Not as far as I’m aware - The Guardian says it was only officers who trans women with a GRC who were allowed to search those AFAB. So officers couldn’t pick and chose to suit them.

The BTP jumped on this almost instantly as they’d been under fire because trans women on the force could strip search those AFAB.

I’m waiting for next shoe to drop when someone AFAB complains because they get strip searched by a big hairy bloke because he was also AFAB. At no point does anyone seem to have considered the effect this law will have on trans men now having to go into women-only spaces. I don’t think JK Rowling cares about the messy fallout from her War on Trans Women.

Now trans and cis people are going to get harassed for being in the wrong bathrooms by the gender police.

They said on the radio that the changes in bathroom laws in the US have mainly impacted butch lesbians. This is going to get messy.

It’s a group funded by JK Rowling, she is laser-focused on trans woman and so intersex people and trans men are an after thought, if they are even given a thought.

FWS, which is partly funded by the writer JK Rowling

“Millionaire spends cash to make people’s lives worse”

They argue that a very clear definition by the court on what a woman is would also help clear up an ambiguity about who qualifies to use women’s services.They argue that a very clear definition by the court on what a woman is would also help clear up an ambiguity about who qualifies to use women’s services.

There doesn’t seem any ambiguity: Do they have a GRC? It’s either either yes or no. Trying to define a woman is difficult and could lead to a lot more ambiguity.

They say people who self-identify as trans but do not have a gender recognition certificate are being allowed to use women-only services and spaces.

Laws are broken all the time, it’s not an argument to change the laws.

No

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Nige has them running scared. A nonaggression pact would be the start of a slippery slope, one that could see Farage running the country. 😱

Under the tariff plan announced Sunday, the products that will now face zero import duties when entering the U.K. also include pasta, canned pineapples, fruit juice, coconut oil, plywood and plastics.

It’s definitely an interesting approach - if Europe and other countries scrapped/lowered tariffs it could help invigorate world trade and keep costs down for ordinary folk. It might also help sideline the US.

About time but not far enough. We sold British Steel for a quid and it is loss making, so we should give them a quid for it.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the government had agreed with Universal that British steel would be used “where possible” on the project.

“That’s the case with HS2, with Heathrow, and with this private investment here in Bedfordshire,” she said.

And yet they won’t endorse Buy British.

Seems like they are shit scared of upsetting the orange man-baby.

Yeah, it should be no surprise that places left behind are susceptible to hard right demagogues.

Interestingly, Liverpool in the eighties went hard left but it could definitely be argued that Derek Hatton was a demagogue too.

Sometimes sex offenders get into positions of authority to enable their crimes and help cover them up.

According to the West of England Combined Authority website, Norris previously worked as an NSPCC-trained child protection officer.

Well that’s a worry.

The ideology around this is clear when you consider the government’s focus on getting people with long term mental health conditions into work, apparently without doing anything to improve mental health support.

This is the bit that I don’t get - help people improve their mental health and they’ll go back to work. That should be the Labour approach. Unfortunately, they are going the brutal Tory way and just cutting help to force people to do it. The underlying assumption must be that they consider a lot of the people impacted by this to be abusing the system. It all stinks.

I presume because he hadn’t been charged with anything. Also one rule for the rich…

It’s not the chlorine per se (although it would be heavily diluted in water) it is why they need washing in chlorine - because of the insanitary conditions the chickens are raised in that leaves them teeming with bacteria.

If you put it like that, it sounds bad.

I saw a Rolls Royce Chelsea tractor (proper footballer’s wives material - probably waa) the other day that was doing the school run. Money really can’t buy taste.

We should ban them because they are bad for people and the environment but also because they are naff.