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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Samuel Montgomery
Pension giant Phoenix Group has cut ties with a transgender campaigner who vowed to defy bans on trans women using female lavatories. Phoenix, which is Britain’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, said it had ended work with Global Butterflies, a consultancy it hired last year to train staff on trans inclusion. The decision has emerged in the wake of this month’s Supreme Court’s ruling that women should be defined by biological sex, not gender identity.
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Samuel Montgomery
Emma Cusdin, a trans woman who is a director of Global Butterflies, has vowed to defy the EHRC guidance. Ms Cusdin wrote on LinkedIn: "I have used female single sex spaces for almost 20 years, without any negative incidents but rather positivity, love and support. "I have a Gender Recognition Certificate which clearly states that my acquired gender is female. I have no intention of using men's facilities.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Samuel Montgomery
Barclays is to ban trans women from using female lavatories in the wake of this month’s Supreme Court ruling. The bank said it would review its internal policy on the use of bathrooms to ensure that it complied with the law after judges ruled that trans women can now be excluded from single-sex facilities. The bank previously had a policy of allowing trans women to use whichever lavatory they wanted but this will be dropped.
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Samuel Montgomery
At an event held by Trans in the City at the bank's Canary Wharf office in Nov 2023, a senior Barclays staff member told audience members they could use the bathroom of their choice. Ann O'Donoghue, then a director in Barclays' HR department, but who is now no longer at the company, can be heard in a recording reviewed by The Telegraph saying: "I spend far too much time talking about this and why it is important.
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4 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Samuel Montgomery
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4 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Samuel Montgomery
The ex-employee said the bank had previously made it clear to employees that trans staff could use the toilet facilities that were most comfortable to them. Lloyds Bank declined to comment. The bank's stance on trans issues has previously drawn criticism after it offered free counselling to its 30,000 employees in response to comments made by Kemi Badenoch and Rishi Sunak at the Conservative Party conference in October 2023.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Eir Nolsoe |Samuel Montgomery
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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Eir Nolsøe |Samuel Montgomery
More than a fifth of Coventry's exports are sold to the US, the highest in Britain. The West Midlands city is home to the headquarters of Jaguar Land Rover, which immediately suspended shipments to the US after Trump's tariffs took effect. Some 22.4pc of working-age people in Coventry are classed as being economically inactive, meaning they are neither in work or job-hunting. This is higher than the national average of 21.2pc. Blackpool also ranks highly among places directly exposed to the tariffs.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Samuel Montgomery
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Samuel Montgomery
Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to relax net zero rules will fail to boost demand for electric vehicles (EVs), carmakers have warned, as the industry reels from Donald Trump’s tariffs. The Prime Minister unveiled plans on Sunday to soften electric vehicle (EV) targets for carmakers, including pushing back a ban on the sale of hybrids and providing exemptions for supercar manufacturers producing petrol cars.
