Andrew Walton, Lloyds’s chief corporate affairs director, responded to the ruling just hours after it was announced, saying the company would ‘listen and support’ any employees who may be affected.
In a message seen by the Telegraph to Lloyds’s Rainbow network, which is the bank’s internal group for LGBTQ+ people, offering them ‘a note of support…on what I know will be an unsettling day following the UK Supreme Court decision’.
He added: ‘Please know that we cherish and celebrate you and we remain committed to inclusivity. If you’re a line manager, please be mindful of the potential impact on members of your team and be available to them. We are here to listen and support.’
…Maine is one of 22 states that explicitly prohibits discrimination based on gender identity and one of 23 states that has laws or policies allowing transgender athletes to participate in sports consistent with their gender identities, according to MAP.
In 2020, there were just over 100 bills aimed at LGBTQ+ people. In 2025, that number has ballooned to more than 850, the vast majority singling out transgender Americans. What we are witnessing now is not a legislative trend—it’s a coordinated nationwide crusade….
The goal is unmistakable: to make it nearly impossible for transgender people to live openly, safely, and with dignity in public life.
Every woman has her own unique biology, so their reasoning in s. 171 would appear to be that unless a woman has natal potential and XX chromosomes she is not ergo a biological woman because she does not share this with the assumed self-explanatory biological grouping of “woman” in society. This is dangerous logic, one which can and will have serious implications for women in British society.
The federal judge ruled that transgender people’s passport changes do not, as the Trump executive order stated, deprive the “dignity, safety, and well-being of women.”
Ethel Cain is the stage name of Hayden Silas Anhedönia, an American singer-songwriter, artist, and producer who’s really carved out a unique space in the music world. She first gained attention around 2019-2020 with some dreamy, haunting releases on platforms like SoundCloud, but her debut album, Preacher’s Daughter (2022), is what really made people stop and take notice.
Her music blends elements of ambient pop, Americana, slowcore, dream pop, and gothic influences, often telling deeply personal, cinematic, and sometimes chilling stories.
“Yes it is true. I was classified as ‘male’ by the US government when I went to get my visa to go to the Brazil Conference at Harvard University and MIT.
“It doesn’t surprise me. This has already been happening with trans people’s documents in the U.S. for a few weeks.”
Erika Hilton is a Brazilian politician and activist for black and #LGBTQ rights. In the 2020 elections, she gained international notice by becoming the first openly #transgender councilor elected to the Municipal Chamber of São Paulo, receiving the most votes for any councilor in the country.
The battle for the soul of America’s universities is also a battle for the future of trans people in the US, and American democracy.
The Trump administration knows that the universities – with their focus on independent, critical research – are a threat to their corporate, theocratic and ultranationalist fundamentalism.
The universities have always been important players in the cultural revolutions of America, so they have to be brought to heel. They have to become propaganda tools for MAGA “patriotism”.
If the universities fall, free media will fall and if free media fall, free speech is over. That means an end to US democracy.
Trump want the universities to remove critical research on race and gender and replace it with pseudo-science that affirms the racism and transphobia of MAGA beliefs. All the complaint about anti-semitism at American campuses is a smokescreen meant to legitimize this state takeover of the universities. This is not political conservatism. This is fascism, plain and simple, and this is not a drill.
President Trump’s pick for Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Brian Christine, is facing scrutiny after denying he treated transgender patients—despite prior ads from his practice promoting care for trans men.
