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My Body Is Me was published in 2019 in the UK. Who could have foretold that this delightful inclusive book for kids would prompt such a vile campaign of bullying and vengeance? But it did.

This is really helpful from an expert in the area

We don't need genital inspections on access to female only services. We only need male people to respect the boundary.

“It is entirely possible to condemn the language and overreach of Trump’s executive orders on gender while also supporting the judgment in London. Women face discrimination, and so do transgender people, and the law can recognize that,” Helen Lewis writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

What gets me about this obvious misogyny is that no one at the top of the movement — trade unions, charities, big activists, politicians who speak at these rallies— ever condemns it. Even noticing it is treated as falling for a right wing trap.

“Can you imagine angry leftwing men railing against any other group that’s managed to secure their rights? Chastising them for not being gracious enough in victory? Me neither” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Maybe every generation has its witch-hunt, its Joe McCarthy era, when innocent people are denounced for unimaginably bizarre reasons, and we’ve now lived through ours” thetimes.com/comment/column…

I’m quoted in this Amy-Clare Martin piece, arguing that “It’s pretty shocking that successive governments have spent hundreds of millions a year on imprisoning people under a sentence the United Nations has described as a form of torture” independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Important point re: last week's Supreme Court decision on the meaning of sex in equality law. Several outlets are saying ‘The Court ruled that trans women with a GRC can be excluded from single-sex spaces if it is proportionate to do so’. This is not accurate.

Following the confected row about pre-sentence reports a few weeks’ ago, the government is pushing the Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-Sentence Reports) Bill through parliament New Commons Library briefing on what’s in it commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

“Asked by ITV West Country if he would repeat that trans women are women, Starmer replied... ‘A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear. I actually welcome the judgment because I think it gives real clarity’” theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

“Being punched in the face by a 6ft 4in 17-year-old probably feels very similar to being punched by a 6ft 4in adult” theguardian.com/society/2025/a…

I've written this about the For Women Scotland case, what it means for employers, and why there has been a system failure in the HR and legal sectors over the past decade. linkedin.com/pulse/women-sc…

Really useful interview with Akua Reindorf on the implications of the FWS judgment. Incidentally if you’re not already following Akua now would be a good time to start! Akua Reindorf KC

Pick of the week The Guardian recommends the four-part ‘In it together’ podcast series on joint enterprise we produced with JENGbA All episodes now out. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts

“The fact that Starmer and myriad MPs instantly turned about-face once the court had ruled – often rewriting history to insist they had always believed this – suggests that little thought had been given to the issue in the first place” observer.co.uk/news/opinion-a…

“Sentencers may not fully and adequately consider the significant risks that custodial sentences pose to the health and wellbeing of both mother and child; risks that have resulted in the deaths of several babies in the prison estate” theguardian.com/law/2025/apr/2…

Maxine Peake scrutinises a baffling law: best podcasts of the week theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…