56 h. ago IOC edges closer to ban on transgender women in female Olympic events

Sources expect ban within next six to 12 monthsIOC president wants to protect the female categoryThe International Olympic Committee is edging closer towards implementing a ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympics.Multiple sources expect such a ban to come into effect over the next six to 12 months with the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, making clear she wants to drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category. Continue reading...

Politics

57 h. ago International Olympic Committee set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sports

The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year

Sport

59 h. ago Olympics set to ban ALL transgender athletes and those with Imane Khelif's reported condition from female events after 'finding scientific evidence of advantages to being born male'

Transgender athletes and those with differences of sexual development (DSD) will reportedly be banned from competing in female competitions at the Olympics from early next year.

Politics

60 h. ago Olympics set to ban ALL transgender athletes and Imane Khelif 'DSD' competitors from female events after 'finding scientific evidence of advantages to being born male'

Transgender athletes and those with differences of sexual development (DSD) will reportedly be banned from competing in female competitions at the Olympics from early next year.

Sport

5 d. ago City banker who told 'wicked' lies his female boss had sexually harassed him and tried to touch his Gucci belt after he wore string vest to work is jailed for 20 months

Damilare Ajao claimed the manager made a number of 'sexual advances' towards him and 'sexually harassing' comments while working at German finance giant Commerzbank.

Economics

8 d. ago Donna Jean Godchaux supplied steel and soul to the Grateful Dead in their prime

Godchaux sang on classics by Elvis and Otis Redding and had a long solo career, but it’s as a member of the Dead’s classic, acid-drenched 70s lineup – and as the band’s only female member – that she will be remembered• Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead singer, dies aged 78By her own admission, Donna Jean Godchaux was not a fan of the Grateful Dead when she arrived in California – then Donna Jean Thatcher – in 1970. Already a music industry veteran at 23, she had spent five years as a member of Southern Comfort, a group of singers regularly employed as backing vocalists at the renowned Fame studios in her native Alabama. But she was rigidly unimpressed with her San Francisco friends’ undying devotion to Jerry Garcia and co. She hated the band’s name and loudly opined that the only reason people liked them was because they were invariably out of their minds on drugs when they went to see them live. In fact, she could prove she was right: she offered to attend a Dead show sober...

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1 week ago Girlbands Forever: this shocking history of 90s female pop is packed with gossip, scandal – and bangers

Strap in for a nostalgia-stuffed jaunt through musical classics, featuring honest interviews with stars – the details of which make the record industry look appalling Girlbands, then. Shimmering icons of empowerment or Pygmalion projects for middle-aged A&R men? Here’s a radical idea – they’re both. Two become one, baby. That’s the sense you get from Girlbands Forever (Sat, 9.20pm, BBC Two), the documentary executive produced by Louis Theroux charting the fortunes of 90s bands such as All Saints, Eternal, Atomic Kitten and Mis-Teeq through to 00s stars Little Mix. If that lineup speaks to your elder millennial soul the way it does mine, climb on board, carefully. I need some nostalgia, like I’ve never needed nostalgia before.Of course we want the gossip, fallouts and scandals. Band members interviewed for the three-part series are happy to supply. Kelle Bryan from Eternal reveals they were sent to a facility in the countryside and put on controlled diets to manage their weight (...

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2 w. ago Controversial fun run criticised for banning females over 12

Controversial fun run criticised for banning females over 12  East London Advertiser

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3 w. ago Female teacher is banned from the classroom after swapping thousands of messages with boy pupil, 15, and meeting him outside of school

It was also revealed that the teenager had sent the teacher an explicit image of himself as well as a message containing pornography.

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4 w. ago Communities secretary is left 'appalled' by Muslim charity run which banned females over 12 from taking part

East London Mosque banned any woman over the age of 12 from taking part in Sunday's run in Victoria Park, despite being billed as an 'inclusive 5km race'.

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4 w. ago Minister ‘appalled’ at Muslim charity run in London that excluded women

Minister ‘appalled’ at Muslim charity run in London that excluded women  The Guardian

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4 w. ago Meta 'blacklisting' Brits as female adult stars and wrestlers are getting banned for 'no reason'

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star has spoken to several female adult stars and other women about an apparent-Meta blacklist over content that doesn't break the T&Cs but is still getting accounts pulled

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