2 h. ago Voices: I had gender reassignment surgery – then the Supreme Court said I wasn’t a woman

I have the same choices over my life and body that I would want for every single person on earth. I’m not trying to make a statement about what a woman is, I just want to be one, writes Juno Dawson – who appears on The Independent’s Pride list 2025

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2 h. ago Voices: As a former judge, I used to defend Britain’s rights – mine are now at risk

Since the Supreme Court’s decision in April, trans women like me have had their rights systematically taken away, writes Victoria McCloud – who appears on The Independent’s Pride List 2025

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2 h. ago ‘We are disappearing’: Britain’s first trans judge on Supreme Court defeat – and why she’s challenging it

Victoria McCloud was publicly promoted as a symbol of diversity in the justice system, but this year it changed her legal sex overnight. The Independent Pride List 2025 winner tells Emma Henderson how vulnerable trans people are leaving Britain and why she’s taking on the Supreme Court ruling in an even higher court

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19 h. ago Supreme Court to hear Alabama appeal in push to execute intellectually disabled man

The inmate killed a man by beating him to death with a hammer and saw.

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20 h. ago Utah judge rules a convicted killer with dementia is competent to be executed

A Utah judge has ruled that a convicted killer who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years is competent enough to be executed

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21 h. ago Judge says administration can dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services

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22 h. ago Supreme Court will hear Alabama appeal in bid to execute man found to be intellectually disabled

The Supreme Court will consider making it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled

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24 h. ago DOGE will be allowed to access Social Security data for now, Supreme Court rules

Conservative justices of the court agreed to give DOGE staffers access to sensitive data in order to do their jobs at the Social Security Administration

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24 h. ago US supreme court rules Doge can access social security data during legal challenge

Key player in Trump’s drive to slash federal workforce keeps access to sensitive records including family court and mental health recordsThe US supreme court on Friday permitted the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), a key player in Donald Trump’s drive to slash the federal workforce, broad access to the personal information of millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.At the request of the justice department, the justices put on hold Maryland-based US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information” in data such as medical and financial records while litigation proceeds in a lower court. Hollander found that allowing Doge unfettered access likely would violate a federal privacy law. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with data on millions of Americans

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for the Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans

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30 h. ago Trump administration asks Supreme Court to leave mass layoffs at Education Department in place

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the agency

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31 h. ago Liberty loses bid to bring legal action against equalities body

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is consulting on guidance following the Supreme Court’s ruling on gender earlier this year.

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34 h. ago NHS body revokes guidance advising hospitals to allow trans people to use chosen bathrooms

The NHS Confederation removed the guidance from its website after April’s Supreme Court ruling

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38 h. ago LGBTQ+ allyship is needed now more than ever after Supreme Court trans ruling

Pride month has arrived in the UK so here's a refresher on why supporting the LGBTQ+ community is so important in 2025 and how exactly to be a good ally

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40 h. ago EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights

Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’Transgender people must accept a perceived reduction in their rights after the supreme court decision on gender because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights actually were, one of the commissioners drawing up the official post-ruling guidance has said.Speaking at a debate about the repercussions of April’s ruling that “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman, Akua Reindorf said trans people had been misled about their rights and there “has to be a period of correction”. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept perceived reduced rights

Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’Transgender people must accept a perceived reduction in their rights after the supreme court decision on gender because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights actually were, one of the commissioners drawing up the official post-ruling guidance has said.Speaking at a debate about the repercussions of April’s ruling that “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman, Akua Reindorf said trans people had been misled about their rights and there “has to be a period of correction”. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Diver convicted of freeing sharks off Florida coast says he was surprised by presidential pardon

A boat captain convicted of theft for freeing 19 sharks from a fisherman’s longline off Florida says he felt like he was living in an alternate universe for the past five years

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50 h. ago Bill Clinton worries the ‘courts won’t hold until the midterm election’ in terms of checking Trump

‘If our party wins the White House in the next election, there will be a hallelujah moment and the Supreme Court will rediscover the Constitution,” Bill Clinton said on The View.

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54 h. ago Supreme Court sides with straight woman who claims she was passed over for job in gay ‘reverse discrimination’ case

Case stems from a woman in Ohio who claimed she was being discriminated against for being straight

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54 h. ago Supreme court strikes down Mexican government’s suit against US gunmakers

Lawsuit alleged that Smith & Wesson and Interstate Arms aided the illegal trafficking of firearms to drug cartelsThe US supreme court on Thursday spared two American gun companies from a lawsuit by Mexico’s government accusing them of aiding illegal firearms trafficking to drug cartels and fueling gun violence on the south side of the US-Mexico border.The justices, in a unanimous ruling, overturned a lower court’s decision that had allowed the lawsuit to proceed against firearms maker Smith & Wesson and distributor Interstate Arms. The lower court had found that Mexico plausibly alleged that the companies aided and abetted illegal gun sales, harming its government. Continue reading...

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