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I'm not sure Jo Maugham is quite well

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ArabellaScott · 01/05/2025 20:37

https://goodlawproject.org/we-have-been-given-a-huge-responsibility/

He's taking all your hundreds of thousands of pounds, but he can't tell you what he's doing with it cause seckrit.

And he knows all the best seckrit people who are humungosly good lawyers.

And he's got a skeleton key to the morals of the universe! By the power of Transkull!

‘We have been given a huge responsibility’ | Good Law Project

A message from our executive director, Jolyon Maugham, to the trans community.

https://goodlawproject.org/we-have-been-given-a-huge-responsibility/

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bluegoldflow · 01/05/2025 22:14

Mollyollydolly · 01/05/2025 22:06

He battered a fox to death with a baseball bat wearing his wife's kimono on Boxing Day and then went on twitter to boast about it. He's a mentalist.

Wearing his wife's kimono you say?🤔

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ArabellaScott · 01/05/2025 22:14

murasaki · 01/05/2025 22:08

Someone should really stage a intervention.

Probably the RSPCA.

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RipleyJones · 01/05/2025 22:10

Is there a correlation between lawyers and being a trans woman? There seem to be an awful lot of them. 👀

murasaki · 01/05/2025 22:08

Someone should really stage a intervention.

Mollyollydolly · 01/05/2025 22:06

He battered a fox to death with a baseball bat wearing his wife's kimono on Boxing Day and then went on twitter to boast about it. He's a mentalist.

Darkgreendarkbark · 01/05/2025 22:04

HappyNewTaxYear · 01/05/2025 21:58

If Jolyon’s kid suddenly detransitions and starts going on about how he/she/they were brainwashed, will Jolyon redirect his sympathies to people like Keira Bell? Or just wander about swinging baseball bats at wildlife?

Can you imagine reconsidering your transition while your dad is nailing himself to the cross of genderology?

Either you would feel boxed into a corner...

...or maybe his melodramatic carry-on would flip you out of it.

WhitstablePearl · 01/05/2025 22:02

LonginesPrime · 01/05/2025 20:48

Ha - I just had a bulletin that he’s recruiting for a new lawyer to run the trans cases - I guess the salary has to come from somewhere..

It’s been advertised in Law Society Gazette everyday this week. £68k

HappyNewTaxYear · 01/05/2025 21:58

If Jolyon’s kid suddenly detransitions and starts going on about how he/she/they were brainwashed, will Jolyon redirect his sympathies to people like Keira Bell? Or just wander about swinging baseball bats at wildlife?

Boiledbeetle · 01/05/2025 21:57

ArabellaScott · 01/05/2025 21:49

Dan Brown, He-Man, and Ron Hubbard. With a dash of Scooby-Doo.

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BY THE POWER OF KIMONO WEARING FOX KILLER

Doesn't has the same oomph as

BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL

bringonyourwreckingball · 01/05/2025 21:56

Actually embarrassed to be a lawyer right now.

Lark1ane · 01/05/2025 21:50

There's nowt as queer as folx as the saying goes.

And there really are some seemingly batshit lawyers surfacing for a bit of publicity. Fortunately, they are not member of the Supreme Court and unlikely ever to get there given their constant deliberate misrepresentation of the Law,

Grifters gotta grift.

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ArabellaScott · 01/05/2025 21:49

PachacutisBadAuntie · 01/05/2025 21:42

I was thinking Dan Brown 😁

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Dan Brown, He-Man, and Ron Hubbard. With a dash of Scooby-Doo.

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SionnachRuadh · 01/05/2025 21:47

LonginesPrime · 01/05/2025 21:40

It’s all starting to go a bit L. Ron Hubbard, isn’t it?

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Some of the old Hubbard tapes are wild, especially when El-Ron talks about astrally projecting onto other planets and tells us all about the railroads on Venus.

Jolyon hasn't reached that level of entertainment yet. But he's trying.

Nunaluna · 01/05/2025 21:44

Boiledbeetle · 01/05/2025 21:07

OK I'll admit it's 9 pm, and I've had a good few joints, but that was just gibberish in that article wasn't it? It's not just because I'm stoned is it?

Even those off their tits can see it’s nonsense 😂😂

Datun · 01/05/2025 21:44

Is Labour’s desire to eradicate trans people from public life greater even than its attachment to international human rights norms?

What, like not giving rapists incarcerated women as part of their sentence?

Or is it much worse than that, like telling men not to use the ladies?

Honestly, these people

PachacutisBadAuntie · 01/05/2025 21:42

LonginesPrime · 01/05/2025 21:40

It’s all starting to go a bit L. Ron Hubbard, isn’t it?

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I was thinking Dan Brown 😁

MrsOvertonsWindow · 01/05/2025 21:42

This thread is making me laugh

LonginesPrime · 01/05/2025 21:40

ArabellaScott · 01/05/2025 21:29

It's a very odd phrase.

Why a skeleton key? Why not just a key?

A skeleton key is used to gain access to forbidden places. I suppose he's suggesting he's got seckret access to transworld as a 'cis' man? But why? Why sneak about, Jo? Breaking and entering?

I suppose its in the vein of battering wildlife to death.

'A new moral universe.'

What the fuck does that mean?! What morals has he upended? What morals are different to the everyday morals of this universe?

It does sound a bit sinister, mate. And not just a bit unhinged.

It’s all starting to go a bit L. Ron Hubbard, isn’t it?

thevassal · 01/05/2025 21:39

with great pomposity comes great responsibility...

why the need to specify the date and publisher of his book, to distinguish it from other books with the same self-aggrandising title?

apart from what it says about freedom of the press, what a waste of money to "employ a leading journalist to talk of the pain" of the decision, given how many of them have been wanking on about it for free over the last 2 weeks

utterly bonkers

PachacutisBadAuntie · 01/05/2025 21:38

'so-called justice secretary' 😂

LonginesPrime · 01/05/2025 21:38

MrsOvertonsWindow · 01/05/2025 21:26

He writes like a Year 7 with a big secret plan to oust Year 8 from the playground. 😂

The last weeks have been quite the education - how the bloody hell did this ideology get so far given the drivelling intellect being shared far and wide since the SC?

It’s certainly become clearer as to why they were so keen on “no debate” now…

BiologicalRobot · 01/05/2025 21:35

To give our cases the best chance of succeeding – in a world in which parts of the judiciary are conspicuously hostile to us and the trans community – they must happen away from the limelight.

Away from the limelight - does that mean paying vast amounts of money to lobbyists to "chat" to our MPs in the dark corridors of Parliament? Like last time?

SionnachRuadh · 01/05/2025 21:32

I wrote, in ‘Bringing Down Goliath’ (Penguin, 2024), about how advocacy for trans people has opened my eyes to how the world is for people without my privilege. The work has given me “a skeleton key to a whole new moral universe”.

Is it just me, or is Jolyon constructing a trans version of the Magical Negro trope?

If he thinks he's being original, I hate to tell him that Laurie Penny got there first.

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ArabellaScott · 01/05/2025 21:29

It's a very odd phrase.

Why a skeleton key? Why not just a key?

A skeleton key is used to gain access to forbidden places. I suppose he's suggesting he's got seckret access to transworld as a 'cis' man? But why? Why sneak about, Jo? Breaking and entering?

I suppose its in the vein of battering wildlife to death.

'A new moral universe.'

What the fuck does that mean?! What morals has he upended? What morals are different to the everyday morals of this universe?

It does sound a bit sinister, mate. And not just a bit unhinged.

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jewelcase · 01/05/2025 21:27

Talking about the government wanting to ‘eradicate trans people from public life’.

Well a) It’s the law, not the government. And more importantly b) Nobody wants to eradicate anything. If a trans person wants to be in public life, great. I will treat them exactly the same as anyone else, unless they suggest that they have somehow changed sex in which case I will say that it’s not possible. Because it’s not. That’s it.