Naomi Cunningham

You can't disagree with him, can you? He may presently join the rest of us at WNTAELF.

In the latest update to the Equal Treatment Bench Book, chapter 12, ¶48 is a breath of fresh air: '"Assigned at birth" is used by trans people (and others) instead of biological sex, but is not widely understood, and it is therefore to be avoided by judges.'

This.

Someone finally answered.

Lynsay Watson: we meet at last Unmasking the (trans-identifying) Man of Mystery

Fascinating eye-witness account of Lynsay Watson/Alex Horwood's latest antics and his arrest last Thursday. Since he's been both camera-shy and menacing online towards many of those he disagrees with, it's also good to have an up-to-date photo of him.

www.thehelenjoyce.com/p/lynsay-wat...

The answer was no. No-one wanted to try to explain to me why men getting infants to suck on their nipples might (even sometimes) be ok.

On balance I suppose I find that faintly reassuring, in a rather bleak way.

The answer was no. No-one wanted to try to explain to me why men getting infants to suck on their nipples might (even sometimes) be ok.

On balance I suppose I find that faintly reassuring, in a rather bleak way.

So depressing to see a Labour MP push misinformation like this.

The judgment @kateosbornemp.bsky.social refers to is here: goodlawproject.org/wp-content/u....

Will she say which paragraph/s say “the EHRC’s draft code of practice got the law wrong”? No. Because none do.

bsky.app/profile/kate...

Good Law Project v EHRC The High Court has dismissed a judicial review brought by the Good Law Project and three individuals challenging the lawfulness and accuracy of the Interim Update issued by the Equality and Human Righ...

Michael Foran's excellent clear explainer of yesterday's GLP v EHRC judgment. knowingius.org/p/good-law-p...

And I'm really sorry if being civil to me here earns you a load of abuse — that unfortunately was @swilkenkc.bsky.social's experience after an exchange with me about (of all things) costs as damages. Fingers crossed things have improved here since then.

Many thanks 😊

I'd really like to read it, please?

Ooh yes me too if you would be so kind? naomi.cunningham@outertemple.com

Ooh yes me too if you would be so kind? naomi.cunningham@outertemple.com

Anyone?

It's awfully rude and unkind to draw attention to these kinds of risks, I know. But isn't that rather the point of safeguarding? Kindness is complicated.

Bearing in mind what a very wicked world it is — and that autogynephilia is a thing, and some autogynephile men will fetishise pretty much any aspect of femaleness — are there any foreseeable risks in condoning male "breastfeeding"?

But I'm by an order of magnitude more cautious (putting it mildly) about the impact on an infant of being "breastfed" by a male artificially induced to lactate. For whose benefit is this really done? And what is the nature of the "benefit"?

I don't know the data on the respective merits of formula and wet-nursing, for an orphaned infant. If the actual mother is available, I'd be cautious about the impact of wet-nursing on the mother-infant bond, but that could be addressed by evidence.

So we are presumably proceeding on the assumption that the female mother is dead, or can't breastfeed (perhaps a "trans man" who has had her breasts removed?), or is otherwise unavailable (a surrogate, maybe; another whole can of worms).

Are you able to help my failing imagination here? The child must have had an actual female mother, who we presumably agree would be the best person to breastfeed her, if available?

I am struggling to imagine circumstances in which it would be in the best interests of an infant to be "breastfed" by a male person who has been induced to lactate. I failed my maths degree, but some things stuck, including "confession of failure of the imagination does not amount to proof".

What Is Autogynephilia? | Helen Joyce YouTube video by John Anderson Media

We really need to start to face up to the implications of autogynephilia for the admission of men who say they are women to women-only spaces.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC6M...

I re-read "That Hideous Strength" not long ago. The portrayal of the moral corruption of Mark Studdock by bureaucratic evil, using a combination of menace, flattery and calculated desensitisation to horror, had strong contemporary resonances for me.

If you want to complain about me, I'm regulated by the Bar Standards Board www.barstandardsboard.org.uk

I asked rhetorically, given the SC's judgment, what was the remaining point of medical transition. I don't think it is fair to characterise that as saying that that is the only point of all gender transition, do you?

Oh fab, thank you so much! Especially for braving yet again the hordes of <checks notes> very kind people here.

@swilkenkc.bsky.social I'm trying to find the case you mentioned to me about costs as damages, and which opened a whole world of pain for you on this lovely kind site... and I can't find it. Could you possibly remind me?

If my account here is still marked "intolerant"... well, in all honesty I'm feeling pretty intolerant right now.