A PETITION to stop a trans woman being sent to an all-male prison reached 7,000 signatures yesterday, less than a day after it started.
LGBT rights campaigners and politicians were among those trying to reverse Bath magistrates’ decision last Friday to send make-up artist Tara Hudson to HM Prison Bristol for a week after she admitted assault.
Despite having been medically declared a woman after undergoing six years of reassignment surgery, Ms Hudson’s passport still labels her as a man.
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate


