News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Critics are claiming that the Home Office's policy of providing dual security passes to nonbinary staff for gender flexibility could compromise security and unnecessarily promote gender ideology.
Labour's plan for stricter hate crime laws, aimed at protecting transgender rights, has alarmed the Institute of Economic Affairs, which foresees "serious implications" for freedom of speech in the U.K.
Liberal Democrat activists have selected a motion for debate at their upcoming party conference which states that menstruation is not solely a women's issue, but also affects some trans and non-binary individuals.
The Free Speech Union is on alert after a hospital trust issues a 'woke handbook', banning sympathy for female workers uneasy about sharing toilets with biological males.
Rishi Sunak is expected to delay issuing transgender guidance for schools after the Attorney-General and Government lawyers warned that plans to rule out gender transition would be unlawful.
Critics are crying foul over Labour's plans to give union reps paid time off to campaign on 'equalities' issues, including against 'transphobia', e.g. feminists refusing to use the preferred pronouns of trans co-workers.
A trans killer of a lesbian family has been sent to a women's prison in a grim case exposing the dangerous grip of gender ideology.
"This extreme movement doesn't want equal rights. They want to deny women rights." Former college swimmer Riley Gaines is defiant after being attacked and barricaded in a classroom for speaking up against males competing in women's sport.
This week has been a watershed moment in the trans debate, sparked by the landmark decision from The World Athletics Council to bans trans athletes from women's sport.
Paul Chase, a leading commentator on public health in the hospitality sector, lost his column in a trade blog for daring to criticise trans dogma. Read his story in the Daily Sceptic.
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