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On March 13 2024 I made a complaint to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office about Master McCloud, a serving judge who has been engaging publicly and inappropriately in debates on sex and gender.

forstater.com/the-judge-to-w…
The judge (who remains in post) had been posting on Linked in as "Judge in the High Court" ... The Judicial Conduct Standards say don't do this. Image
Demonstrating hostility towards people with gender critical beliefs... The Judicial Conduct Standards say don't do this. Image
Engaging inappropriately with the media...The Judicial Conduct Standards say don't do this. Image
McCloud suggests a plan to continue to sit as a part-time judge in "semi-retirement".

Has a deal been done already to circumvent judicial discipline? Image
You can read the whole complaint here forstater.com/content/files/…

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Since I submitted the complaint:
🧑‍⚖️ McCloud continues to be serving judge.
🙈There has been no disciplinary statement published by JCIO.
🤯 McCloud launched a crowdfund together with the Good Law Project
🙄McCloud continues to post campaigning messages
McCloud is now posting statements with the disclaimer "non-judicial statement under ECHR Art 10".

Are other judges allowed to do this, or is it a special rule?

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More from @MForstater

Mar 20
This is just wow 🤯 Image
They conducted a survey which asked their members if the expression of gender critical beliefs creates a hostile environment for them Image
Their members compared recognizing that being a woman and being a trans-identifying man are different with apartheid Image
Read 6 tweets
Mar 19
Chair of a civil service SEEN sued! This case will be big & important. Let's get it funded.

SEENs are gender-critical employee networks.

Her employer is being sued for harassment for allowing the SEEN to exist!

Elspeth is being sued for harassment.

crowdjustice.com/case/seen-chai…
What are the claims of harassment?

- She said ‘only women menstruate’.

- She posted a list of the 9 protected characteristics from the Equality Act and highlighting that gender expression, gender identity and gender are not PCs. Image
She shared a link to "my body is me" by @RooneyRach

transgendertrend.com/product/my-bod…
Read 7 tweets
Mar 19
I went to this yesterday, with my pal @charlesworth102

Professor Cooper was presenting on the findings of the £0.75m @ESRC funding research project.

We were underwhelmed. Image
As @_JVigo wrote at the start of the project in 2019 it did not define what it meant by gender or sex and consistently demonstrated a lack of understanding of bodies.

In 2024 that hadn't changed. Prof Cooper slipped between "gender" and "sex" throughout

medium.com/@julian.vigo/h…
She sounded a bit deflated.

The project hadn't delivered on its ambitious goals of offering policy and regulatory recommendations and influencing govt departments and shadow ministers.

Instead she talked of envisioning "utopias"

gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=E…
Read 15 tweets
Mar 14
Hey @hopenothate @lowles_nick remember in 2022 when you you smeared LGB Alliance in your "state of hate" report. HereSNP MP & Chair of the Human Rights Joint Committee praiss LGB alliance & talks about how branding opponents hate groups shuts down debate.

Maybe you got it wrong
Maybe you got it wrong about Harry Miller too, who you smeared along with LGBA.

He isn't a police officer 🙄 and he was *unfairly* critiqued for perfectly lawful tweets.

Did you bother to read the judgment?

judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
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Judge said "The effect of police turning up..because of his political opinions must not be underestimated. To do so wld be to undervalue a cardinal democratic freedom. In this country we have never had a Cheka, Gestapo or Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society."
Read 13 tweets
Feb 23
A thread on Master McCloud.

MCloud was appointed "as the youngest and only second female ‘Master’" to be appointed to the Queen’s Bench division of the High Court in 2010.

McCloud was also on the Committee that writes the Equal Treatment Bench Book
In 2020 Mccloud spoke at this event in aid of Stonewall.

"Ensuring that all voices of minority/oppressed groups are heard" sounds nice, but it often means shutting down dissent as harassment. Image
In any case judges might have all kinds of characteristics but presenting themselves as being part of a community with responsibilities to that community undermines confidence in impartiality.

I complained about this but it was rejected as out of time.
Read 16 tweets
Feb 5
A thread on the @SexMattersOrg submission to @Ganhri1 on the hounding of Kishwer Falkner by @stonewalluk.

Women and men who speak up about sex-based rights face harassment and discrimination at work and in organisations.

This is unlawful under the Equality Act 2010.
Kathleen Stock from her job theguardian.com/education/2021…
Venice Allen from her political party mirandayardley.com/en/the-labour-…
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