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Phillipson criticised over women’s rights stance in sex and gender debate

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impossibletoday · 11/04/2026 21:29

Phillipson accused of putting career ahead of women’s rights in trans war

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/bb0dee47182826e1

Phillipson accused of putting career ahead of women’s rights in trans war

Baroness Falkner says women and equalities minister blocking single-sex spaces guidance for fear of ‘alienating activist MPs’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/bb0dee47182826e1

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PrettyDamnCosmic · 15/04/2026 14:05

Shortshriftandlethal · 15/04/2026 13:06

What does " being laid before parliament" imply.....what is involved?

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What does " being laid before parliament" imply.....what is involved?

Basically the publication of the guidance.

My prediction is that the guidance will be almost indistinguishable from the interim guidance that was published a year ago in the wake of FWS but with some extra contrived examples of "inclusivity" that will have taken them a year to come up with. The law is clear & the guidance cannot deviate from the law as it's just there to help explain the practicalities of the law to service providers.

KnottyAuty · 15/04/2026 14:23

I’ve decided to spoil my ballot on 7th May for our council elections with “Respect My Sex if you want my X”.

if enough of us do it that might stiffen their resolve to resist tinkering with the guidance….

If they fiddle the guidance and the next few years until the General Election are filled with even more batshit than the last 3, then the TRA MPs must surely cop it at the next poll? I think they’d be foolish to try anything now, but so far they don’t seem to have sensed the way the wind is blowing…

the noise and attention around this gender stuff is only going to grow, as more and more of the cruel absurdities emerge, because this iddly piddly culture war and vanishingly small number of people actually impact hugely on the whole population (and mostly on us 51% wims)….

Right side of history eh? - looking forward to watching them try to slither out of that in due course

BridgetPhillipsonIsACowardlyJobsworth · 15/04/2026 14:28

So, all smiles in front of gritted teeth, with demure hand gripping and generous personal space allowed. BP is still a lying politician, and if she can get away with not laying the guidance before Parliament after May, she will. If it ends up that she MUST lay it before Parliament, despite all her best efforts, she will find a way to blame someone else for her actions/inactions. Kier Starmer, perhaps, the spineless fence-sitter? Where on earth has he been while this has been going on? BP could get in there quick, dump this problem on him now that he's having more Trump problems.

Am I bitter? Having lost a niece to this hideous ideology, you bet I am!

PrettyDamnCosmic · 15/04/2026 14:50

It looks like Susan Smith agrees with my prediction after FWS met Brigitte Phillipson

FWS director Susan Smith told the Press Association they had been “a little nervous” amid concerns about it having been toned down, but – while they were not given specifics of the changes that had been made – they understood this included adding more examples for service providers on how to implement the updated code.
She told PA: “I don’t think the guidance can be watered down in the sense that whatever the EHRC comes up with has to adhere closely to the Supreme Court’s ruling.
“So I think we can be pretty confident, quietly confident, that that will be alright. I think if the changes are around strengthening advice to duty bearers, that’s a positive, because businesses and service providers will be looking for examples that they can use day-to-day.”

PrettyDamnCosmic · 15/04/2026 14:53

BridgetPhillipsonIsACowardlyJobsworth · 15/04/2026 14:28

So, all smiles in front of gritted teeth, with demure hand gripping and generous personal space allowed. BP is still a lying politician, and if she can get away with not laying the guidance before Parliament after May, she will. If it ends up that she MUST lay it before Parliament, despite all her best efforts, she will find a way to blame someone else for her actions/inactions. Kier Starmer, perhaps, the spineless fence-sitter? Where on earth has he been while this has been going on? BP could get in there quick, dump this problem on him now that he's having more Trump problems.

Am I bitter? Having lost a niece to this hideous ideology, you bet I am!

Bridget Phillipson has accepted the guidance & told us she is laying it before parliament next month. I don't see how she could now renege on that. FWS met her today & seem reassured so I'm confident that it will all unfold as promised.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 15/04/2026 14:59

“So I think we can be pretty confident, quietly confident, that that will be alright. I think if the changes are around strengthening advice to duty bearers, that’s a positive, because businesses and service providers will be looking for examples that they can use day-to-day.”

I'm going to take that and believe, believe, believe. 🙏🤞

OpheliaWitchoftheWoods · 15/04/2026 16:02

Yeah I trust this lot about half as far as I can spit. They are unethical liars with no respect for the law, and that's before you get to all their many prejudices.

This whole wanging on about 'making it more inclusive' -

They now openly think 'inclusive' means nothing more than men who dress as women.

So what they mean by 'inclusive' is getting men into women's spaces; they absolutely do not mean making sure women's spaces stay inclusive and accessible to all women. Because if you let men in, you push women out, and you can't offer those women a third space because the men would commandeer that too as a performance/resource base. And Phillipson et al care absolutely nothing for anyone born female apparently.

You cannot make a single sex space 'inclusive' in this way without it no longer being single sex.

They have no fucks to give about women's rights and needs, other than how they inconvenience men who want to use and invade women.

The next step of course will be the forty days - and the HoC then throwing this back because men encountering barriers to destroying women's rights and public access - and then the EHRC doing a bit more on the gerbil mill, and resubmitting to Phillipson - and they do this re writing bit on the Equality Act, I'm watching that through narrowed eyes expecting more coming in that direction.

She can game this until Labour get thrown out. While women go on being harmed by the law being broken, and the cases stack up proving that women's rights exist only if you have the finance and fight in you for about two years in court. I am as cynical as fuck at this point, Bridget. Prove me wrong.

endofthelinefinally · 16/04/2026 12:00

Baroness Falkner was interviewed on GMB this morning about this and she didn't mince her words. I only caught the last few minutes because DH called me to tell me she was on. She clearly has a very poor opinion of BP.

She called on the conservative party to reassure BP that they would support her if her labour party colleagues and unions would not. Ouch!
I am hoping the clip will appear on you tube at some point.

GailBlancheViola · 16/04/2026 12:16

I am sick to the back teeth of the absolute and utter bypocrisy and hatred of women and girls shown by Labour.

All the chants of The Law is the Law and we will always implement and abide by the Law and ensure others do because we are the good guys and yet they are point blank refusing to do so in the case of the Equality Act an Act which they waxed lyrical on how proud they were of it prior to the GE.

OpheliaWitchoftheWoods · 16/04/2026 17:38

We need one of Beetle's memes. Isla Bryson in the pink leggings identifying as a woman, beside Philipson identifying as implementing the law and not having abandoned women.

SwirlyGates · 16/04/2026 20:06

@OpheliaWitchoftheWoods the word "inclusive" is one of many that have been co-opted by the trans lobby. As soon as I see "inclusive" I think, you mean that "women" now includes "some men". And of course, you don't care that some women are pushed out.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 16/04/2026 20:12

SwirlyGates · 16/04/2026 20:06

@OpheliaWitchoftheWoods the word "inclusive" is one of many that have been co-opted by the trans lobby. As soon as I see "inclusive" I think, you mean that "women" now includes "some men". And of course, you don't care that some women are pushed out.

It's 'all women' that makes me pay attention, the word women already covers all adult females, so when they say 'all women' they mean including the one's who aren't women at all. 😤

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TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 17/04/2026 06:02

I like the Baronesses new hair do, I know there's a reason why it's short nowadays but she looks fit and healthy, long may she stay so. ✊😁

PrettyDamnCosmic · 18/04/2026 08:39

lcakethereforeIam · 18/04/2026 07:56

Archive version for those without a Times subscription.

https://archive.ph/FIQ0P

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 18/04/2026 08:40

Thanks for the link, it was an eye opening article, every time a bleeding heart poster pops up saying how 'mean' we are to the poor old 'trans' might teeth start to grind.

It's clear that none of them are reading any of the articles that lay out so clearly what's happening to our state systems and the undermining of our so called democracy that's going on.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 18/04/2026 08:49

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 18/04/2026 08:40

Thanks for the link, it was an eye opening article, every time a bleeding heart poster pops up saying how 'mean' we are to the poor old 'trans' might teeth start to grind.

It's clear that none of them are reading any of the articles that lay out so clearly what's happening to our state systems and the undermining of our so called democracy that's going on.

The civil service has been absolutely fucking appalling - is there any major dept in Whitehall that doesn't have a trans ally ie who gives a fuck about women person in a position of power?

borntobequiet · 18/04/2026 08:51

lcakethereforeIam · 18/04/2026 07:56

Janice is a treasure.

SionnachRuadh · 18/04/2026 16:04

Latest Spectator podcast goes into this. Maddie Grant has been all over this for years, and I'm pleased to see how quickly Gove has got up to speed.

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