It was decisions taken by Truss and Badenoch that packed the Commission with transphobes - specifically the members of the Johnson Cabinet closest to the US Right. They both used screwing us as their path to the top.

Even in 2010, explicit transphobia was an extreme position.

It's significant that two of the most eminent senior judges - Hale and Sumption - who normally agree about very little -
warned against interpreting the FWS judgement in an overreaching way, something Starmer and Falkner instantly chose to ignore.

I did make a fuss about the dignity issue and was told by either Trevor Phillips or John Wadham - someone else may remember - that changing the phrase might upset the Daily Mail.

But OTOH we should have made more of a fuss.

Well, no, because it never occurred to anyone that a future Supreme Court would choose to ignore Goodwin Vs UK or everything said in Parliament about the effect of the GRA.

We were naive about the good faith of future judges.

There were robust arguments about the Bill's assumption that all pregnant people were cis women, but only because it was felt that this impacted the dignity of pregnant trans men and non-binary folk, not because it was seen as introducing cisnormative biological determinism or weakening trans rights

It's worth pointing out, yet again, that there were consultations in 2010 about the Equality Bill between the EHRC and representatives of the trans community, and the idea that it would ever be used to screw us over was not part of the discussion even when the Baird amendment was belatedly added.

OTOH there are a number of highly qualified trans lawyers who don't have my well-known and moderately scandalous past. Do I want a colossal target painted on my back in my old age and the Times and Telegraph writing editorials critiquing my love poetry?

Where the Shadows lie...

Isn't there a further story that Campbell published a story that got some details right, had his collar felt by the FBI and pointed out that any proceedings against him would be spotted as significant by any subscribers who were Abwehr agents?

Apparently Arthur C. Clarke's A FALL OF MOON DUST.

Apparently the Warren Commission Report lists his library borrowings and one of the main sceptics - I'm reading a rather good book on them- was also an SF reader and spotted a pattern.

I support Lucy because unlike Bridget she never told my MP in the House of Commons that after 40 years I should start using the Gents.

A vote for Bridget is a vote for cold-eyed bigotry.

Great movie. I once saw it in a late night double bill with Flesh Gordon (not a typo).

Is there any way former OU people can indicate support for him? It wasn't always a bastion of the Right: Tariq Ali was President at one point.

It's particularly relevant to a trans community regularly divided by purity politics and respectability politics on top of race and class and ageism and looksism

Essentially they are regarding children as their parents' property.

That works.

You know he left Vivie in a London asylum during the Blitz and wouldn't move her to somewhere safe?

I will show you fest in a handful of dust