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Dunno, the David Allen Greens of this world have a limit on how long they'll ignore Lies For A Good Cause, Jolyon's warchest being spaffed on scattergun trifles like the cockamamie fantasies of poor, puddled Sparkles, instead of the Noble Fight to the ECtHR, will eventually trickle through to donors. They can no longer rely on the BBC to retail their propaganda unexamined so the legal clowncar may find itself finally having to answer awkward questions where it might once have expected unstinting sympathy & indulgence. Maybe the new Head of News will even see the utility of specialist legal journalists again - getting a LGBTQWTAF desk was a v poor exchange for Joshua Rozenberg. The ground beneath their feet is shifting. Bash Back's policy of "More threats! More violence! More histrionics! More lies! More cowbell!" helps no-one but their opponents. People don't like being lied to & they weary of drama. If nothing else, the drip, drip, drip of fact is getting through to people who once sighed to me, "why can't you just live & let live?".

As a lawyer, I would be interested to see Goodwin re-examined by the ECtHR. It is very much a decision of its time. The essential problem, as it was in FWS, are definitions. If the TRAs cannot come up with a more cogent legal definition of "woman" than we already have, any challenge is dead in the water. If the extremely permissive GRC is insufficient, it is hard to see what else will be.

Marlo may or may not have been telling the truth.

Agree with all of this, but I think their tactic is to suggest that the possibility of a case means that the SC ruling is in doubt. In this scenario, the fact that it would take years for a case to get to the ECtHR is an advantage.

Marlo, who did not want to share their surname, identifies as transmasculine, a term used to describe someone who was assigned female at birth but identifies with masculinity. They had already experienced being thrown out of both male and female toilets since April.

Fox Fisher, who is non-binary transmasculine – meaning they have masculine traits but do not identify as a man or woman – said they have stopped going to the gym after they experienced transphobia while using the sauna there.

Their problem is with single sex facilities, and so they should be arguing for more mixed sex provision.

I can't quite work out how anyone could think 'single sex facilities for people of both sexes' is a viable option that should be taken seriously.

As a life long Labour voter this is a topic that might well mean I can't vote Labour.

But that doesn't mean I'd ever begin to consider voting Reform. Because I'm not insane.

It would take a decade to get any case to the ECtHR, & they can't just run to Strasbourg whimpering about FWS, no matter what BS they're pumping out to the fanbase. They must first mount a specific case with a specific complainant, & somehow take it through all the courts, despite the SC ruling meaning they'd get knocked back at the first attempt. The SC ruling is easily within the margin of appreciation accorded to member States when implementing ECtHR rulings & if, by some magic, they ever got to the ECtHR, they would essentially be re-opening Goodwin, their great triumph & a ruling that did not at any point consider the impact on women, LGB people or children. Personally, I'd rather like to see it put back under scrutiny & doubt that the bloviating ninnies of "trans rights" would enjoy that at all.

Edited for dyslexia, some may remain.

Yeah, going to be tricky, that.

He's a capitalist, so he won't say it's wrong. That would involve criticising capitalism. But there are capitalists who consider it the career versus children dilemma to be a necessary evil and then there are capitalists who consider it very much a feature not a bug and think that women being underemployed homemakers is the natural order of things. I don't know which type he is.

TBH, I'm not sure that less-capitalist models would help all that much. Academia is generally not-for-profit, but the expectation that early career researchers will travel, ideally internationally, to work in different institutions makes not only kids, but marriage and even just serious dating, extremely hard. They call it "the two body problem".

Well, Bonnie Blue has just endorsed Reform as well.
Maybe there's some sort of ying/yang thing going on with the likes of Andrew Tate.

That was the article I was quoting.

And yes, men do. They sacrifice time with their kids to work. Likewise, women sacrifice career progress to raise their kids. Under capitalism, parents have to make unpleasant choices. He is stating a fact, not endorsing it.

<sigh> www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpnl0x3w3o

Farage said society was trying to "feminise" young men in a way that made the views of self-proclaimed misogynist influencer Andrew Tate more appealing to them.

But Farage stressed: "I'm not a Tate supporter. I'm identifying the truth, that young men feel that they're not allowed to be blokes."

It would be like someone accusing me of misogyny because I use terms like "bangmaid" and "wife appliance" on the Relationships board, failing to include the context that makes it clear that I'm describing how some men see their wives, not how I see them.

https://communistparty.org.uk/publications/britains-road-to-socialism/ mentions subjugation and super-exploitation based on biological sex and criticises how neo-liberalism has infected the fight for gay and trans rights.

And in the January 2025 Unity: Imperialist extraction exacerbates domestic abuse and is critical for harnessing women's reproductive labour to reproduce empire.

And they are associated with Morning Star, who have stood solid on this.

Just checked. It was a Communist Party Of Britain, according to you, the GC option (not that voting Communist is really a sensible option).
Yet she was very easily IDd as TWAW, whereas the Green was easily GC.
Looks like both veered sharply from their parties official outlook.

• The Communist Party of Britain is firm on this.

• The Communist Party of Great Britain fell some time ago.
• In case you weren't confused enough, there is also a Revolutionary Communist Party of Great Britain.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjNG-4 springs to mind.

We need to foster a society where it's OK to be "gender non-conforming".

I watched a film yesterday where one of the characters was referred to as he/him and "son", when, despite the cropped hair and baggy clothes, the actor was, to me, clearly female. I Googled and right enough, the actor had "come out" as non-binary in their early 20s, it wasn't explicitly stated they were biologically female but it was pretty obvious to me.

I was a teen in the 80s and knew quite a few "butch" girls at college, some were lesbians, some straight, none of them thought they were blokes and "non-binary" wasn't a thing. In a lot of ways we've gone backwards.

Sad times.

@PeppercornMill my first reply to your post was deleted because I had added a link to a MaryCate Delvey video which was a humorous take on what might happen if a trans person got Alzheimer's.

Despite the humour, what that video showed was how horrible it would be for someone to watch a loved one who'd had surgery to change their body when they were younger, and the inevitable mental suffering years later.

Fox Fisher is a FtM trans activist and has a MtF partner Owl who is also a trans activist and writes articles for the Metro moaning about how "transphobic" the UK is.

The worst article I've seen from Fox was an article about working in a care home for elderly trans individuals. There were MtF in there who had dementia and were asking where their penis had gone and thought they had been part of a scientific experiment, and asking why their bodies had been feminised.

Fox didn't seem to gasp that dementia meant they forgot about being trans, pretty much proving that gender identity is not innate.

Badenoch will campaign on a manifesto promise to leave it. As will Farage.

Would the Tories ever stand up to the ECHR? I doubt it.