Year: 2026
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Legal Challenge to Puberty Blocker Trial fails
The attempt to stop the Pathways puberty blocker trial at the High Court has failed. After a two day permissions hearing earlier this week, Mr Justice Chamberlain refused to allow the application to go to full review on the basis that “none of the grounds of challenge has a realistic prospect of success”. The Bayswater…
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Decision on Puberty Blocker Judicial Review tomorrow
A decision on whether a judicial review into the government’s Pathways puberty blocker trial can go ahead will be handed down at the High Court in London tomorrow at 2pm. The judicial review applicants are seeking permission to have the trial stopped, claiming the decisions which led to its approval were made unlawfully and the…
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NHS Fife ordered to publish trans guidance
Fighting Fife With FOI The Information Commissioner in Scotland, David Hamilton, has told NHS Fife to make its 2024 Trans Policy available to the public under the Freedom of Information Act. NHS Fife has thus far refused to release the document, citing a number of exemptions, all of which have been rejected by the Commissioner.…
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Morrison Loses Tribunal Claim
A former Inclusion/Audience Development Coordinator has lost her claim against Belfast Film Festival for discrimination, harassment and constructive dismissal. Sara Morrison was employed by the Belfast Film Festival (BFF) for more than four years between February2020 and November 2024, when she resigned. Her tribunal took place in November 2025 and was extensively covered by this…
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NHS attack doctor asked by GMC to “reflect”
An NHS doctor has been asked to “reflect” on the consequences of her decision to tear a cameraphone out of a videographer’s hand during a protest in Cardiff in April. On Saturday 11 April several women’s groups banded together under the brand “One Year Later” to mark the anniversary of the For Women Scotland Supreme…
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Sex Matters v CPS Day 2: More Tongue Action
This article may be better understood by reading yesterday’s report which also includes a backgrounder explaining how this case came to court: Sex Matters v CPS Day 1: Is the CPS Guidance on Sex by Deception Lawful or Not? The following is a report of the second and final day of Sex Matters’ attempt to…
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Is the CPS Guidance on Sex by Deception Lawful or Not?
“Questions of deception and consent may involve more complex issues where the suspect is trans or non-binary.” We are half way through Sex Matters’ (SM) legal challenge to the Crown Prosecutors’ Guidance on Sex by Deception. Or as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has it “Deception as to Sex“. The issue at hand is consent,…
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Gender Surgery’s Incontinence Problem
“This data is shocking, but they’re carrying on. Chelsea and Westminster are training up new surgeons.” One of the bigger scandals surrounding gender treatment concerns the long term effects of both hormone use and surgery. A particular aspect of it was brought home this week at a Rethinking Youth Gender Medicine conference* by Elaine Miller…
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A Tempest in Leeds
“Encountering colleagues wearing SEEN lanyards in the workplace makes me feel unsafe.” This is Samantha Tempest. Tempest works for the civil service, and today at Leeds Employment Tribunal he was cross-examined by a barrister representing his ultimate employers, Defra (the government Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). Tempest is taking Defra to court…
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Rigby, Rowling and a BBC News correction
“We apologise for the failures in our reporting.” On 1 June a man called Darren Rigby was sentenced to two years and four months in prison for sending threats to three all-girls schools on Merseyside. In emails sent across the space of a week in January this year, Rigby told one school he was already…