A GC lawyer attended a trans seminar at Garden Court Chambers

[DerekFaker]

Enjoy! It's rather funny.

https://www.rollonfriday.com/feature-content/glasnost-gender-critical-lawyers-visit-garden-court-chambers

Oh this is glorious and made my day, thank you for posting 👍🏼🤣

Interesting to read but ....

Unless there was some confidentiality clause imposed on attendees, what was said at the meeting about what the organisers clearly think is a major problem to the extent that organised as event to discuss.

Were there rows of barristers singing in unison about the terror of terfs in the workplace and how they have lost trillions of £££s because their very presence stops all the be kinds from even entering their chambers.

Or is there a more serious substance review of the event.

Really interested to hear what GCC thought was the issue and how it should be "dealt" with.

A posh restaurant sends out an email advertising an event to all the prospective customers who have expressed in interest via the restaurant's website.
A group of four black people who are really looking forwards to the event and meal make a booking based on the email advert. They get a confirmation email from the restaurant.
They turn up at the restaurant on the evening and the maitre d looks them all up and down with a disapproving look on his face as they enter the restaurant.
"Can I help you?"
"Yes we have a booking for four tonight in the name Smythe-Perkins"
"Ahhh...... One moment please."
Maitre D looks through his large reservation folder.
"I'm sorry there appears to have been a mistake. Your booking was not recorded and I have no spare tables tonight."
Four people look around the resturant. It is maybe 10% full. All of the customers and staff are white. There's a few tables with reserved placeholders on them but plenty of table without.
A conversation ensues. It is clear to the guests they are being discriminated against, they can only assume based on the colour of their skin. Eventually the Maitre D reluctantly gives them a table but only because they are persistent. As they sit down the guests know they have been discriminated against, but intend to stay and eat out of principal to exercise their rights. They eat, but their night out is already spoiled. Other patrons keep looking at them, it's embarassing. Clearly they are not welcome here, a hostile environment.
They got a table, and got to eat, but they were not treated equally, they were discriminated against. I believe a majority of people would see this as blatant discrimination.

Now swap black for gender critical and the restaurant for the event.

Good point.

Love the write up.

The point about Maya’s belief is that it was WORIADS.

Simplistic support for an attack in which people were kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed probably doesn’t reach the same heights.

Think one of the witches put a lot of the content of the presentations on Twitter, including pics of slides. Unless that was another event I am thinking of?

Does anyone else remember or even better, have bookmarks?

If you're talking about expressing views at work, the most striking difference between Allison Bailey and Franck Magennis is the WORIADS test.

Just because women can now say that sex is immutable and that this matters in certain circumstances doesn't mean that GCC cannot express a view that what Magennis posted is repugnant.

Edit: that was to unwashedanddazed

There is an approaching army of at least four or five terrifyingly polite, reasonable women. One can understand their fear.

Amazing. Wonderful.

Maya et al showing everyone who the grown-ups are.

Looks like i was wrong and slides were from another event. Here's the Sex Matters X thread though for some additional fun:

https://twitter.com/SexMattersOrg/status/1761333382036811926

Rotten twitter only lets me see the first one sob!

Any chance of some screenshots?

The speakers no doubt tear (a) out their hair and (b) up their talks. They substitute a pedestrian plod through the legislation and some of the case law.

Clearly the writer isn't aware that these events in barristers' chambers are always a plod through the legislation and case law, because, surprise surprise, that is the nature of lawyers' work. I'm sure they didn't tear anything.

Reading the Twitter thread I was right about the non binary barrister Oscar presenting, as I said earlier. Must have been upsetting for they/them to have a gaggle of notorious terves.

Must have been a bit like the time I went to the cross party Kinder Gentler Politics report launch at the HoP with a few redoubtable GC women where Lily Madigan was giving the keynote speech. Lily didn't hang around for a Q&A and suffice it to say the irony of Lily being part of it was well and truly pointed out to the rest of the speakers and the chair.

Some of this was also, very obviously, 'shit, we can't talk absolute crap and fantasy while we're here with people who will ask questions and pull holes in it'.

Reading the Twitter thread I was right about the non binary barrister Oscar presenting, as I said earlier. Must have been upsetting for they/them to have a gaggle of notorious terves.

I hope they’ve let the organiser know how unsafe they felt.

I doubt Oscar Davies is too bothered. https://www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk/news/oscar-davies-shortlisted-in-two-categories-at-the-legal-500-esg-uk-awards-2024

Yes, I'm not denying he's a successful lawyer. I'm basing whether he would be upset on his own words.

Or perhaps you're suggesting he was hamming it all up for effect? The very idea!

Cant do screenshots, but here's most of it in non-X form: mailchi.mp/sex-matters/memo-2024-8

And added to that Hamas are a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK.

'Membership and expressing support for Hamas is an illegal act in the UK, punishable by up to 14 years in prison'

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-us-target-hamas-with-new-sanctions-to-isolate-terror-group

Surely GCC should have seen that coming!

Idiots!

Oh Lord the ESG awards 😀 That's kind of like being proud of being made milk monitor in kindergarten 🤣

Many thanks!