Road to Nowhere: traffic update

So, with Bridget ‘moral midget’ Phillipson, allegedly the Minister for Women & Equalities, having finally laid before Parliament the revised EHRC code of practice for services, public functions and associations that the EHRC submitted to her almost nine months ago, it is time for a traffic update from the Road to Nowhere.

Following the Supreme Court’s momentous ruling on 16 April 2025 in the case of For Women Scotland, four transactivist groups – the Good Law Project, TransLucent, Liberty and the Trans Legal Clinic – jumped into their clown cars to race down the Road to Nowhere, where they hoped to undo the ruling by scuppering the EHRC’s consultation on the draft code of practice, and otherwise making a legal nuisance of themselves. But, despite crowdfunding a combined total of some £0.8 million from the so-called ‘trans community’ and its allies to fund their road trips, they haven’t got very far.

The Good Law Project, led by rape survivor and free speech champion Jolyon Maugham KC, have so far raised almost £714,000 from no fewer than four crowdfunders in support of their road trip, and three of those crowdfunders – including the most recent, launched in February – remain open to new donations. But all that they have achieved with that moolah is a proper drubbing in the High Court in February this year, and a £300,000 bill from the EHRC for legal costs.

Last summer, Liberty didn’t even get to Junction 2 before their road trip was brought to an end by the High Court and Court of Appeal, and they were ordered to hand all but £638 of the £20,638 they had raised to the EHRC. And, 13 months on from the Supreme Court ruling, TransLucent are still yet to do anything at all with the £36,467 they have so far raised from the ‘trans community’.

Literally no one has donated to the first of TransLucent’s two crowfunders since July last year, and pretty much the only person still donating to the second – launched that month in support of an attempt to intervene in legal action brought by Sex Matters that is now set to be heard by the High Court later this year – is Simona Berry, a trans-identifying business owner. Simona take a bow, and boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear.

Lastly, having so far crowdfunded £28,952, fashion icon Olivia Campbell-Cavendish, instagram celebrity Oscar ‘dying swan‘ Davies and the rest of the Trans Legal Clinic’s stellar legal team are still marooned in the gateway services, waiting to hear whether their clown car has permission from the European Court of Human Rights to even set out on the Road to Nowhere.

In total, then, the Good Law Project, TransLucent, Liberty and the Trans Legal Clinic have so far crowdfunded almost £800,000 from the ‘trans community’ and its allies to fund their no doubt thrilling but so far utterly pointless road race.

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