A quick quiz — Who said? ‘I play football and I box, and if any one of those bastards comes near me I will take off my glasses and thump them. ‘I am quite prepared to threaten violence because it seems to me politically what they are seeking to do is piss on women.’ That would…

It’s the dead ones you need to keep an eye out for — What larks! We live now in a country where, at last count, three ministers, including the AI Beta programme currently identifying as head honcho, Rishi Sunak, have demanded an urgent investigation into pupils who think they are cats. Head of Telegraph House, and born-again Trunchbull, Kate Burbling, claims to have…

NHS are on the wrong track — I guess i could have done the usual lengthy and closely argued defence of treatments for trans kids. But that misses the point entirely. What the NHS is doing in terms of trans kids is outrageous. Period. So, here is my squawk of outrage. * * * * * *…

The anti-trans onslaught begins here… — After a month or so when the anti-trans have been mercifully quiet, this week will mark a return to ‘business as usual’. There is a string of initiatives in the pipeline deliberately designed to restrict and strip rights from trans people in the UK. TW: If you would rather not…

EHRC shuffles the deck(chairs) — What is going on at the EHRC? There have been resignations aplenty — and rumours abound of more to come. Once upon a time, this might have been big news story. But in UK 2023, not a peep. We are so not being told. Now read on… * * *…

A legal director writes Thoughts from a former legal director of the EHRC. And some miscellany that might be of interest both to present-day campaigners and future historians. Worth the skip to the end if you can’t be arsed with the worthy legal stuff. Now read on. * * *…

What they said to representatives of the LGBTQ+ community — Yesterday, hot on the heels of publishing their anti-trans guidance to Inequalities Minister, Kemi Badenough, the EHRC met with members of the LGBTQ+ community to discuss what they were up to. Below is an extract detailing questions asked and answers given (or in many cases not given) to TransActual Chair…

The 1950’s called and they want your rights back… A brief delve into the ideological underpinnings of the anti-trans. …

The season bursts into life with daily transphobic dramas all across the UK — This week, the BBC doubled down on its demand employees stay neutral on culture war issues in the run-up to an election likely to feature a lot of culture war. If they genuinely intend to enforce that across the board, that might not be a bad thing. Because who would…