Lucy Middleton
Correspondent at Thomson Reuters Foundation
Writer/journalist 🖊💻 | LGBTQ+ correspondent at the Thomson Reuters Foundation @TRF @ContextNewsroom | Formerly @DailyMirror @MetroUK @DeutscheWelle @Openly
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context.news | Lucy Middleton
What’s the context? Britain's top court says the Equality Act's definition of a woman is based on biological sex, sparking confusion over trans rights. LONDON - Britain's top court ruled on Wednesday that the 2010 Equality Act's definition of a woman is based on biological sex and does not include transgender people with gender recognition certificates.
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4 weeks ago |
context.news | Lucy Middleton
An HIV adherence counsellor draws a woman's blood for an HIV test at the IOM treatment centre in Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya, November 29, 2018. REUTERS/Baz RatnerWhat’s the context? Eight countries, including six in Africa, could run out of antiretroviral treatment for HIV in months due to the U.S. aid freeze.
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1 month ago |
context.news | Lucy Middleton
Kirsty Coventry during the press conference after she was elected as the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Costa Navarino, Pylos, Greece, March 20, 2025 REUTERS/Louisa GouliamakiWhat’s the context? Incoming Olympic president Kirsty Coventry supports banning transgender women from female categories at the Games.
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1 month ago |
context.news | Lucy Middleton
What’s the context? At least four candidates for the role of International Olympic Committee president favour restricting trans and intersex athletes. Leading IOC candidates favour exclusionRights groups want fairness framework to be bindingTrans and intersex athletes say bans impact youthLONDON - Urs Vanessa Sager was swimming for the junior national Swiss team in 1971 when the intersex teen was told they no longer had a place in the binary categories of the sport.
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staradvertiser.com | Lucy Middleton
LONDON >> Crucial work furthering LGBTQ+ rights and preventing HIV in the Pacific Islands has been disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s freeze of foreign aid and may not recover, advocates in the region have said. Despite being the world’s most aid-dependent region, the Asia-Pacific received just 5% of global LGBTQ+ funding between 2021 and 2022, while being home to 55% of the world’s population, according to the latest Global Resources Report.
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A motion has been submitted asking the Dutch government to withdraw the Transgender Act from debate. The law would allow trans people to change their gender in their passport https://t.co/w2IYLPe7qd
RT @ContextNewsroom: New technologies are helping detect earthquakes and minimise destruction, but predicting a specific tremor remains a c…
Maine has filed a lawsuit against a government department that froze federal funding for education programs in the state over its refusal to ban trans women from sports. Trump signed the 'Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports' executive order in Feb https://t.co/xjQO0zEVPX
