Girl's legal challenge to CPS!

Thank you all for your digging! We like the dedications on some of the donations.

If you want to challenge your LA trans toolkits, we have resources to help here: Here: twitter.com/SafeSchools_UK/status/1263449405090344960

Please use them and let us know how you get on.

There are now a number of donations thanking Dawson and Darren Styles in the comments for drawing their attention to the appeal.

This morning, I dug and I dug well...just to stick it to the man!

This is such good news. And I'm another one thinking middle aged men getting really het up about children wanting to protect their tights to single sex spaces is really not a good look, no matter what their sexuality.

I will get my spade out

This is such good news - we are grateful to this girl and her family for their bravery

And of course, huge thanks to @TheBigBad and her amazing daughter for doing this. You are doing this for me and for women everywhere. I am in absolute awe

I'm laughing at the comments on the Times article. There's one very aggressive TRA who says things like "No trans person is anti-women. Trans women are women so that would be illogical."

Well, firstly there are many women that are anti-women so that doesn't hold water for starters.

Secondly, if we were to accept that a transwoman could not be anti-women because she is a woman, does that not present a huge opportunity for me (and anyone else: but I'll use me as an example for now) to flout the Equality Act in order to discriminate as I see fit?

If we expand the current madness — and yes I think it's madness — that seems to allow 'anyone who thinks they're a woman to be a woman', then what's to stop me picking another protected characteristic and following suit.

So, I'll pick one: age (this is all theoretical btw). Let's suppose that I'm advertising a position for a new assistant in my team and I really want someone 'more mature' because they're less likely to leave after a year. Why can't I self-identify as a 20 something — I'm in very good shape for my 53 years and feel better and fitter than I did in my 20s — discriminate against any younger applicants and then claim the defence that I couldn't possibly be discriminating because I am a 'young person' and it would be 'illogical'?

I know my example is extreme and probably a bit 'silly' (as Lisa Nandy said to Piers Morgan when he wanted to identify as an otter, or some such). But if we let this go unchecked where will it stop?

I'm 53. I can dress as if I'm 20 and go clubbing as if I'm 20 and that's all fine: no problem to anyone (apart from my niece who may be embarrassed but that's a story for a different day ). But I'm not 20. And never will be. Just as men will never be women. Have I got the right to gaslight the population into believing that I'm 20, allowing me a Young Person's Railcard and all the other things that are (legally) age dependent?

Shouldn't someone sit me down and just tell me, no: you are not 20?

When did the word 'no' become so sodding unfashionable?

@Xanthangum got it, thank you.

Bigbad What an awesome daughter! I am glad that she is well protected as you say. And has at least one excellent role model in her family.

Not to take away from her efforts, but that support from Scotland might be coming soon, by the looks of this tweet.

twitter.com/millar_marion/status/1261899163052146688?s=21

Oh dear. Surely they are not suggesting 14-year-olds don’t know their own minds, that they could possibly be influenced by others around them and shouldn’t be making decisions they are not mature enough to understand?

Interesting, isn't it?

Can I say this?

Have a look on the second page of the SSA press release, which you can find here:

safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2020/05/16/teenager-demands-that-the-cps-withdraw-from-the-stonewall-diversity-champions-programme/

Oh gosh darn it I forgot you can't put links for fundraising pages. Sorry, sorry everyone. Sorry @finnmcool, sorry, sorry, sorry, won't do it again.

Sorry.

Anyway, this thing is spreading...

Where can one find the directions for digging? Fair cop? SSA?

Thank you Bigbad and your daughter. Spade employed!

The EHRC has the fragrant David Issac at the head of it, recently moved over from Stonewall... Anyone know why he is SO in league with the TRAs?

Bigbad you and your daughter are AWESOME! My own DDs are of similar opinions and determinations. There's a generation of fierce women growing up right now. Love and strength to you both.

You won't get legal aid for JR. Legal aid has been removed from majority of civil actions. So we are in the insane situation, as with Harry Miller, where private citizens have to challenge the State at their own financial risk.

The biggest scandal here is where is the Equality and Human Rights Commission! Where is their guidance? Why aren't they taking action?

Of course they think 14 year old girls are idiots who don’t know their own minds- look at how Twitter activists view adult women (empty headed) so a female child can’t possibly have her own thoughts, beliefs and causes to support.

Anyone who has been a 14 year old girl or ever known one knows how switched on and intelligent with passions for a range of topics- politics, animal welfare, civil rights, the environment and so on. It’s certainly not all boys, dancing and bras at that age.

The people accusing this girl are so prejudiced against female children and adults they can’t understand how this is happening.

All the best to your daughter Bigbad.

BigBad, for your daughter:

Great post mole.

Could someone send me the link for fundraising please?

Excellent analysis, Molesmokes. The failure to follow their own code, and to correctly represent the Equality Act, is astoundingly blatant.

Oh dear. Surely they are not suggesting 14-year-olds don’t know their own minds, that they could possibly be influenced by others around them and shouldn’t be making decisions they are not mature enough to understand?

TRAs keep shooting themselves in the foot, don't they?

There is hardly any legal aid anymore.

They’ve been banking on the hope that no one would have the means, capacity or drive to mount any sort of legal challenge

Highly unlikely that they are unaware of the existence of legal aid.