Trans outrage and the courts, fleeing Nuneaton and Reform’s climate denial

In MetroTalk: Readers discuss trans rights, the deportation of an asylum seeker and Reform’s climate change policies(Picture: Lucy North/PA Wire)

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‘There is no human right to access provisions set aside for the other sex’, says reader

The movement for ‘LGBT’ equality frames trans rights as no different from LGB rights. However, this obscures a very important difference – the rights extended to LGB people for equal treatment and protection, for example, to marry, do not infringe on the rights or protections of others.

In contrast, trans rights activists demand that men calling themselves women should be allowed to enter women-only spaces – changing rooms, showers, refuges – and women-only activities such as women’s sports. If enacted, this demand would put an end to women’s protected spaces and activities.

Although the trans slogan ‘trans rights are human rights’ is catchy, there is no human right to access provisions set aside for the other sex. Will Podmore, London

This reader says that the allowing trans women into women-only activities would put an end to ‘women’s protected spaces’ (Picture: © Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire)

Readers comment on Yusuf and asylum seekers

I don’t get this. Yusuf is an asylum seeker from Somalia who wants to be sent back because he no longer feels safe in Nuneaton (Metro, Tue). He says he’s been waiting five months for the Home Office to act. It’s his homeland so why does he need deporting? Or would that be his last grab from British taxpayers in getting them to pay his fare? John Lewis, Liverpool

Like doubtless countless others, I was left barely clinging to the edge of reason after reading about Yusuf and his declaration that the UK is ‘not safe’, when he himself has made a grave contribution to the dangers of rising crime rates here with a ‘serious assault’ conviction. Rupert Booth, London

Given Yusuf’s conviction for a ‘serious assault’ has seen him stripped of his right to work, are we now housing, feeding and watering him, while the Home Office drags its knuckles over his deportation? Presumably, we’re also expected to pay for his flight home, with a meal included. Cue the bleeding hearts. Kris, Coventry.

‘Farage doesn’t want to fix our problems’, says reader

This reader says that Reform UK’s climate change policy is ‘to pretend it doesnt exist'(Picture: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The climate crisis will leave vast areas of the world uninhabitable – the hundreds of millions of people who lived in those areas will flee to places like Britain.

That refugee crisis will make the current one look tiny by comparison and the worse the climate crisis gets, the more refugees there will be.

Reform UK’s climate change policy is to pretend it doesn’t exist. Under a Reform government, the climate crisis would
only get worse and worse and the 
number of small boats will only get bigger and bigger.

Nigel Farage (right) doesn’t want to fix our problems. He just wants to win power. I don’t know exactly what will happen if he does – he’s not very good at keeping promises – but I know it will end badly. Ryan Cooper, London

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