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

From the telegraph article:

Jolyon Maugham, Good Law Project founder, said: “The stark and needlessly cruel position adopted by the Government and the EHRC humiliates trans people by forcing them to use the wrong toilets and obliges them to reveal deeply personal information about their gender to complete strangers just to take a wee.

Oh Jolyon, everyone knows what sex people are.

and as for their strategy of fielding a person they refer to as ‘interesex’ and asking what toilets they should use….man alive

WorriedMutha · Today 09:56

Love the letter before claim as per the Telegraph article. To summarise 'Bridget Philipson breaks law by stating law'.

I know, try twisting your biscuit round that one. His claim is utterly illogical.

And I don't honestly think there's anything anyone could do to help with that.

Love the letter before claim as per the Telegraph article. To summarise 'Bridget Philipson breaks law by stating law'.

@KnottyAuty I really like his engaging with the pig analogy. Except I think we are the pig enjoying the shit now. They wanted no debate which left no avenue other than a steady drip of legal cases. Now they are complaining they weren't consulted. How do you consult with the movement that modelled itself as an immovable object and an irresistible force. Now that they are forced to engage, we are the all powerful pig.

Letter reported in the Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/acdb4ba5fbfc3a0d

@SionnachRuadh I think the ire will only turn on Jolyon when he gives up. As long as he keeps trying they'll keep believing that it's him against the transpohobic world and the accumulated losses are due to biases beyond his control.

I liked how even his own video of the projection stunt showed people just walking past uninterested. Great impact there, Jolyon.

I might quite like an Adult Human Email tshirt.

• Short
• Direct
• Nevertheless can sometimes be misinterpreted.

He has got into the habit of starting the crowdfunder immediately after he's sent the letter before action, so we can see his side of the story but we don't see a reply from the respondent saying "Dear Jolyon, thank you for your letter of 23rd ult., we have examined your complaint and for XYZ reasons we find it to be a load of bollocks."

I don't suppose that breaches any rules, but it feels like sharp practice.

But he's brought in the big bucks with his nonspecific Trans Rights Fighting Fund, which doesn't have a respondent or litigation strategy attached. His projection stunt looks like literally spaffing money up the wall, but I suppose he feels that if he stages stunts demonstrating his allyship, the trans community will be happy with that.

Maybe he's right, but the trans community do have a habit of demanding the moon and getting very angry when they don't get it. If Jolyon leads them to believe he's going to overturn the SC ruling, they'll expect him to do it.

As cases of witness intimidation go, it's a poor effort. They lost the case a month back.

Hmmm. You might have a long wait.

Sorry if this has been posted before. Here’s a link to a podcast where Joylon is interviewed (last year) “turning pain into purpose” although doesn’t talk widely about his work on trans rights
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/do-one-better-with-alberto-lidji-in-philanthropy/id1458730778?i=1000663640426

Curious quote from the very end:
“Never wrestle with a pig because you both get covered in shit, but the pig enjoys it. And in the work that I do, which is fundamentally about speaking for those outside power to those inside power, I find it useful to ask yourself the question, who is the pig? Who is it who's going to enjoy the both of you getting covered in shit when you have a fight?

If you're challenging power and you can force power to engage with you, then you are the pig. You are enjoying the fight and they are not enjoying it. You are forcing them to engage.

You are forcing power to do what it does not want to do, which is to breathe into your lungs the air of saliency. So that would be my key, Alberto, my key takeaway. Ask yourself, who is the pig?”

I thought there were strict rules about legal crowd funding. There doesn't appear to be any clarity about the means and basis for a legal challenge and the GLP seem to be playing fast and loose with the regulations. I'm surprised this hasn't been raised. Are legal funds being used for a projection protest.
Not that I want to stop the protest as I think they are doing sterling work for us. I'm sure most people will just look and think wtf.

Possibly GLP are drumming up support as much as possible before it becomes clear their legal challenge is meaningless.

Can anything be said to be truly meaningless?

Sometimes it's all about the friends you make along the way.

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Interesting choice of people for GLP's projection.

Munroe Bergdorf, Nadia Almada, India Willoughby and Victoria McCloud.

Bergdorf and Willoughby are pretty awful people with a bunch of prejudices who are very polarising. It is like deciding to head a campaign to say sex is real with someone like Trump.

I have been keeping an eye on the GLP's fundraiser and despite all the publicity in the last few days it has slowed down considerably.

April 25th launched

May 6th - 361,869
May 16th - 387,292
May 18th - 393,560

Possibly GLP are drumming up support as much as possible before it becomes clear their legal challenge is meaningless.

Adult human email😄

Bugger predictive text… that should have read ‘adult human female’… 🤦🏽‍♀️

Depending on when it is, I might join you. Soon to be freed of children, so may don the adult human email teeshirt and start pitching up.keep thinking I will one day go to the LWS event in London too

DrudgeJedd · Today 17:37

He's spent most of today on bluesky shroud-waving about child suicide, he took a small break earlier to libel one of the SC judges.
Does he have no normal friends left now?

The wisest idiot in a room full of idiots is still an idiot.

DrudgeJedd · Today 13:28

GLP bluesky video
Jolyon & co are projecting massive transwomen onto the front of the Supreme Court.

What are they calling their campaign - Donkeys led by Hyenas?

I'm just buying popcorn futures. Gonna make a huge profit when JoMo finally brings a case to court.

Congrats @Bannedontherun - this is really powerful and important....Well done

I have just reported him to the Bar, for bringing the profession in to disrepute and profiteering from his fundraising activities, preying on vulnerable and gullible people with spurious legal arguments based on his title as a KC. And failing as a legal body to foster good relations between protected groups as is his duty under the EQA.

Let’s see where it goes.

I would dearly love to see him taken down a peg.

But that would merely demonstrate how corrupt the system is, and how much they regard him as a twat threat.