Mermaids versus LGB alliance in court today??

[GrabbyGabby]

www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/09/trans-charity-mermaids-appeal-lgb-alliance-status

Not sure if it is today or next week. Do we know if this is open like the tribunals?

These people are lunatics.

That tweet of Maugham's is clearly libellous as well as unhinged, isn't it? You'd think a QC - sorry, KC - would know better.

Thank you!

Homosexuality is transphobic.

Said in court.

Good, let's get it out and have a realllllly good look at this shall we?

I do hope the judge doesn't get fed up and end all this prematurely.

Lets get all the lunacy right out and examine it in public, with a nice long dissection of it all in the summary please.

That link isn't complete because it doesn't contain the conference ID chilling19. If you use it then you might need to enter the conference ID before entering the PIN code.

But note that sharing of the access credentials is expressly forbidden.

'someone with a female body attracted to men, is a heterosexual woman, that is inconsistent with the values of your organisations'

IDK, is that not saying heterosexuality is transphobic?

As we all know of course, everything is transphobic.

Oh lord. Just realised i am the OP of this thread. I have a feeling we might need more than one. I am in and out so plrase feel free to start new ones as necessary.

I think this will need to be documented in allllll its glory.

Breathing in and out is transphobic, the world turning on it's axis is transphobic, water is transphobic...you get the picture!

Does anyone actually pay attention to that word anymore?? It's just white frigging noise now.

Was there a comment from Paul Roberts about this statement from AR?

Did I miss it? did he swivel, ignore or was it more of a rhetorical device from AR?

R - no, there would be differences but my understanding is that they are men under the law
AR - what do you mean differences?
R - a trans man might need services that a trans woman would not.

Is this exchange accurate? Did he just express the difference between trans men and trans women, while being asked what the difference was between them and men?

Actually I've confused myself over the weblink and the conference ID so what I've posted is a bit of a muddle.

Sorry - I assumed the link was the same but the pin codes were different. Have reported my post for deletion

This takes me to a Google page? What on earth am I doing wrong?

I think R is busy demonstrating how words have been gutted of all meaning.

Will be interesting to see what the judge thinks of that.

It's a it annoying that we can only see the bundles afterwards...

NC to avoid outing myself.

Off-topic, but dad was "hoist by his own petard" in the Civil War TV drama
By the Sword Divided, which resulted in his (very minor) character being written out of the series when he died from his accidentally self-inflicted wounds! The scene was filmed at Rockingham Castle IIRC.

Did you receive an email from the GRC email address HoofWankingSpangleCunt, it starts with "Please find attached joining instructions..."? If you did there's a Word link in that email with the full weblink. You need that webink, and the PIN Code.

Does anyone now know what the EA is now even protecting by way of sexual orientation? Because it now looks like sexual orientation is just an amorphous blob, and the only people who are now hateful are those trying to use definitions of words as they applied forever (6 years seems forever!) ago....

The gaslighting is unreal here.

What an excellent claim to fame @VeryRapidNameChange . 😊

This is a real shame:

twitter.com/jo_bartosch/status/1569274152070123526

I agree with JB, it is a bit of a shambles.

I wonder if it's just bad luck today (and Friday), because we didn't have these continual issues for AB and MF's tribunals.

To be honest, virtual works better

@MNHQ thank you

I’ll try this, thank you.

I’m so sorry for derailing this thread. This will be my last technical post. I did exactly what you and the letter said, c&p the link into a browser. I then get asked for conference alias.

I think I’m going to dial in as I’m about to set off on a walk anyway.

Thank you to posters taking the time to try and help me.