On hearing that a trans-woman, the activist Steph Richards, was to be appointed CEO of an endometriosis charity, many feminists rolled our eyes, wondering if parody was dead.
There has been huge pushback against appointing a biological male as head of an organisation concerned with women’s gynaecological health, for obvious reasons. Many newspapers covered the issue, and I figured this would be one of those moments that might convince sceptics or even the ‘trans-women are women’ crew that this has all gone way too far.

A pool player has forfeited her chance to win a top national title in protest at the sport allowing a transgender woman to compete against natal females.


A B.C. nurse accused of making numerous “derogatory and discriminatory” public statements about transgender people took the stand in her discipline hearing on Friday, telling the panel considering her case that she is not transphobic.

Andrew Miller, a paedophile who abducted a girl and subjected her to a series of sexual assaults over more than 24 hours, has been jailed for 20 years at the High Court in Edinburgh.

