may be doing a bit of some carving. and fluffing up some plants. do you fluff up plants? i and fluffing up some plants. do you fluff up plants? with the summer holidays fast approaching, people wanting to apply for a new passport are being warned not to leave it until the last minute. the passport office says it is dealing with a large backlog after brexit and covid, with the prime minister warning the service could be privatised if things do not improve. so what s behind the current delays? an estimated five million people delayed their passport applications throughout 2020 and 2021 because of travel restrictions during the pandemic. it has also been linked to a change in the rules for travelling to some eu countries post brexit, because passports must be valid for at least three months, and no more than ten years old from the point of issue. both these issues have led to unprecedented demand, and people are being advised to allow up to ten weeks when applying for their passports. so
all eighteen million residents of the southern chinese city of guangzhou are to be tested for covid after the discovery of a handful of cases. officials have asked people not to start panic buying. in shanghai which reported nearly twenty four thousand new daily infections on saturay there are reports of unrest because of a lack of food. more than a thousand people have taken to the streets of tunisia s capital, tunis, to protest against what they re calling a power grab by the president. some shouted down a power grab by the president. president kais saied dissolved parliament last month after earlier scrapping the country s independent judicial council. lastjuly he sacked the government and seized wide ranging powers. american travellers will no longer have to specify their gender on passport applications. in addition to the option of selecting male or female, applicants will be allowed to mark their gender as x, regardless of what is written on their birth certificate. activists
today the biden administration is marking international transgender day visibility with a series of changes supporting transgender americans, including the option to choose x when identifying gender on u.s. passport applications. that starts next month. and then starting next year, the social security administration will no longer require doctor s notes to update gender information. but some states are curbing transgender rights. just yesterday republican governor doug ducey signed a bill banning surgery until 18 and another bill that prohibits transathletes from competing in women s and girls sports in some schools. we want to tell you about a weather alert because parts of virginia, north carolina are
even though the term medically is defined gender neutrally, women of color, you and i both know that that word is linked to women. when was the last time we heard a man being called hysterical? and in my book, i actually dive into the history of the word hysteria and where it comes from, tracing it back to the ancient egyptians, the ancient greeks. my question was, was it always like this? were women always just not credible and not believed about our health? and it turns out, yes, and guess who was describing us as hysterical the longest men. again, the book is the pain gap: how sexism and racism in health care kill women. thank you and congratulations. next, how a one-letter change to passport applications is leading to millions of americans being accepted for who they are, at least on paper. first, a preview of what is ahead tonight on ayman.
women being deemed hysterical. why does that word still carry so much weight? gosh, you know, i actually wanted to call my book hysterical. even though the term medically is defined gender neutrally, women of color, you and i both know that that word is linked to women. when was the last time we heard a man being called hysterical? and in my book, i actually dive into the history of the word hysteria and where it comes from, tracing it back to the ancient egyptians, the ancient greeks. my question was, was it always like this? were women always just not credible and not believed about our health? and it turns out, yes, and guess who was describing us as hysterical the longest men. again, the book is the pain gap: how sexism and racism in health care kill women. thank you and congratulations. next, how a one-letter change to passport applications is leading to millions of americans being accepted for who they are, at least on paper.