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theguardian.com | Caroline Davies
Cocktail in hand and puffing on a celebratory cigar aboard her super-yacht, reportedly somewhere in the Bahamas, JK Rowling celebrated on social media after this week’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. “I love it when a plan comes together,” she posted on X, borrowing the catchphrase from popular 80s TV series The A-Team.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Severin Carrell |Caroline Davies
Trans rights campaigners have accused the head of the UK’s equalities regulator of “overreach” after she said trans women could be banned from women’s toilets, sports and hospital wards. Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said the ruling on Wednesday by the UK supreme court that under the Equality Act “woman” only referred to biological women was “enormously consequential”.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Caroline Davies
Updated guidance for public bodies after the UK supreme court’s ruling that a woman is defined in law by biological sex is expected to be issued by the summer, the head of the equalities regulator said on Thursday.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Caroline Davies
Doctors in two end-of-life cases can be named, the supreme court has ruled, after the parents of two children said they wanted to “tell their story”. Isaiah Haastrup, aged 12 months, and Zainab Abbasi, six, were at the centre of life-support treatment disputes at the high court in London before their deaths in 2018 and 2019 respectively. During the proceedings, court orders were put in place preventing doctors involved in their care from being publicly named indefinitely.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Caroline Davies
A British adventurer has apologised after her claims to be the first woman to traverse Canada’s largest island solo were dismissed by members of the Inuit population who criticised her dangerous “privilege and ignorance”. Camilla Hempleman-Adams, 32, covered 150 miles on foot and by ski while pulling a sledge across Baffin Island, Nunavut, in temperatures as low as -40C and winds of 47mph (76km/h) during the two-week expedition last month.
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