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…

If you are going to try a ‘hearts and minds’ campaign you should attempt it BEFORE showing that you are a trans-hating bigot whose organisation’s purpose has been corrupted. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The ‘For Women Scotland’ judgment performed as interpretive dance… www.facebook.com/share/r/1AJP...

An inciteful article. www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-knows...

My understanding is that there has been no condemnation of this behaviour by the Reform leadership. Appalling. www.linkedin.com/posts/farruk...

Barristers at the weekend Working today, helping a charity through a big change in their governance which has involved a stay away from home in grey, rainy England… It’s a tough life, but someone has to do it!

My only question is: Who are the 9% or the 4% and what illness are they suffering from? www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/23/n...

Tickety Nonsense Short distance Senior Swindon split There are savings to be made even on relatively short distances. Today I am off to Swindon with the Chartered Institute of Rail operators to hear Mark Hopwood, GWR MD speak. He is always good value.

I’ve been asked about the attached. Of course, if the facilities are gender-neutral, or separated by gender not sex, or provided in areas that the Supreme Court ruling had no relevance to, like workplace facilities under the 1992 Regulations, no one is ‘flouting’ any law to be inclusive.

Who is in charge? An aspect of the almighty mess that is the For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers Supreme Court judgment that I have found surprising, perhaps shocking, is the silence from parliamentarians about the Supreme Court’s ignoring the will of Parliament.

EHRC throws a tantrum ‘We’re taking back our interim guidance - so there!’ Said an a spokesperson for the quasi-government agency after blowing a raspberry.

Time to get a new research assistant. MP shows that she doesn’t realise that CEDAW recognises trans women as women.

Something from Sonia Sodha I AGREE with, but not perhaps in the way she intended. We do not rise by stamping on others. The ‘childish and parochial campaign’ is the one that suggests women will be advanced by fitting us all into a patriarchal pro forma.

I post this without comment.

‘Doublethink*’ alive and well in the U.K. Government. Given the U.K. Government’s statement to the United Nations on 10 October 2025: www.gov.uk/government/s...

I always find it encouraging when the antis attack me for something I have written rather than the substance of what I have written.

Permitting the Conservative Party conference to be used for the demonisation of trans people shows the Conservatives will be unfit for government for a generation. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Kemi Badenoch The Conservative Leader who puts the ‘I’ in ‘Britiain’

Cass Review slammed AGAIN. This time by Australian academics. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/c...

Inclusion of Trans people in Workplaces and Service Delivery Anti-trans hate group 'Sex Matters' have been crowing about a Judicial Review they have brought against the Scots Govt to suggest that allowing trans people (trans women p’ly) to use gender-appropriate facilities is harassment of women.

A colourful sunset in Somerset.

A great deal of truth in this.

Very well put. Worth a share or two. m.youtube.com/watch?v=MclD...

Probably unfair, but when I hear ‘ID Card’ I can’t get this image out of my head.

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.

‘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...