1/🧵 I see MPs are finally making a constitutional point. The Supreme Court’s role is to apply the law to specific facts and controversies. Where facts are distorted and those affected are denied participation, the court is likely not fulfilling this role.

Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16

So, here it is, a single article that does a deep dive into the nonsense infesting the NHS policy proposal on banning gender-affirming hormone therapy for under 18s If you're going to reply to the consultation - and I understand if you feel it's futile - I hope this gives you some ammo to use

A blog post by legal experts @antoineduval.bsky.social and @michelekrech.bsky.social: verfassungsblog.de/ioc-genetic-...

Among U.S. adults, over 2.1 million people -- 0.8% of the population -- identify as transgender. Minnesota has the highest percentage of transgender residents at 1.2%. Read the full report at bit.ly/TranspeopleUS

🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.

Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on the Draft Gender Recognition Bill in Nov 2003. In Paragraph 31 they expressed concern courts might fail to recognise the effect of a GRC particularly for e.g. the Sex Discrimination Act. 🧵 publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200203/...

Having looked at the farce of the "evidence reviews" across two threads, here's a third thread looking at the decision made by NHS England to stop hormone therapy for trans people under 18 years old. The start of these threads is here:

A second thread on the NHS England Evidence Review on "Children and Young People Masculinising and Feminising Medicines" (their terminology) The first thread, about one of the ten evidence review papers, is quoted here

A school leadership team has misused safeguarding procedures against a librarian for stocking 'controversial' books - which, by the way, are not controversial at all. This makes me feel sick to my stomach.

Anti-trans hate group advertises globally to get 70 “detransitioners” together for a propaganda photo. It fails to do so and only gets 42. Meanwhile effortlessly 100,000 people attended Trans Pride London last July and 10,000 were at TransMission in Wembley Arena this week.

Today's CJEU decision in Shipova has major implications for legal protections for trans people in Northern Ireland, where relevant EU law still applies. First the Court underlines that different treatment of trans people vs biological sex is not generally acceptable: share.google/MKNxuwd2oXHB...

The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.

The very first paper in the very first review (Allen et al 2019) found a huge decrease in suicidality, from 45% of subjects suffering from suicidality prior to HRT, to just 13% after, p<.001. But it didn't test for boys and girls separately, so this result appears in neither of the relevant reviews.

I've written a brief note on the Supreme Court's interpretation of s7 of the Equality Act in For Women Scotland. I'd welcome any comments. open.substack.com/pub/robmulli...

Genuinely impressed that these loons did an entire book on gays and failed to pick up traces of an accent (this was 1962, Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd and John Inman are well established media personalities) ia601906.us.archive.org/11/items/the...

Oh yes this is the proof Cass is relying on:

I think people think we're exaggerating when we say the widespread use of the term "biological sex" as a term itself isn't organic. This data isn't anomalous, it comports with everything we've seen about the specific use of the term.

"It is an important function of the courts to protect minorities, in particular small and perhaps unpopular minorities, since their interests may sometimes be... even deliberately violated by the majority." Court of Appeal: discussing the structurally disadvantaged class of private school pupils.

This week, @amnestyuk.bsky.social's Gender Justice Director Chiara Capraro shared how her team mapped 65 anti-rights groups in the UK. From funding streams to the crossovers with the US, find out what this means for human rights by searching 'Stage Talks with Bellingcat': rss.com/podcasts/bel...

I’ve seen drafts of this guidance several times before, but I’ve only just come across it in its published leaflet form.

Here it is, my big #EastEnders catch-up thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas with the family. Allow me to get you all caught up on the goings-on in Albert Square in its most explosive week of the year! KEEP THIS BY YOUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES.

“In terms of public perception of the act, I think most Irish people don’t care. They’re happy to let trans people get on with it.” Ireland has allowed people to self-declare their gender for 10 years and the sky did not fall. People just got on living their lives. 🇮🇪🏳️‍⚧️

Half of Transgender, Gender Diverse Youth Report Suicidal Thoughts “In a study of 131,429 TGD individuals ages 25 and younger, 48.8% experienced suicidal ideation and 26.2% reported a suicide attempt”

🧵 1/? Going through the recording: 6:00 Cass: "there was a fair amount of noise [...] about the fact that I wasn't an expert in this field, but that was a deliberate selection that NHS England made because people who were working in the field were so polarised*" * read: support trans rights

Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on the Draft Gender Recognition Bill in Nov 2003. In Paragraph 31 they expressed concern courts might fail to recognise the effect of a GRC particularly for e.g. the Sex Discrimination Act. 🧵 publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200203/...

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

Alice Sullivan tells universities to suppress pro-trans research to protect GC staff. However, HER OWN DATA shows pro-trans research is already more suppressed. When I told the BBC this, they edited out any reference to the data. They have now corrected the record. www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...

New Zealand's libertarian/ populist/ right wing coalition Government is trying to follow Wesley Streeting's lead in banning puberty blockers. This is what the New Zealand High Court has just decided (www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...).

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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

A careful, and compelling analysis, of how the Equality Act operates post the awful Supreme Court decision, from the woman who guided the Act through Parliament. www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-e...

So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare. I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe. 🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations) 🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved... rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

Some good news from the employment tribunal, but it does make me wonder why is Royal Mail so bad at trans rights? www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-postal...

The Cass review into children's gender services in the UK continues to be terrible. A new report from Australia led by the fantastic Dr. Julia Moore - and featuring me - looks into the issues in detail. My new piece. gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-r...

Let’s talk about the Draft Gender Recognition Bill and the report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights. They were concerned that a court might fail to interpret the bill correctly because it talked about a change of gender, not sex (report below). 1/6 publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200203/...

“The Cass Review's contradictions are striking. It acknowledged some trans young people benefit from [blockers], but its recommendations have made this currently inaccessible to all. It found no evidence psychological treatments improve gender dysphoria, yet recommended expanding their provision.”

“They made them carry ID cards to state where they’re from As if by being born they had done something wrong” - What if Punk Never Happened by The King Blues, 2008

Free speech in the US. Now a university has banned all mention of trans people and is encouraging abusive misgendering. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

The Law Commission just gave parliament a gift. Will it even be opened? thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-0...

We welcome the Opinion of the Advocate General in CJEU saying that EU Member States must allow legal gender recognition! Read the full joint statement on our website: https://www.ilga-europe.org/news/joint-statement-landmark-cjeu-opinion-demands-legal-gender-recognition-across-eu/

So Streeting is claiming that Starmer wants to focus on "streets not tweets" and implying that incitement to violence isn't serious. What, I wonder, did Starmer say about Lucy Connolly, also charged (and jailed) for incitement to violence in a tweet? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There's been a big fight over gender-affirming care after Gordon Guyatt and his team at McMaster released a statement contradicting their former funders' public policy. I wrote about the whole thing, and what "evidence-based medicine" really means. gidmk.substack.com/p/a-fight-ov...

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Was the UK Supreme Court judgment in FWS wrongly decided, in light of the historical EU law context? Detailed analysis, by @clairebradley.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-de...

#NHS CYP Gender Dysphoria Research and Oversight Review Boaard has been very busy. And none of it is good. First, these are the multi-disciplinary team that will treat the under www.jla.nihr.ac.uk/priority-set... That's depressing enough on its own. But it gets way worse.