I occasionally dip into anti-trans twitter to remind myself how bonkers it has become as a platform. Post the Kirk shooting, on a scale of 0-10, I’d say it’s about 37 at the moment.

Lord Reed letter - SC contact. It would be useful to know how many folk have used the form to contact the SC. If you have, please reply to the last post on this thread and increase the count by one. Thanks.

My letter to Lord Reed. This was posted today, so should be with the SC tomorrow. If you would like to see Lord Hodge interviewed as suggested, you can tell the Supreme Court directly with their general contact form: supremecourt.uk/_next/static...

Oh dear. Apparently Lord Hodge has been speaking to The Times (go figure) to justify the mess that is the FWS judgment and suggesting that it is based on careful assessment of whether their ‘biological sex’ option makes sense. Well, given …

I’ll just leave this here. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

I see that gender-critical Twitter is trumpeting this ideological new schools guidance in Northern Ireland. Given that persons of any age can have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, followed my this guidance will leave schools open to legal challenge.

Is it just my impression, or did the Labour Party reshuffle NOT include the change the Party really needs?

The writing on the toilet wall. I have been holding off publishing an article that I have had ‘brewing’ all summer about how to provide single-gender services and workplace facilities (without being sued for doing so) until folks are back from summer holidays and have the children back t’school.

I expect to be on LBC just after 4 talking about the Graham Linehan arrest.

Send 3 and 4 pence we’re going to a dance.’ Have the EHRC: (1) asked 19 organisations to review their policies, or (2) taken Regulatory action against 19 org’s, or (3) launched legal action against 19 org’s? Answer on the back of withdrawn interim guidance, please. Confused of Carcasonne.

Hegseth is intent on proving he IS Forest Gump - just with the intelligence and humanity removed. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I think Ms Phillipson needs to take some advice. A school permitting misgendering if done deliberately rather than accidentally would, in my view, be highly likely to find themselves liable for a lawful discrimination.

Sound principle. How about not making decisions about trans people without trans people, SKS?

An important contribution to understanding why the Supreme Court judgment in FWS is wrong, and will not survive either proper consideration by a full (and fully informed) Supreme Court or the ECHR in Strasbourg. eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-de...

Told you so. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A sobering thought. I was chatting with someone on line earlier and it was a sobering thought that ALL humans are related, it is just a question about how many generations we need to go back to find a common ancestor…

Famous Five holiday in Cornwall with GWR

Lovely to receive a bit of praise. Thanks Chris(tyn)

‘The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.’ Given that Kemi now doesn’t ‘identify’ as Nigerian, how long until she identifies as non-binary or a trans man?

Misleading stats about trans people. Take this post, designed to show how big and threatening Beth Upton is relative to Sandie Peggie. But only the top 13 inches of Sandie Peggie is shown, making the 6’’ height difference appear to be 46% rather than the 9% it really is, a 5-fold exaggeration.

Because you needed a video of a group of cute otters chasing a butterfly... 😊

‘While marking up the legislative programme for my government for the 2025/26 parliamentary session I accidentally picked up a handful of felt-tip pens in a ‘rainbow’ selection of colours and fell over a pile of photocopier paper, marking it with what might be taken to be LGBT rainbow banners.’

The big lie. ‘Importantly, this decision does not reduce or remove the legal protections against discrimination for those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.’ The item explains how trans people are to be excluded from their affirmed gender… labour.org.uk/resources/su...

In the ‘Highgate Pools’ controversy now being whipped up by Sex Matters, I trust it will not be forgotten that the pool users have already expressed a collective view… www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2416017...

An important contribution to understanding the effect of FWS. www.equality-network.org/wp-content/u...

First pickings!

I have a feeling that no human being was involved in writing the headline. (It is two separate stories, if you were wondering.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excellent piece www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Breaking News. Scottish Government given 7 days to ban kilt-wearing in public toilets. Campaign group ‘Trousers Matter’ have sent a 7-day letter to the Scottish Government demanding traditional dress is not longer used in public toilets on the Scottish Government estate. A spokesperson for TM …

‘Regrets, I’ve had a few …🎼’ One of my few regrets is that I am not a better cartoonist than I am. This would lend itself perfectly to the SC Justices, leading politicians and the principals of Sex Matters and the like, … www.heraldscotland.com/news/2528910...

Good Morning Britain Friday 4 July 2025. I’ll be on GMB tomorrow morning as part of the news coverage after 6 and after 8 of the steps to challenge the Palestinian Action Proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000. Barristers often have unusual specialisms tucked away.

Apparently a gender critical archaeologist has found an ancient Roman text to prove that the 2010 Equality Act was intended to refer to ‘biological’ sex along with all their other ‘evidence’.

Moral Choices I was a teenager when ‘Secret Army’ was first broadcast. Its treatment of moral choices in the most difficult circumstances deeply influenced my concepts of right, wrong, morality and other aspects of my life. There seem to be parallels with Britain today, especially for LGBT folk.

Needs no comment from me. www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

I do not support ANY graffiti in ANY public space but have been sent this photo, apparently from a loo off Westminster Hall in Parliament on Wednesday. Quite.

A month ago, after a long hard look at the FWS Supreme Court judgment O put out the linked article. No-one has offered any answer to the points in the article which show why this a deeply flawed judgment, due no respect as a judicial exercise. On the other hand… translucent.org.uk/a-supremely-...

Important truths. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

Pleased to have been there. diva-magazine.com/2025/06/26/h...

I am not a party political animal but I do LIKE our new Lib Dem MP for Tiverton and Minehead, Rachel Gilmour, who is clearly working hard at being a constituency MP. I met up with her as part of the LGBT mass lobby at Parliament yesterday and today she did a bit of good for another constituent.

This gets more bonkers all the time. Were I to be working for a someone as a contractor, the parliamentary estate would be my workplace, and I WOULD be invited to use the female toilets? The UK has lost its mind. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

More entertainment. Jon Pike of the OU, not at Westminster last week, is on Twitter suggesting my saying the ‘challenge’ to me in Portcullis House last week was an ‘attack’ is ‘thoroughly and knowingly dishonest’. Well, the loud shouting was disgusting and frightening. So I’ll stick with my word.

Amazing really. I have discovered a way to grow taller in my early sixties - annoy anti-trans twitter. I am under 6’ tall.

Any lie will do. Apparently I was subject to JKR vilification this week, based on a Jo Bartosch article and associated social media. Allegedly I ‘breezed past gender-neutral facilities’ in Portcullis House. Apparently I am either ‘well over 6’ tall’ or am 6’5’’ am ‘huge’ or built like Hagrid.

What do lesbians really think about trans people? And not the tiny trans-hating minority the Supreme Court accepted without thinking represent lesbians generally. xtramagazine.com/power/activi...

A very well-written and perceptive article. iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...

Gender-critical ideology twitter is overrun with folk trying to justify the unpleasantness shown to me last Wednesday, each tweet more desperate-sounding than the last. I won’t be rising to the bait, just as I did not on Wednesday.

One for your MP, business leader, union general secretary etc etc. translucent.org.uk/clearing-up-...

An important contribution. www.independent.co.uk/voices/juno-...

Breaking News. Egyptian Hieroglyphics re-interpreted as ‘Sex Matters’ toilet signs for Tut-ankh-Amon’s temple. From 2,500 BC. ‘The signs bring clarity’, said the high priest. ‘But civilisation fell apart while folk worked out which toilet to use’…

Coming to a motorway service station near you. I’m glad the crackpot Supreme Court judgment brought ‘clarity’…