New trans equality civil servant at the Cabinet Office to focus on the ‘implications’ of 2025’s Supreme Court judgment

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Well, well, well.

Talk about sending a clear message about who is more important to Labour.

Trans will get their own cheer leader to make sure they are not discriminated against.

Women have no one to stop the discriminiation of blocking the implementation of singe sex provision.

Full article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/19/civil-service-hire-trans-equality-chief-supreme-court/

And at https://archive.is/S57Uv

I don't understand what other options they are hoping to uncover. The options are:

a) No males can go in women's spaces (Supreme Court)

b) Any/all males can go in women's spaces (trans activists)

c) A subset of males can go in women's spaces, e.g. those with a certificate no-one can ask to see (Scottish Government) or those who look a bit girly, as long as no-one complains (judge Sandy Kemp).

That's it. Anyway, the Supreme Court has already clarified that the law is a).

I don’t think they have any appetite for trying to change the EA. They know that it would be hugely unpopular.

I hope (but am not hopeful) that this new role is to focus on the ways forward now allowing trans people access to the single sex provision of their choice is off the table. They can say we’ve hired a dedicated person to do nothing but find ways forward. However TRA and trans lobbyist won’t engage in any alternative solution finding. They are simply not open to anything but makes having the freedom to use female only provision

Who will they have to battle, the Tories are not likely to put up much of a fight and Reform don't much care because they want to do away with it. All other parties have guzzled the KoollAid. It might get delayed by the lord's but only 3 times, there is nobody to stop if they decide to amend it.

Does this mean another delay in releasing guidance as the new person has to have time to absorb all the information? Why not hire them back in the summer, rather than when you're already months behind? This is shameful.

A good way to destroy the Parliamentary Labour Party. It would fall apart - not all Labour MPs are captured and public opinion is very much against such nonsense now.

Well this is depressing.
Surely the kind of post that only those with an axe to grind will apply for?
Also only the kind of post that would only exist if the government was unhappy with the legal advice it was receiving?
The end of this parliament can't come soon enough.

I have a question and I don't know enough about how the Civil Service operates to answer it myself:

Does a new post such as this have to be created by the government?
Or can the Civil Service initiate it and then ask the government to sanction it?
Or are the Civil Service so out of control that they can do whatever they want?

None of the options are good but I think the third one is by far the worst as we can't vote the Civil Service out.

I think Kemi Badenoch would be onto that manouevre very quickly.

The government definitely needs to recognise the biological sex of trans people - that was the point of the SC ruling. Their sex is what matters in the EA.

The Tories would put up a fight. The problem is in this government we must rely on back bench Labour MPs who are prepared to lose the whip.

Or are the Civil Service so out of control that they can do whatever they want?

I think this seems to be the mostly likely scenario.

This is my fear too.

Well there’s the entire Womens & Equalities Committee…. But oh dear…. They also seem to be busy trying to undermine the FWS Judgment…. Gosh…. Whats going to happen here then? Hmmm … 3 years until the next GE? Well I’ll either not vote or I’ll be moving towards a less-leftist party although none of them look great to me…. So I predict they’ll drag this out for the 3 years thinking theyve got away with it and then Labour will lose (possible like in the US where people just didn’t vote) and then Labour will incomers will “do a Trump” and go full bore into sex realist. As a result there will be no careful handling or balancing needs. And trans people will be left high and dry. Labour are completely idiotic. If this is what “be kind” looks like then it can feck off. The longer they put off acting lawfully. The bigger the backlash will be. Why can’t any of these people just be moderate liberals?!?!

Sorry for the typos!

I can imagine a certain barrister wanting this post. The one with the bird type name rather than the fox botherer.

Bloody hell. So not just evading the law but literally hiring a permanent full time G7 whose entire job description is helping them evade the law. FFS. It’s as though they want Reform to win. What is wrong with these people?

And are 50% of the population.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/18/uk-to-create-new-school-of-government-to-train-senior-civil-servants

i wonder what indoctrination will be on the curriculum.

I'm just trying to imagine the size of the egg mountain that will be needed to create the amount of egg shells that will need to be walked on to work with whomever is appointed

I’m hoping this is actually a sign that the guidance is going to be released, and that this person will deal with the fallout on the trans side - it will certainly cause some trouble for individual trans people.

This show the immense power of this ideology. Extreme transactivists at the top of government, the NHS and everywhere else. All piggy backing off the exceptionally vulnerable young people they've been able to gaslight and recruit into believing their bodies are wrong but a sex change could be the cure.

There's a new thread highlighting Dennis Kavanagh's X thread about the immense power and inbuilt homophobia extreme transactviists display:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5478587-5478587-the-gender-warthis-didnt-come-from-the-streets?reply=149983821

My thinking too. BS has said the delay is because she’s asked someone ( can’t f’ing remember! ) for an impact statement of the SC ruling.
Once that’s back, she’ll be asking for input from this new post.
Delay, Delay.

MN had the First Minister of Wales on a video chat, she was asked will the Senedd implement the SC ruling.
Absolutely, she said, no intention to ignore the law ( pause ) , but it’s a complex issue and we need to understand the impact blah blah.

Nah. They will have size 13 boots to stomp over women’s rights. Or perhaps size 13 heels…

Yes my thoughts/fears exactly.

Fucking shitbags.