Category Archives: Sex & Gender

Jolyon v the BBC: Dream Attack

Posted on November 19, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

(with apologies to New Order) Is it really such a sin‘Cause if it is then I’ll give in So, has the BBC been “attacking trans people”? Has the BBC “quite consciously set out to demean and belittle trans people”? Well, … Continue reading →

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Jolyon v the EHRC, biological reality, and the rule of law

Posted on November 10, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

We have a hearing in the High Court on 12 and 13 November. The EHRC has already substantially rolled back on where it was and, I think, is in some trouble. [It] has betrayed its responsibilities to safeguard minoritised groups, … Continue reading →

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Bridget the Moral Midget

Posted on November 3, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

(With apologies to Ray Stevens) Well, come on, everybody, have you heard the news? Women & Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson is in town, and – having already lost the Labour Party deputy leadership election – she’s now lost her moral … Continue reading →

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Good Law Project, or Good Lie Project?

Posted on October 22, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

On Tuesday afternoon, Jolyon Maugham KC’s band of sunshine, the Good Law Project, posted on both X/Twitter and Bluesky: The EHRC has removed its interim guidance on the Supreme Court ruling on gender. But this guidance is what Virgin Active … Continue reading →

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Q: When is a law firm not a law firm? A: When it’s the Trans Legal Clinic

Posted on September 29, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

Note: First posted on 29 September, this post was periodically revised and updated, until 26 October. Further developments will be addressed in future posts. As documented elsewhere on this blog, one of the several performative and doomed legal challenges to … Continue reading →

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Mananadrama: the ongoing Supreme Court lawfare of five male drama queens

Posted on September 5, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

Note: First posted on 5 September, this post was periodically revised and updated, until 20 October. Further developments will be addressed in future posts. As first reported in the Times, on 5 September the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) … Continue reading →

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Funny money: The one in which Patsy Stevenson gives Angry Dad KC a helping hand

Posted on July 1, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

Back in October 2022, when Jolyon ‘Angry Dad’ Maugham KC and his (Not Very) Good Law Project were still using Crowdjustice to host their crowdfunders, I reported on this blog the strange case of the GLP’s crowdfunder in support of … Continue reading →

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Taking liberties: the Supreme Court lawfare of TransLucent, the Good Law Project, Liberty, and the Trans Legal Clinic

Posted on June 27, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

Note: First published on 27 June, this post was regularly updated until 31 August. Now that the EHRC has submitted its revised Code of Practice to the Minister for approval, further developments in the various legal challenges documented below will … Continue reading →

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Select Committee, select nonsense

Posted on June 12, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

Social media is currently host to a number of quite astonishing clips from the Parliament TV recording of yesterday’s two-hour oral evidence session of the Trans+ Rights Select Committee of MPs, supposedly on the work of the Equality & Human … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court ruling, supreme court grifting

Posted on June 2, 2025 by wonkypolicywonk

Note: this post was revised and updated on 10, 17 and 24 June, and again on 1 July, in light of relevant developments and new information For several weeks now, there have been not one, not two, but three separate … Continue reading →

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