More people are being hired into partisan roles as the wasteful, harmful madness continues in Whitehall

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This isn’t just about its leaders saying they don’t know who should use which toilets in their own buildings. The stubborn attempt to force staff to continue pretending that no one knows what sex other people are extends to staff around the country: in prisons and probation, in job centres dealing with vulnerable customers including both women escaping from domestic violence and sex offenders being rehabilitated, and in courts and tribunals dealing with victims and criminals.

The Cabinet Office’s inaction leaves every other department flailing.

The Supreme Court judgment should have led to reflection about what went wrong. How did the entire state apparatus – the Civil Service, regulators, the Scottish and Welsh governments, police forces, NHS trusts and local authorities – get the law wrong and force public servants into this dangerous pantomime? Surely they should now apologise to the ordinary men, women and children whose rights they have trampled on? What happened to the principles of honesty, integrity and objectivity?

These paragraphs are just the ones that stood out for me but do NOT reflect all of Maya Forstater's points in full at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/21/civil-service-trans-equality-blob-reality/

Can also be read at https://archive.is/TrKGQ

Thanks for sharing, a good article.

There's another thread running about the position being advertised which has been disrupted by a word salad chef so this might be a nice alternative place to discuss ...

Yes I know that's why I posted a new thread. It is such a shame that some came attracted to replying. The thread originally had good info etc..

Had hoped that those fed up with yet another hijack would use this to continue a relevant discussion.

Well I resorted to posting a gif of a sealion in the other thread, so I'm not sure I'll be back there anytime soon...

And we will all be paying the cost for years to come.

So we will. Maya is spot-on there. Just do your bloody jobs, and we can make a start on sorting this mess.

Such hypocrisy. Why is this belief proritised above all others? Why is this way of life - because for many that’s what it is, nothing to do with belief at all - so highly prioritised?Why is it prioritised above all Protected Characteristics?

Reposting from the hijacked thread:

Is there a Judaism Equality Civil Servant at the Cabinet Office? After all, there are about as many people in the UK who identify as Jewish as there are people in the UK who identify as trans. There is documented evidence of the increasing number of physical violence and fatal attacks being perpetrated upon Jewish people, as well as documented evidence of both ‘hate crimes’ and incitement to violence upon Jewish people. I wonder what the ratio is of Jewish peopled harmed because they were Jewish to trans people harmed because they were trans.
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But, no, no need to appoint someone to focus on ensuring that UK citizens are safe living their lives according to UK law. Rather, it’s more important to appoint someone to focus on ensuring that a special caste of citizens are protected to live their lives outwith UK law, protected from the consequences of their actions, and punishing anybody who points out that they are breaking the law.

Thanks for starting a new thread op. I’m not having a pop at anyone here because I’ve been suckered into plenty of derailments myself, but the capture of the Civil Service is a really important topic because it can’t be resolved simply by voting in a new government. It would be great if we managed to keep this thread on track.

Yes, it would be so easy to as they say "take it outside". Whether a legitimate or hijacking side issue, it would be so easy to say anyone want to continue this off shoot have set up a thread called .......

And as a practice could be good for any number of threads where some may want to drill down on one aspect as they could do this in a coherent way on a thread of its own.

And the original thread could continue.