Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too

When the chief executive of the Women’s Institute said last week that she felt the organisation had no choice but to end its 40-year policy of transgender inclusion, she sounded genuinely upset. When asked on Woman’s Hour whether a debate over trans members had been raging inside the organisation this year, Melissa Green was clear that “this hasn’t been a conversation that has dominated”. Much of the pressure, she said, had come from outside the organisation.

The decision followed a similar announcement from Girlguiding the day before, which will now ban trans girls from joining. Both organisations blamed the change on April’s supreme court ruling on the meaning of the word “sex” in the Equality Act 2010, but that’s far from the whole story. Really, it’s about those pressuring organisations on the basis that the case is closed, and exclusion is now legally required – when that is far from the case.

Jess O’Thomson is trans rights lead at the Good Law Project and head of policy at the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance

Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too

When the chief executive of the Women’s Institute said last week that she felt the organisation had no choice but to end its 40-year policy of transgender inclusion, she sounded genuinely upset. When asked on Woman’s Hour whether a debate over trans members had been raging inside the organisation this year, Melissa Green was clear that “this hasn’t been a conversation that has dominated”. Much of the pressure, she said, had come from outside the organisation.

The decision followed a similar announcement from Girlguiding the day before, which will now ban trans girls from joining. Both organisations blamed the change on April’s supreme court ruling on the meaning of the word “sex” in the Equality Act 2010, but that’s far from the whole story. Really, it’s about those pressuring organisations on the basis that the case is closed, and exclusion is now legally required – when that is far from the case.

Jess O’Thomson is trans rights lead at the Good Law Project and head of policy at the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance

Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too

When the chief executive of the Women’s Institute said last week that she felt the organisation had no choice but to end its 40-year policy of transgender inclusion, she sounded genuinely upset. When asked on Woman’s Hour whether a debate over trans members had been raging inside the organisation this year, Melissa Green was clear that “this hasn’t been a conversation that has dominated”. Much of the pressure, she said, had come from outside the organisation.

The decision followed a similar announcement from Girlguiding the day before, which will now ban trans girls from joining. Both organisations blamed the change on April’s supreme court ruling on the meaning of the word “sex” in the Equality Act 2010, but that’s far from the whole story. Really, it’s about those pressuring organisations on the basis that the case is closed, and exclusion is now legally required – when that is far from the case.

Jess O’Thomson is trans rights lead at the Good Law Project and head of policy at the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance

Day-Lewis, who suggested Dano for his part in There Will Be Blood, praised the actor, as did Ben Stiller and Batman director Matt Reeves

Paul Dano’s There Will Be Blood co-star Daniel Day-Lewis has defended the actor after he was criticised by Quentin Tarantino.

The director took issue with Dano’s talents while discussing his list of the best films of the century on Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast. Tarantino said he would have moved Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 drama higher than No 5 had a different actor played preacher Eli Sunday.

Day-Lewis, who suggested Dano for his part in There Will Be Blood, praised the actor, as did Ben Stiller and Batman director Matt Reeves

Paul Dano’s There Will Be Blood co-star Daniel Day-Lewis has defended the actor after he was criticised by Quentin Tarantino.

The director took issue with Dano’s talents while discussing his list of the best films of the century on Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast. Tarantino said he would have moved Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 drama higher than No 5 had a different actor played preacher Eli Sunday.

Day-Lewis, who suggested Dano for his part in There Will Be Blood, praised the actor, as did Ben Stiller and Batman director Matt Reeves

Paul Dano’s There Will Be Blood co-star Daniel Day-Lewis has defended the actor after he was criticised by Quentin Tarantino.

The director took issue with Dano’s talents while discussing his list of the best films of the century on Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast. Tarantino said he would have moved Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 drama higher than No 5 had a different actor played preacher Eli Sunday.

Residents say incursions and raids have increased since forces first entered country a year ago after fall of Assad

On the day Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell , Abu Ibrahim and his family went to sleep wondering what sort of future awaited them in the morning. They woke in a panic, to the sound of gunfire and tanks.

The bullets announced the arrival of the Israeli military into the remote southern Syrian province of Quneitra on 9 December 2024. In the place of Assad militias who used to patrol the roads, bulky armoured personnel carriers filled with Israeli soldiers rumbled down the potholed streets, stopping to assure residents that they were there for their protection.

Residents say incursions and raids have increased since forces first entered country a year ago after fall of Assad

On the day Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell , Abu Ibrahim and his family went to sleep wondering what sort of future awaited them in the morning. They woke in a panic, to the sound of gunfire and tanks.

The bullets announced the arrival of the Israeli military into the remote southern Syrian province of Quneitra on 9 December 2024. In the place of Assad militias who used to patrol the roads, bulky armoured personnel carriers filled with Israeli soldiers rumbled down the potholed streets, stopping to assure residents that they were there for their protection.

Residents say incursions and raids have increased since forces first entered country a year ago after fall of Assad

On the day Bashar al-Assad’s regime fell , Abu Ibrahim and his family went to sleep wondering what sort of future awaited them in the morning. They woke in a panic, to the sound of gunfire and tanks.

The bullets announced the arrival of the Israeli military into the remote southern Syrian province of Quneitra on 9 December 2024. In the place of Assad militias who used to patrol the roads, bulky armoured personnel carriers filled with Israeli soldiers rumbled down the potholed streets, stopping to assure residents that they were there for their protection.