The United Kingdom&#8217;s highest court ruled Wednesday that the legal definition of &#8220;woman&#8221; is based on biology and does not include trans-identifying men who say they are women.
In the landmark <a href="https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2024_0042_judgment_aea6c48cee.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">judgment</a>, the British Supreme Court ruled that the meaning of &#8220;woman&#8221; in equality legislation is a &#8220;biological woman and biological sex,&#8221; and the &#8220;concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.&#8221;
The ruling is a watershed moment in Britain&#8217;s shift on gender ideology, which has faced a referendum in Europe in recent years, especially as the harms of transgender drugs and procedures on children have come to light and sparked legal challenges.
The court case was about whether trans-identifying men with a &#8220;gender recognition certificate&#8221; that legally recognizes them as female are protected from discrimination as a woman under the 2010 Equality Act.
The court ultimately ruled that interpreting sex as simply as what someone&#8217;s gender certificate says would be &#8220;incoherent,&#8221; according to a summary of the ruling.
“The terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex,” Lord Patrick Hodge, one of the court&#8217;s senior judges, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/uk/uk-supreme-court-ruling-definition-woman-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the court. “The provisions relating to sex discrimination can only be interpreted as referring to biological sex.”
The five judges cautioned that they were not ruling broadly on whether trans-identifying men were women, saying that was beyond the role of the court.
Lord Hodge said the ruling should not be seen as “a triumph for one or more groups in our society at the expense of another – it is not.”
Critics of gender ideology were ecstatic nonetheless.
A group called For Women Scotland filed a challenge in 2018, butting heads with the Scottish government, which argued that trans-identifying men were legally women.
For Women Scotland celebrated with tears and hugs in the courtroom before a victorious exit, where they cracked open a bottle of champagne outside with other campaigners against gender ideology.
Other groups celebrated as well.
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cm9js9dgx000c3b6oni5n6mv7@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true" data-analytics-observe="off">“The court has given the right answer: the protected characteristic of sex – male and female – refers to reality, not paperwork,” the group Sex Matters said.
The LGB Alliance, which presented arguments in court, called the ruling a “watershed for women.”
In response to the ruling, the British government said it supports &#8220;single-sex spaces.&#8221;
“This ruling brings clarity and confidence, for women and service providers such as hospitals, refuges, and sports clubs,” a British government spokesperson <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/uk/uk-supreme-court-ruling-definition-woman-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Single-sex spaces are protected in law and will always be protected by this Government.”

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A lawyer representing two brothers alleging police brutality has “stepped aside” from representing them right after additional footage of the incident was released showing the brothers attacking police.
Akhmed Yakoob, an attorney with a large TikTok following, was representing brothers Mohammed Fahir Khan, 19, and Amaad Khan, 25, after <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/police-officer-kicks-and-stamps-on-mans-head-at-manchester-airport-13184378" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footage</a> from the Manchester Airport showed a police officer stomping on Fahir’s head while he was lying face down on the floor. The police officer seen in the footage has since been “removed from operational duties,” Sky News reported.
Assistant Chief Constable Wasim Chaudhry of the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) made the announcement following the incident.
&#8220;We know that a film of an incident at Manchester Airport that is circulating widely shows an event that is truly shocking, and that people are rightly extremely concerned about,” he said. &#8220;The use of such force in an arrest is an unusual occurrence and one that we understand creates alarm.&#8221;
The incident occurred on July 23, when officers received a report of an assault in Terminal 2.
&#8220;The alleged suspect was seen on CCTV at a ticket machine in the car park and officers attended the location to arrest him,&#8221; Chaudhry said of the incident.
Police said at the time that three officers were assaulted, with a female officer suffering a broken nose and other officers receiving injuries that required hospital treatment.
In a statement at the time, the GMP said, “As the attending officers were firearms officers, there was a clear risk during this assault of their firearms being taken from them.” The department also acknowledged “the concerns of the conduct within the video.&#8221;
Days after the initial footage was released, footage from another camera and from earlier during the event showed the two brothers attacking police officers, the Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/manchester-airport-police-officer-footage-andy-burnham-b2587155.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The footage shows multiple people standing around a ticket machine as police approach. The officers attempt to arrest a man wearing a light blue shirt and shorts. A second man, wearing a black T-shirt, starts to attack a police officer before the other man starts to punch another officer. The men repeatedly punch the officers until the man in the black T-shirt is tased by a male police officer. The man in the blue shirt knocks down the other two officers and punches the male officer in the back of the head. This officer then wrestles the man to the ground, and he is tased by one of the female officers.
This is when the male officer gets back up and kicks one of the men in the head.
The original footage, which only showed the police officer kicking Fahir in the head, led to massive protests calling the GMP racist.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has since urged people “not to rush to judgment” after the second video was released.
“Following incidents in the run-up to the footage people have seen, four individuals were arrested and are now on police bail. It is frustrating that we have not been able to put more video into the public domain but that is because this is a live investigation,” he said, according to the Independent.
After the second video was released, Yakoob, the attorney for the brothers, released a video saying he was “stepping aside” from representing the brothers but has recommended a new lawyer for them.
&#8220;The media have tried to sabotage me, it&#8217;s not the first time they&#8217;ve done this,&#8221; he said without presenting evidence. &#8220;They&#8217;ve made this whole situation about me and not police misconduct,” The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/29/teenagers-lawyer-steps-aside-after-manchester-airport-assassination-remarks">reported</a>.
“So, after consulting with the family, I have decided for now to step aside and I have recommended the family to a lawyer. But, I will be keeping a close eye on this,” he added. “I&#8217;d like to say that I am not for violence, whether it&#8217;s from police officers or whether it&#8217;s from civilians. Always remember that.&#8221;

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom">British</a> high court on Monday upheld Britain&#8217;s ban on puberty blockers, hormonal drugs frequently given to pubescent children who express discomfort with their biological gender.
The judge noted puberty blockers were found to have “very substantial risks and very narrow benefits” by the Cass review, the landmark <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> commissioned by England&#8217;s National Health Service (NHS).
Transgender medical interventions on children are based on “remarkably weak evidence,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse,” Justice Beverley Lang said in her ruling.
Last summer, the NHS issued an emergency ban on puberty blockers after the Cass review recommended halting the powerful drugs due to their effects on brain development and bone health.
“Outside of a research setting, puberty-suppressing hormones should not be routinely commissioned for children and adolescents,” the NHS said at the time.
A group called TransActual, along with an unnamed youth, sued over the government&#8217;s decision, <a href="https://transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/03/12/transactual-statement-on-nhs-englands-decision-to-stop-commissioning-puberty-blockers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> it a &#8220;cruel new element of the war on trans youth.&#8221;
With Monday&#8217;s decision, however, the ban will remain in place.
“Children’s healthcare must be evidence-led,” said Health Secretary Wes Streeting, welcoming the ruling. “We must therefore act cautiously and with care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people.”
However, Streeting added that he is setting up a clinical trial to establish the evidence on puberty blockers.
&#8220;I want trans people in our country to feel safe, accepted, and able to live with freedom and dignity,&#8221; he said.
Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/in-depth/pubertal-blockers/art-20459075">affect</a> bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones, which can be estrogen or testosterone can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cause</a> infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
The Cass review also warned that children who are referred to gender services come with high rates of abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse and parental substance abuse.
England and several other European countries, such as Finland and Sweden, have pumped the brakes on transgender medical interventions for children.
In April, the Tavistock clinic, England’s only youth gender identity clinic, officially closed its doors after being dogged by controversy for years.
The clinic, the biggest in the world, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2024/03/inside-the-collapse-of-the-tavistock-centre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> thousands of children for puberty blockers. In its last years, Tavistock began to see an increasing flood of young girls with gender-related distress asking for drugs despite having other mental issues like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and histories of abuse.
At least 25 U.S. states have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nebraska-supreme-court-upholds-bans-on-abortion-transgender-surgeries-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> restrictions on transgender surgeries and hormone treatments for minors.

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Authorities knew a British man was wrongly convicted of rape five years after he was sentenced to life, but failed to release the evidence, a new report has found.
Andrew Malkinson spent 17 years in jail for a 2003 rape he didn’t commit, but has only now learned that authorities knew he was innocent five years after he was sentenced, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2q0gdd9v04o.amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He should have been released from prison and exonerated at that time, a report looking into the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) concluded.
The report found that the CCRC failed to look into evidence of Malkinson’s innocence all the way up until 2022. Malkinson is now calling for top-to-bottom reforms of the commission and the resignation or firing of its chair, Helen Pitcher.
Malkinson said the report “lays bare how the CCRC obstructed my fight for justice and cost me an extra decade wrongly imprisoned.”
“If Helen Pitcher and her leadership team won&#8217;t resign after a scathing report like this, they should be sacked,” he added, <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/justice-secretary-seeks-removal-of-chair-of-criminal-cases-review-commission-over-andrew-malkinson-case-13180364" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Sky News</a>.
Pitcher apologized to Malkinson, saying it was “clear the commission failed” him.
&#8220;Nobody can begin to imagine the devastating impact that this wrongful conviction has had on Mr Malkinson&#8217;s life, and I am deeply sorry for the additional harm caused by our handling of the case,” she added. &#8220;On behalf of the commission, I offer my deepest regret.&#8221;
The CCRC, in its own response to the report, said it would “learn from the mistakes that were made,” adding that the reform recommendations from Chris Henley, the lawyer appointed by the government to review Malkinson’s case, “will be acted upon, and work to address them has already started.&#8221;
In 2003, Malkinson was accused of raping a woman in Greater Manchester, the BBC reported. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison even though there was no DNA to link him to the crime. His conviction relied on contested eyewitness accounts from people who placed him near the scene, even though he didn’t match the description of the rapist or have a deep scratch on his face, which the victim said she had inflicted on her attacker during the rape.
Three years after he went to prison, forensic scientists were able to find DNA from the victim’s clothing that pointed to a different, then-unknown man. By 2009, the Greater Manchester Police, the Crown Prosecution Service, and the CCRC knew about this evidence, but rejected Malkinson’s pleas to overturn his conviction. In 2013, the CCRC again failed to review Malkinson’s file, even though the Court of Appeal exonerated a different man of a rape in nearly identical circumstances. The CCRC again dismissed Malkinson’s attempt at exoneration in 2019. It also considered rejecting his third plea in 2022.
The damning report found that the CCRC only referred the case back to judges after a legal charity helped Malkinson win a motion to have new DNA analysis conducted.
Henley, the lawyer in charge of the report, said he didn’t believe the CCRC would have ever done the work to exonerate Malkinson on its own.
“It had taken 20 years to put this appalling miscarriage of justice right,” Henley said, according to the BBC. “This case demonstrates a deep-seated, system-wide cultural reluctance, which starts right at the top in the Court of Appeal, to acknowledge our criminal justice system will on occasion make mistakes. It is not by any standard a success, or a demonstration that things are working properly, that Mr. Malkinson had to wait 20 years to be exonerated.”

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A British Man Spent 17 Years In Prison For A Rape He Didn’t Commit. Authorities Knew He Was Innocent After 5, Report Finds.

A British Man Spent 17 Years In Prison For A Rape He Didn't Commit. Authorities Knew He Was Innocent After 5, Report Finds.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese</a> hackers gained access to personal data about thousands of British soldiers, sailors, and air force members, <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/china-hacked-ministry-of-defence-sky-news-learns-13130757" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a new report.
The data breach exposed the bank details of up to 272,000 soldiers and veterans, including some home addresses, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/uk-defense-ministry-data-breach-china-49899b429f138bb2075d9fd6703ac7b0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">through</a> a hack of a third-party payroll system, the Associated Press reported. The British government confirmed on Tuesday that the Ministry of Defense had been hacked by a “malign” actor, but did not specifically name China. However, Sky News <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/china-hacked-ministry-of-defence-sky-news-learns-13130757" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Monday that the hacking had been instigated by China.
British Prime Minister <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rishi-sunak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rishi Sunak</a> said Tuesday that a &#8220;malign actor has compromised the armed forces payment network,” before turning to directly criticizing China.
&#8220;I set out a very robust policy towards China, which means that we need to take the powers which we have done to protect ourselves against the risk that China and other countries pose to us,&#8221; he <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/china-calls-accusations-it-hacked-mod-completely-fabricated-and-malicious-slanders-13130985" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;They are a country with fundamentally different values to ours that are acting in a way that is more authoritarian and assertive abroad.&#8221;
During a briefing on the hack on Tuesday, U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said that “state involvement” could not be ruled out, but said that he couldn’t reveal more information about who the government suspected to be behind the hack.
“For reasons of national security, we can’t release further details of the suspected cyber activity behind this incident,” he said, adding that once the hack was discovered, the system was immediately taken offline.
Conservative Member of Parliament Tobias Ellwood <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/china-hacked-ministry-of-defence-sky-news-learns-13130757" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Sky News that the hack may have been an effort to compromise soldiers struggling financially. He said China &#8220;was probably looking at the financially vulnerable with a view that they may be coerced in exchange for cash.&#8221;
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The Chinese Embassy in London <a href="http://gb.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/PressandMedia/Spokepersons/202405/t20240507_11300683.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> by asserting that any claims of Chinese government involvement are false.
“The said accusation made by the UK side is nothing but a fabricated and malicious slander. It is extremely absurd and despicable. We strongly condemn it,” the embassy said. “China has all along been fighting cyberattacks according to law. We firmly oppose any groundless accusations against China out of political motives. We urge the UK side to stop spreading disinformation, and stop such self-staged political farces.”

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Dr. Hilary Cass, who authored the long-awaited British report criticizing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> medical procedures for children, said she is not taking public transportation due to safety concerns.
The Cass Review was <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> earlier this month. It is the result of a major independent <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review</a> on children and gender identity <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/implementing-advice-from-the-cass-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commissioned</a> by Britain&#8217;s National Health Service (NHS) in 2020.
Cass herself is a pediatrician and former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
“The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” Cass stated in her report.
In an <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hilary-cass-i-cant-travel-on-public-transport-any-more-35pt0mvnh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Times of London published Friday, Cass, 66, said she has received “vile” abusive emails and been warned to stay away from public transportation in the wake of her report.
“There are some pretty vile emails coming in at the moment. Most of which my team is protecting me from, so I’m not getting to see them,” she told the paper.
“I’m not going on public transport at the moment, following security advice, which is inconvenient,” Cass said.
What bothers her more, however, is the &#8220;disinformation&#8221; surrounding her report.
“I have been really frustrated by the criticisms, because it is straight disinformation. It is completely inaccurate,&#8221; she said.
“What dismays me is just how childish the debate can become. If I don’t agree with somebody then I’m called transphobic or a TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist].”
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Just before the Cass Review came out, accusations circulated that the report had wrongly excluded dozens of transgender studies, a claim Cass said is false.
Labour MP Dawn Butler claimed there were about 100 studies that were not included in the Cass Review, and &#8220;we need to know why.”
&#8220;You don’t get up in parliament with an intent to spread misinformation,&#8221; Cass said.
“If you deliberately try to undermine a report that has looked at the evidence of children’s healthcare, then that’s unforgivable. You are putting children at risk by doing that,” she said.
Asked whether the attacks bother her, Cass said, &#8220;No.&#8221;
“It’s personal, but these people don’t know me,&#8221; she said. “I’m much, much more upset and frustrated about all this disinformation than I am about the abuse. The thing that makes me seethe is the misinformation.”
Cass&#8217; much anticipated report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/weak-evidence-britains-nhs-to-review-all-transgender-treatment-after-major-report">sharply criticized</a> the transgender medicine industry targeting youth, saying the evidence for gender medicine is built on “shaky foundations.”
Cross-sex hormones — estrogen and testosterone — should be prescribed to trans-identifying 16 and 17-year-olds only with an “extremely cautious” approach, and there should be a “clear clinical rationale” for not waiting until the teen is 18, the report says.
Waiting would preserve fertility and manage any other conditions. The report also warns that children who are referred to gender services present with high rates of abuse and neglect, including sexual abuse and parental substance abuse.
Cass cautioned that she has also spoken to detransitioners who “deeply regret” their earlier transitions.
After the report&#8217;s release, the NHS responded saying it will review all transgender treatment it provides, including to adults, and all new treatment for 16 and 17-year-olds will be paused immediately.
Scotland also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotland-pauses-transgender-medications-for-minors">said</a> it would pause all new prescriptions of transgender medications for minors.

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Author Of Cass Review, Which Criticized Child Transgender Procedures, Says She’s Avoiding Public Transportation

Author Of Cass Review, Which Criticized Child Transgender Procedures, Says She's Avoiding Public Transportation

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Britain&#8217;s National Health Service (NHS) will review all transgender medical treatment in the wake of a highly-anticipated review that found such treatment is built on &#8220;weak evidence.&#8221;
The landmark final <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> released Tuesday by pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass is the result of a major independent <a href="https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review</a> on children and gender identity <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/spec-services/npc-crg/gender-dysphoria-clinical-programme/implementing-advice-from-the-cass-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commissioned</a> by the NHS in 2020. Cass is a former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
&#8220;The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,&#8221; Cass stated in her report.
The evidence we do have for gender medicine is built on &#8220;shaky foundations,&#8221; she wrote in an accompanying <a class="css-yywogo" title="" href="https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q814" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">editorial</a> published in a medical journal.
Puberty blockers should no longer be prescribed to children except in the context of research due to these powerful drugs&#8217; effects on brain development and bone health, the report says.
Cross-sex hormones — estrogen and testosterone — should be prescribed to trans-identifying 16 and 17-year-olds only with an &#8220;extremely cautious&#8221; approach, and there should be a &#8220;clear clinical rationale&#8221; for not waiting until the teen is 18, the report says.
Waiting would preserve fertility and manage any other conditions. The report also warns that children who are referred to gender services present with high rates of abuse and neglect including sexual abuse and parental substance abuse.
Cass cautioned that she has also spoken to detransitioners who &#8220;deeply regret&#8221; their earlier transitions.
The report also demanded an end to the &#8220;toxicity of the debate,&#8221; which it called &#8220;exceptional.&#8221;
&#8220;There are few other areas of healthcare where professionals are so afraid to openly discuss their views, where people are vilified on social media, and where name-calling echoes the worst bullying behaviour. This must stop,&#8221; Cass wrote.
The NHS <a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/nhs-englands-response-to-the-final-report-of-the-independent-review-of-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a statement on the Cass review a day after its publication, detailing the actions it will take in response.
The NHS said it will review all transgender treatment it provides, including to adults, and all new treatment for 16 and 17-year-olds will be paused immediately.
&#8220;In view of your advice about the need for caution in the initiation of medical interventions for young people under 18 years of age, our letter instructs the adult gender clinics to implement a pause on offering first appointments to young people below their 18th birthday,&#8221; the NHS said in its response.
The NHS is taking other measures as well, including establishing at least two new children&#8217;s gender services locations and working on clinical guidance explaining that puberty blockers are no longer routinely available.
Last week, the Tavistock clinic, England&#8217;s only youth gender identity clinic, officially closed its doors after being dogged by controversy for years.
The clinic, the biggest in the world, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/health/2024/03/inside-the-collapse-of-the-tavistock-centre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> thousands of children for puberty blockers. In its last years, Tavistock began to see an increasing flood of young girls with gender-related distress asking for drugs despite having other mental issues like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and histories of abuse.
In the U.S., <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/indianas-ban-on-transgender-medical-services-for-minors-can-take-effect-court-rules#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least</a> 23 states have already moved to ban medical transgender services for children.

‘Weak Evidence:’ Britain’s NHS To Review All Transgender Treatment After Major Report

'Weak Evidence:' Britain's NHS To Review All Transgender Treatment After Major Report

London&#8217;s Victoria &amp; Albert Museum took some serious backlash over the weekend after it was reported that an exhibit on British humor had included the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher alongside Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler in a short list of &#8220;contemporary villains.&#8221;
The exhibit, which was meant to show how British humor had evolved over time, showcased Victorian &#8220;Punch &amp; Judy&#8221; puppets along with a caption that included the following:
<blockquote>Over the years, the evil character in this seaside puppet show has shifted from the Devil to unpopular public figures including Adolf Hitler, Margaret Thatcher and Osama bin Laden, to offer contemporary villains.</blockquote>
Critics were quick to address the issue, with many noting that whatever people thought of Thatcher — Britain&#8217;s first female prime minister — she hardly belonged on a short list of &#8220;villains&#8221; that only included 9/11 architect and al Qaeda terrorist bin Laden and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Nile Gardiner, former aide to Thatcher, argued that the museum should lose access to any government funding over the display. &#8220;The V&amp; A should have its public funding taken away because it&#8217;s engaging here in political activity,&#8221; he said.
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&#39;The V&amp;A should have its public funding taken away because it&#39;s engaging here in political activity.&#39;
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Deputy leader of Reform UK, Ben Habib, argued that whatever one thought of Thatcher&#8217;s politics, she was an important part of Britain&#8217;s history. He added, &#8220;Whoever made this decision should be sacked.&#8221;
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&#39;Whoever made this decision should be sacked&#39;.
Deputy leader of Reform UK, Ben Habib, reacts to a V&amp;A exhibition that named Margaret Thatcher, alongside Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden, as a &#39;contemporary villain&#39;. <a href="https://t.co/yjsshZVRLR">pic.twitter.com/yjsshZVRLR</a>
&mdash; GB News (@GBNEWS) <a href="https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1769801552187838807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It’s staggeringly offensive to bracket Britain’s first female Prime Minister with a genocidal maniac and a terrorist,&#8221; Telegraph associate editor Camilla Tominey <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/16/victoria-albert-museum-margaret-thatcher-exhibition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
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🖊 &quot;Why does the V&amp;A think Margaret Thatcher is a villain equivalent to Hitler?&quot;
&quot;It’s staggeringly offensive to bracket Britain’s first female Prime Minister with a genocidal maniac and a terrorist&quot;
Read the full column from <a href="https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CamillaTominey</a> below ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/lsbcPbJ630">https://t.co/lsbcPbJ630</a>
&mdash; The Telegraph (@Telegraph) <a href="https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1768978321189089594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Whoever wrote that caption should be called out publicly for being a moron, or perhaps more usefully sent to read a Ladybird book of modern world history. It is sadly symptomatic of the woke, luvvie-dom nonsense that persists in our public institutions,&#8221; Sir Connor Burns, a former trade minister and Conservative MP said. &#8220;They should be given a serious rap across the knuckles and a clarion instruction to grow up.&#8221;
According to a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13207861/Anger-museum-lists-Margaret-Thatcher-Punch-Judy-villain-alongside-Hitler-Bin-Laden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Sunday by The Daily Mail, the V&amp;A took in the majority of it&#8217;s funding from the government through the Department of Culture — to the tune of £67 million — in the last year.

Thatcher In Thought

London Museum Showcases ‘Contemporary Villains’: Hitler, Bin Laden, And … Margaret Thatcher?

London Museum Showcases 'Contemporary Villains': Hitler, Bin Laden, And ... Margaret Thatcher?

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Television host Piers Morgan called &#8220;bulls***&#8221; on his guest — a doctor in Britain&#8217;s National Health Service  — for referring to the October 7th massacre as &#8220;an act of resistance&#8221; and claiming that Hamas was not a terrorist organization but a group of &#8220;freedom fighters.&#8221;
Morgan posted a clip from the interview on his show, &#8220;Piers Morgan Uncensored,&#8221; with NHS Dr. Wahid Asif Shaida, to social media with the caption, &#8220;&#8216;How can you, a British NHS doctor, say that&#8217;s a &#8216;welcome punch on the nose&#8217;?&#8217; Piers Morgan vehemently challenges Dr Abdul Wahid for his comments about the Hamas attacks on Oct 7.&#8221;
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&quot;How can you, a British NHS doctor, say that&#39;s a &#39;welcome punch on the nose&#39;?&quot;
Piers Morgan vehemently challenges Dr Abdul Wahid for his comments about the Hamas attacks on Oct 7.<a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@piersmorgan</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TalkTV</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PMU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PMU</a> <a href="https://t.co/Bj4eiQBfDd">pic.twitter.com/Bj4eiQBfDd</a>
&mdash; Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) <a href="https://twitter.com/PiersUncensored/status/1734313347317662085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Morgan began with a clip from another interview in which the doctor referred to Hamas terrorists as the &#8220;brave Mujahideen&#8221; and called the deadly October 7th attack on Israeli civilians a &#8220;very welcome punch on the nose.&#8221;
Morgan asked how he, as a doctor with the NHS, could refer to Hamas&#8217; unrestrained brutality against women and children as &#8220;resistance.&#8221;
&#8220;How can you categorize a terror attack — in which 1,200 mostly innocent civilian people were brutally attacked, raped, tortured, beheaded, and murdered — how can you, a British NHS doctor, an NHS doctor in Britain, how can you say that&#8217;s a &#8216;welcome punch on the nose&#8217;?&#8221;
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Dr. Shaida said he would answer the question, but only if Morgan agreed to let him give his full response — which the host said he would do.
&#8220;I will be frank, I&#8217;ll be as concise as I can be,&#8221; Shaida said. &#8220;But if you give me the courtesy of letting me answer fully.&#8221;
Morgan once again agreed, and Shaida began, &#8220;I will defend the right of the Palestinians to resist an occupation. When you look at that —&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s not resistance, that&#8217;s terrorism!&#8221; Morgan objected.
Shaida pivoted slightly, suggesting that October 7th only seemed like terrorism if one believed that the history of the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians had only begun that day. He then complained that the word terrorism itself had become too &#8220;political,&#8221; but Morgan brought the conversation back to the topic at hand.
&#8220;You can be deeply sympathetic to the plight of Palestinian civilians, which I am by the way and have expressed many times,&#8221; Morgan said. &#8220;What you can&#8217;t do is be weaselly-mouthed about what happened on October the 7th. That was a grotesque terror attack.&#8221;
Dr. Shaida continued to complain about the &#8220;politicization&#8221; of the word terrorism, and Morgan finally asked him directly: &#8220;Do you think what happened October the 7th was a terror attack?&#8221;
Shaida pushed back again, calling it &#8220;resistance.&#8221; He went on to cite the Islamic &#8220;standard in conflict&#8221; which did not allow the killing of children or women or mutilation of those they did kill — and Morgan immediately pointed out that Hamas had done all of those things and more.
&#8220;If anybody did that —&#8221; Shaida said.
&#8220;What do you mean, &#8216;if&#8217;?&#8221; Morgan practically shouted back. &#8220;They literally broadcast it on their own streaming platforms! Hamas broadcast it merrily to the world. &#8216;Here&#8217;s us doing these terrible things.&#8217; What do you mean, &#8216;if&#8217;?&#8221;
Shaida eventually conceded that 1,200 people had been killed on October 7th.
&#8220;By terrorists?&#8221; Morgan prompted.
&#8220;By people who were resisting an occupation,&#8221; Shaida insisted.
&#8220;Bulls***,&#8221; Morgan lost his patience.
&#8220;Have you not heard the adage: &#8216;One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter&#8217;?&#8221; Shaida tried once more, but Morgan was not having it.
&#8220;Bulls***,&#8221; he said again.

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‘Bulls***!’: Piers Morgan Grills Doctor Who Can’t Stop Defending Hamas

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/womens-swimsuits-arent-accessorized-with-a-bulge-riley-gaines-slams-adidas-swimwear-line-modeled-by-male" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> praised the British Cycling organization on Friday after it announced a ban on males competing in the female category, crediting them with &#8220;prioritizing fairness.&#8221;
The former swimming champion — who was deprived of an NCAA award by male swimmer Lia Thomas — responded to news: &#8220;Breaking: British Cycling departs from International Federation rules and limits women&#8217;s competitive cycling to the FEMALE SEX ONLY.&#8221;
&#8220;Great news!&#8221; Gaines tweeted on Friday. &#8220;Prioritizing fairness as intended to be in sports. Women should never be used as collateral damage to validate feelings/identity of others.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s time governing bodies of all sports follow [BritishCycling],&#8221; she added. Gaines also gave a special nod to three-time Olympian female cyclist <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/inga-thompson-3-time-olympian-us-calls-cyclists-protest-against-ucis-transgender-athlete-policy">Inga Thompson</a>, who recently encouraged women to protest the unfairness of women being forced to compete against males in her sport.
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Great news! Prioritizing fairness as intended to be in sports. Women should never be used as collateral damage to validate feelings/identity of others. Its time governing bodies of all sports follow <a href="https://twitter.com/BritishCycling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BritishCycling</a> 
Im certain you played a big part in this! <a href="https://twitter.com/ithompsonfdn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ithompsonfdn</a> ⭐️ <a href="https://t.co/3PVua6XYaq">https://t.co/3PVua6XYaq</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1662084093960413184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The governing body announced that the new cycling policy was made to &#8220;safeguard the fairness of competition,&#8221; The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-12127677/British-Cycling-BAN-transgender-women-racing-female-competition-safeguard-fairness.html">Daily Mail</a> reported.
The change includes making the current men&#8217;s category an &#8220;open&#8221; category where trans-identifying male cyclists can compete against other men, while the female category is just for those who were born female, the outlet noted.
British Cycling Chief Executive Jon Dutton said, &#8220;Our new policies are the product of a robust nine-month review process, which we know will have a very real-world impact for our community both now and in the future.&#8221;
&#8220;I am confident that we have developed policies that both safeguard the fairness of cyclesport competition, whilst ensuring all riders have opportunities to participate,&#8221; Dutton added.
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The review concluded that &#8220;even with the suppression of testosterone, trans women who transition post-puberty retain a performance advantage.&#8221;
Trans-identifying male cyclist Emily Bridges blasted the new policy, calling it a &#8220;violent act.&#8221; Bridges was previously set to compete in the female category of the National Omnium Championships. <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/who-is-emily-bridges-trans-cyclist-criticises-new-rules-143636396.html">Bridges</a> previously set the national junior men&#8217;s record over 25 miles before becoming a part of British Cycling&#8217;s Senior Academy in 2019. In 2020, Bridges began identifying as transgender.
The move comes just weeks after trans-identifying male cyclist American Austin Killips won the Tour of the Gila run by the UCI. After the uproar over <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/transgender-cyclist-austin-killips-wins-womens-race-causes-outrage/">Killips</a>, the group vowed to review its policy and make a ruling by August, a move many believe will include a ban on males competing in the female category.

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‘Prioritizing Fairness’: Riley Gaines Praises Cycling Group For Ban On Males Competing In Female Category

'Prioritizing Fairness’: Riley Gaines Praises Cycling Group For Ban On Males Competing In Female Category

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