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Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag! | Aditya Chakrabortty The PM wants to talk about patriotism when the issue that is really affecting people is the cost of living. If he doesn’t wise up, that dissonance will sink him, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrab...

This is good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fact it's asking what they want *more of* seems like it might be important.

Philosophy

We won!

Am thrilled to say that the High Court has refused EHRC's Landlord's application for an injunction against protestors outside the EHRC's offices.

Reasons to follow later.

Liberty launches legal action against EHRC over ‘unlawful’ Code of practice consultation - Liberty

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE:

We’re taking legal action against the UK’s equality watchdog, the EHRC

www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

We're bringing a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ A number of trans and intersex individuals have today begun a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ following the For Women, Scotland decision

Along with a man and a woman who are trans, and someone who is intersex, we are suing the EHRC and the Equalities Minister in respect of the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance.

In line with our transparency principles we are publishing the full 32 page legal letter. goodlaw.social/2ihj

@goodlawproject.org new guidance is great but it should be positive action under s158, not positive discrimination

We invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS.

*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.

This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.

Saw an article on here recently asking if we should worry about AI suffering. Think that skips a step. Can AI experience anything at all? Or, to put it another way (and with apologies to Nagel) "what is it like to be a ChatGPT?".

So, of course, I asked ChatGPT what it had to say about this.

There is zero legal basis to make that pronouncement. None at all. There is no moral basis to say anything of the sort. This is utterly reprehensible.

My god.

The court judgment only focused on the rights of trans people who hold GRCs.

This is a massive step beyond that - this is a Labour Government introducing a Bathroom Bill by the back door.

Which would make the current Labour government worse on LGBTQIA+ rights than any this millennium:

You could be a dick by mistake but to be a prick requires intention.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Don't forget Bobby Crunches! Invented squats.

"On the important issue of discrimination, Clause 9 makes it clear that a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act as a person of the acquired sex or gender. Once recognition has been granted, they will be able to claim the rights appropriate to that gender."

The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or gender." /1

Ruling on ‘woman’ definition at odds with UK Equality Act’s aim, says ex-civil servant Giving trans women same sex discrimination rights as biological women was ‘clear premise’, says key figure

NEW: Supreme court ruling on ‘woman’ at odds with UK Equality Act’s aim, says ex-civil servant who helped write the act - me with @libbybrooks.bsky.social 👇👇

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Well @hankgreen.bsky.social has changed the game. #connections

Trans women to be strip searched by male transport police after court ruling British Transport Police, the force that polices Britain's railways, is adopting an interim policy while it digests the Supreme Court's ruling that the definition of a "woman" under equality laws refe...

AFAICS there is **nothing** in yesterday's UK SC ruling that licenses or justifies this change of policy by the British Transport Police. (Though clearly the ruling is creating a space for all kinds of horrible behaviour, bullying, and poltical opportunism.)

Not an HR lawyer either but my first thought was a case to ECtHR on the basis the GRA has been undermined to such an extent that the Art 8 violations recognised in Goodwin have been reestablished.

If a GRC no longer changes your legal sex for the EA2010 surely the UK no longer has a proper legal mechanism for changing gender. Back to the days before the GRA and, as per ECtHR in Goodwin, in violation of the Art. 8 right to respect for private life.

This is wild. The GRA was brought in to address Art. 8 human rights issues identified by the ECtHR in Goodwin. Only had a quick read of the SCt judgement so far, but I can't see any consideration of whether this result could undermine that position. Am I missing something?

valid every day but especially today: love & strength to trans pals, you don't deserve all this shit being flung in your direction, here's to hoping these freaks find a new obsession soon and you can live your lives peacefully and happily x

UK supreme court rules legal definition of a woman excludes trans women The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.

Absolute solidarity with trans and non-binary individuals today. This is another blow to being recognised and accepted. It does nothing to protect anyone, but it does make lives harder and rights at more risk, for trans and non-binary individuals, yet again.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

The only community where the phrase "I couldn't give a flying fuck" is a personal attack.

Ah, I see! You work fast. Thank you for writing the article!