Sarah McBride has told The Independent that a new Republican move to prevent transgender youngsters playing in women’s sports “defies understanding”.  Her comments follow the US House of Representatives voting on its rule package and outlining a series of priority legislation.  Listed as one of the most-pressing concerns by the house was the need to […]

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Following a landmark ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ), a French rail company cannot make it mandatory for customers to share their gender markers in order to buy a train ticket. The judgement is likely to have a knock-on effect for all the other states in the European Union. The case was brought […]

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Just days before re-entering the White House, Donald Trump has said that he and former president Barack Obama “probably do” like each other. This comes after the pair were seated next to each other at the funeral of former president Jimmy Carter, who died last month at the age of 100. Carter’s funeral was televised […]

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News reporters were quick to shut down a man who claimed that the LA wildfires started because of the existence of LGBTQ+ people. Several fires continue to blaze across the north of LA, destroying more 1,000 homes and leaving at least 10 people dead. Nearly 180,000 people have been told to evacuate as the fires […]

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A local councillor has launched a petition urging public authorities to remove themselves from X given the increasingly hostile nature of the platform towards minorities, saying continued engagement is the “antithesis of every councils, every public authority’s DEI strategy”. Tania Stevenson, the UK’s only independent trans councillor and who was elected to Ockbrook and Borrowash […]

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