On July 8th there was a panel hosted by Mallory Moore (@Chican3ry), hosted on Twitter Spaces. It featured law graduate Jess O’Thompson (@disabledJess), Twitter “solicitor” Mia (@truesolicitor), Old Square Chambers Barrister Robin Moira White (@Robin_Moira) and a brief appearance by Good Law Project legal assistant, Jocelyn Price. To date, this…

In my recent Employment Tribunal case the term part-time crossdresser applied to Phillip “Pips” Bunce was judged to be “dismissive and uncomplimentary” (though not a justification for me to lose my job). It arose in this exchange about whether a conference panel involving Bunce and two other men should be…

This article by Jess O’Thomson has become the go-to analysis amongst trans rights activist lawyers of the most recent judgment in the Forstater case. It has been endorsed by Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project (a tax lawyer) as “an accurate analysis of the law” and by Simon Cox…

PRESS STATEMENT: MAYA FORSTATER’S VICTORY IN EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL: A WIN FOR FREE SPEECH AND SEX-BASED RIGHTS 6th July 2022: Maya Forstater, who took a claim for belief discrimination against her former employer, the Center for Global Development, has been vindicated by a ruling that she was unlawfully discriminated against by…

The Daily Mail has a story about Scout pride flag badges. There is a rainbow flag badge, a transgender flag badge, a lesbian flag badge, and a bisexual flag badge. .Criticising these badges might be seen as “homophobic”, “transphobic” and “going back to Section 28” or just being an outdated…

If you learnt that a man was gay, would that make you respect him more or less than if he was straight? What if you learnt that a woman is a lesbian, would you admire her more or less than you did before? Do you feel disgust about people who…

Ever since I went public about my case, there has been a background hum of misinformed online chatter by critics suggesting awful things I was said to have done, and hot takes on what my case stood for.

[Numbers in brackets refer to page numbers in the evidence bundle- where the document exists online it is replaced with a hyperlink — this is downloadble “mini-bundle” of the witness statement and all the evidence documents hyperlinked together] Screenshots and individual downloads of some of the key exhibits are included…

Last weekend I attended the FiLiA women’s rights conference held in Portsmouth. Inside women discussed how men sometimes are not who they say they are: loving husbands, caring fathers, enamoured boyfriends, dedicated sports coaches, trustworthy priests, respectful bosses, law-abiding police officers. And how, too often, institutions treat women and children…