"Lloyds Banking Group to offer free sex-change operations to male managers"

From City AM:

Lloyds: 40pc of our top managers will be women in 2020

Antonio Horta Osorio will commit to ensuring 40 per cent of senior staff are female by 2020.

Currently 28 per cent of the bank’s 5,000 senior staff are female, equating to 1,400 employees. The increase to 40 per cent will take that up to 2,000, an increase of 600.

The pledge covers several bands of seniority, and the bank wants at least 25 per cent of managers at each of those levels to be female, ensuring widespread coverage from the target.

At the moment 60 per cent of the bank’s overall workforce is female. The chief executive of the state-backed bank will also undergo the procedute and will henceforth be known as 'Antonia'.

Headline Of The Day

Canadian porn star cannibal's transsexual ex-lover reveals she could have been psycho killer's victim

Bollocks

Three from The Metro:

Thailand makes it tougher to have sex-change surgery: Transsexuals and transgender men are a common sight in Thailand, appearing on soap operas and working at all levels of Bangkok society...

But over the past two years, a spate of castrations, especially among young men, has alarmed the medical establishment and prompted the new rules. Dr Sampandh Komrit, from the Medical Council of Thailand, said the new rules came into effect yesterday and require a person to wait a year after deciding on the surgery... "This is a very important decision in their life," Sampandh said. "After the operation, there is no way to fix it."

Testicles ripped out in a jealous attack: A source told a newspaper: 'Billy was only wearing his underpants at this stage. Helen grabbed his testicles and pulled them as hard as she could. His scrotum had been ripped open and his testicles were dangling by his legs. There was blood all over the flat.'

Men who want sex no longer risk jail by promising marriage, which is ambiguous. It could mean "Men who no longer want sex risk [being sent to] jail if they promise marriage", although it doesn't, of course.

Erik Schinegger

The whole Caster Semenya furore reminds me of Erik Schinegger, the only man to have once been the world champion women's downhill skier.

Caster Semenya's Desert Island Discs

On the basis of an article in this morning's Metro, I'd guess the list would include some or all of the following...

Sigue Sigue Sputnik "She's my man"
Deep Purple "Strange kind of woman"
Shania Twain "Man! I feel like a woman"
Aerosmith "Dude looks like a lady"
Kinks "Lola"
Prince "If I was your girlfriend"
Alice Cooper "Mary Ann"
Waifs "Billy Jones"
Kate Perry "I kissed a girl"
Mutya Buena "Real girl"
Bob Dylan "Just like a woman"
Lou Reed "Walk on the wild side"
Chaka Khan "I'm every woman"
Happy Mondays "Kinky Afro"
Velvet Underground "Lady Godiva's operation"
Wham "I'm your man"
Peter André "Mysterious girl"

... but I might well be wrong.

"Transsexual arsonist faces long jail term"

This article omits the most important bit - will the perp be sent to a prison for male convicts or for female ones? Or will the time served be split 50/50?

Grrrr.