Libby Brooks

Europe, Glasgow

Scotland Correspondent at The Guardian

Guardian Scotland correspondent @GdnScotland; founder member @WIJ_Scotland; author of The Story of Childhood; gingerbread enthusiast

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Articles

Labour ‘throwing trans people under the bus’ says transgender councillor

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks

One of Labour’s only transgender councillors has resigned from the party, accusing it of “throwing trans people under the bus”. In a post on X on Friday morning, Dylan Tippetts, who has represented Compton ward on Plymouth city council since 2022, wrote: “I cannot continue to represent a party that does not support my fundamental rights.
Transgender people’s lives at risk of being made ‘unliveable,’ says Nicola Sturgeon

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks

The lives of transgender people in the UK are at risk of being made “unliveable”, Nicola Sturgeon has said in her first public comments about the supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, which was prompted by legislation she oversaw in the Scottish parliament. The UK supreme court ruled that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act referred only to a biological woman and to biological sex.
LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sells at auction for £800,000

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks

A rare painting by LS Lowry bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000. The painting, Going to the Mill, was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian, Arthur Wallace, for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since. On Friday the artwork sold at auction at the Mall Galleries in central London for £805,200, including buyer’s premium. Lowry, who was lauded for his portrayal of everyday industrial scenes in northwest England, painted the piece in 1925.
UK gender ruling ignites debate over trans-inclusive services at women’s refuges

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks

“I have a list as long as my arm that I worry about daily,” says Katie Russell, the chief executive and co-founder of the service Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds (SARSVL). “The funding landscape, a broken criminal justice system, the global threat of violent misogyny.” She lives a few streets away from where two women were seriously injured last weekend in a crossbow attack perpetrated by a man who espoused misogynist hate online.
LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks

Fourteen national LGBTQ+ charities have written to Keir Starmer seeking an urgent meeting to discuss what they describe as “a genuine crisis for the rights, dignity and inclusion of trans people in the UK” after the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.
Rod Stewart pays for autism diagnosis of boy waiting for three years

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks

Rod Stewart has offered to pay for the autism diagnosis of a child who has spent three years on a waiting list. The singer stepped in after reading about the case of four-year-old Iain Gregori, who is non-verbal and is due to start school this summer. His father, Michael, told the Daily Record, which has been highlighting the lack of medical appointments for children with conditions such as autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, that he feared his son was “lost in the system”.
UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court over supreme court ruling

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks

Britain’s first transgender judge is taking the UK to the European court of human rights over the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex. The UK supreme court ruled earlier this month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act referred only to a biological woman and to biological sex, with subsequent guidance from the equalities watchdog amounting to a blanket ban on trans people using toilets and other services of the gender they identify as.
Trans people banned from toilets of gender they identify with, says UK minister

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks |Peter Walker

A UK government minister has said that trans people are now banned from using toilets of the gender they identify as, amid warnings about the “incredibly dangerous” consequences of such a blanket prohibition. The UK supreme court ruled earlier this month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer only to a biological woman and to biological sex.
‘Rights can be knocked out in a second’: older trans women shocked by supreme court ruling

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks

“The fear is back. The fear I had when I first started my transition in 1979, that people will hurt me,” says Janey, who is 70. She has been living “happily and independently” as a woman for nearly half a century. Based in London, she still works in the mental health sector and is part of a large and accepting Irish family. She is also transgender. “I still go into the women’s toilets at work, but when I open the door there’s that little voice inside me: ‘Will someone shout at me?’,” she says.
The dos and don’ts of good petiquette: four cardinal rules for dog owners

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Libby Brooks

Across the hours of the day and the seasons of the year, Naseby Park is the place we return to, my dog and I. Surrounded by red sandstone tenements in Glasgow’s West End, and roughly the size of a football pitch, this is where we first walked our four-year-old labrador Brèagha (Scots Gaelic for beautiful and she is, uncommonly so, thanks for asking).