The Department for Education has suggested it may not publish the long-awaited guidance for “gender questioning children.” After a 12-month delay…
The DfE ‘s regular “Keeping children safe in education: Statutory guidance for schools and colleges,” which is published every year, has gone out today and includes some interesting wording:
“We expect to publish the revised guidance on gender questioning children this summer. If published, we will signpost to this guidance in September 2025.”
This is repeated throughout the document. The draft guidance in question was prepared under the Tories and would have schools ensure all single-sex spaces remain so and would prevent teachers from prompting children to socially transition. It has been repeatedly delayed by Labour. If it is not published as written previously there would be a major upset amongst campaigners…
Jolyon has not been able to contain himself since the Supreme Court ruled that biological sex trumps ‘gender identity’ under the auspices of the Equality Act. He is looking increasingly haggard…
The Good Law Project has finally fired up the grift engine and is today soliciting donations for a case against the ruling. Jolyon’s central bizarre argument is that because he failed to have the Supreme Court hear representations from his trans activists during the course of the case the judges are “oblivious” to the Gender Recognition Act. Open your wallets folks…
Jolyon’s outfit argues that “Labour’s policy” will treat trans people similarly to the Nazis and the UK is “now in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention of Human Rights.” Accompanied by an interesting claim:
“The Nazis forced the LGBT+ community to identify themselves as ‘degenerates’ by wearing pink triangles. Labour’s policy means that for trans people to move through the public sphere they will need, similarly, to identify themselves as trans in an increasingly violent and transphobic world.”
With a “legal team involving several KCs and at least one trans barrister” Jolyon will challenge equalities Bridget Phillipson via the High Court. Thank God he has an “unblemished professional record“…
Interestingly the crowdfunder admits the case is likely doomed before it has begun: “We believe the legal arguments are strong – but we must also point out that the Supreme Court has revealed a readiness on the part of our courts to disapply, in the case of trans people, normal legal and procedural safeguards.” Good to get that in early…
It’s more sad news for Jolyon. The fox-beater was long due to be the keynote speaker at the 9th “scientific symposium” of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists. The group says NHS policies to protect children are a result of “populist ideology that seeks to divide society along political lines” and campaigns against the results of the Cass Report…
Now Jolyon has been quietly binned from his speaking role at the conference in Nottingham, which includes workshops on “Anti-trans discourse in British Politics and Media,” in favour of doctor and highly controversial trans campaigner Marci Bowers. Were Jolyon’s renewed mad ravings on Twitter a step too far even for them?
Jolyon Maugham has been having quite the weekend – mainly consisting of a meltdown over Wes Streeting’s decision to continue the ban on puberty blockers being given to children. He issued advice to every trans family: Evacuate the UK now…
The fox-beater has been barraging Wes Streeting with tens of “questions” including such killer takedowns as: Why are puberty blockers still allowed to be used in clinical trials but not outside of them? To be fair to Jolyon, he isn’t a medical expert…
Last night Jolyon threw off the blinders of privilege and declared himself in possession of the “skeleton key” to “a whole new moral universe” thanks to his trans work:
I am a wealthy, white, cis, straight man, with the cultural privilege of a KC. But working with the trans community has taught me how my status distorts my understanding of what power does and for whom. For me, the work has been a skeleton key to a whole new moral universe. https://t.co/jZiXcDPUUB
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) July 14, 2024
Anyone concerned with ethics will be breathing a sigh of relief. Questions on morality itself? Just ask Jolyon…
Statement by Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of Associated Newspapers Limited, following Harry’s loss in court today:
“Prince Harry wrote a sad book which boasted about his killing of 25 Taliban, his drug-taking and, in cringe-making detail, how he lost his virginity. There isn’t a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family. For him, to complain about HIS privacy being invaded takes, not just the biscuit, but the whole tin. Poor Harry. I feel sorry for the way a confused and angry young man has been drawn into this case. The bitter irony is that his mother, Diana, liked the Mail. We were her paper. We took her side in her acrimonious break up with Charles. She and I would speak and meet. The Mail’s superb royal reporter was her friend and confidante. The truth is that this trumped-up action – which has cost well over £50 million and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time – should never have been brought to trial. That it did, raises profoundly disturbing questions about the conduct of elements of the legal profession. Today’s verdict is not just a victory for Associated’s magnificent journalists – several of whom have had a terrible toll imposed on their health and lives – but a free press generally. Make no mistake. This was a conspiracy, supported by Hacked Off, to destroy a paper. Financed by the orgy-loving, racist Max Mosley and involving the actor Hugh Grant, it was also a sinister bid to resuscitate Leveson Two and impose statutory regulation on the press which, even now, is rearing its ugly head in Labour’s Media Green Paper.”