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Read More…: Men in Scottish Women’s Prisons Unlawful
“We are thrilled with the result, but it should never have come to this.” The Scottish government’s policy of putting men in women’s prisons has today been ruled unlawful. A judicial review found in favour of the campaign group For Women Scotland, who argued the current Scottish Prison Service policy of taking into account a prisoner’s gender identity was dangerous and wrong. Today Lady Ross, sitting in the Outer House Court of Session (Scotland’s equivalent of the High Court), ruled that “sex segregation in prisons in Scotland is lawful” and there is a “justification for maintaining sex segregation in prisons.”…
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Read More…: Legal Gengar trial “shambles”
Matthew Heath is the man behind Grift Watch. He is known as Legal Gengar. His trial for the harassment of Stephanie Hayden has been adjourned…
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Jonni Skinner: Still Walking, Wounded.
Read More…: Jonni Skinner: Still Walking, Wounded.“I was severely, severely misled.” Jonni Skinner is a 23 year old detransitioner from Michigan. I met him at the Life Beyond Transition conference in…
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NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed Children
Read More…: NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed ChildrenAn NHS investigation into the activities of WellBN – a Brighton GP surgery which prescribed cross-sex hormones to children – has found it caused “actual…
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Depoliticising the Workplace
Read More…: Depoliticising the WorkplaceTanya de Grunwald has a podcast strand called This Isn’t Working, in which she invites business leaders to consider employee activism and the vicissitudes of…
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Sex and Gender Law Association is Go
Read More…: Sex and Gender Law Association is GoFair play to Simon Cheetham KC. He opened his talk by thanking the chair Dr Julius Grower for listing the gender cases he’d been involved…
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WGS issues raised in Welsh Parliament
Read More…: WGS issues raised in Welsh ParliamentConcerns published on this website about the Welsh Gender Service have been raised in the Welsh Parliament by Natasha Asghar MS. During a plenary session…
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Welsh Gender Service: Going Rogue?
Read More…: Welsh Gender Service: Going Rogue?The Welsh Gender Service is an interesting outfit. It is the only NHS clinic in Wales taking adult referrals from GPs. It is run by…
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Gender Clinic Investigation Stays Secret
Read More…: Gender Clinic Investigation Stays SecretA parent taking the WellBN gender clinic in Brighton to court over the treatment of his child has lost his bid to see the results…
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Linehan is Acquitted: Smiles All Round
Read More…: Linehan is Acquitted: Smiles All RoundAt 2.55pm today, the Honourable Mrs Justice Tipples overturned Graham Linehan’s conviction for criminal damage to a trans activist’s phone, on the basis that she…
