With the 40-day period for Parliament to review the revised EHRC Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations that Bridget ‘moral midget’ Phillipson finally laid before Parliament on 21 May having expired last week, Phillipson is now expected to shortly issue the necessary commencement order indicating when the Code of Practice will come into force. So it’s time for another traffic update from the Road to Nowhere.

Following the Supreme Court’s momentous April 2025 ruling 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 more than £825,000 from the so-called ‘trans community’ and its allies to fund their road trips, they haven’t got very far.

Last summer, the once respected Liberty didn’t even get to Junction 2 on the Road to Nowhere 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 crowdfunded to the EHRC. And, 15 months on from the Supreme Court ruling, TransLucent are still yet to do anything at all with the £36,672 they have raised to date.

Literally no one has donated to the first of TransLucent’s two crowfunders since July last year, and the crowdfunder’s text has never been updated, yet it remains open to new donations from any passing midwits. And pretty much the only people 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 in early November – are trans-identifying business owner Simona Berry, who donates £50 every month, and trans activist Daniel Hibbs-Woodings, who donates £5 every month.

As for the Trans Legal Clinic, led by fashion icon Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and instagram celebrity Mx Oscar ‘dying swan‘ Davies of Garden Court Chambers, they 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. And last month, without explanation, they closed their in-house crowdfunder, despite having raised less than 20% of their target of £150,000. Maybe their clown car has failed its MoT.

In June 2025, the Trans Legal Clinic was awarded a grant of £225,000 for ‘premises costs’ by the Three Guineas Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, and in August 2025 it was awarded a further grant of £445,000 for ‘core costs’ by the same Trust. Yet neither of these grants appears in the Trans Legal Clinic’s accounts and trustees’ annual report for the year ending 31 August 2025, submitted to and published by the Charity Commission on 30 June, which reports total income of £140,998 (seemingly including an unrestricted grant of £10,000 from the Three Guineas Trust in April 2025), and total expenditure of £14,238.

Furthermore, despite these Three Guineas Trust grants (totalling £680,000) in April, June and August 2025, as well as a £5,000 donation from the Good Law Project in September 2025, and funding from the Kings Community Fund (a student-led initiative administered by the King’s College London Students Union), the ‘Get Help’ section of the Trans Legal Clinic’s website has, since May 2025, stated that the Clinic is, well, unable to offer any legal help to anyone it wasn’t already helping at the time of the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland. Increasingly steep incline, innit.

Maybe the Trans Legal Clinic hasn’t yet actually received those Three Guineas Trust grants of £225,000 and £445,000. However, given that, as of 31 August 2025, they were sitting on a tidy surplus of £126,760 – almost nine times their total expenditure of just £14,238 over the previous 12 months – you’d think they might have found a way to make their legal help available to at least some of those in need of it since then. Or maybe they’ve just forgotten to update the ‘Get Help’ section of their website.

Meanwhile, the Good Law Project, led by the Bar’s greatest free speech champion and turd polisher, Jolyon Maugham KC, have now raised more than £740,000 from their 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 (so far) is a legal spanking by the High Court in February, and a £300,000 bill from the EHRC for legal costs.

In total, then, the Good Law Project, TransLucent, Liberty and the Trans Legal Clinic have so far crowdfunded more than £825,000 from the ‘trans community’ and its allies to fund their no doubt thrilling but so far utterly pointless road race to Nowhere.

Six years ago, in a comment piece headed “Is crowdfunding the next mis-selling scandal?“, Maugham himself highlighted two fundamental problems with lawyers crowdfunding their own lawfare: “the lack of a client interest to act as counterweight to that of the lawyers, and the success of the exercise being contingent on a thriving crowdfunding page”. And he warned:

The [crowdfunders] that succeed are typically those which most closely align what are said to be their legal objectives with the policy ambitions of a particular audience. This creates a clear moral hazard around mis-selling litigation or over-promising on prospects. Who protects the interests of donors? Who keeps the lawyers honest?

Given the news from the Road to Nowhere, Maugham seems to have had a point.

They can tell you what to do
But they’ll make a fool of you
It’s not alright, baby, it’s not alright