CI News: 19 October 2018

In the news this week: MPs speak out against ‘flawed’ plans to it much easier to legally change sex, another poll finds a majority of Scots oppose a smacking ban, and the BBC wants to go even further in promoting LGBT lifestyles.

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• MPs concerned over freedom to speak out on transgender debate
• MPs say trans consultation is ‘fundamentally flawed’
• Most Scottish voters oppose criminalising parents who smack their children
• Canada legalises cannabis in ‘national experiment’
• Under 10s admitted to hospital after taking cannabis
• BBC plans overhaul to combat ‘heteronormative’ culture
• McArthur family: ‘Over four-and-a-half years, God has been good’