The Hellish Clown Car Part 2

Update 615. This Is Terf Month. #BeMorePorcupine.

Onwards with Part 2!!

Please keep the suggestions as to speeches for Terf Month coming in😃

Thanks to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.

Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.

The For Women Scotland Judgment - The Aftermath

The Equality Act 2010

The EqA, the subject of the recent Supreme Court judgment in the For Women Scotland case, covers England, Scotland and Wales. Regular readers will know that Kellie-Jay Keen and EDI Jester feel that the EqA needs repealing ( and, if I understand them correctly, replacing with other pieces of legislation) whereas I favour radical amendment of the EqA. On The Academy of Ideas substack, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert also questions the EqA. See my further comments at the end.

The Equality Act isn't working

In a guest post, Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, director of Don't Divide Us, explains why the Act seems to be exacerbating divisions and encouraging workplace disagreements to be resolved through litigation.

Jun 12, 2025

It’s not easy to point out that there are fundamental weaknesses and contradictions at the heart of the Equality Act 2010 (EA). To say so immediately places you as someone who is against equality, whether by design or ignorance. But for a new Don’t Divide Us report, The Equality Act Isn’t Working, we analysed over 5,000 Employment Tribunal hearings where race discrimination has been the sole or an additional part of the claim – and it is clear that the EA is contributing to serious problems within the workplace that have little or nothing to do with systematic racism.

My co-author, barrister Anna Loutfi, offers a detailed sketch of the jurisprudence and historical development of the EA. In 2010, the EA was presented as a technical bundling up of the sprawl of existing anti-discrimination legislation by the then secretary of state for equalities and minister for women, Harriet Harman. However, it was much more than an organisational improvement. The EA was a combination of Britain’s traditional Common Law and the constitutional codification characteristic of American and French legal systems. It was also shaped during the 2000s, a decade where the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its domestic counterpart, the Human Rights Act of 1998, became more influential in shaping Britain’s legal landscape.

Multiculturalism in law?
The earlier Race Relations Acts and amendments of 1965, 1968, 1976 and 2000 prohibited discriminatory acts in increasing areas of public life. Article 14 of the EHRC extended the law to enshrine a legal right not to be discriminated against. This entailed a change in ethical orientation as much as language. Equality, once guaranteed by religion or politics, was now a right to be conferred by the law. Once equality was made into a positive right under the law, other group-based claims were bound to follow. Between 2016/17 to 2023/24, the number of applications for Employment Tribunal hearings doubled from 17,005 to 34,386.

Our report, based on a sample where race-discrimination claims have been alleged – often in conjunction with other claims from other employment legislation – shows a tenfold increase over a similar period, from 85 to 910, with a cumulative total of 5,152. Article 14 was once thought to be an irrelevance because most of its provision ‘was covered in essence by other substantive rights set down in the Convention’ and existing legislation. Its greater significance within the EA indicates a cultural as well as political shift from a national to a multicultural state.

The growing influence of the EHRC and various European Equality Frameworks and Directives, including the 2000 Race Equality Directive, were not mere add-ons or continuations of Britain’s previous anti-discrimination law. The cumulative effect, evidenced in the EA of 2010 and subsequent appendages, has been to pivot the law away from providing legal redress for individuals when employers have breached their negative duty to not discriminate on grounds of race, sex, or disability, and towards the law as a means to positively advance equality, eliminate discrimination and foster good relations. These are the central duties enshrined in the Public Sector Equality Duty, Part 11, section 149 of the EA.

The problem is clear: the first two goals have traditionally belonged to the realm of political action and the third, good relations, have traditionally belonged to the private or semi-public spheres. Two features in particular make the EA vulnerable to external pressures. Firstly, its over-general language lacks precise delimitations. What does ‘foster good relations’ mean in legal terms? Secondly, its incorporation of harassment, which has a lower evidential bar. Our findings suggest that litigation is being seen increasingly as the go-to means of resolving problems that in the past would have been addressed by traditional union representation and more informal conciliation practices.

The full piece is here:

https://www.academyofideas.uk/p/the-equality-act-isnt-working?publication_id=1010287&post_id=165691990&isFreemail=false&r=20xc5g&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Dusty’s comments; I hope in due course to do a piece on my thoughts about the EqA but would just make a few comments here:

1. The EqA cannot, I feel, be blamed for those ( most obviously Stonewall) who have misinterpreted the Act. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ( see recent pieces by EDI Jester) does not directly arise from the Act but uses the Act as a smokescreen.

2. Gender reassignment should be removed as a protected characteristic since it is meaningless.

3. The positive discrimination provisions are too widely drafted.

4. With regard to service providers and single sex spaces I would replace the concept of a ‘proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim’ ( not quite sure what with just yet).

5. The ‘public sector equality duty’ is too vague and capable of being misused and should be removed.

All thoughts gratefully received.

The Women’s and Equalities Committee

The Committee recently questioned the head of the Equality And Human Rights Commission, Baroness Falkner on the Supreme Court judgment and the draft EHRC guidance. Kellie-Jay provides a very entertaining response video to the questions from Rachel Taylor MP and, you have to say, Ms Taylor is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot!! Kellie-Jay urges us to write to Ms Taylor at rachel.taylor.mp@parliament.uk and I would encourage you to do so ( take a deep breath and be polite but firm I would suggest). I am going to once I complete this update!

Rosie Duffield asks Baroness Falkner about threats to her and EHRC staff - the extraordinarily annoying ( that’s to put it mildly) chair of the committee, Sarah Owen MP ( another village idiot) has to put in a cheap shot at the end.

All thoughts ( don’t hold back!) gratefully encouraged!

UK - Indoctrination In School

On his substack, James Esses looks at the worse case of indoctrination he has come across at a school, namely King’s College London Mathematics School!! Critical race theory, gender ideology and much more!

Indoctrination At The Best Sixth Form In The UK

Ideological grooming at King's College London Mathematics School

Jun 12, 2025

Introduction

Over the years, I have been sent enormous quantities of concerning materials being taught to children in UK schools.

However, never have I come across a school that has ideology baked into everything it does. Until now.

King’s College London Mathematics School (KCLMS) is a taxpayer-funded State school. It is an extremely high performing and well-regarded school, having previously been ranked the Best Sixth Form in the country by The Times.

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by two whistleblowers – one a former student at KCLMS, another the parent of a current student. For obvious reasons, they have asked to remain anonymous.

In the words of the former student, the entire modus operandi of the school is to “brainwash and suppress free speech”.

I have been supplied with reams of school policies and teaching materials, collated secretly over a number of a years, which demonstrate just how deeply embedded dangerous ideologies, including gender ideology and critical race theory, are within the foundations of the school.

This article spotlights some of the most concerning things to come out of the leaked materials.

The first thing to note is that students are expected to sign up to a programme of learning which encourages indoctrination and discourages free thought.

Here is a list of house-rules that students are asked to agree to as part of their mandatory personal development teaching. It includes requirements to “stay sensitive, avoid academisation” and “accept that sometimes things are valid that are not rational”.

According to my student whistleblower, this agreement was used to police speech in the classroom and shut down arguments against the ideologies being pushed by teachers.

The full piece is here:

https://www.jamesesses.co.uk/p/indoctrination-at-the-best-sixth?publication_id=614600&post_id=165631666&isFreemail=true&r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Ireland - Jana Lunden

Excellent interview by Andrew Gold on his Heretics channel with Jana Lunden of the Natural Women’s Council ( not to be confused with the National Women’s Council who are often called by Irish Terfs the National Willy Council since they have a larping man on their board of directors). This wide ranging interview covers the constitutional referendum last year when the Government tried to remove the words ‘woman’ and ‘mother’ from the Irish Constitution, hate crime legislation, inappropriate books in schools, the curtailing of free speech, mass immigration and more.

All thoughts gratefully received.

There Are No ‘Trans Kids’

Interesting ‘Street Epistemology’ session from Peter Boghossian largely featuring Mia Hughes and Nick Dallett who is the father of a ‘trans child.’ Exulansic and Pierce Watkins are also involved. Amazingly Mr Dallett says he has never heard of the codes of practice produced by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). After Mia ( author of The WPATH files ) rips WPATH asunder, Mr Dallett says he will have to go away and check the facts about them but, even if what Mia says turns out to be true, he won’t change his opinion!!

All thoughts gratefully received.

The Idiots’ Guide to Gendergeddon

Thanks to Feminist Legal Clinic for this 😊

The Idiot’s Guide to Gendergeddon – by Campaign Club – WNN

They’re not Gay.

Men who pretend they’re not men, are 5x more dangerous than other men.

There is No Third Gamete.

Source: The Idiot’s Guide to Gendergeddon – by Campaign Club – WNN

https://feministlegal.org/the-idiots-guide-to-gendergeddon-by-campaign-club-wnn/

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