GLP are going after Sarah Phillimore and are going to lose - Part Two

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The Story so Far

Part 1

The first thread
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5400132-glp-are-going-after-sarah-philmore-and-are-going-to-lose?page=1

Get the popcorn folks. GLP is getting ready to lose again.

They are going after barrister Sarah Phillimore for referring to a man as a man. They think they are going to lawfare her into silence.

Her blog:
Here we are now: Entertain us
I have had now 7 years and counting of the various tactics used to 'silence' those who won't comply with prevailing orthodoxy. How are those tactics holding up?
https://sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/here-we-are-now-entertain-us?

The only thing is other TAs have already tried this on Phillimore multiple times.

They went to the Bar Council their claims were dismissed. They all failed. More to the point this ‘Kate’ is the same guy complaining again who already failed. Sarah Phillimore knows the law and likes explaining it to TAs and making them lose. So she doesn't even resent the attempt.

As Sarah has stated "They pick on someone who not only enjoys this but has now a vast repository of knowledge about the law in this area."

Part 2

So the Fox Basher decided to tell massive lies about Sarah Phillimore now he faces a defamation action.

GLP's case against Sarah rested on evidence from "Kate" and this turned out to be the infamous man in a dress Sophie Sparkles. A guy who was too obnoxious, chaotic and threatening even for the Scottish Greens to tolerate. Even for someone as incompetent as the Fox Basher this plan seemed particularly bad.

A band of helpful gardeners assembled and planted a lot of seeds and soon Sarah's garden was blooming.

Sarah assembled a huge dossier of evidence about Sparkles showing his instability. She carefully built up her case using her excellent legal skills.

After giving the Fox Basher plenty of time to apologise Sarah took action for defamation in December and her blog outlines the story so far nicely:

Letter before Action
I publish here my letter to Jolyon Maugham. There is no freedom of speech to tell harmful lies about others.

For the background to all of this, please see my response to the complaint of the Good Law Project which they made to the Bar Standards Board on August 26 2025. Shortly after this complaint, Mr Maugham chose to assert to his many followers online that I had ‘led a campaign of harassment’ so wicked that it led a trans identifying man to attempt suicide. I deal with that claim at some length in my response. It is not true.

I asked via email on 30 August 2025 for Maugham to delete, apologise and make a donation of £5K to For Women Scotland. His refusal came a few days later in a series of videos posted to TikTok and Instagram where he was clearly excited about the (false) idea that JK Rowling would be joining me in legal action against him. Being able to tell his followers that he faced attack by the Nasty Billionaire Transphobe would clearly have more cachet and would attract more funds to the Good Law Project than a much less sexy tussle with a junior provincial barrister.

I am sorry to disappoint Mr Maugham. It’s just me. Well me, and the so far 990 very generous people who have helped me raise the money to be able to even contemplate this kind of legal action. My grateful thanks to every one of them. I do not think that anyone has ‘freedom of speech’ to tell harmful lies about another person and certainly not a senior member of a regulated profession, who will rely on his status to give his words power and cause harm.

https://sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/letter-before-action

Now the Bar Standards Board has decided that Sarah has no case to answer and released a letter explaining how the GLP had failed again. Details here:

Right Here. Right Now.

Another stunning technical victory for the Good Law Project shows that sanity is being restored to the public debate about gender identity, slowly but ever so surely.

On 27 March 2026 I received the welcome and to be honest not entirely expected news that the Bar Standards Board was not going to investigate further the complaint of the Good Law Project against me on behalf of trans identifying man Euan Weddell, aka Sophie Molly/Sparkles.

https://sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/right-here-right-now

GLP are planning to release a statement which will no doubt spin what has happened as much as possible in its usual style.

Will the Fox Basher's long history of misogynistic hatred for any women who has knowledge about biology and legal incompetence come back to haunt him again?

If he is defeated it will be a warning to all TAs that this type of bigotry and massive lies are not going to be accepted legally in a country where women and men are legally equal.

Whatever happen's Sarah's bravery once again will pay a significant part in restoring a world in which discussing the reality of the existence of male and female human beings is accepted.

Her garden still needs more plants, and harvest so far has been excellent and you can keep watching this thread for more proof of that.

They don’t need a splintery rolling pin. The pictures are scary enough. They could be marketed as safety kit. Puts those on the mantle piece and they’ll keep the kids away from the fire.

On reading that again, it does sound a tiny bit like encouraging others to commit sexual violence against a named individual. Yet journalists seem happy to only repeat claims that JKR is transphobic ..

We're here, proud and happy and not going anywhere
Except, hopefully, to court and then a prison cell.

Is this definitely true? And for violence? If so, certain threats should be taken very seriously.

Oh very true. He even posted screenshots of his threats on another thread. He’s proud of them.

I know the threats are true, just want to clarify the convictions.

It’s a very male threat. And if that’s the stuff that Aida feels is appropriate to post on social media, one can only wonder what might not be expressed but lurks in the dark recesses of Aida’s mind.

The very male patterns of behaviour just keep coming, don’t they?

OK. But I’m not sure your partner laughing along is evidence of anything. Lots of woman have had to do similar to de-escalate difficult family situations. But if you’re super loved up then I’m very happy for you

Hmm.

Anyone disagreeing with you get threats like this:
"And let's send a clear message to the world: fuck bigots and especially nazirowling with a splintery rolling pin."

So I'm taking anything about 'together' with a large pinch of salt.

Threats of violence do tend to make others 'agree' but that doesn't mean they necessarily agree. Consent and freely given agreement doesn't come at the pointy end of a threat.

I wonder what A’s partner thinks about A’s threats to rape people. Is she even aware?

"If you don't do X I will hurt you or punish you" is abusive and coercive behaviour.

Just for anyone in any doubt.

We don't give a lot of time to abusive males here.

Ironic that the person who has possible convictions and threatens rape, accuses us of having horrible lives. My life is great thanks. I just want men to stay out of my single sex space.

There is a constant attempt at ad hom attacks on women with 'gc' views. Its pretty tedious.

Part of that, and reflecting it, is the relentless insistence on JOY and FUN from people whose occasional violent outbursts suggest that the JOY and FUN are somewhat forced and performative.

Defensive flagwaving and hostile glitter throwing.

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

”Trans joy” always looks so brittle and, well, joyless.

And the rape instrument, a rolling pin! Very female coded. I suspect his first choice, the baseball bat, was discarded as being too male for performative femininity. Of course the logical substitute for such a vile threat would be a rounders bat. As it is a sport mostly played by girls it's hardly surprising it didn't occur to him.

Baseball bats wrapped with barbed wire have already featured in other aggressive male rape fantasies. Perhaps he was trying to be original.

Yes I was struck by the rolling pin image. The idea of splinters on a rolling pin is odd. They are usually so smooth. It really is a particularly awful image.
Imagine actually choosing to spend time with a man like that.

And the blood stained t shirts.

This - with the message of this being explicitly about causing GBH if not murder to lesbian women who would not provide straight sex on command to indulge a straight man's inner self and desires - was actually put on display in an American art gallery celebrating 'trans'.

Where do you even start with what's wrong with that?

'Die in a grease fire' - which is much more horrifically painful than merely burning in fire.

'Kerb stomping' people. How utterly disturbed is that? The terrible violence of that.

And in this case, not just corrective rape with a large implement guaranteed to destroy a woman internally but a 'splintered' one to cause the maximum injury -

Normal, healthy, safe people don't have thoughts like this, never mind gush them out publically on others. This is a level of pathological disturbance you wouldn't usually encounter unless you worked on a psyche team in a Cat A men's prison.

Is this a 'normal' and intrinsic part of men naming themselves as 'trans' as implied by the art gallery celebrating violent sexual murder of women for refusing to submit to sex? In which case 'trans' becomes an extremely disturbing and questionable thing.

Or is this about why the idea of 'trans' would attract such disturbed men with such serious issues and potential dangers into its ranks? Because the gap between ideating this appalling, disturbed stuff and doing it? Police know all about how that works.

Normal, healthy, safe people don't have thoughts like this, never mind gush them out publically on others.

Absolutely.

This is what I have seen across the two pics I have seen of this nature, Knotty. I agree with you that the posing feels coercive and performative.

Like Lavery with his hand shoved into the mouth of the person he supposedly loves, while that woman is in a subservient position, plastered over social media. That is not respect.

The reaction I have just read also is an indication that that other person has very low boundaries and may not recognise the power imbalance at all in these poses.

This is very true.

It also takes a while to gain perspective to recognise what is happening to you in some situations.

I’m sure he’ll be back to tell us that she agrees with every word and how they laugh about it together.

I cannot keep up with it to be honest. Are they all beautiful and happy and healthy and joyful or are they at risk of literal genocide by hearing women saying the word “no” 🤔

I know, right? Simultaneously experiencing a transcendent form of gender-based nirvana AND so terribly vulnerable, oppressed and at risk of suicide.

Maybe this just identifies as a coherent point of view?