Mick Hartley

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the government really has no intention of publishing guidance on the Supreme Court single-sex spaces ruling. It’s the law, and Starmer is a stickler for the law, as we all know, but…well, it’s just too inconvenient to alienate all his backbenchers and all the Stonewall-trained bureaucrats, so he’ll continue to do nothing for as long as possible. It’s the Starmer way.

The latest, from the Telegraph:

English courts are still allowing biological men to use women’s toilets in defiance of a Supreme Court ruling.

Eight months on from a landmark judgment that trans women are not women under equalities law, HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has still not updated its rules on the use of ladies’ facilities.

Its operations director told Sex Matters, the women’s rights group, that it was “reviewing relevant internal policies” but would not change anything until guidance was published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

Maya Forstater, the Sex Matters chief executive, said it was “absurd” that of all public bodies, the courts were flouting the ruling and putting women at risk of “finding themselves in an enclosed space alongside men who identify as trans”.

The EHRC pointed out that the English courts should, along with other public bodies, be following the law even though the Government was refusing to publish its guidance.

If even English courts are ignoring the law, then we really are in trouble.