In today’s Britain, a dangerous legal trend is taking root — one that risks unravelling decades of hard-won progress on equality. The courts and workplace tribunals are increasingly handing victories to those who openly promote bigoted views, under the protection…
Trigger Warning: Legal Exclusion, Misgendering, and Transphobia The EHRC’s 2025 draft Code of Practice consultation is one of the most damaging pieces of institutional guidance we’ve seen in recent memory. It lays out, in clinical language, the legal justifications for…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is falling apart. Its Chair, Kishwer Falkner, in a plea of authoritarian desperation, said “It is unacceptable to question the integrity of the regulator”, but the EHRC’s lack of integrity is on full display. …
Language matters. Words shape how we understand each other, how we interact with our communities, and how we either uphold or dismantle systems of oppression. In recent years, terms like “biological sex”, “biological male”, “biological female”, “biologically male”, “biologically female”,…
STOP USING: These terms are not neutral. They are politicised, scientifically misleading, and function as transphobic slurs when used to override someone’s gender identity. They are widely rejected by the trans community, by medical professionals, and by human rights experts.…
In recent months, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been issuing guidance and statements on sex and gender that have made headlines and caused concern across the equality and human rights sector. But amid the political noise, one…
Guest Article by Rach, founder of Lesbians Against Fascism and Transphobia (LAFT)LAFT can currently be found on Instagram. I was born in the early 80’s so my most formative years were lived under Thatcher. I was also born into a…
Let’s not beat around the bush. The ‘Equality and Human Rights’ Commission’s new draft Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations isn’t just a dull legal document—it’s a roadmap for quietly rolling back trans rights, one “legitimate aim”…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is about to launch a consultation on changes to its statutory Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations. While consultations are supposed to be democratic exercises, the context behind this one…
On 28 April 2025, several hate groups—including Sex Matters, LGB Alliance, Transgender Trend, and Genspect—sent a joint letter to Sir James Mackey, CEO of NHS England, demanding the cancellation of the upcoming puberty blocker trial. Disguised as a concern for…