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Let's Ignore The Supreme Court and the Rule of Law (or We Hate Women. We Hate That They Have Rights. So We're Going To Break The Law Because We Feel Like It.)

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 26/07/2026 22:18

Just a reminder:

Equality Act 2010 - 16 years ago
Supreme Court ruling (April 2025) - 15 months ago

I'm so angry about all the public services in the UK that are refusing to obey the law, that I thought I'd just start a list of them, starting with the most recent I can think of (and have recent threads on FWR). Please feel free to add any others you find.

Lambeth Council
NHS Scotland
Staffordshire Police
Hampstead Ponds
Bristol City Council

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 19/08/2026 18:57

A good summary from The Telegraph of some of the councils, NHS Trusts, etc. who are still determined to disregard the law (and a bit about the women who are fighting back):

https://archive.is/lmUZK

Thanks to @fromorbit for the archive.

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Peregrina · 11/08/2026 20:43

She won't pit minority against minoirty?
This woman doesn't understand the word minority. Since when was 51% a minority.?

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 11/08/2026 20:21

BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 11/08/2026 10:56

Manchester (natch):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/09/new-manchester-mayor-refuses-to-commit-implementing-trans/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo_refuses-to-commit-implementing-trans/

Can someone cleverer than me archive this please? I tried but got nowhere. Thanks!

Just to follow up on this article:

Ms Craig later clarified that single-sex spaces would be “legally compliant”.

However, she refused to say whether she would advise Manchester’s councils to adopt the EHRC guidance. Instead she said that authorities should be given time to implement the changes needed to update single-sex spaces.
[my bold]

We Need More Time! (She's a sorry excuse for a mayor, or anyone in a position of authority. Does she have a brain? Can she read? Does she understand that a law is not a "well, I'll do it if I feel like it today?)

Anyway, don't really care. She can denigrate the rule of law as much as she likes, but she still has to obey it.

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 11/08/2026 20:17

TwoLoonsAndASprout · 11/08/2026 19:44

Try this:

https://archive.ph/0Khwk

Show quote history

That works for me, thanks!

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TwoLoonsAndASprout · 11/08/2026 19:44

BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 11/08/2026 10:56

Manchester (natch):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/09/new-manchester-mayor-refuses-to-commit-implementing-trans/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo_refuses-to-commit-implementing-trans/

Can someone cleverer than me archive this please? I tried but got nowhere. Thanks!

Try this:

https://archive.ph/0Khwk

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 11/08/2026 19:35

Prisoner release should be based on 'risk not feelings' Jess Phillips tells Electoral Dysfunction

Ms Phillips said: "There has to be a system where the people who are released, it is based on their risk."

Prisoner release should be based on 'risk not feelings' Jess Phillips tells Electoral Dysfunction | Politics News | Sky News

Although I completely agree with her, isn't it ironic that Labour can see the necessity of risk assessment and an understanding of reality for some issues, but not others...?

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IwantToRetire · 11/08/2026 17:01

There is this Press Reader version. Not sure if it is the whole article.

Also many of the pro tra / queer papers have their version of the story if you want to link to one of them!

IwantToRetire · 11/08/2026 16:58

BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 11/08/2026 10:56

Manchester (natch):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/09/new-manchester-mayor-refuses-to-commit-implementing-trans/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo_refuses-to-commit-implementing-trans/

Can someone cleverer than me archive this please? I tried but got nowhere. Thanks!

As far as I can tell the Telegraph (and some other papers) have now put a block on non subscribers creating an archive.

It probably needs someone who subscribes to get one.

nicepotoftea · 11/08/2026 12:44

BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 11/08/2026 11:45

News from Scotland: surprise surprise, some councils remain undecided on whether or not to obey the law.

Thanks to @Igneococcus for the archive link:

https://archive.ph/c1OvE

Which just increases uncertainty for all, regardless of how they identify, and makes it likely that they will be throwing our money down the drain losing court cases.

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 11/08/2026 11:45

News from Scotland: surprise surprise, some councils remain undecided on whether or not to obey the law.

Thanks to @Igneococcus for the archive link:

https://archive.ph/c1OvE

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 11/08/2026 10:56

Manchester (natch):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/08/09/new-manchester-mayor-refuses-to-commit-implementing-trans/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo_refuses-to-commit-implementing-trans/

Can someone cleverer than me archive this please? I tried but got nowhere. Thanks!

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Peregrina · 09/08/2026 17:46

I am sickened to read that my own council, Vale of White Horse is one of the culprits - although perhaps I shouldn't be,

They are now whining about needing to find more money to fix it for the poor little trans identfying men. Will I be able to deduct a portion of my council tax payment from them?

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 09/08/2026 14:10

MarieDeGournay · 09/08/2026 13:06

Non-creative, non-productive, money-grubbing, careless, senseless, useless, insecure, aggressive, never-evolved, think-with-their-dicks caveman children.

Wow!

From the woman who brought you
Let's Ignore The Supreme Court and the Rule of Law (or We Hate Women. We Hate That They Have Rights. So We're Going To Break The Law Because We Feel Like It.)

I think you've earned this😃:

Eek! Thanks. I have really had enough of the spineless excuses now. They've run out of "reasons" so now it's just "we hate you, and we don't feel like it, so make me" level of attack. I am trying not to despair (I won't), but not doing very well today.

Must not spend my whole Sunday feeling angry. Plenty of time for that next week. 😝

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MarieDeGournay · 09/08/2026 13:06

Non-creative, non-productive, money-grubbing, careless, senseless, useless, insecure, aggressive, never-evolved, think-with-their-dicks caveman children.

Wow!

From the woman who brought you
Let's Ignore The Supreme Court and the Rule of Law (or We Hate Women. We Hate That They Have Rights. So We're Going To Break The Law Because We Feel Like It.)

I think you've earned this😃:

Let's Ignore The Supreme Court and the Rule of Law (or We Hate Women. We Hate That They Have Rights. So We're Going To Break The Law Because We Feel Like It.)
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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 09/08/2026 11:25

MarieDeGournay · 09/08/2026 11:05

I know it's been said many times before but:
where was all this concern for women when our spaces were redesignated?

Their handwringing about those poor, poor transpeople - all less than 1% of them - having to use the toilets which are designated by biological sex, is stark proof that they don't think women matter.

It's so blatant, don't they realise - even if they don't care - how anti-women this makes them appear?
The Islington statement is pure anti-women DARVO.

My conclusion after all this, so far, is

They hate women

and

They are afraid of other men.

Misogyny. Age-old, never goes away, always under the surface, misogyny.

It's the fall-back position whenever men don't want to acknowledge the word NO. Non-creative, non-productive, money-grubbing, careless, senseless, useless, insecure, aggressive, never-evolved, think-with-their-dicks caveman children.

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MarieDeGournay · 09/08/2026 11:05

I know it's been said many times before but:
where was all this concern for women when our spaces were redesignated?

Their handwringing about those poor, poor transpeople - all less than 1% of them - having to use the toilets which are designated by biological sex, is stark proof that they don't think women matter.

It's so blatant, don't they realise - even if they don't care - how anti-women this makes them appear?
The Islington statement is pure anti-women DARVO.

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 09/08/2026 10:51

Midlands Partnership University NHS trust tells trans staff they can use women’s toilets:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/57fa83195ae7a465

Thanks to @impossibletoday for the gift.
and @IwantToRetire for finding the article.

@KnottyAuty @TwoLoonsAndASprout

NHS trust tells trans staff they can use women’s toilets

Female employees upset there will be ‘no immediate changes’ to policy despite EHRC code on single-sex spaces coming into force

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/57fa83195ae7a465

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 08/08/2026 08:37

Article about in The Times the six councils who think that obeying the law is "too difficult."

https://www.thetimes.com/article/77fbe275-dc42-4617-9d55-1592d5e1135f?shareToken=e2415dd1a19513c133556ff85259e535

Thanks to @EmpressaurusKitty for the share token

Discussion about the article: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5564028-janice-turner-in-the-times-today

Verifying Device

https://www.thetimes.com/article/77fbe275-dc42-4617-9d55-1592d5e1135f?shareToken=e2415dd1a19513c133556ff85259e535

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 06/08/2026 15:27

PS. Forgot to mention: women are also your residents and are also allowed to lead a safe life.

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 06/08/2026 15:26

"Islington Labour will welcome further guidance from the government..."

Dear Islington Council,

Read the bloody EHRC guidance and Supreme Court ruling from April 2025.

Best regards,

Not Bridget

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ElenOfTheWays · 06/08/2026 14:39

Just saw this from Islington Council

Let's Ignore The Supreme Court and the Rule of Law (or We Hate Women. We Hate That They Have Rights. So We're Going To Break The Law Because We Feel Like It.)
Grammarnut · 06/08/2026 13:47

1984Now · 26/07/2026 22:44

The left and polite society/civic institutions are so stupid. What do they think is going to happen if a Reform govt takes hold? That the niceties of life will be maintained?
No, they've shown that the rule of law can be flouted as the SC ruling is ignored or obfuscated every step of the way by the NHS, police, universities, academia etc.
So a Reform govt will similarly push their agenda.
Don't like illegals being rounded up and deported by Reform ? Their lawful rights ignored? The rule of law should prevail?
Well, you should have thought about that when even after the SC ruling came in, you still put men's rights above women's.
Reform will have been watching. And learning.

Unfortunately. It's very worrying and the people ignoring, flouting the law don't seem to have a clue that the same rule breaking can be used against them. It worries me hugely that Reform may prevail. I have two dual heritage DC, adults, born here and citizens by right of birth, but I know in my guts that that is no protection against Reform and its anti-immigrant agenda.
This lot of clowns endanger us all and for what? Men's rights and pandering to male fetishes.

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 06/08/2026 08:47

Times article here (re councils above)

https://archive.is/cYOwm

thanks @fromorbit

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BridgetYourFortyDaysAreUp · 06/08/2026 08:33

New thread here about six London councils decrying the EHRC guidance (I can't get the Times link to work for some reason):

Thanks to @Apollo441

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5563244-6-london-councils-to-ignore-ehrc-guidance

From the article: (thanks to @yetanotherusernameAgain

"... leaders of Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest - boroughs with some of the highest trans and non-binary communities in the country - have demanded the government clarifies that the code must not be used to exclude trans people from services. They have also warned that council staff should not be placed at risk of “inadvertent discrimination”, where no third spaces are available to Trans+ people."
[my bold]

(If someone can find the Times link to the article, that would be great. The link in thread above leads me to just the Times front page)

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