UKs only trans judge has resigned-Victoria McCloud said she had become a target

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uks-only-trans-judge-quits-over-risk-of-politicising-the-judiciary-lpsqjtghv

This person was extremely involved in writing the Equal Treatment Bench Book

Oh yes, that was the one who contributed to the bench advisory book which instructed that women would have to call their rapist she. No loss then.

Bye-bye, Justice McLeod.

Good riddance. Anyone who thinks a woman should have to call her male rapist 'she' has no place in a justice system.

If they were the judge who wrote that rule that women have to call a male abuser ‘she’ when the abuser is a transwoman, then I have lost respect for them.

It is not only abhorrently cruel, especially given the stress of court, it is ridiculous. The very women who would have had to call transwomen/male abusers ‘she’ would also have been made to swear to tell ‘the truth the whole truth etc’

That aside, I was feeling sympathetic until I read the judge’s plaintif ‘peeing’, argument, when I feel sure someone in their position, by and large, would not have had any real problems.

Ramblingnamechanger · Today 16:21

Oh yes, that was the one who contributed to the bench advisory book which instructed that women would have to call their rapist she. No loss then.

I couldn't agree more, it's a blatant conflict of interest with evident bias in the guidelines.

So much victimhood in that article! Comparing your 'choice' of toilet to Rosa Parks FFS!

"In the letter, McCloud refers to Rosa Parks, the black US civil liberties campaigner. “Rosa Parks’ choice of seat was political because of the colour of her skin,” McCloud said, adding: “More prosaically, for me I am now political every time I choose where to pee. Less prosaically, the judiciary by continuing to let me be a judge is now at risk of being political.”"

there.we.are.then.

What was it? Go well?

Edited to add. Very short article. I've not heard of the good judge before. Wonder if I'll heard of them again. Is Stonewall still looking for a CEO? Asking for a total stranger.

I think this is the judge of the McCloud judgment which has potentially given a lot of NHS workers a better pension. So I'm grateful for that.

McCloud, an Oxford University graduate, said the rise of the “gender critical” movement — which holds to what she acknowledges is the “uncontroversial notion” that a person cannot alter their biological sex — has also meant that she can be referred to as a man, despite being legally female.

She argues that as a result, “it has been open season on me and others”. The judge, who will formally stand down in April, added that she feels that “the dignity of the court as well as personal dignity is at stake”.

Referring to men as men is reality-based and law should be based in reality.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

BTW, Parks was already sitting in the back of the bus when the driver told her to give up her seat to a man.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

I said in a previous thread that Master McCloud regularly posted many long opinion pieces on Linked In that clearly showed judicial bias. It's very clear that if you were gender critical, and appeared before Master McCloud there would be bias. It's very unusual: I don't know of any other judge who behaved in this way. I imagine what happened is it was made clear to McCloud that they would have to cool down the political posting, as it was incompatible with them being a judge. This was probably not appealing to McCloud so they quit. I do feel some sympathy, in the sense that if you have a strong sense of political activism it's really hard to combine that with being a judge. You just aren't supposed to express strong opinions about controversial issues.

A relevant tweet from a month ago:

https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1749531003797057835

IANAL but I think they brought the case to tribunal along with a firefighter, they didn't make the judgement themselves. I'm glad the outcome went the way it did for the sake of everyone who needed it though.

McCloud, an Oxford University graduate, said the rise of the “gender critical” movement — which holds to what she acknowledges is the “uncontroversial notion” that a person cannot alter their biological sex — has also meant that she can be referred to as a man, despite being legally female

Everyone on the planet knows people can't change sex.
The 'gender critical' movement. AKA men being told no.

No man should be allowed to be legally female because gender isn't sex and they are not changing sex.

Anya Palmer has posted this on x and says she would be very surprised if this were not the real reason for the resignation
"This post clearly breaches two parts of the guidance (1) not to identify your judicial post on any social media account to which the general public has access, and (2) not to use such an account to engage in debate on matters of political controversy."

I wonder whether there is something in the pipeline that has triggered this.

The accusations of transphobia are typical, but I’m cynical when people resign when there’s no obvious reason for it and no obvious changes triggering their claimed reason for resigning.

Ah! Cross post with @spannasaurus . And there it is!

Mccloud was one of the Claimant’s if I recall correctly

https://x.com/anyabike/status/1760701024048685198?s=20

Link to the tweet referenced in my previous post

The McCloud judgement refers to the Court of Appeal’s ruling that Government’s 2015 public sector pension reforms unlawfully treated existing public sectors differently based upon members’ age on the 1 April 2012.
The judgement came after two Employment Tribunals concerning the pensions of Judges’ (McCloud) and Firefighters’ (Sargeant) respectively.

The judge thinks 'gender identity' is a biological characteristic and not a belief?

Also seems not to understand that women have the protected characteristic of sex so why should those with a belief in gender identity manifest their beliefs to the detriment of women.

Well shit. This judge is complaining because women reject the offensive fucking notion that a male person is a woman and they can no longer demand acquiescence from women?

Sod the fuck off.

Let them speak is still working well then.