Mick Hartley

This is sure to go well. From the Times:

A senior civil servant being recruited to lead the government’s implementation of the Supreme Court ruling on single sex spaces will also be expected to make it easier for people to legally change their gender, it can be revealed.

The job, which has been advertised by the Office for Equality and Opportunity, part of the Cabinet Office, is to “lead on the government’s response to the recent Supreme Court ruling” and also oversee reforms to the Gender Recognition Act….

The official in charge of leading the government’s response will be employed by the LGBT+ policy team, rather than the women’s policy team, a decision that raised concerns among colleagues over impartiality.

One civil servant said: “It’s disgraceful that applying the law which is explicitly about sex and women’s rights is yet again being sucked into the LGBT+ space. Locating the policy development within a totally captured unit feels like a wilful attempt by the civil service to minimise the impact of the Supreme Court ruling on our public services.”

Another said: “This is unfortunate given [the unit] has the ear of equality ministers and a co-ordinating role across government on equality issues, often setting the requirements that other departments must adhere to.

“Many staff in this department are not impartial, due to their extreme beliefs in gender identity and denial that sex is real [or] relevant. Staff or other civil servants who disagree or who instead wish to comply with the law as it stands are silenced by the dominant view in the department.”

A couple of comments from the LGB Alliance's Kate Harris:

"How very predictable. The LGBT+ unit has long dismissed concerns from LGB Alliance and any others who object to their views on gender identity. They are unashamed about the promotion of "Stonewall Law" and are keen to demonstrate their allegiance to the cult by wearing "progress" and "pride" lanyards. Not one seems to have ever understood a single Nolan principle. A disgrace to the Civil Service."

"Of course the big question is why on earth is there an LGBT+ policy team at all in the Civil Service?

"First of all there is no link between LGB and whatever T means.

"And second – would the Office for Equality and Opportunity care to tell us what the + stands for? After the recent scandal at Surrey Pride it's clear that any group adding a + to its name must be very carefully vetted. It can mean anything.

"Let's start by closing the LGBT+ unit and opening up a new team dedicated to implementing the Supreme Court ruling without ideological interference from Stonewall or any other discredited LGBTQIA+ organisation."