on the same modern, regulated footing as it is in Northern Ireland: as a human right. Instead, a vote on this w...

Events

1 week ago Bryan Mbeumo's Manchester United transfer wish is proving Ruben Amorim right

United are keen to sign the Brentford forward this summer

Sport

1 week ago The two transfers that prove Liverpool are right to pay £116m for Florian Wirtz

The Premier League champions agreed to smash their transfer record to buy the Germany international but, in the case of Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker, there is a case for paying over the odds for the best

Economics

2 w. ago Boy George calls JK Rowling 'bored rich bully' as social media feud erupts over trans rights

Rowling, 59, has faced backlash from Harry Potter stars and actor Pedro Pascal for her views on trans rights

Politics

2 w. ago Boy George embroiled in social media dispute with ‘bored rich bully’ JK Rowling over trans rights

Singer criticised author’s relentless campaign to preserve women-only spaces

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2 w. ago JK Rowling goes to war with Boy George over trans rights: Author highlights singer's conviction for beating escort with a chain after he called her a 'rich bored bully'

A heated exchange ignited on X after the 63-year-old popstar dubbed the Harry Potter author a 'rich bored bully'.

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