Colin Lawson
@colindlawson
Physics/education/retired. Walking and small boat sailing. Cornwall, UK. Lifelong news and current affairs addict. North Utsire. South Utsire. Occasionally poor. Becoming good.
I suspect there are a lot of people, especially here on BlueSky, who are dreading Heather Herbert gaining publicity from a court case. Article source:
Or possibly due to his posts supporting Bash Back, who are apparently being investigated by the police.
We know from experience that almost the entire political and media class is willing to give the Conversion Practices Bill a critical thinking free pass. Sonia Sodha is one of the few exceptions.
Baroness Cass's speech. At age 11, the child is now confined to their room, too scared to go to school and suffering from weak bones due to inactivity. This has all the hallmarks of child abuse and a child protection disaster. Why didn't Cass mention that? How many professionals colluded in this?
As often noted, the battle for gender sanity is being won in tribunals, boardrooms, and courts, not at the doors of single-sex changing rooms or toilets. This latest decision by the European Court of Human Rights, summarised by Michael Foran, makes this clear:
Here is Alex Sobel MP making the same mistake. I think an objective observer would think that Dr Stephenson came across as professional and totally on top of her brief. The same could not be said for some of her questioners.
Below is what Ian Dunt said about Article 8 of the ECHR. Does he realise that Article 8 is a qualified right and women have it too? Ian says he watched the WESC grilling of Mary-Ann Stephenson, but if he had, he would have seen Alex Sobel make a fool of himself, making the same mistake.
You missed the point. University students and women are the most likely to be positive about transgender issues. If the most favourable group can only muster 50% support, it's hardly a ringing endorsement, nor is the trend over time.
A decisive majority of students disagree with males using women's changing rooms (and vice versa). Source: www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Michael Foran is the latest target of the "cancel culture" some people claim doesn't exist. By alienating everyone but its core supporters, the transgender movement is turbo-charging its own demise.
Hi Richard, here's another image from that same YouGov poll for Dec 2024. We can see that the results are so unambiguous that it doesn't matter how people identified. It's not international, but it cannot be dismissed as far as the UK is concerned.
Rob has used this quote from Michael Foran elsewhere, but doesn't seem to realise that it holds the solution to simplifying all his biological, legal and logical contortions.
The question is surely answered in the quote you already provided. Michael Foran goes into the historical detail here: bsky.app/profile/coli...
Yet more data showing that the majority of both men and women are in favour of keeping to existing norms, i.e. women's private spaces, sports and reserved occupations are for females only.
You didn't tell me if you accept paragraph 172. How the NHS solves this matter is a separate problem. First of all, we have to accept the law as it is.
It's not about belief, it's about the law. If you want to change the law, you need to lobby your MP. The NHS is indeed notorious for ignoring the law, as evidenced by the number of employment tribunals it has lost. Below is an extract from the latest such judgment (FayeRC v NHS).
Rob Burley's incredible insider account describes in detail what we already knew: the BBC has been hopelessly captured by the irrational and authoritarian transgender movement. archive.ph/2026.05.16-0...
If men who identify as female, like Roxanne Tickle below, feel uncomfortable or unsafe using male facilities, it is up to men to resolve this issue among themselves. Women should not be expected to feel uncomfortable or unsafe to accommodate a male problem that men have failed to address.
Today’s judgment in Giggle v Tickle confirms that women in Australia have no legal rights to single-sex spaces and services. The Sex Discrimination Act, which is supposed to protect women and girls, is a tool to punish women trying to offer female-only spaces.
It's ironic and amusing that Jolyon Maugham and the Good Law Project inadvertently provided one of the two instances of binding caselaw that helped win this judgment against the NHS.
NHS loses another case as the FayeRCTribunal finds the policy of permitting "trans women" to use female facilities was harassment in relation to sex & GC belief, & its trans equality procedure was harassment in relation to GC belief. Incorrect legal advice from trans advocacy groups was pivotal.
I'm not aware of threats of violence, and wasn't there. However, walking through masked protesters letting off flares, calling you a bigot, and demanding your dismissal, along with matching hostile posters, daily, would certainly feel threatening. Ironically, a movement >>>
Yes, true to form. Here's a sample - people wonder where the toxicity came from. Apart from being a successful author and one of Britain's top philanthropists, she is also a women's rights activist and supporter of progressive causes. Her sin? She speaks the truth & doesn't suffer fools gladly.
One by one, the medical organisations are recanting. Today, it is the BMA. "Cass had been “vindicated in the way she approached the data” & the union did not oppose a single recommendation".
A spokeswoman for Labour Women’s Declaration said the organisation is “delighted” by the permission to pursue a Judicial Review. She said: “Women were founders of the trade union movement and we still form the majority of trade union members, but for too long now unions have >>>
Police advised Kathleen Stock to stay off campus for her own safety in Oct 2021: