Month: June 2026
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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…
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Morrison Judgment Delayed Again
“My life has been on hold – work, plans, the future. Everything…” Sara Morrison, whose legal case against the Belfast Film Festival is being backed by JK Rowling, has been told she will need to wait at least another month before getting a ruling. Morrison took Belfast Film Festival to a two-week employment tribunal in…
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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…
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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 until 19 October. It was due to happen today. The date for today’s trial was set back in February. Unfortunately the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) seems unable to manage even…
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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 Washington DC earlier this year. Jonni spoke on a panel about his experience of being medically transitioned and the harm done to him as a result. Jonni’s recent testimony has…
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NHS: Gender Doctors Harmed Children
An NHS investigation into the activities of WellBN – a Brighton GP surgery which prescribed cross-sex hormones to children – has found it caused “actual potential harm” to its young patients and “fell substantially below” the professional standards of care required. A Patient Safety Investigation Report, completed on 8 May, but published on the NHS…
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Depoliticising the Workplace
Tanya 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 DEI. Her live events, under the banner This Is Working, are aimed at bringing business leaders together to discuss how organisations can move forward from where we are now. There…
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Sex and Gender Law Association is Go
Fair 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 with, adding “what that flattering biography failed to mention is that in terms of the cases involving these issues, I’ve lost them all.” There was laughter, compounded by his pay…
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WGS issues raised in Welsh Parliament
Concerns published on this website about the Welsh Gender Service have been raised in the Welsh Parliament by Natasha Asghar MS. During a plenary session in which the Health and Social Care Minister outlined his priorities for the parliamentary session, Asghar said: “Recently, there have been some rather concerning revelations about the Welsh Gender Service,…