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Apr 2025
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The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Sex and Ge...

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Today, we look at what yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling means for the NHS.

The NHS will be pursued if it doesn’t follow new guidance on single-sex spaces the chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said. Currently the NHS guidance says trans people should be accommodated according to the way they dress, their names and their pronouns. Under the ruling this would be scrapped. Adam is joined by BBC’s social affairs editor Alison Holt and BBC’s health editor Hugh Pym.

Also, officials from Ukraine, the US and Europe have been meeting today in Paris to discuss a peace deal. These are the highest level talks, with the US and Europe, about the war since February. Adam is joined by BBC’s Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale.

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