Good Law Project suing the EHRC and Bridget Phillipson - letter before action

I assume the Good Law Project would have had the same opportunity to intervene?

They are such utter fuckwits!! The amnesty lawyer was trans and the supreme court is not a fucking school debating society

As I understand it, 2 individual trans people were denied the right to tell their personal stories - it's the Supreme Court not a consciousness raising session. But for some reason not a single trans lobby group (and god knows, there's enough of them) chose to apply to be interveners. Unlike the LGBA, Amnesty International, the Lesbian Project ..

Somehow this is the SC's fault?

As I understand it, 2 individual trans people were denied the right to tell their personal stories - it's the Supreme Court not a consciousness raising session. But for some reason not a single trans lobby group (and god knows, there's enough of them) chose to apply to be interveners. Unlike the LGBA, Amnesty International, the Lesbian Project ..

Somehow this is the SC's fault?

Their letter starts off with a whole load of waffle about the history of trans rights cases.

Then, by the time you get to page 16, it gets on to the main issue.

The GLP point out that the interim guidance says

"In workplaces, it is compulsory to provide sufficient single-sex toilets, as well as sufficient single-sex changing and washing facilities where these facilities are needed."

But the Workplace Regulations 1992 say

"separate rooms containing conveniences are provided for men and women except where and so far as each convenience is in a separate room the door of which is capable of being secured from inside."

Or, in other words, separate self contained toilets used by one person at a time are a suitable alternative to single sex toilets.

They seem to think that this is a huge "gotcha".

But they do go on to say that since this is done under the Workplace Regs and not the Equality Act then the FWS case has no effect when it comes to toilets in the workplace.

As a result, they say, it is necessary to look to the GRA 2004 and that people with a GRC should still be able to use toilets of the opposite sex in a workplace.

They then go on to explain some way in which service providers could also allow trans people into public toilets of the opposite sex if they wished to.

I have no idea how the Equality Act might interact with the Workplace Regs (or if the two even do interact) but this is the argument that GLP are putting forward.
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The second ground of their claim is that since they believe that the interim advice is wrong that issuing it has been a breach of the Human Rights Act and so should be withdrawn.
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The third ground is that if the interim guidance is correct then the law is incompatible with the Human Rights Act.
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Oh, and by the way, they also want:

"The Commission is requested to withdraw its Interim Update immediately and to state publicly that the Interim Update is of no effect and its advice should not be followed."
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How strong a case or otherwise this is, I have no idea. But this is their latest move.

GLP bluesky video
Jolyon & co are projecting massive transwomen onto the front of the Supreme Court.
Brace yourself before clicking the link 😁

Precisely this. What a lot of sound and fury. Why aren't they fundraising and campaigning for, say, awareness-raising about how gender-non-conforming men in men's spaces shouldn't be subjected to violence or ridicule? I mean, I might even support that.

Is now the time for a 'transwomen welcome here' stickering campaign on men's spaces?

GLP bluesky video
Jolyon & co are projecting massive transwomen onto the front of the Supreme Court.
Brace yourself before clicking the link 😁

GLP bluesky video
Jolyon & co are projecting massive transwomen onto the front of the Supreme Court.
Brace yourself before clicking the link 😁

They got her medication at 13?! JFC no wonder he’s behaving like he is, imagine having to justify doing that to your child? Helen Joyce is bang on as always, he can’t row back from this now, how could he possibly admit what he’s done?

Precisely this. What a lot of sound and fury. Why aren't they fundraising and campaigning for, say, awareness-raising about how gender-non-conforming men in men's spaces shouldn't be subjected to violence or ridicule? I mean, I might even support that.

Well, you have to wonder.

Guardian article
Here's that Guardian article from last year, puberty blockers obtained from abroad and testosterone bought privately...
He's absolutely one of Helen Joyce's "last Japanese soldiers"

Labour Pains blog link
This blog by Richard Dunstan gives a fairly comprehensive lowdown on how and why JoMo got himself into this mess. It includes links to the interview with the elder daughter (Grin) saying her sister is also trans, Grin was also included in a Guardian article about children who have been given puberty blockers & hormones. I'll see if I can find it.
I'm not surprised he looks unhinged in that video, he's got himself in a proper Chinese finger trap. He's never publicly acknowledged his personal reasons for his crusade and is careful to never directly link the GLP to his daughter's campaign group, but as more people become aware of it he's looking even less credible. He still gets positive interaction on bluesky & insta but every trans related post on twitter is thoroughly mocked. No serious people want to be publicly associated with this grifting nonsense.

That. ^^ I suspect it may have to eventually be faced that there is no court proceedings or judgment that can be understood or accepted by this political movement. It is beginning to look like a capacity issue rather than an insufficiently explained or proved issue.

Yes, except it wastes our time and money, too.

Given the cost of living crisis, food banks, the NHS struggling, etc, quite a lot of taxpayers may be understandably pissed off at the time wasting eejits.

And if I were in the legal sphere, I'd be losing patience with someone making the profession look so absurd and pointless.