With the fab feminists at Sex Matters set to do battle in the High Court next week, against the fat cats of the City of London Corporation (usable reserves: £518.7 million), over the Hampstead Heath Ponds, it’s time for a quick 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 – Good Law Project, Liberty, TransLucent 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.

Because “transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism”. Or something.

However, despite having since crowdfunded a combined total of almost £969,000 from the ‘trans community’ and its allies to fund their thrilling road trips to Nowhere, none of them have got very far. Indeed, only two of them – Good Law Project and TransLucent – are still on the road.

Both Good Law Project and TransLucent applied to intervene in the case brought by Sex Matters that will be heard by the High Court next week. And, by this morning, TransLucent had, since July 2025, crowdfunded £26,792 from 768 midwits happy to swallow their wild assertion that Sex Matters’ legal challenge is based on “a narrow reading of the For Women Scotland judgment, [namely that] the Equality Act 2010 defines ‘woman’ solely by biological sex”.

Then, this afternoon, Mr Justice Linden granted TransLucent permission to intervene, on the basis that “the proposed legal submissions on behalf of TransLucent do seem to me to add to the arguments which are being put forward by the parties … I am also persuaded that the Court should receive evidence of the perspective of the organisation and the personal perspectives of trans users of the ponds through the witness statements which are sought to be adduced”. However, he refused Good Law Project permission to intervene, stating:

In contrast, the proposed legal submissions on behalf of GLP do not seem to me to add anything to what will be submitted by the parties and TransLucent … and I do not consider that the Court will be assisted by the numerous additional witness statements which GLP seek to adduce.

This slap in the face for Jolyon Maugham KC and his GLP follows swiftly on the Court of Appeal having thrown a large bucket of cold water over their attempt to appeal the legal spanking they were given in February, when the High Court comprehensively dismissed their supposedly swaggerdocious legal challenge to the EHRC’s Interim Update about the Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland. Though, as ever, there has since been a (financial) silver lining for the GLP, in the form of some 725 new donations, totalling more than £30,000, to their previously moribund crowdfunder in support of their appeal.

Meanwhile, both GLP and TransLucent have yet to file a High Court claim in their proposed legal challenges to the new EHRC Code of Practice, in force as statutory guidance since 5 August. And yet, despite this lack of action, between them, they’ve already crowdfunded a total of £79,420. Ker-ching!

So you could always even things up a bit by donating to Sex Matters’ crowdfunder.