The Metro “is given out for free on buses and trains across the country,” Hazel Appleyard explains in a thread on X. “Everyone who travels on public transport will be seeing this headline today.”
For the last 24 hours, the biggest news in Britain has been their Supreme Court deciding in a nuanced, but clear ruling that men are not women, even if they call themselves ‘trans women.’ Today, the whole island has gotten the news: ‘trans women’ are not women. They are men.
“UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex and excludes transgender people,” reads the Associated Press headline. Despite some problematic wording straight from the AP Style Manual, which was captured by the trans lobby years ago, it is a fairly balanced and factual article. That’s good, because most American news outlets will simply republish or crib their article.
Five judges ruled that the U.K. Equality Act means trans women can be excluded from some groups and single-sex spaces such as changin…
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