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The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project

“This is a moment that requires bravery. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand” – @jessothomson.co.uk
https://bit.ly/44CyMa3

One of the first cases following the Supreme Court’s decision on the definition of sex under the Equality Act has found it didn’t decide which changing room a trans person should use.

Reflections on the Peggie case by a specialist discrimination law KC:
https://goodlaw.social/32xs

Police look into claims Reform UK broke electoral law in Farage campaign Party denies councillor’s claim it falsely reported expenses during Farage’s run to become Clacton MP last year

The MP for Clacton should probably spend some more time in his constituency... but did he spend too much money getting elected?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/08/nigel-farage-reform-uk-election-spending-clacton-expenses

That’s strange – we’ll look into it!

I've just used the Good Law project website to send emails to my three local NHS Trusts about them giving Palantir access to NHS data.
It's really easy to do

Screenshot of a paragraph from the judgment, with the final sentence highlighted: “797. After that comment the court explained that a person with gender reassignment as a protected characteristic could pursue a claim of direct or indirect discrimination, or of harassment, if the circumstances so warranted. There was no qualification to it to the effect that that was not applicable in, for example, the context of a single sex space under Part 5 of the Act. If their decision had been that all trans persons must be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets for the sex they identify with because it was not the sex assigned at birth, and may also be excluded from the changing rooms or toilets of their biological sex, that in our view certainly does impact on their rights under section 7.”

Today’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie case says exactly what we have been saying – For Women Scotland does not require a trans bathroom ban:

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Its founder openly despises the NHS.

You can push back: use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir
https://goodlaw.social/658abc

Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say Fifteen organisations sign letter expressing deep concern over EHRC guidance being considered by ministers

“Mental health services should be places of refuge, not risk, and equality protections must strengthen, not erode, the conditions that enable people to feel safe and supported.”

Mental health charities have warned Bridget Phillipson about the upcoming EHRC guidance:
https://bit.ly/3Y0y2YB

“What do I do now for a home? I'm homeless.”

Hemsby is collapsing to the climate crisis and government inaction. Yet the people who did the least to cause this are paying the price. We're taking legal action to force Starmer to step up:
https://goodlaw.social/h5ik

TalkTV: Ofcom bows to pressure | Good Law Project We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.

Ofcom has reversed course. After dismissing complaints about Rupert Murdoch’s transphobic TalkTV, the regulator will now be launching an investigation into the rightwing broadcaster 🔎
https://goodlaw.social/ycba

X is not above the law

❌ Illegal
❌ Against X’s own terms of service
❌ Allowed to proliferate on the platform

We shouldn’t have to do their own job for them – but X are sitting back and letting illegal content stay on their platform. We’re challenging that:
https://goodlaw.social/6pw6

Graphic stating 'More than 1/4 of police forces in England and Wales still haven't implemented basic policies for investigating sexual offenses.' Cites The Angiolini Inquiry Part 2: First Report Prevention of sexually motivated crimes against women in public as the source.

Over 1 in 4 of police forces in England and Wales still haven’t implemented basic policies for investigating sexual offences.

That’s why we’re supporting Nina Cresswell to hold the police force that failed her to task:
https://goodlaw.social/4w3n

Who’s on your naughty and nice list this year? 🎁

If Farage falls under “naughty,” why not take it up a notch and send him a festive lump of coal? 👀 👇
https://goodlaw.social/62ba90

Screenshot of Good Law Project & Just Treatment’s tool, reading: “Is your local NHS trust using Palantir’s software? Enter your postcode”

Is your local NHS trust using Palantir software?

Find out with our easy tool – then tell them what you think about it:
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/&utm-source=Bluesky&utm_campaign=no-palantir-nhs&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=05-12-2025

Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.

The Supreme Court only ruled on whether people with a GRC count as women under the Equality Act.

You have to be 18 to get a GRC.

But the Guides say they’re kicking out trans girls – under 18s – as a result. It doesn’t track. So why are they doing it?
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx

Thank you so much, Robin 🤍

Statement from Jolyon Maugham KC: Police report | Good Law Project Concerning the report of a potential criminal offence

Concerning the report of a potential criminal offence:
https://goodlaw.social/yzmp

Nigel Farage urged to sack Reform council leader accused of racism Party is investigating Ian Cooper as Labour MPs call for him to resign as leader of Staffordshire county council

What is it about Nigel Farage’s Reform UK that seems to attract *so many* people like this?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/04/nigel-farage-urged-to-sack-ian-cooper-reform-council-leader-accused-of-racism

Women like Nina Cresswell need a justice system they can rely on – not one that brushes them aside.

To support this case please donate ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/4w3n

Is the shady new polling firm run by Farage’s fixer doing any polling? | Good Law Project Convicted fraudster George Cottrell, Nigel Farage’s right-hand man, has launched a polling company, but we can’t find any staff, any media coverage, or much polling data. So is it just a vehicle for d...

We reported on Cottrell’s polling doings – or who knows what he was doings? – over the summer:
goodlawproject.org/is-the-shady...

Key aide to Nigel Farage was frontman for Premier League billionaire’s betting syndicate, lawsuit claims Exclusive: George Cottrell ‘gave control’ of gambling accounts to syndicate headed by Tony Bloom, the owner of Brighton & Hove Albion FC

We see George Cottrell’s back in the news...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/02/key-aide-to-nigel-farage-was-frontman-for-premier-league-billionaires-betting-syndicate-lawsuit-claims

Contact us if you have been affected by the policy changes of Girl Guiding or the Women's Institute. This could be as an individual, or because you lead a local Brownie group who don't want this policy change. We want to help protect trans inclusion.

goodlawproject.org/about/contact/

"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.”

What does this do for women's rights?

Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.

There's not much left of the rule of law if organisations can be financially bullied into not asserting their legal rights. goodlaw.social/sb50

Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.

Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive:
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx

Thames Water half-year profit leaps to more than £400m after it raises bills by third Debt-ridden utility warns of ‘material uncertainty’ with potential for a rapid collapse despite profit rise

“A collapse into government control under a special administration regime (SAR) – a form of temporary nationalisation – ‘could occur in the very near term’”

It should’ve happened at the start!
https://bit.ly/3MfTFBp

Football abuse: Premier League and WSL stars targeted by death and rape threats More than 2,000 extremely abusive social media posts were sent about managers and players in the Premier League and Women's Super League in a single weekend, a BBC investigation finds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4g98zkx518o

This is exactly why ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/6pw6

Wes Streeting insists that NHS health records are not for sale. But handing them to a company like Palantir shatters any chance of public trust, warns our data lead Duncan McCann:
https://goodlaw.social/i1o0

Thanks – is it working now?

Help Nina Cresswell stop the police failing women | Good Law Project

That’s why we’re supporting Nina to hold the police force that failed her to task.

Join us:
goodlaw.social/wukp