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?

If it was me (and thank the Lord it isn't - AR is great) I would want to get on record every time he couldn't answer "Are you saying, under oath, that you do not know [what gay means, what a man is, etc]?"

You don't think that anyone with GC views should be running a charity in this sector?

No.

Wow. Is that allowed?

Hoping Vivian Wulf keeps tweeting this week, I find it really helpful to have a variety of reports from perhaps different angles.

Wow. Is that allowed?

I think he's allowed to express that view, just not act on it.

(Unlike our views which can be thought, but not expressed).

I cannot wait to see the unintended consequences of this wankery unfold.

'R - trans women have multiple different bodies, when they transition'

How does THAT work?

That's what's here to be assessed. Thanking him that we got to it on day 1: this is about the top and bottom of it.

I think they're about to discover however that other people have rights too.

I think he's allowed to express that view, just not act on it.

Since this entire case is about Mermaids acting on that belief, it's hard to imagine any result other than them being told to swim off to the far side of fuck really.

For those wanting to catch up on the tweets, here's the Threadreader app that puts each morning's/ afternoon's in one place:

1- 9th Sept web.archive.org/web/20220912082203/threadreaderapp.com/thread/1568148282894942210.html

2 - 12 Sept, morning: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1569249118861639681.html

2- 12 Sept, afternoon: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1569310682205519873.html

'R - trans women have multiple different bodies, when they transition'

And society, safeguarding, legislation, education, healthcare, communications, spaces, services and opportunities are being turned upside-down at the behest of clowns like these. Gob-smacking.

Here’s the list of witnesses. It is John Nicholson MP. I don’t know anything about him but I gather many of you do, I hope he’s as gormless as Paul!

11.1. John Nicolson MP [1/149]. Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire and Deputy Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global LGBT+ Rights. His evidence focuses on LGB Alliance’s political campaigning.
11.2. Dr Belinda Bell [1/123]. Chair of trustees of Mermaids. Her evidence focuses on LGB Alliance’s approach towards (and impact on) trans people. She also addresses the facts relevant to Mermaids’ standing, including why it has felt the need to bring this appeal and the effects that the Decision has had on it.
11.3. Paul Roberts OBE [1/100]. CEO of LGBT Consortium, an umbrella body for LGBT groups in the UK. His evidence focuses on LGB Alliance’s approach towards (and impact on) lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
11.4. BeverleyJackson[1/162].Co-founderandtrusteeofLGBAlliance.SheaddressesLGB Alliance’s philosophy, history, objectives and activities in a range of fields.
11.5. Kate Harris [1/216]. Co-founder and trustee of LGB Alliance. Her evidence largely focuses on giving a more detailed account of LGB Alliance’s history.
11.6. EileenGallagherOBE[1/234].ChairoftrusteesofLGBAlliance,havingjoinedinMay 2021. Her evidence focuses on LGB Alliance’s current activities.

lgballiance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Volume-4-Submissions-CA.2021.0013.pdf page 10.

One of the Directors of Mumsnet is also a Director of the Good Law Project.

So they wouldn't allow this thread to trend, I'm sorry to say.

They wouldn't allow it to trend?? 🤨

Man alive!

mad as a box of frogs!

can’t wait for tomorrow’s instalment

countdown to when the TRAs turn on Mermaids and kick all the parent activists off the board because, obviously, this entire clusterfuckery of a legal case is the fault of the ‘cis’ people who run these orgs and everything would’ve been fine if they had given transfolx the mike…

Awesome question, I think I will use this one myself to the next loon insisting that 'behaviours not bodies' should define who uses which intimate space.

It is John Nicholson MP. I don’t know anything about him but I gather many of you do, I hope he’s as gormless as Paul!

Nicholson is vicious. Very viciously vile. And that is NOT just for the lovely 'v' sounds.

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Do we know what was the abusive tweet the "so called" LGBA sent to JN MP?

I wonder if JN MP's evidence will be on the basis of the "abusive" tweet?

Hi @chilling19 👋

It seems I missed some astonishing admissions today.

How do these people get their jobs? They are ignoramuses or liars.

Best quote if the thread so far

parade of nonsense 😂

Like a shitter version of The Generation Game.

It is John Nicholson MP. I don’t know anything about him but I gather many of you do, I hope he’s as gormless as Paul!

He's as batshit as the rest of them. 'People who know what a woman is are funded by the religious right', yada yada. Obsessed with LGBA.

again with the 'so-called'.

That's their name!