Mick Hartley

The Telegraph – Phillipson blocks trans rules protecting safe spaces for women:

Bridget Phillipson is blocking the publication of trans guidance that would force business and public bodies to protect women-only spaces.

The Women and Equalities Secretary has given a statement to the High Court describing the proposed rules as “trans-exclusive” and has failed to sign them off more than three months after receiving them.

She’s looking over her shoulder at Labour’s back-bench trans supporters.

In her High Court submission, Ms Phillipson says that banning transgender women – biological males – from women’s lavatories would also mean women could not take their “infant sons” into changing rooms at swimming pools.

Oh ffs. Grasping at straws. She’s looking for any excuse to delay.

However, more than eight months after the court decision, Ms Phillipson has still not rubber-stamped the EHRC’s guidance. Sources told The Telegraph that she had insisted on additional bureaucratic processes that have held approval up.

Because of the delay, hospitals, businesses and other public facilities are doing nothing to prevent biological males from using women’s loos and changing rooms.…

Claire Coutinho, the shadow minister for equalities, said: “Government lawyers – working under Bridget Phillipson’s instruction – are trying to rewrite the Supreme Court judgment that sex means biological sex. It is clear that they have no intention of complying with the law or implementing the ruling to make sure women’s rights to single-sex spaces are protected.

“The minister’s arguments would be laughable if they weren’t so dangerous. Calling for sex-based rights on a case-by-case basis to try and appease radical gender activists in her own party is a betrayal of women and girls everywhere. Whether it’s this court case or failing to publish the EHRC’s draft code of practice, the Government is doing everything it can to deny women the right to single-sex spaces.”