Tag: transphobia

MP Warns Sporting Regulators Fear Being Cancelled For Banning Trans Athletes

Sporting regulators fear being cancelled or sued if they ban trans competitors from female sports, a MP has told Parliament. Tim Loughton said the organisations want firm rules on ensuring that only biological females compete against each other, but risk “vexatious, costly legal actions” and being dragged on social media as “transphobic and exclusionary.” The…


Starbucks Sacks Employee Who Accused Customer of Being Transphobic

A Starbucks employee filmed ranting furiously at a customer after allegedly being “misgendered” has been sacked, the coffee giant has confirmed. In a statement to The Epoch Times, Starbucks said the transgender employee’s contract had been “terminated” following an investigation into the incident, which went viral on social media. Footage of the altercation, which took…


‘There Is No Such Thing as a Thought Crime,’ Watchdog Tells UK Police

Police forces should stop declaring certain thoughts are crimes, the UK’s police watchdog has warned, stressing that “thought crimes” do not exist in the country’s legal system. Sir Tom Winsor, the outgoing chief inspector of constabulary, said that chief constables cannot “declare something that is not a crime to be a crime” in their force…


Trans Athletes, The New York Times, and the Ivy League

Commentary How individuals and institutions react to Lia Thomas, the biological male who is allowed to compete in women’s college swim competitions, is a good indicator of people’s values and level of rationality. To recap, Will Thomas, a man who until two years ago was a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s swim team,…