Good Law Project to challenge Supreme Court's gender judgment
The legal campaign group, which is known for its high-profile court cases against the Westminster government, said the court's decision alongside comments made by the Prime Minister and equalities minister Bridget Phillipson will "shamefully deny the reality of trans existence and will lead to daily humiliation for trans people and for cis people who choose not to dress 'normally'".
The group's Crowdfunder goal is £50,000 and in small print it states: "Funds raised will support our legal case against equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson."
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A legal team involving several KCs and at least one trans barrister has been put together, with support from policy specialists in equalities law.
The legal documents in the case will be published, the group said, as "they become available and as the law permits".
On the Crowdfunder page, the group states: "After the Supreme Court case, our so-called Equalities Minister, Bridget Phillipson, said 'the ruling was clear that provisions and services should be accessed on the basis of biological sex', and the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, said he no longer believes that trans women are women: 'A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear.'
"The decision and these statements shamefully deny the reality of trans existence and will lead to daily humiliation for trans people and for cis people who choose not to dress 'normally'. And they will not make anyone safer, cis or trans.
"To use single sex services, trans people and 'non-conforming' cis men and women will be required to 'prove' their 'biological sex': goodness knows how. Trans women, and cis women who don't abide by gender norms, will be 'frisked' by men. Trans men will be forced to identify themselves to everyone as trans by using female services. Younger trans people will be humiliated at school and at university."
The group further compared Labour's policy to the Nazis treatment of LGBT+ people who were forced to wear pink triangles.
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The added: "We believe the UK is now in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention of Human Rights and we plan to ask the High Court for a declaration of incompatibility. 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.
"This is no small undertaking – but, for the trans community in Britain, it is literally existential."
The Good Law Project has been well-known for a string of well-known legal cases against the UK Government, including the Covid 'VIP' lane for PPE contracts, partygate and the 2019 prorogation of Parliament.
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