Barristers at the (New Year) weekend. Rover SD1 ‘Denis’ and I are out and about in gorgeous West Somerset. Smile and wave…

Dame Hilary Cass characterises making trans women use male toilets as ‘unconscionable’. m.youtube.com/watch?v=N15N...

Persistence of prejudice. I see The Times are platforming Transphobia yet again, given that those who hate trans people have not achieved the banishment they seek.

I cannot see the slightest justification for allowing anti-trans hate group ‘Sex matters’ to comment on this story. If you agree with me, a complaint to the BBC only takes a few moments. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Draft Guidance on Toilets and Changing Rooms OUT for consultation. No, not THAT guidance - but mine. I got fed up with waiting for this government to get on with the guidance that’s really needed especially after the Kelly and Peggy cases. translucent.org.uk/toilets-chan...

Well now… www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...

Sensible reporting of Peggie v Fife and Upton emerges… novaramedia.com/2025/12/16/a...

All very well, but no-one expected the Spanish Inquisition…

An important read medium.com/@missfredawa...

Merry Christmas All To all my many friends in social-media-land, Merry Christmas! I know this will be the last day of work for some taking an extended break. In lieu of the Christmas card you all deserve but I can’t possibly provide, do have a copy of my Christmas Puzzle which you may care …

A thoughtful piece on the Girl Guiding trans ban with some comments by me. tfn.scot/news/long-re...

The desperation on the part of the anti-trans media to find something - anything - with which to attack the ‘Peggie’ judgment - which supported the inclusion of trans people in workplaces - is really quite amusing. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...

Running around with their hair on fire 2025 is ending better than it started for trans people. The nonsensical FWS Supreme Court Judgment on 16 April 2025 was definitely a low point, both for trans people and the UK judiciary. tenor.com/view/beaker-...

In conversation with Shon Faye. Premiering now: 👇🏼 youtu.be/3qkAGseHe3I?...

An interesting graphic from pollster Peter Kellner, supporting his article in ‘New World’ magazine.

Some comments by myself on the rather unattractive media campaign now being run by Baronrss Faulkner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Appears I will be on BBC Scotland from 6:30 this evening, again commenting about the Peggie case, opposite Baroness Fawkner.

Teamwork!

The transgender roller-coaster. Waking up to blue skies. Some thoughts intended to provoke discussion. After a late night at the Bristol Employment Lawyers Xmas Quiz, I am pottering around at home in my dressing gown with a coffee and thinking about the last few weeks for trans people. …

Visit to European Space Agency This anti-gravity plays havoc with your hairdo…

Dr Beth Upton I was struck this afternoon by how to say something appropriate in public to (and about) Dr Upton, the trans woman vilified in the Peggie tribunal - cross examination and media - for just existing and following her employer’s instructions. The image I have had in my head all day …

Joke tweet Gold cup of the day award goes to Kemi Badenoch who thinks that Sandie Peggie ‘won’ her case against Fife NHS and Dr Upton when Ms Peggie was the one found to have harassed Dr Upton and the trust made some minor procedural errors. Looking glass world at CCHQ these days?

Ooooo Goodie. Christmas Menu on the GWR Pullman. 1836 from Paddington tonight as Castle Cary to Taunton is shut and we are going via Bristol - so time to enjoy my coffee at the end of the meal before Taunton. For me the French Onion soup, the turkey and the Xmas pudding! Go Great Western!

I was right! We are a banana republic!

Have just been interviewed about the ‘Peggie’ case for BBC Scotland. I’ll be travelling when it is broadcast this evening, so pleased to hear what others think. Immediate ‘takeaways’ from (1272 paragraph) judgment:

Kelly v Leonardo I’m going to write a careful case note about this important first instance case on trans toilet access in the next few days but I keep spotting great things in EJ Surherland’s careful and thoughtful consideration of workplace toilets both under the 1992 Regulations and the EA.

Great Britain, banana republic.

I am to be on LBC this morning talking about the Labour Women’s conference decision to exclude trans women.

Jam and Jerusalem Here’s ‘Jerusalem’. The WI have provided a particular sticky but unpleasantly-tasting home-made jam to go with it. All together now:

Kelly v Leonardo - the best bit Para 367 www.gov.uk/employment-t...

Good news for trans workers After the Girl guiding and WI announcements, some comfort for trans workers. A Scottish tribunal has ruled that a trans-inclusive workplace policy is NOT discriminatory against a woman with gender critical views in the workplace. www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you are:

Girlguiding, (‘GG’) the U.K. Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Several folk have asked me for comment on today’s announcement that U.K. Girlguiding have announced that trans girls are no longer welcome. (1) This seems to be wrong in law but has been forced on GG by …

A bargain at 73M Roubles

One for all my railway friends:

Breaking News - Reform UK have announced their new policy of demanding France return the historic English territories of Normandy and Calais within 6 months of the next General Election or they will invade.

Supreme Court Flaws - 4. Sport Some Sunday evening reading.

And now LBC at 3pm.

I turned down an opportunity to appear today on Times Radio opposite ‘someone like Kathleen Stock or Rosie Duffield’ to discuss Geraldine Scott’s Times article based on an apparently leaked version of the EHRC service provision guidance.

Trans Awareness Week - a postive ending With only an hour of Trans Awaremess Week left, The Times has published this story which, if you read between the lines, is really positive for trans people. archive.is/2025.11.19-2...

Leadership How to confuse you interviewers - number 27 Some years ago, I was asked what my leadership style was and I replied ‘auftragstaktik’ and was faced with two blank stares from the panel. Doesn’t everyone study German battlefield command strategies?

Some embarrassing here stuff from Bobbi Pickard of Trans in the City.

Trans Awareness Week Danger - Conversion Therapist at work Every line of this is wrong. No-one ‘identifies as trans’. They might identify as as male or female and that might differ from their birth sex. More rarely, they may identify with a more complex identity - non-binary, gender-fluid etc.

Trans Awareness Week - Tough to be Trans I would ask all my cis followers and allies who still have access to the sewer that of Twitter to take 5 minutes look up the threads from the first two snaps attached to understand the kind of trolling that Trans people have to put up with in the UK today.

Supreme Court Flaws - Number 3 ‘The Supreme Court waved its magic wand and ‘POOF’ - Trans people magically disappeared. Next week - the FWS Judgement, Sport, S195 of the Equality Act - forcing a square peg into a round hole.

Trans Awareness Week Some thoughts from me on an unusual TA week - in a good way. Robin

Folk apparently found helpful my exposition of what I have been calling the ‘Hansard Gap’ in the For Women Scotland judgment. At the suggestion of a correspondent, I am going to set out the myriad other difficulties with this judgment one by one over coming weeks.

I’m an atheist, so I don’t believe in an afterlife, but the US SC judges who came up with this nonsensical justification for allowing the Trump ban on correct markers in trans people’s passports probably do. If so, they are headed for a very hot place… 🔥 🔥 🔥

Supreme Court flaws. I have been, and remain, very critical of the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers. I have at least 15 fundamental criticisms of the judgment.

Reform admits in advance that at least one wheel is bound to come off their policies…