GLP v EHRC judgement is coming tomorrow

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Listing in the Administrative Court for tomorrow not before 11am: read out of the judgment in our challenge to the EHRC Interim Guidance.

https://bsky.app/profile/goodlawproject.org/post/3meo6ow7ow22k

I wouldn't take that mangled interpretation as fact.

If GLP have been dismissed, what has changed (presumably nothing) and what are they claiming has changed/been clarified?

Surely if they were dismissed they didn't get what they wanted?

Maugham (I know, I know) is interpreting it as single sex facilities open to both women and transwomen and excluding other men.

[61] …In a case where the provision of separate lavatories labelled male and female was materially similar in terms of the extent of the provision, location, and so on, I consider there would, in principle, be scope for a strong argument that a rule or practice that permitted trans women to use the “the female” lavatory but required other biological men to use the male lavatory would comprise different but not less favourable treatment on grounds of sex…
This means that service providers may lawfully provide, for example, women’s toilets which both cis and trans women are permitted to use, but from which cis men are still excluded.

Can we just assume GLP (having lost again) are spouting deliberatel,y manipulatively false bollocks, because that's what they do?

Yes, the judgement suggest that additional unisex facilities can be provided to ensure that nobody is excluded.

Does this mean Third Fourth 👀Spaces?

Bring it on.👍

I would like to think that disabiliy provision would benefit from this but built design will just roll the two over into one unit

And such facilities may simply be labelled for ‘men’ and ‘women’.

He's disingenuously put them in separate quotations suggesting separate labels. If it means "mixed sex" then that's a new level of dishonesty.

He really does a massive disservice to trans people by choosing to be dishonest all the time when he could be clear.

Maugham said the judgement was “grim” I think? So even he doesn’t present it as a win. Although now he’s spinning it, it seems.

Of course they are...the whole project relies on obfuscation and confusion.

Is that quote from this judgement? Link please?

Crowd funding with a 10% off the top cut?

Men, and women

Men and women

Oxford commas should be compulsory when blatant fibbers are reading things.

😱 user name checks out!

He must have ignored the evidence that mixed-sex facilities are indirect sex-discrimination.

Telegraph reporting that employers can ban transwomen from women's spaces:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/13/bosses-can-ban-trans-women-from-female-toilets/

Judgement via the GLP:
https://goodlawproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/good-law-project-EHRC-AC-2025-1953-judgment-13Feb26.pdf

https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/high-court-rules-ehrc-guidance-lawful/

He's saying "the EHRC’s exclusionary draft Code of Practice does not accurately reflect the law and the Minister will have to send it back to be rewritten."

So the guidance will be rewritten? That's not great.

Yup!

Just Maugham's FAQs, so treat with caution! https://goodlawproject.org/resource/faqs-trans-inclusion-after-the-high-court-decision-on-the-ehrcs-interim-guidance/

Here is the judgment via the GLP website

It was shared by a PP on p4 (forgot who, sorry!)

That is what I thought when I saw the photo. It’s the jaw or something.

Bugger, I forgot to press send on that because I was so busy telling DH how comprehensively Jolyon got his arse handed to him by the judge.

Rare moment of self awareness 😁

Well we know how TRAs feel about the perfectly reasonable compromise of third/fourth spaces (we have fourth spaces at my workplace that are literal genocide apparently) yet they are celebrating this judgement on Reddit as a win 🤔