The British government could face the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), following the Supreme Court’s ruling that sex is a biological reality.
Retired High Court Master Dr. Victoria McCloud was reputedly the only ‘out’ trans judge in the UK legal system. One of about 8,000 people in the UK who has successfully applied to change sex on their birth certificate, McCloud plans to turn to the ECtHR over the Supreme Court decision, arguing that it is a violation of human rights because no trans people were consulted in the process.
The Supreme Court heard arguments on trans issues from Amnesty International, but not from trans activists. McCloud’s planned ECtHR complaint is consistent with the Court’s ruling against the Scottish government, which established in law that sex is indeed biological—regardless of how individuals feel about this fact (duh!) This means that their exclusion from the legal process doesn’t matter. Predictably, the trans ‘movement’ and its allies went into meltdown following the decision.
It is also claimed that the judgement has dropped McCloud into the legal “nonsense” of being “two sexes at once” (as distinct from the non-legal nonsense of being ‘non-binary,’ which is usually welcomed in trans-activist circles as a good thing).
In a related development, four Labour MPs have pledged to campaign to get the ruling overturned. Naturally, they are wrong about this, although at least they have the virtue of being elected—unlike the Supreme Court.
The Labour campaigners would do well to look at the current chaos at leading UK human resources organisation the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, which is now retreating from years of telling employers that they should not refuse a transgender female (i.e. a male) access to female-only facilities, for fear of committing discrimination.
