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There’s no easy way to manage single-sex spaces

Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they are perceived by other people according to the Times. The newspaper reports seeing a copy of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s transgender guidance that was handed to ministers in early September.

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Graham Linehan arrested for tweets

Three posts on X were enough for armed police to lock up Graham Linehan on arrival at Heathrow.

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Polémique à Londres après l’arrestation d’un humoristeirlandais pour des tweets antitransgenres

Trois posts sur X ont suffi pour envoyer Graham Linehan, scénariste et réalisateur irlandais, en cellule. L’épisode choque l’opinion et relance le débat sur la censure au Royaume-Uni.

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Is the UK heading for Brexit from the European Court of Human Rights?

Having left the EU, the UK is now threatening to turn its back on the European Court of Human Rights. The McCloud case, which arose from a debate over the definition of the word “woman,” risks adding to tensions that might lead to a “judicial Brexit.”

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Après Bruxelles, Londres veut-elle aussi divorcer de Strasbourg ?

Après avoir quitté l’UE, le Royaume-Uni menace désormais de tourner le dos à la CEDH. L’affaire McCloud, née d’un débat sur la définition du mot « femme », ravive la tentation d’un « Brexit judiciaire ».

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What is a woman? The battle of Hampstead Heath

The Supreme Court has spoken but not everyone is happy with the judgment.

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Femme ou pas femme ? La bataille judiciaire des étangs de Londres

Acte de naissance ou évidence visuelle ? Au Royaume-Uni, la reconnaissance du sexe devient un casse-tête bureaucratique – et judiciaire.

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Transgender

No, British trans people aren’t at risk of ‘genocide’

The Supreme Court judgment on the definition of a woman on 16 April restored a degree of sanity to a world that was in danger of going mad. Even Keir Starmer now knows that a woman is a matter of biology rather than ideology. Can somebody please tell the Americans? Or, more precisely, those progressive types over the pond who like to concern themselves with other people’s business.

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The truth about trans rights in Britain

The Supreme Court judgment on sex and gender was a welcome return to common sense. As far as the Equality Act is concerned, even Keir Starmer now knows that a woman is a biological female and a man is a biological male.

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Starmer’s words about ‘trans women’ are too little, too late

When will Keir Starmer finally show some leadership over the most fundamental distinction in human society: the difference between men and women? The Prime Minister’s silence after the Supreme Court judgement last week* had been deafening. The ruling – which stated that sex is binary – brought clarity and restored sanity; it’s a pity the same could not be said about the PM’s thinking when it comes to defining what a woman is.