Janet Black
@servalan.bsky.social
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18/ Counsel therefore submits that the old Code does not express a view on the question addressed in Scottish Ministers, so the Supreme Court judgment has no bearing on the continued correctness of the old Code.
He also referred to Lord Hodge’s interview with the press.
He also referred to Lord Hodge’s interview with the press.
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
18/ Counsel therefore submits that the old Code does not express a view on the question addressed in Scottish Ministers, so the Supreme Court judgment has no bearing on the continued correctness of the old Code.
He also referred to Lord Hodge’s interview with the press.
He also referred to Lord Hodge’s interview with the press.
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13/ He says the Supreme Court did not seek to determine “whether women’s rights trump trans rights”, nor the wider policy question of whether trans people should be treated with reference to “biological sex”.
Indeed, the Supreme Court was anxious about how the judgment might be read in that way.
Indeed, the Supreme Court was anxious about how the judgment might be read in that way.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
13/ He says the Supreme Court did not seek to determine “whether women’s rights trump trans rights”, nor the wider policy question of whether trans people should be treated with reference to “biological sex”.
Indeed, the Supreme Court was anxious about how the judgment might be read in that way.
Indeed, the Supreme Court was anxious about how the judgment might be read in that way.
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7/ Stilitz says the guidance, to an average reader, like a pub landlord or employer, concerns how different toilet access arrangements may “pan out”. And says the guidance mandate both direct and indirect discrimination against trans people.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
7/ Stilitz says the guidance, to an average reader, like a pub landlord or employer, concerns how different toilet access arrangements may “pan out”. And says the guidance mandate both direct and indirect discrimination against trans people.
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Brainworms. 🙄
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Brainworms. 🙄
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Back in the studio, although the discussion was about racism, Glasman turned it about trans rights ‘activists’ and ‘single sex spaces’.
We always knew that Blue Labour was problematic, but it’s now unambiguously clear that he is the driving force behind the government’s attitude towards trans people
We always knew that Blue Labour was problematic, but it’s now unambiguously clear that he is the driving force behind the government’s attitude towards trans people
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Back in the studio, although the discussion was about racism, Glasman turned it about trans rights ‘activists’ and ‘single sex spaces’.
We always knew that Blue Labour was problematic, but it’s now unambiguously clear that he is the driving force behind the government’s attitude towards trans people
We always knew that Blue Labour was problematic, but it’s now unambiguously clear that he is the driving force behind the government’s attitude towards trans people
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Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour, on Newsnight, when talking about the government:
“I don’t want it to be a progressive force, we’ve got to be a strong patriotic force”
When asked what he meant by ‘progressive’:
“It’s a way of looking at the world, where men are women..”
Now we know…
“I don’t want it to be a progressive force, we’ve got to be a strong patriotic force”
When asked what he meant by ‘progressive’:
“It’s a way of looking at the world, where men are women..”
Now we know…
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour, on Newsnight, when talking about the government:
“I don’t want it to be a progressive force, we’ve got to be a strong patriotic force”
When asked what he meant by ‘progressive’:
“It’s a way of looking at the world, where men are women..”
Now we know…
“I don’t want it to be a progressive force, we’ve got to be a strong patriotic force”
When asked what he meant by ‘progressive’:
“It’s a way of looking at the world, where men are women..”
Now we know…
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Excellent thread, quality journalism. 'Leadership' at the BBC seem to conflate independence with treating all opinions as valid. Their charter states they must act in the public interest. You can't act in the public interest if you're not exposing the truth and its actual/likely consequences.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Excellent thread, quality journalism. 'Leadership' at the BBC seem to conflate independence with treating all opinions as valid. Their charter states they must act in the public interest. You can't act in the public interest if you're not exposing the truth and its actual/likely consequences.
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Banksy painted it. They scrubbed it off and now, they're hiding it.
So let’s make sure it’s everywhere.💥
Get or gift a t-shirt from our shop now ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/cf4c52
So let’s make sure it’s everywhere.💥
Get or gift a t-shirt from our shop now ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/cf4c52
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Banksy painted it. They scrubbed it off and now, they're hiding it.
So let’s make sure it’s everywhere.💥
Get or gift a t-shirt from our shop now ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/cf4c52
So let’s make sure it’s everywhere.💥
Get or gift a t-shirt from our shop now ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/cf4c52
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All that Q stuff about how the Democrats were all paedophiles was, in fact, a self-admission. It appears that Epstein is saying that Trump spent hours with one of his underage girls*. We knew Trump was a sexual offender but this is worse. But will it matter to the far right GOP?! Also Wolff is over.
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
All that Q stuff about how the Democrats were all paedophiles was, in fact, a self-admission. It appears that Epstein is saying that Trump spent hours with one of his underage girls*. We knew Trump was a sexual offender but this is worse. But will it matter to the far right GOP?! Also Wolff is over.
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A careful, and compelling analysis, of how the Equality Act operates post the awful Supreme Court decision, from the woman who guided the Act through Parliament. www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-e...
Does the Equality Act ban trans women from women's services?
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers (FWS) on 16 April this year that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 (EA2010) means biological sex, there has been si...
www.linkedin.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A careful, and compelling analysis, of how the Equality Act operates post the awful Supreme Court decision, from the woman who guided the Act through Parliament. www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-e...
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Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
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Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court.
This is only one step in a long battle. But we’re ready to fight it.
Our team is in court and we’ll let you know as soon as the court reaches a decision.
This is only one step in a long battle. But we’re ready to fight it.
Our team is in court and we’ll let you know as soon as the court reaches a decision.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court.
This is only one step in a long battle. But we’re ready to fight it.
Our team is in court and we’ll let you know as soon as the court reaches a decision.
This is only one step in a long battle. But we’re ready to fight it.
Our team is in court and we’ll let you know as soon as the court reaches a decision.
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We are in court today!
"We have been inundated with stories about the devastating impact this guidance has had on the lives of trans and intersex people. The EHRC suggests this claim is now ‘academic’ because it has withdrawn its guidance – but the effects are lingering and appalling.”
"We have been inundated with stories about the devastating impact this guidance has had on the lives of trans and intersex people. The EHRC suggests this claim is now ‘academic’ because it has withdrawn its guidance – but the effects are lingering and appalling.”
⚖️ HEARING UNDERWAY ⚖️
Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court.
https://goodlaw.social/gf1s
Our challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance has begun in the High Court.
https://goodlaw.social/gf1s
We’re taking on the EHRC interim guidance in court
After more than six months of disruption unleashed by the EHRC’s guidance, we’re arguing at the High Court that it is legally flawed.
goodlaw.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
We are in court today!
"We have been inundated with stories about the devastating impact this guidance has had on the lives of trans and intersex people. The EHRC suggests this claim is now ‘academic’ because it has withdrawn its guidance – but the effects are lingering and appalling.”
"We have been inundated with stories about the devastating impact this guidance has had on the lives of trans and intersex people. The EHRC suggests this claim is now ‘academic’ because it has withdrawn its guidance – but the effects are lingering and appalling.”
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We are watching closely 👀
The Minister's position in her skeleton argument (published by GLP below) makes for very interesting reading.
goodlawproject.org/wp-content/u...
The Minister's position in her skeleton argument (published by GLP below) makes for very interesting reading.
goodlawproject.org/wp-content/u...
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We are watching closely 👀
The Minister's position in her skeleton argument (published by GLP below) makes for very interesting reading.
goodlawproject.org/wp-content/u...
The Minister's position in her skeleton argument (published by GLP below) makes for very interesting reading.
goodlawproject.org/wp-content/u...
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
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What Streeting did to trans people, he'd do to every other marginalised, disenfranchised & down on their luck group in Britain.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What Streeting did to trans people, he'd do to every other marginalised, disenfranchised & down on their luck group in Britain.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
I keep going back to Judith Butler: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’.
Streeting operates within a fascist logic.
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1/🧵 Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update” (Day 1 of 2)
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
1/🧵 Today at 10:30am, High Court in London, Court 1, before Mr Justice Swift, R (Good Law Project, on the application of) v Equality and Human Rights Commission, a rolled-up hearing for judicial review of EHRC’s “interim update” (Day 1 of 2)
No live reporting, sorry.
No live reporting, sorry.
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This is the kicker - the "Puberty blockers study under investigation" headline which kicked off reams of coverage elsewhere was entirely concocted, because it was the *journalists themselves* who forced the investigation to happen. The investigation found nothing wrong, but by then it was too late.
The ultimate twist is that 'gender critical' activist-journalists, Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes, reported the study to the HRA themselves!
The HRA was required to open an investigation because they’d received a report... which gave the Newsnight duo the shocking headline they desired.
The HRA was required to open an investigation because they’d received a report... which gave the Newsnight duo the shocking headline they desired.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is the kicker - the "Puberty blockers study under investigation" headline which kicked off reams of coverage elsewhere was entirely concocted, because it was the *journalists themselves* who forced the investigation to happen. The investigation found nothing wrong, but by then it was too late.
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What a surprise-after posting yesterday that there was very little about Prescott or Hanover Communications online, @bylinetimes.bsky.social have been doing some digging and guess what? The so called independent advisor to the BBC is anything but…
🔴 The Pro-Trump Bias of the ‘Neutral’ Sources in the Leaked BBC ‘Prescott Dossier’
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan, Trump-aligned organisations.
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan, Trump-aligned organisations.
@nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p...
The Pro-Trump Bias of the 'Neutral' Sources in the Leaked BBC 'Prescott Dossier'
Byline Times’ analysis of key sources in the memo about the BBC’s alleged ‘progressive bias’ shows it relied on highly partisan right-wing, Trump-aligned organisations
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What a surprise-after posting yesterday that there was very little about Prescott or Hanover Communications online, @bylinetimes.bsky.social have been doing some digging and guess what? The so called independent advisor to the BBC is anything but…
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I might take on another business venture, parental controls for smartphones. I just know too much about this problem space and can command trust not to build something bad.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I might take on another business venture, parental controls for smartphones. I just know too much about this problem space and can command trust not to build something bad.
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Gender Critics start to realise they got exactly the consequences they should have foreseen, and throw a strop. Oh dear.
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Gender Critics start to realise they got exactly the consequences they should have foreseen, and throw a strop. Oh dear.
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1/🧵 Much of the progress for LGBT+ rights in the 2010s came from powerful individuals and billionaires who had gay sons. They supported gay marriage largely to protect their inheritance.
As soon as it was achieved, the same so-called “allies” began funding anti-trans campaigns.
As soon as it was achieved, the same so-called “allies” began funding anti-trans campaigns.
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
1/🧵 Much of the progress for LGBT+ rights in the 2010s came from powerful individuals and billionaires who had gay sons. They supported gay marriage largely to protect their inheritance.
As soon as it was achieved, the same so-called “allies” began funding anti-trans campaigns.
As soon as it was achieved, the same so-called “allies” began funding anti-trans campaigns.
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How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
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"How many trans people have you seen on the BBC in the last 5 years?"
"How many trans kids/families have thanked you for getting the Tavistock closed down?"
"Name me one Olympic medal winning trans athlete"
Simple questions, all with the same answer, yet never asked.
"How many trans kids/families have thanked you for getting the Tavistock closed down?"
"Name me one Olympic medal winning trans athlete"
Simple questions, all with the same answer, yet never asked.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
"How many trans people have you seen on the BBC in the last 5 years?"
"How many trans kids/families have thanked you for getting the Tavistock closed down?"
"Name me one Olympic medal winning trans athlete"
Simple questions, all with the same answer, yet never asked.
"How many trans kids/families have thanked you for getting the Tavistock closed down?"
"Name me one Olympic medal winning trans athlete"
Simple questions, all with the same answer, yet never asked.
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If you want to read more about how BBC Newsnight actively worked as agents of anti-trans propaganda - platforming misinformation and working as a lobby platform to influence anti-trans policies - you can read more from the excellent @simonwhitten.bsky.social here:
👉 archive.is/Z8deW
👉 archive.is/Z8deW
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you want to read more about how BBC Newsnight actively worked as agents of anti-trans propaganda - platforming misinformation and working as a lobby platform to influence anti-trans policies - you can read more from the excellent @simonwhitten.bsky.social here:
👉 archive.is/Z8deW
👉 archive.is/Z8deW