Naomi Cunningham
@naomicunningham.bsky.social
Barrister | Member of Legal Feminist https://www.legalfeminist.org.uk/ | Chair of Sex Matters https://sex-matters.org/
"Hateful bigot with incredible institutional power, and connections to the current UK government"
A man's a man for a' that.
"Hateful bigot with incredible institutional power, and connections to the current UK government"
A man's a man for a' that.
@swilkenkc.bsky.social I'm trying to find the case you mentioned to me about costs as damages, and which opened a whole world of pain for you on this lovely kind site... and I can't find it. Could you possibly remind me?
May 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@swilkenkc.bsky.social I'm trying to find the case you mentioned to me about costs as damages, and which opened a whole world of pain for you on this lovely kind site... and I can't find it. Could you possibly remind me?
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Jolyon Maugham KC has blocked me, but posted that the guardian article about Melanie Field shows UKSC in FWS v Scottish ministers is constitutionally wrong. For a KC to suggest something so legally illiterate in statutory interpretation is bizarre. My explanation why medium.com/@scott-wortl...
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Jolyon Maugham KC has blocked me, but posted that the guardian article about Melanie Field shows UKSC in FWS v Scottish ministers is constitutionally wrong. For a KC to suggest something so legally illiterate in statutory interpretation is bizarre. My explanation why medium.com/@scott-wortl...
This reply to me is from someone whose account is not marked "intolerance". Go figure.
February 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This reply to me is from someone whose account is not marked "intolerance". Go figure.
Human rights lawyers, please comment with particular reference to the article 3 and 8 rights of women subjected to such searches.
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Dr Kath Murray on X: "The NPCC DEI has agreed that trans identified men with a GRC should be able to search female detainees. So a man with a bit of paper, that cost a fiver, can strip-search a woman, with state backing. It’s hard to express just how repugnant this is. https://t.co/qsyXOfVyMN" / X
The NPCC DEI has agreed that trans identified men with a GRC should be able to search female detainees. So a man with a bit of paper, that cost a fiver, can strip-search a woman, with state backing. It’s hard to express just how repugnant this is. https://t.co/qsyXOfVyMN
x.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Human rights lawyers, please comment with particular reference to the article 3 and 8 rights of women subjected to such searches.
x.com/kathmurray1/...
x.com/kathmurray1/...
Stonewall used to insist that refusing to accept someone's "trans" identity — refusing to pretend to believe that they are the opposite sex from their real sex — was "transphobic". Stonewall's definition of "transphobia" has been written into countless workplace policies.
February 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Stonewall used to insist that refusing to accept someone's "trans" identity — refusing to pretend to believe that they are the opposite sex from their real sex — was "transphobic". Stonewall's definition of "transphobia" has been written into countless workplace policies.
This is extraordinary
February 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is extraordinary
An important thread from Helen Joyce over on Twitter.
The vigilante attack was vicious and rightly punished. But if the reporting is correct, one of the perpetrators may have been the victim of a serious sex crime, too. We shouldn't overlook that.
x.com/HJoyceGender...
The vigilante attack was vicious and rightly punished. But if the reporting is correct, one of the perpetrators may have been the victim of a serious sex crime, too. We shouldn't overlook that.
x.com/HJoyceGender...
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January 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
An important thread from Helen Joyce over on Twitter.
The vigilante attack was vicious and rightly punished. But if the reporting is correct, one of the perpetrators may have been the victim of a serious sex crime, too. We shouldn't overlook that.
x.com/HJoyceGender...
The vigilante attack was vicious and rightly punished. But if the reporting is correct, one of the perpetrators may have been the victim of a serious sex crime, too. We shouldn't overlook that.
x.com/HJoyceGender...
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Russell Hoban's How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
Day 1
Day 1
January 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Russell Hoban's How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen
Day 1
Day 1
A small sample of the publicly visible blocklists I am on. "TERFs (leaders) Do they even make a blender big enough?" caught my eye, somewhat at random.
Such nice people here.
Such nice people here.
January 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A small sample of the publicly visible blocklists I am on. "TERFs (leaders) Do they even make a blender big enough?" caught my eye, somewhat at random.
Such nice people here.
Such nice people here.
Excellent news that this has reached a favourable (and public) settlement.
It is extraordinary how slowly the Forstater memo is landing with employers. Almost as if there were activists spreading misinformation about its extent.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/civilse...
It is extraordinary how slowly the Forstater memo is landing with employers. Almost as if there were activists spreading misinformation about its extent.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/civilse...
Victimised after whistleblowing over Civil Service impartiality
The Free Speech Union is a non-partisan, mass membership public interest body that stands up for the speech rights of its members and campaigns for free speech more widely.
www.crowdjustice.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Excellent news that this has reached a favourable (and public) settlement.
It is extraordinary how slowly the Forstater memo is landing with employers. Almost as if there were activists spreading misinformation about its extent.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/civilse...
It is extraordinary how slowly the Forstater memo is landing with employers. Almost as if there were activists spreading misinformation about its extent.
www.crowdjustice.com/case/civilse...
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Utterly absurd, and wrong, that this post is marked by @bsky.app as "intolerance". In reality it consists of links to serious legal analysis, from someone whose opinion you might agree or disagree with.
I've done a quick round-up of pre-reading for anyone interested in following FWS v Scottish Ministers next week: www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2024/11/23/f...
I haven't been able to find any substantial commentary arguing that SG should win. Please link in reply if you know of any, and I'll add it.
I haven't been able to find any substantial commentary arguing that SG should win. Please link in reply if you know of any, and I'll add it.
FWS v Scottish Ministers: what to read before the hearing -
The hearing next week before the Supreme Court of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers is a big deal. Previous cases in the appellate courts have had serious implications for the impact of gender r...
www.legalfeminist.org.uk
November 24, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Utterly absurd, and wrong, that this post is marked by @bsky.app as "intolerance". In reality it consists of links to serious legal analysis, from someone whose opinion you might agree or disagree with.
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I would like to make it clear that I am not representing For Women Scotland in next week's Supreme Court hearing. I appear to be blocked by India on here @indiawilloughby.bsky.social and Twitter, otherwise I would have asked directly for this misinformation to be corrected.
November 24, 2024 at 12:51 PM
I would like to make it clear that I am not representing For Women Scotland in next week's Supreme Court hearing. I appear to be blocked by India on here @indiawilloughby.bsky.social and Twitter, otherwise I would have asked directly for this misinformation to be corrected.
I've done a quick round-up of pre-reading for anyone interested in following FWS v Scottish Ministers next week: www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2024/11/23/f...
I haven't been able to find any substantial commentary arguing that SG should win. Please link in reply if you know of any, and I'll add it.
I haven't been able to find any substantial commentary arguing that SG should win. Please link in reply if you know of any, and I'll add it.
FWS v Scottish Ministers: what to read before the hearing -
The hearing next week before the Supreme Court of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers is a big deal. Previous cases in the appellate courts have had serious implications for the impact of gender r...
www.legalfeminist.org.uk
November 24, 2024 at 9:54 AM
I've done a quick round-up of pre-reading for anyone interested in following FWS v Scottish Ministers next week: www.legalfeminist.org.uk/2024/11/23/f...
I haven't been able to find any substantial commentary arguing that SG should win. Please link in reply if you know of any, and I'll add it.
I haven't been able to find any substantial commentary arguing that SG should win. Please link in reply if you know of any, and I'll add it.
"Will need the whole world to recognise and relate to her or to him in the reassigned gender; and will want to keep to an absolute minimum any unwanted disclosure..."
Lady Hale demonstrates the carefully-fostered delusion under which so many senior judges have operated in these cases.
Lady Hale demonstrates the carefully-fostered delusion under which so many senior judges have operated in these cases.
Opening paragraph from Lady Hale in R (C) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2017] UKSC 72 🏳️⚧️
November 24, 2024 at 9:42 AM
"Will need the whole world to recognise and relate to her or to him in the reassigned gender; and will want to keep to an absolute minimum any unwanted disclosure..."
Lady Hale demonstrates the carefully-fostered delusion under which so many senior judges have operated in these cases.
Lady Hale demonstrates the carefully-fostered delusion under which so many senior judges have operated in these cases.
This gives me far too much credit. It was Maya Forstater who first persuaded me that there had to be a respectable argument that the GRA didn't stick its spanner into the works of the EqA; and @michaelpforan.bsky.social who did the detailed doctrinal work of putting that argument together.
After the FW outer house decision I had a conversation with @naomicunningham.bsky.social where she suggested the interpretation now essentially that argued by Sex Matters. At that point she was I think a lone voice. But review of the issues of interpretation makes her argument more & more compelling
November 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM
This gives me far too much credit. It was Maya Forstater who first persuaded me that there had to be a respectable argument that the GRA didn't stick its spanner into the works of the EqA; and @michaelpforan.bsky.social who did the detailed doctrinal work of putting that argument together.
This is fascinating to see.
I used to be of the "just read the words of s.9(1)" persuasion, too. I thought the consequences were repulsive, but I couldn't see a way around them.
I used to be of the "just read the words of s.9(1)" persuasion, too. I thought the consequences were repulsive, but I couldn't see a way around them.
He gets more than his fair share of abuse, we disagree often, but this piece by @michaelpforan.bsky.social is the best lawyering that I have read this week, in any field.
It is detailed, but changed my view on "What is a Woman" in law
knowingius.org/p/uk-supreme...
It is detailed, but changed my view on "What is a Woman" in law
knowingius.org/p/uk-supreme...
UK Supreme Court to decide "what is a woman?"
A detailed look at the arguments
knowingius.org
November 19, 2024 at 8:14 PM
This is fascinating to see.
I used to be of the "just read the words of s.9(1)" persuasion, too. I thought the consequences were repulsive, but I couldn't see a way around them.
I used to be of the "just read the words of s.9(1)" persuasion, too. I thought the consequences were repulsive, but I couldn't see a way around them.
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He gets more than his fair share of abuse, we disagree often, but this piece by @michaelpforan.bsky.social is the best lawyering that I have read this week, in any field.
It is detailed, but changed my view on "What is a Woman" in law
knowingius.org/p/uk-supreme...
It is detailed, but changed my view on "What is a Woman" in law
knowingius.org/p/uk-supreme...
UK Supreme Court to decide "what is a woman?"
A detailed look at the arguments
knowingius.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:47 PM
He gets more than his fair share of abuse, we disagree often, but this piece by @michaelpforan.bsky.social is the best lawyering that I have read this week, in any field.
It is detailed, but changed my view on "What is a Woman" in law
knowingius.org/p/uk-supreme...
It is detailed, but changed my view on "What is a Woman" in law
knowingius.org/p/uk-supreme...