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

Debbie Hayton weighed in, in the Spectator. I'm not usually interested in reading his articles but I thought he might have some insight

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-sad-truth-behind-why-the-uks-first-trans-judge-resigned/

Yes. I don’t think people should be able to obtain the right to conceal their sex - it infringes upon the rights of others to recognise and calculate their boundaries according to a person’s sex.

Agree, i think there’s definitely something bigger driving the resignation. The reason offered is a non reason.

The problem is-males cannot transition into females-it's impossible. DH talks of when they transitioned but in terms of womens boundaries the truth is no male has ever become a woman. This shouldn't be a political statement it's a fact....and women shouldn't be penalised for recognising this.....

McCloud was an appellant, not the judge making the decision.

You let a person get away with one crazy thing and then they don't know how to stop.

So, good work but self serving. Not at all like anything else the judge has done🤔

Interesting Twitter 🧵 by Maya…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1760955392266305976.html

Certainly puts a different slant on the story printed by The Times where they didn't even seem to want to see the whole of the letter.

Can't believe there's not more outrage about the self-comparison to Rosa Parks!

Well, it's a bit of light relief! But not surprising really, considering the humourless "Me, me, me" world-view being presented.

Sex addiction is a sad thing in how it destroys men.

The judge wrote, (in a that Twitter thread)
“The confusion arises because the Gender Critics usually append the word 'ideology' to what they disagree with so as to present a
biological characteristic (gender identity) as being a contested 'belief”.

So am I right in thinking that the judge thinks ‘gender identity’ is a physiological part of the [biological] brain?

But somehow GC’s sense that ‘sex’ is real is just a belief?

Sorry it was this thread posted by Signalbox:

Thread by @MForstater on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader Appthreadreaderapp.com/thread/1760955392266305976.html

I’m a lawyer who has appeared before Master McCloud on several occasions. I agree with @BeBraveLittlePenguin that she’s a very good judge so from that perspective I think it’s a shame. As far as I’m aware she was someone who transitioned in the 90s long before trans became such a toxic political issue and I barely remember her trans status ever being mentioned in the early part of her judicial career, it wasn’t widely publicised and just wasn’t relevant to her work. Something seems to have changed in the last few years.

Maybe now they are bringing their whole self to work? I mean, that is what the support groups want isn’t it? Bring your whole self so that there are more activists in the workplace to enact change?

Or maybe, there were also complaints from women that McCloud was indeed using the female single sex spaces at work. Whether they transitioned now or decades ago, it shouldn’t matter.

Maya is an absolute legend.

Oh yes, I agree. I’m definitely someone who falls at the GC end of the spectrum and believes that women’s spaces need to be protected. That’s why I think it’s a shame - that someone who is/was a very good judge will be lost to the profession because they have felt the need to be more of an activist, which is totally incompatible with being a judge.

Mc Cloud didn't have to be an activist. McCloud could have just got on with their job, same as before. McCloud chose to be an activist.

'This is Victoria McCloud, who has just resigned as a High Court Judge McCloud argues that as he has a GRC, he is legally female & has a right to women’s sex based rights
This is why the GRC needs to go,no man should be in spaces women are undressing because he has a bit of paper.'

https://twitter.com/Sorelle_Arduino/status/1760999353613689207?t=pkKW4af1MjUlv_j0EgVndA&s=19