Shona Robison confirms gender reform appeal to be scrapped

Halle Bailey and DDG are parents!

Peaky Blinders movie will begin filming this year, creator Steven Knight has confirmed.Speaking to the Radio Times in December, Knight revealed that he’s almost finished writing the film’s script, and that production should get underway in the middle of 2024.“I’m just working on the final bits of it at the moment,” he said. “I just sit down at the keyboard and start.

here to set the record straight.On Wednesday, the Rascal Flatts guitarist, 48, took to social media to clarify rumors that he’s transitioning to be a woman. “First off, I am alive! There have been so many rumors and opinions thrown around about me — but I am finally healthy and ready for the world,” the country musician posted on X. “And NO, I’m not transitioning to be a woman.

Major retailers in California are required to have gender-neutral toy sections under a state law that went into effect Monday. Photo: Q Voice News.

Killers of the Flower Moon” actress Lily Gladstone has always felt comfortable using the she/they pronouns in an effort to “decolonize gender.” “I remember being 9 years old and just being a little disheartened, seeing how often a lot of my boy cousins were misgendered because they wore their hair long,” Gladstone, 37, told People on Sunday. “It happens to a lot of kids, I think, especially Native boys leaving a community where long hair is celebrated [and then] just kind of getting teased for it.” “So I remember back then being like, everybody should just be they,” the actress continued.

Coronation Street has confirmed the reason behind Harvey Gaskell's return - and it's not looking good for Damon Hay. It was revealed earlier this year that Damon was the brother of killer and drug kingpin Harvey as he made an appearance in Weatherfield and reunited with his son, Jacob Hay.

Coronation Street star Ciaran Griffiths has revealed why Damon Hay has returned to Weatherfield - and whether he has a future on the famous street. Viewers of the ITV soap were first introduced to the character back in December 2022 as he made his way onto the cobbles to find his son, Jacob Hay, just when his life was on the up and he had dropped his criminal past.

Shona Robison jetted off to one of Europe’s most exclusive ski resorts to spend Christmas in a luxury spa hotel just days after raising taxes and axing services in her budget. The under-fire SNP Finance Secretary spent the festivities at the four-star Heliopic Hotel and Spa in the French Alps resort of Chamonix where rooms cost up to £520 a night, the Sunday Mail can reveal. Champagne-sipping Robison flew out in the wake of announcing tax rises and spending cuts which will heap pain on families and businesses already crippled by the cost of living crisis.

Sofia Coppola is an Oscar-winning director with a career that spans decades in Hollywood behind titles like Priscilla, The Bling Ring, Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides, to name a few.

Just hours after Dancing on Ice judge Oti Mabuse shared the heartwarming news that she had welcomed her first child, her enthusiastic sister Motsi Mabuse, appears to have accidentally let slip the gender of her new baby. Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi took to Instagram on Christmas Day to congratulate her sister on the safe arrival of her first child as she shared a photo of herself cuddling the precious newborn in her arms while smiling for the camera with husband Timo at her side.

Married At First Sight star Shona Manderson took to Instagram in a desperate plea to ask her followers for their help after accidentally dying her hair black.The reality star, who normally has auburn/brown hair, shared a video to her Instagram stories where she asked her boyfriend and fellow MAFS star Matt Pilmoor what he thought. Without showing her new look to the camera, she asks Matt: "What is the colour of my new hair?" to which he responds: "Goth black", before Shona burst out into laughter. Shona, 31, then asked him "how bad" he thought it looked before he took a deep breath and said: "I mean, it's questionable".

SNP ministers have refused to ditch controversial gender reform legislation despite accepting it has no chance of becoming law while the Conservatives remain in power at Westminster.

The Scottish Government is in line to freeze the threshold for the higher rate of income tax in the Budget today.

SNP ministers have been called on to protect jobs and public services as the Scottish Government prepares to reveal its annual budget.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Alden Ehrenreich haven’t taken many vacation days recently. She’s the breakout star of Alexander Payne’s heartwarming comedy “The Holdovers,” where she portrays Mary, the head cook of a boarding school in the 1970s. (She also showed her range as the jaded manager to a troubled pop star in HBO’s controversial summer series “The Idol.”) He’s the familiar face who played a young Han Solo in the “Star Wars” franchise and, this year, shows off his dramatic chops as a toxic boyfriend and financial analyst in Chloe Domont’s Sundance darling “Fair Play.” Here, they compare notes on preparation, keeping momentum and dating other actors.

Daily Signal.Monarch High School is allowed to appeal the decision within ten days. Officials with Broward County Public Schools said in a statement that its “investigation into the matter remains ongoing at this time.”The punishment handed down against Monarch is the first instance of a school being penalized for violating the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” primarily aimed at preventing transgender female athletes from competing on women’s sports teams.The law allows “biological females” to compete on “athletic teams or sports designated for males, men, or boys,” as well as in sports that are designated as “co-ed.”“Thanks to [Republican Governor Ron DeSantis], Florida passed legislation to protect girls’ sports, and we will not tolerate any school that violates this law,” Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr.

exceptions for intersex children or children with hormonal deficiencies, who would still be allowed to receive the exact same therapies that are prohibited for transgender children.Critics of such provisions say it exposes the hypocrisy of bills restricting gender-affirming care, in that only children identifying as transgender are targeted, while intersex children are instead “forced” to conform to a certain binary gender presentation for the comfort of larger society.Additionally, intersex children are often subjected to surgical interventions when they are just days old — which not only eliminates a patient’s ability to consent, but may increase a minor’s gender dysphoria if doctors and parents choose a gender presentation that does not match their gender identity.The ban on gender-affirming care was passed by Republicans in October, along with two other bills targeting transgender participation in high school and collegiate sports. At the time, Evers threatened to veto any measure targeting the LGBTQ community, as reported by AM news radio outlet WTMJ.“This type of legislation, and the rhetoric beget by pursuing it, harms LGBTQ people and kids’ mental health, emboldens anti-LGBTQ hate and violence, and threatens the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites,” Evers wrote in his veto message.

The UK Government is likely to charge Holyrood for its £150,000 legal fees after a failed court challenge on gender reforms.

Love Island's Camilla Thurlow and her husband Jamie Jewitt have announced that they are set to welcome their third child together.

The Scottish Government must not prolong the legal battle following a defeat over Holyrood’s gender reform laws, former SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes has warned.