Politicians respond to the SC judgement

Crikey, I've never seen Brendan O'Neill so spittingly crushing. He could crack nuts with that. And he sounds like he'd like nothing more.

Willoughby spent the day furiously doubling down on his delusions of womanhood. ‘I have always been a woman’, he said. Tell that to the jizz you sired your kid with.

They expect women to be the passive validators of their delusions, to bow, compliantly, to their presence in women’s spaces and their insistence on being women. When women withdraw their consent from this post-truth shitshow and say ‘NO’, the lie of their identity starts to crumble. That’s why men are angry – because women are revolting. It’s a story as old as time.

I think one of my favourite things about all this is that it is one thing Labour absolutely cannot find a way to blame on the Tories.

Alt right wankers and non binary wankers = two cheeks of the same arse

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Poor old Ed Davey.
Maybe he would have been happier if they'd taken him to a playground to talk about this momentous news.
Then he could have had a few goes on the slides etc to cheer himself up.

That piece in Spiked was fabulous. Laughed out loud several times and particularly enjoyed Professor of gibberish Judith Butler 😂

I am genuinely perplexed how a judgement giving clarity on the rights of 52% of the population becomes a discussion about the effects on 0.05% of the population. It’s pretty obvious to anyone with thinking capacity that if there need to be sex based rights (because of sexism) these need to be based on sex. Rights for other groups should not be impacted by this, also obviously. How could the law have found differently without being a farce?

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not crystal clear, Ed.

Here’s a more positive one from independent Rosie Duffield on X

https://x.com/RosieDuffield1

That's all very interesting, Kate, but gender isn't a protected characteristic and is therefore completely fucking irrelevant to the application of the Equality Act.

Oh, have we finally found a Brexit benefit?

Apologies to Jacob Rees-Mogg.

🤣🤣🤣

Reading some of this stuff I’ll be so glad if they get voted out.

He really is completely lacking in any kind of self awareness, isn't he?

What a bell end.

Yes, the netranderthals.

I know. He’s always been an arrogant shit, tbf.

Imagine being so arrogant that you think that the UK's most senior judges collectively misinterpreted one of the UK's most important pieces of legislation and that you and your blue haired friends know better.

Glorious as usual from O'Neill. I wish newspapers like The Times could be as blunt, scathing and to the point.

Oh do fuck off Zarah. The credit for this belongs to the women who wouldn't wheesht, not to Nazis and billionaires.

Probably trying to make Keir Starmers comment that some women have penises disappear since the supreme Court said loud and clear that they do not.

They're absolute fools

Fair enough. Wasn't aware of her.

I am more than a little jaded by the fuck witted self serving bullshit coming from politicians from all camps on this though.

And from the Republic of Ireland we have David Cullinane TD, Sinn Fein’s health spokesperson in the Republic apologising after initially welcoming the UK Supreme Court ruling. archive.ph/sbvLP

At Stormont, DUP MP Carla Lockhart declared it “a victory for common sense”.

TUV MLA Timothy Gaston said "The funding of Stonewall – which receives public money both via the Sinn Fein-led Department of Finance and the Sinn Fein and DUP-led Executive Office – must cease.
Policy documents such as the Inclusive Language Guide which was produced by the Finance Department and seeks to discourage the use of words such as mother, wife and girlfriend must be withdrawn."

UUP’s justice spokesman Doug Beattie MLA said the ruling “raises several questions” for Northern Ireland – such as, for example, “does it mean that women held in a woman’s prison can take a legal case against the Department of Justice and the Northern Ireland Prison Service, under our equality legislation, if someone who is transgender is placed within her prison accommodation wing?”
He added that “those from the transgender community exist, and this ruling does not take away their rights as a protected group, but it does make it clear that they are transgender, not women”.

https://archive.ph/DtF55

Follow David Thompson, who produced the Stephen Nolan BBC radio series on Stonewall, on X at @NewsLetter_Pols for more Northern Irish reporting. NI has it's own equality legislation, not the Equality Act.

I'm looking forward to what the Alliance and nationalist MLA members of the Executive Office (TEO) committee, who were extremely hostile to the Women's Rights Network NI members who gave evidence on women's rights and single sex spaces in the TEO inquiry into gaps in equality legislation, will say. https://archive.ph/Gorbf

Every Labour MP who says shite like this needs to be reminded that the current law was written by the previous labour government, especially the ones that go on about the ruling being fascist...

The law has not changed.