Nation gripped by trans
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While primary school pupils in Cambridge
take part in celebratory ‘transition’ assemblies, Welsh ‘boys’ share dorms with girls,
and Scottish 12-year-olds are being encouraged to have their birth certificates altered,
women on Twitter were banned, in May, from
stating biological facts about men and women.
The social networking giant, Twitter, censored tweets which state what the women say
are ‘basic, incontrovertible biological facts’,
claiming the content goes against its ‘hateful
conduct’ policy. The group, Fair Play for
Women, wrote an open
letter to Martha
Lane Fox, a peer who also sits on the board
of Twitter, asking her to help stop their views
being silenced. She is yet to respond to them.
The
letter speaks out against a
‘concerted
attack on women’s free speech’.
Guernsey rejects push for euthanasia
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After politicians on
the
island rejected
assisted suicide, Guernsey will review its
end-of-life care, including increasing palliative support, it was announced on 18 May.
Deputies on the island comprehensively
voted against looking into legalising assisted
suicide, after a passionate three-day debate.
Ahead of
the
vote,
former Paralympic
star Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson had
warned that such a move risked making disabled people ‘collateral damage’.
USA: cleared
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A Christian US Air Force Colonel was
cleared after he was disciplined for taking
a stand
for
traditional marriage,
it was
reported in early April.
Leland Bohannon was
found guilty of
unlawful discrimination by the Air Force
after he
refused
to
sign a
‘certificate of
spouse appreciation’ for the same-sex spouse
of a retiring colleague. Colonel Bohannon
arranged for a higher ranking General to sign
the document, but he did not want to give a
personal endorsement of same-sex marriage.