I think the stabbing had put Nowak in such a condition as to appear to be one of the many kinds of "undesirables" police are empowered to treat inhumanely and it's only after the fact when it's been discovered that he was in that state because of the stabbing that anyone even questions that reflex.

Fuck the judge finding no fault with the officers here and the general establishment acceptance of the idea it's more important to lock people up than care for their safety. The police are not a useful service in the face of incidents like this because this is how they operate.

If there’s only one technical question the Women and Equalities Committee @sarahowen.org.uk can ask about the EHRC Code, it would be Why we can’t provide both trans-inclusive and exclusive gendered facilities?

Looking forward to the meeting with the EHRC at 2. Will get some notes for my MP. committees.parliament.uk/event/27280/... 30 minutes does not feel like nearly enough time.

It’s funny when people quote that poem without the context that the writer was a Nazi who was shocked when they came for him. Restore are disgraceful. You are absolutely British and entitled to live free from discrimination. You might need to reconsider your own attacks on minorities too, though?

Do you need a handy example of a Labour MP attacking a minority group’s entitlement to legal protections?

No question asked about the EHRC Code today.

Happy to sign I’ve signed this Early Day Motion.

Three transphobes.

Well already coming for me… It’s the best time to be an Asian trans woman, isn’t it? No?

😂

I just want to point out that the soon-to-retire UK Supreme Court judge Reed gave this speech, criticised Maggie Chapman MSP, and mentioned “but for” just a few weeks after the Bailey appeal was filed. supremecourt.uk/speeches/lor...

Did Keir Starmer use disappearing messages for the discussion of the Iran War? Are we historians being denied the chance to study the most unpopular and incompetent Prime Minister?

Not even history is safe from this Prime Minister. Stealing tomorrow from the young, and yesterday from posterity.

😂 youtu.be/36jxNeV5L1Q

And in both cases, the police officers’ conduct is clearly sackable, exceeds statutory authority, and is only rendered lawful because of an unreasonable mistaken belief.

I remember a leading politician being utterly vilified by the media a couple of weeks ago for suggesting the police don't always exercise enough caution or judgement.

Pride month final boss

If I see Patrick Hodge, I’d body-slam him and then hang him up in a tree on behalf of all the disabled and trans folks. According to the multifactorial assessment, he is unable to experience liberty, and the tree doesn’t look like a prison cell, so he isn’t deprived of his liberty.

New deadlift PR: 135kg x 2 reps 🫪

Sorry, but there’s absolutely no chance the Crown can tell a civil servant with a GRC not to use their preferred facilities. The same goes for the NHS and other public sector employees.

Lol that’s good

Govt has published their updated guidance following the Supreme Court judgment. As I have set out before, this new code will still lead to confusion for businesses & contains multiple legal contradictions which will see some of the worse elements of transphobia continue being aided and abetted 1/7

Quite happy with my navel line laser. A few more sessions and I can carry a cropped top for the summer. Also need to train my abs.

The overruling of Cheshire West is going to fly under the radar because a lot of the people impacted are so utterly denied a voice that even their deaths won't be heard about until an enquiry in a couple of decades

1/🧵 Sorry, but this guidance is remarkably ill-advised. A gender recognition certificate undoubtedly binds the Crown as a public employer. If anyone comes to me for advice, I would say definitely disclose the GRC.

1/🧵 Sometimes, you have to appreciate the foresight of some judges. At the hearing for Sex Matters v City of London, Lieven J mentioned Cheshire West as an example of how a disability charity may have standing for those who can’t defend themselves and probed where to draw the line.

Horrid.

👇🏻 this. I don't think people realize how hard it is to carry on this fight, and to offer hope, when everything - the 'Labour' Government, the media, the 'justice' system, the regulators - are bent on the elimination of trans people. Jess is an astonishing talent and could not be more committed.

Today the Supreme Court, found in favour of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to, once again, allow for removal of rights and undermine protection for marginalised and vulnerable people, in this case disabled individuals. This is part of a wider erosion of human rights in the UK. 1/

Why did the EHRC Code of Practice drop after a long delay? They needed to cement this “principle”: There can’t be blanket inclusion* by legislation, so there can be blanket exclusion* by guidance. * or other forms of benefit stemming from human rights, and vice versa

There is now a pattern in which human rights are being dismantled for so-called nuances, and then public authorities proceed to give guidance (not even legislation) that contains no nuances at all.

The charities intervened, and they expressed the same concerns as McCloud (before ECtHR) and the Scottish Prison Service (before Outer House). Their submissions:

The UK Supreme Court has now decided to strip disabled people of their human rights too "This judgement sets us back decades and removes safeguards that history shows us are vital for disabled people." Horrific www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Walking down Reading’s high street, a hate preacher bloody called me a man for frowning at him. “Is that how Scripture teaches you to talk to your neighbours, huh?” I bellowed into his face twice as loud as his loudspeaker, watching his smug, righteous expression shatter into wide-eyed panic.

I can’t carry old people necklace yet 😅

:s/Labour/Supreme Court/g

And what if I tell you the young GC™ barrister, Zoe Gannon, showed up again? A RISING STAR for human rights regression.

The Supreme Court has today "strip[ped] fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people" say a group of National Charities for disabled people. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Once legal protections are no longer sacrosanct for one group, it makes it far easier to remove them from others. Many of the judges in today’s Supreme Court ruling were involved with the FWS decision. My heart and solidarity go out to the disabled community. 😢

Look, they are expanding the Dignity and Respect programme.

1/🧵 The Supreme Court has today overturned Cheshire West and removed important protections for severely disabled people. This case hits all the keywords: guidance, segregation, “never had the right”.

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.

38 now.

Claire Hughes. And looking at her portfolio, she is tasked with preventing any parliamentary scrutiny or meaningful vote on the Code’s approval or disapproval.

Right, I’m trying to map American law to English law to better understand the Bricks and Minifigs fiasco. The franchisor says that the local store was transferred as a business to the franchisor upon the termination of the franchise agreement.

The Bricks and Minifigs saga is like wtf? The “low-level employee” is now identified in court filing as “Director of Operations”. 🤡

My profile picture is actually my former neighbour’s cat. The catto has legendary status because she likes to sit at the side of the road, just next to the right-hand side of a parked car, and transcend oncoming motorised traffic. I called her over to take this picture.

1/🧵 Josh Fenton-Glynn MP’s intervention yesterday on the burden of proportionality analysis on businesses is apt. Proportionality in this context was generally understood to be that any decision made in relation to a cis person’s exclusion must have an excessive impact on others.

Who is this evil MP nodding behind the junior minister? It looks like she is a very true believer of Labour’s segregationist policy probably even more so than the ridiculous parrot speaking in front of her?