With the revised Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations finally coming into force tomorrow, it’s time for another traffic update from the Road to Nowhere.

As noted in previous traffic updates, following the Supreme Court’s landmark April 2025 ruling in the case of For Women Scotland, four pro-trans pressure 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 Supreme Court ruling by scuppering the EHRC’s consultation on associated further revisions to the then draft Code of Practice, and by otherwise making a legal nuisance of themselves.

However, despite having since crowdfunded a combined total of more than £892,600 from the ‘trans community’ and its allies to fund their thrilling road trips to Nowhere, none of them have got very far. And, from tomorrow, the revised Code of Practice is statutory guidance. So, game over.

Except that … having failed to scupper the EHRC’s consultation on and delivery of a revised Code of Practice, at least some of the pro-trans pressure groups now seem set on trying to bring a legal challenge to the statutory guidance. And first out of the blocks were TransLucent, who have already crowdfunded almost £39,000 in support of their nascent attempt to seek a judicial review in the High Court.

TransLucent’s solicitors, the law firm Russell-Cooke, sent a letter before action to both the EHRC and equalities minister Bridget Phillipson on 3 July. However, at the time of writing TransLucent have not yet published either that letter or any response, so it is questionable whether the more than 700 donors to the crowdfunder have been provided with the material information they would have needed to make an informed decision about whether or not to donate (and, if so, how much).

Meanwhile, since 14 July, when Bridget Phillipson signed the commencement order that brings the revised Code of Practice into force as statutory guidance tomorrow, the Good Law Project have been able to sit back and enjoy that clear setback for ‘trans rights’ generating a new wave of more than 1,000 donations, totalling some £26,700, to their crowdfunder in support of their attempt to appeal the legal kicking they were given by the High Court in February. For the GLP, it seems, every setback has a silver lining.

Indeed, the twin setbacks to the stated legal objectives of the GLP’s original, crowdfunded High Court challenge to the EHRC’s consultation process and Interim Update – the first on 21 May, when Phillipson finally laid the revised Code of Practice in Parliament, and the second on 14 July, when she signed the commencement order – have boosted their appeal crowdfunder from a relatively modest £55,878 on 21 May, to £105,778. Ker-ching!

Anyway, if you are a midwit looking for an easy way to dispose of your spare cash, stand by for the next traffic update from the Road to Nowhere. Because, these days, crowdfunders in support of transgenderism-related lawfare are like the proverbial buses, and there will most likely be another two or three along in a minute.

Update, 5 August: Well, as anticipated, this morning the Good Law Project launched their new crowdfunder in support of a similarly nascent attempt to seek a judicial review of the statutory guidance in the High Court. Acting on behalf of the GLP, the law firm Leigh Day sent a letter before action to both the EHRC and Angela Rayner, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, on 28 July. And, unlike TransLucent, the GLP have published that letter.

Meanwhile, TransLucent have labelled today The Labour Party’s Day of Shame:

Anyway, spare a thought for all the midwits who support trans, as they now have to decide whether to donate to the GLP’s crowdfunder in support of their attempt to appeal to the Court of Appeal, or TransLucent’s crowdfunder in support of their attempt to seek a judicial review of the new EHRC statutory guidance in the High Court, or the GLP’s crowdfunder in support of their attempt to seek a judicial review of the new EHRC statutory guidance in the High Court. Or to all three!

In case it’s any help, here’s my updated table, showing these and other donating options (both TransLucent and the GLP have two other open crowdfunders in support of their attempt to undo the Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland.) Just take care the next time you’re at the cinema in Godalming on a wet Tuesday evening.

Update, 9 August: In an update to their crowdfunder, TransLucent say that they have now received responses to their letter before action from both the EHRC and equalities minister Bridget Phillipson, and that they expect to file their claim in the High Court “in the coming weeks”. However, being TransLucent, not TransParent, they haven’t (yet) published those responses.

Meanwhile, the total sum crowdfunded by the pro-trans pressure groups in support of their efforts to demonstrate that they, not the judges of the Supreme Court, know the law best is now just short of £920,000, and seems set to pass £1 million long before the proposed litigation concludes.