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Leaked – Labour Womens Conference Cancelled
Following the Supreme Court’s gender ruling, leaked Labour documents have revealed the party’s plans to postpone its women’s conference and restrict positive action provisions to “biological women”. LGBT groups within the party have condemned these documents as a “blatant attack” and an “attempt to isolate” transgender people. Confidential advice sent to members of the National Continue reading
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What the local Elections means for the LGBT+ Community
We have just had the local elections for 2025 earlier this month. Let’s look at the results then discuss what it means for the LGBT community as a whole. Results Here are the results by, broken down by party : – Party Total Won Change Reform UK 677 677 Liberal Democrats 370 163 Conservative 319 Continue reading
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State Of The World – May 2025
Welcome to May’s edition of State Of The World. Let’s get started. Supreme Court Ruling The big news over the last month is the Supreme Court ruling in the Scottish Government vs For Women Scotland (FWS). This ruling went badly for the LGBT community, not just the transgender community, as the court stated that the Continue reading
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BMA Critiques Supreme Court’s Ruling on The Equality Act.
The BMA (Resident Junior Doctors), or British Medical Association, the body that represents GP’s in the UK, has panned the recent Supreme Court ruling on what the word “sex” means in the Equality Act 2010 as “scientifically incorrect”. Not the first time BMA has come out in defence of Transgender People Last year, the BMA Continue reading
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Understanding the EHRC Guidance: A Push for Social Segregation?
A post about what the ECHR issued last night, with some information copied from the excellent breakdown from Sophia Maclennan on Threads. Link to her profile at the bottom of the post. Continue reading
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Why the Equality Act 2010 Still Protects Transgender Individuals
Today this government, a Labour government, said they support that transgender women are not women and we should use a man’s toilet. Here is a fact. The Supreme Court ruling did not change any laws. The ruling was in regard to what the word sex meant in relation to the Equality Act, specifically regarding the Continue reading
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Transgender Care Under Threat: NHS Guidance Explained
Wes Streeting taking anti-transgender guidance to new heights A document obtained by the Good Law Project sets out new guidance that ensures GPs will refuse care to under-18s trans+ people who need support with their private gender-affirming care. According to the Good Law Project, this guidance has been issued to all GPs. It reconfirms previous Continue reading
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State of the World – April 2025
Welcome to the new series I alluded to last month. While I initially mentioned covering UK news, the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable global situation prompted me to expand the series to include select newsworthy items from the past month. I’m also going to call the series State of the World. State of the World will Continue reading
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Impact of PIP Changes on Vulnerable Groups in the UK
The government yesterday set out its proposals for changes to the benefit system. While there was some good changes in there personally I think it is one of the worst policies to ever come out of the government so far, along with making the ban on puberty blockers for transgender kids permanent. What was announced? Continue reading
