The government argues that the amendments will ensure welfare reaches “real beneficiaries.” Yet when eligibility itself is narrowed, many genuine beneficiaries risk being left out. How can protections reach those whom the law chooses not to recognise?
Instead of strengthening safeguards—such as employment rights, reservations, healthcare access, and protection for transgender children—the focus appears to be on tightening gatekeeping rather than expanding support. This runs counter to what many of us have long advocated, including in my own Private Member’s Bill on the subject introduced in 2024.
What is needed is an expansion of rights: meaningful consultation with transgender communities, robust social protections, and policy measures such as horizontal reservations. Transgender persons are citizens entitled to equal rights and any law that undermines this principle falls short of our Constitution’s promise.
And, baby, that’s show business for you. New album The Life of a Showgirl. Out October 3 ❤️🔥
https://t.co/rIaG2Ezo7Z
Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift
📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Germany 🇩🇪 has my eyes set; can’t wait to see what’s ahead of this budding team’s spirit, they are on their way to shake the leaderboard in years to come. I can’t fucking wait for it!
women’s football has come such a long way. fuck you to all those rancid hateful idiots who think otherwise. I’m in awe of the level and class of teams at Euros this year; the talent, grit, coaches coming to shine, and obv the competitiveness that’s unfolding..#uefawomenseuro2025
absolute cinema. historic from both these talents, you can’t even script this if you could.
glad we will have a decade more of this. tennis is in good hands!
Activist Greta Thunberg says silence is more dangerous than sailing to Gaza, as she boarded a vessel that will try to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla had to abandon its last attempt on May 2 when it was bombed.