UKs only trans judge has resigned-Victoria McCloud said she had become a target

It's an interesting possibility, though, isn't it. Now that it is (socially? legally?) acceptable to make one's awareness of the sex of masters with a transgender identity obvious in the way that one refers to them, does it infact threaten the dignity of the court / the role of master of the court?
As soon as one child says, "he's naked" the king's dignity is utterly compromised, and reverence for the role of king, and the entire heirarchy, too.

Some spiral to worse outcomes than boorishness

Is this the endpoint for all these people? They simply become irrelevant bores?

Well lucky Judge M, having a choice of where to pee. Since Judge M having that choice means that Muslim and Orthodox Jewish women, amongst others, had nowhere to pee at all. Much inclusive.

Interesting background Penguin - similar to the Izzard journey from subversive, funny cross-dressing bloke to self-indulgent bore?

That's interesting. It really does rot brains, this nonsense.

VM is a genuinely good judge. Really very good. Just blinded by gender woo in the last few years. I remember seeing their new email footer probably 3, 4 years ago- several lines long and all about pronouns,.and just thinking, eh? Then the clothes started getting more "interesting" (skin tight green mini dresses) and the hair was half blue, and then the online stuff started, and then they (allegedly) agitated.for the name change for Masters to Judges (which again allegedly went down like a bucket of cold sick with the other Masters), and here we are.
It genuinely is a shame.

The good judge doesn't seem to have been a very good judge. I wonder if, in a desire to be diverse and inclusive, the good judge may have been overpromoted? I hope not, that would have been rather cruel.

The trash literally took itself out

People who cannot separate their own personal agendas or feelings from their professional responsibilities should not hold positions of power and influence like this. Especially anyone believing this batshit gender woo.

Yes. Also, I would have thought that the judge would understand the GRA and the EA well enough that they would know that a GRC doesn’t change how a person may be referred to.

GRCs don’t mean compelled speech do they?

has also meant that she can be referred to as a man, despite being legally female.

Good God, all the language around this is so mangled.
Many people are legally female and think it's fine - even desirable - that they're referred to as a man. Is this now wrong? Does being "female" have anything to do with gender, or being a woman? Why are sex and gender conflated all the time?

I wondered what the ex-judge had been caught doing to trigger a resignation. But perhaps social media rants that demonstrate a lack of objectivity and - good grief what is that garbage - of the clarity of thought expected in the high court is a sufficient explanation.

I believe Judge Tan Ikram may also be under investigation for political bias on the bench.

Ikram was the Judge in the Alan 'Sarah Jane' Baker case, when the latter basically got away with telling people to punch terfs in the fucking face. On the other hand, Ikram has jailed police officers for 'offensive' comments made in private WhatsApp groups. He's clearly not possessed of much of a sense of judgement.

The first highly rated comment on the hastily closed comments in the Times was very clear about the issue of inappropriate personal influence:
"Victoria has already been politicising the judiciary, having been on the committee that updated the Equal Treatment Bench Book. This is the document which leads courts to refer to people by their pronoun of choice, and is why rape victims are being asked to refer to their rapists in court as she. It leads to newspapers, when they report such cases, also using preferred pronouns, rendering many newspaper articles indecipherable. Victoria should never have tried to be both a trans rights activist and a judge, and this decision is welcome".

I don't think that they believe any of that, they just push it because they are trans and want to have their own way. They must surely know and understand the law, perhaps this deliberate mis-framing of it has helped the Powers That Be to give them the heave-ho?

(Replying to:
Whatsnewpussyhat · Today 17:19
The judge thinks 'gender identity' is a biological characteristic and not a belief? Also seems not to understand that women have the protected characteristic of sex so why should those with a belief in gender identity manifest their beliefs to the detriment of women. )

Yes.

The judge should be able to dress as he likes and so on while still being a man.

There should be no inherently illegal, lying law.

Times really should have said they did politicise the judiciary.

Well shit. This judge is complaining because women reject the offensive fucking notion that a male person is a woman and they can no longer demand acquiescence from women?

Sod the fuck off.

Let them speak is still working well then.

The judge thinks 'gender identity' is a biological characteristic and not a belief?

Also seems not to understand that women have the protected characteristic of sex so why should those with a belief in gender identity manifest their beliefs to the detriment of women.

The McCloud judgement refers to the Court of Appeal’s ruling that Government’s 2015 public sector pension reforms unlawfully treated existing public sectors differently based upon members’ age on the 1 April 2012.
The judgement came after two Employment Tribunals concerning the pensions of Judges’ (McCloud) and Firefighters’ (Sargeant) respectively.

https://x.com/anyabike/status/1760701024048685198?s=20

Link to the tweet referenced in my previous post

Mccloud was one of the Claimant’s if I recall correctly

I wonder whether there is something in the pipeline that has triggered this.

The accusations of transphobia are typical, but I’m cynical when people resign when there’s no obvious reason for it and no obvious changes triggering their claimed reason for resigning.

Ah! Cross post with @spannasaurus . And there it is!