Mick Hartley

Tom Harris in the Telegraph on Bridget Phillipson’s reluctance to enforce the Supreme Court ruling:

“Trans people must not be used as a political punchbag,” she said recently. What is obvious from her few public comments on the subject is that the minister has fallen into the trap so neatly set for her by trans activists and their powerful and well-funded lobbying organisations. She has become convinced that the Supreme Court ruling was not about women after all, but was about trans people, particularly those men who identify as women.

She seems, based on her comments, to have given little consideration to women and girls whose right to privacy and security away from the presence and sight of biological males should be her top priority.

Her reluctance to enforce the law has already had consequences. Employment tribunals have upheld the rights of men who identify as women to continue using women’s changing rooms at their workplaces in an apparent conflict with what we now know the Equality Act says. Meanwhile Phillipson sits gazing at the EHRC guidelines on the use of single-sex spaces, desperately worried about how all this will affect that most marginalised and vulnerable community – men.