Mary Ann Stephenson confirmed chair of EHRC

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This is good news 😁

www.gov.uk/government/news/government-confirms-dr-mary-ann-stephenson-as-the-next-ehrc-chair

What do we know about her?

Yay. Good news.

Phew.

She donated to Alison Bailey's court case and the TRA really didn't want her appinted. The women and equalities committee gave her a really hard time and then wrote to Bridget phillpson saying they didn't want her. So working on the basis the TWAW crowd are vehemently opposed, I think she's a good thing 😁

<cocks eyebrow>
Name sounds familiar.
Who is she?
<Googles>
Oh good!

Steady hand at the tiller I hope. I wonder will the definitive guidelines on the SC ruling be published before Baroness Falkner's term ends in November.

So working on the basis the TWAW crowd are vehemently opposed, I think she's a good thing
The TRAs are doing their nuts.
Apparently she is a transphobe because she went to Filia.

Great news! Mantrums incoming.

#sadtimes 😁

I confess I find more and more humour in the UK trans reddit. This time a complaint that "its a blatant government plant."

Well, yes.

Unlike of course when David Issac former chair of stonewall was given the role which was of course totally fine 😆

sauce for goose meet sauce for gander

😂😂

Good news.

That will put an end to the hope of watering down (misrepresnting) the judgement.

Mantrums underway - all over Reddit!

Fantastic.

Oh yes, Reddit are very pissed off, aren’t they?

Gives me a bit more faith in Bridget Phillipson too.

That's good news, I'm also impressed that the government didn't, for once, cave to the tantrums of the genderwangers, there may be hope for this country yet. 😁

It's funny because the chair of the EHRC is a government appointment, as dictated by Schedule 1 to the Equality Act 2006, which opens with these exact words:

(1)The F1Secretary of State] shall appoint—
(a)a Commissioner as Chairman, and

So, yes, a government plant, by design and by statute. Not really something to moan about.

Jolly good! I'll have to go and earwig.

Oh dear, is Reddit a big wall of sad again?

Yes. I don't know how the redditors imagine these appointments are made. Perhaps they think the Secretary of State is obliged to take Jolyon's advice.

Anyway, I'm glad to see Bridget Phillipson standing her ground. The select committee picked the wrong minister to try and browbeat. Joe Stalin could have taken Bridget's course on how to be comfortable wielding power.

It's pretty significant, I'd say. Aside from a few stray zealots, both Labour and the Conservatives have, it seems, seen what the issues are with 'gender', and started making moves back towards more sensible positions. There will be a bit of gender-genuflecting (genderflecting?), but in most areas they seem to be moving in the direction of material reality.

I’ve actually warmed to Bridget Phillipson much more than I expected. She’s not a coward.

Good news.
Hopefully this means that Bridget Phillipson is also standing up to the gender loons in the civil service and lobby groups who until now have been allowed to sell trans ideology to even the youngest of children in schools. Because removing them from influencing children is the priority.