UK Politics

It's simply bizarre that Labour have chosen this hill to die on. After the SC ruling, Labour should have come out and said: that given the ambiguity in the law has been resolved but in a way that doesn't account for trans people, we will be bringing forward updated legislation to close the gap. Sort of like the whole Civil Partnership vs Marriage idiocy.

The basic principle should be: don't be a cunt. And then work from there.

This is the stupidest culture war, fought with the stupidest people on one side and a marginalized group that really just would like to live a life without fear on the other. Not even "without fear," because apparently that's asking too much. Just no state-sanctioned fear.

careful, this could be just what reform need to revive their leave the ECHR bullshit.

Let's go! I hope it is successful.

They could resolve this with more legislation. The 2010/11 equalities act is ambiguous the way it is written so Labour need to pass more legislation to resolve it. "Use the disabled toilets" is not a satisfactory answer.

(aside: I keep messing up with parsing the acronyms ECHR and EHRC.)

I doubt this will lead to anything positive, possibly even starmer aping conservative's desire to leave human rights bodies altogether, but I wish them luck all the same.