9 h. ago 'It's sending a message that they're not accepted and they don't belong'

Two major national organisations announced this week that trans women and girls will no longer be allowed to become members

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14 h. ago This Morning star quits role 'with immediate effect' over new policy change

Ashley James, the ITV This Morning star, has resigned from her position as an ambassador with Girlguiding after the organisation decided to exclude trans girls from membership

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39 h. ago Women’s Institute latest organisation to announce trans membership ban

The NFWI news comes a day after Girlguiding announced it has banned trans girls from joining.

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39 h. ago Women's Institute to stop accepting trans members after landmark Supreme Court gender ruling

The decision has been taken 'with the utmost regret and sadness', the 110-year-old organisation said, adding that it retains the 'firm belief that transgender women are women'.

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40 h. ago Women’s Institute expresses ‘deep regret’ as it bans trans women after Supreme Court ruling

The WI has welcomed transgender women as members for more than 40 years, but said it felt it ‘had no other choice’ to now exclude them

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41 h. ago Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April

Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a womanThe Women’s Institute will no longer accept transgender women as members from April following the UK supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, the Guardian can reveal.Melissa Green, the chief executive of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, said the organisation had taken the decision with the “utmost regret and sadness”, adding it had “no choice” but to exclude trans women from its membership. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago How many women are in prison and on death row around the world? – in charts

While fewer women than men are incarcerated, their numbers are rising faster and most often for non-violent offencesExperts warn of ‘global crisis’ as number of women in prison nears one millionMore than 733,000 women and girls are held in penal institutions globally, according to the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research, either as pre-trial detainees or remand prisoners, or having been convicted and sentenced. The actual total is thought to be much higher, as figures for five countries are not available and those for China are incomplete. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Biological male crowned World's Strongest Woman is STRIPPED of her title as organisers say she had not declared she was trans

Jammie Booker, 28, initially took home the title after narrowly beating professional strongwoman Andrea Thompson, 43, from Melton, Suffolk, during the Texas contest.

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9 d. ago Trans woman crowned World's Strongest Woman ahead of female Brit is STRIPPED of her title by organisers who say she had not declared she was 'biologically male' in victory for UK rival

Jammie Booker, 28, initially took home the title after narrowly beating professional strongwoman Andrea Thompson, 43, from Melton, Suffolk, during the Texas contest.

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1 week ago Eurovision to change voting rules amid Israel interference claims

Organisers say it will strengthen trust and transparency

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1 week ago Trump has assembled least diverse US government this century, study shows

President has chosen white men for key posts at expense of women and people of colour, Brookings Institution findsDonald Trump has assembled the least diverse US government of the 21st century, filling the corridors of power with white men at the expense of women and people of colour, research shows.Nine in 10 individuals confirmed by the Senate in the first 300 days of the second Trump administration were white, according to the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Depression warning as more women in their 50s and 60s develop symptoms

Depression among middle-aged women is becoming more common as the Institute for Fiscal Studies finds more than one in five are now living with depressive symptoms

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