Tuesday 9th March - could be a big day

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1. Helen Staniland and Glinner giving evidence to the Commons

1. Fair Play For Women VS UK Statistics Authority at Royal Courts of Justice at 10am

1. The Court of Appeal and Harry/ We Are Fair Cop - The Court of Appeal will examine the validity of the College of Police Hate Crimes Guidance

I wanted to start a thread where any major decisions or outcomes and links to anyone live tweeting or online footage. See you back here tomorrow!

There needs to be an FOI now to establish who the ONS engaged with which led to the change in position because in February they were clear that the census would record legal sex. Something happened between then and now which changed that position.

Secondly how much taxpayers money and civil service time will be spent to fix this.

Fantastic work FPFW. Congratulations, and thank you.

Well, we may not get everything we want out of this judgment, but the Judge appears to be ever so politely handing the ONS their arses on a plate at the moment.

My day will be made if the judge refers to an ONS argument as #SuperSurprising.

Amazing. 😃

Judge: Order is that Guidance should be changed to read ..... use birth certificate or GRC /78

INTREIM RELIEF GRANTED!!!

🎉🎉🎉

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

Judge: Interim relief GRANTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /77

FUCK YEAH!

Judge: Permission granted to seek judicial review. /79

@FindTheTruth

Judge: There is no dispute that sex is an important demographic variable /74

YES!

And the days of backroom deals and lying to the public about this stuff are OVER.

Interim Relief Granted.

@OvaHere

*I think he means legal sex either birth cert or GRC. But not passport as those documents don’t record sex, but gender identity.* (Which is really all a GRC does, but is legally recognised.)

Statisticians can work with that data because there are records of GRC holders. The passport office has no idea (as the recently admitted) how many people have changed the sex marker on their passport.

Granted, it was more of an ‘aside’ comment. I don’t mean to derail.

Permission for JR granted!

Wow - great, great stuff. So thrilled. Well done FPFW

@ChazsBrilliantAttitude

It is a win on two grounds:-

1. Data quality - no self determination of sex either birth certificate or GRC.
2. The concerns raised about institutional capture have again been shown to be justified.

Yep

twitter.com/janeclarejones/status/1369295913966071808

Goddess I love it when judges are 'surprised'

Thread unrolled here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1369230649425596416.html

Interim relief.
It’s a court order to fix a situation until a full hearing can be held on all the arguments.

@PronounssheRa

There needs to be an FOI now to establish who the ONS engaged with which led to the change in position because in February they were clear that the census would record legal sex. Something happened between then and now which changed that position.

Secondly how much taxpayers money and civil service time will be spent to fix this.

Yes, anti-democratic shady dealings on matters that affect ALL of us need to be exposed.

My day will be made if the judge refers to an ONS argument as #SuperSurprising.

Lucky I'd finished my tea.

Yesssss 🎉

I have been scaring the bloody household to death with all my whoops and hollering . It was certainly worth the donation

The 'interim relief' was to ask the judge to remove/change the guidance immediately before another hearing before census day. judge said it's the whole census. so guess that's it and no more hearing. INAL

"As soon as humanly possible"