A few days ago, The Guardian published an article with the headline -

“Intersex people in Europe face ‘alarming’ rise in violence, EU finds”

- prompting a few questions about the accuracy and reliability of the report on which the article is based. /1 This is not a new report.

The EU LGBTIQ Survey was conducted between June and August 2023 and a full report on the survey was published in May 2024.

Last week EUFRA (EU Fundamental Rights Agency) threw a bunch of a bunch of reheated copypasta from the full report onto their website under the title ‘Being Intersex in the EU’ and provided The Guardian with a bit of cheap copy.

theguardian.com/society/2025/s…

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I’m going to return to the subject of the Good Law Project and, like my previous thread, there’s going to be some technical stuff about governing documents and the like to wade through before I get to the punchline…

…and, boy, do I have a punchline. /1 So, following on from yesterday’s deep dive into the current governance set-up of Jolyon Maugham’s personal fiefdom, the Good Law Project (GLP), I’ve been taking a look at how the legal structures underneath it has evolved over time.

GLP was originally registered as a company limited by guarantee in January 2017 with the initial object of conducting itself as a general commercial business.

In August 2018, a revised set of Articles of Association were filed with Companies House which specify that the object(s) of the company are ‘as expressed in the Memorandum of Association’. There’s no Memorandum of Association attached to this filing and the one filed on incorporation does not state the object(s) of the company, it just names the original subscriber as Jolyon Toby Dennis Moore./2

An interesting question has been posed today, one which I’ll endeavour to answer, although this will take several tweets.

In case you’re not aware of it, Barrister Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) has launched a crowdfunder with a view to bringing a defamation action against Good Law Project (GLP) founder and Executive Director Jolyon Maugham over remarks made online in relation to a seemingly vexatious complaint to the Bar Standards Board, which has previously been rejected on two separate occasions only now to be revived for a third time with the backing of GLP. /1 Contrary to the impression that may have been created by a recent post on the GLP’s account on Bluesky, @JK_Rowling is not personally threatening to sue Maugham – that’s mostly a figment of Maugham’s overblown ego – but I understand that Sarah either has or will apply for some financial support to a legal fighting fund set up by JKR to support protecting their sex-based rights.

Against that background, the question has been posed as to whether Maugham may be able to use the resources of the Good Law Project as may be implied by the text of the Bluesky post.

“JK Rowling is threatening to sue our founder Jo Maugham unless we back down. We look forward to seeing them in court.” /2

Let’s return to the subject of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and the legality – or otherwise – of its current Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy, which the organisation adopted in 2023, as it relates to the admission of transgender identified males into membership of local WIs. /1 We’ll begin with the EDI policy itself and item 6 which sets out the protected characteristics defined in law by the Equality Act 2010 (EA 2010):

“6. The Protected Characteristics
Members must not be treated less favourably, or be denied access to any opportunities, on the grounds of the protected characteristics, which are as follows:
- Age
- Disability (including mental health and hidden disabilities)
- Gender reassignment
- Marriage and civil partnership
- Pregnancy and maternity
- Race
- Religion and belief (including those with no religion or belief)
- Sex (though the WI lawfully restricts membership to women only)
- Sexual orientation
Any such treatment may be discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. For more information about the types of discrimination, including examples, please see the NFWI Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Glossary of Terms.” /2

Throughout the still-developing Imane Khelif story there's been a significant focus on their boxing record and, specifically, the nine defeats on their record, all to women about whom there are no doubts as to their biological sex.

This echoes a very common argument in... /1 ...debates around the inclusion of transwomen in women's sports, which is that it's not really a problem just so long as the advantage from male puberty isn't so glaringly obvious that the transwoman wins all the time.

This is nonsense and, of course, we are not dealing... /2

I’m blocked so didn’t get to see Jolyon Maugham’s 34 tweet response to Professor Louis Appleby’s rebuttal of the his overblown and unevidenced claims about a surge in transgender deaths/suic*ides following the Bell v Tavistock case and the commissioning and publication of the Cass Review…

…other than the one where Jolyon Quixote started banging on about taking on the Trumps and the Putins and whatever.

TBF, I wouldn’t mind being a fly on the wall when the KGB tries to explain Jolly Foxbatterer to Vlad the Defenestrator, if only to find how to say ‘You fucking what???’ in Russian, but Maugham's descent into delusions of global importance are beyond the scope of this thread and more a matter for a competent psychiatrist. /1 So no direct Maugham debunking on this occasion but we do have a statement from Maugham’s partners in scaremongering, TransActual, to play with and it’s not Maugham’s own work then its work of someone who shares his inability to do basic research.



I’m going to skip the preamble because it is, of course, the ‘politicisation of trans young people’s healthcare’ to not only point out that Maugham and the Good Law Project have been making claims about an ‘explosion’ in deaths for which they can’t produce any confirmatory evidence but to have the absolute temerity to ask the *checks notes* Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health to review Maugham’s claims against the evidence held by the Tavistock & Portman Trust and the National Child Mortality Database and publish a report of their findings. /2transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/07/2…

Okay, so I've noticed that its not just Jolyon Maugham and the Good Law Project that are actively promoting a completely misleading narrative about a number of suic*de deaths which are being presented as being 'related' to GIDS and changes in clinical practice resulting from the original Bell v Tavistock ruling and the commissioning of the Cass Review. /1 I've been actively investigating these claims and am working on a full write-up but thought I'd address a couple of things in advance of publishing the full piece.

What I have been researching, using a variety of source, are suid*ce or possible suic*de deaths of young people aged under 25 which occured between 2017 and 2024, looking specifically for any evidence of contact between the deceased and either GIDS or an adult gender clinic. /2

@MPMacLachlan @PuppyDogma @lecanardnoir @Atomtoplanck @JoeBeck99398028 @beigepilled @LolOverruled Ok, let's do this with a practical example - humans - and some fairly advanced developmental biology.

So, phenotypic sex development begins at around 3 weeks after conception with the development of a few basic structures:

- bipotential gonads, which (in normal development)... @MPMacLachlan @PuppyDogma @lecanardnoir @Atomtoplanck @JoeBeck99398028 @beigepilled @LolOverruled ...will go one to become either testes or ovaries.

- Mullerian duct, which (in females) will develop into the fallopian tubes, cervix and upper portion of the vagina.

- Wolffian duct, which (in males) will develop into the epidydimis, vas deferens, ejaculatory duct and...

I've had time to look a little bit more closely at the demographics of the CambU/BMJ paper I refer to in this thread and picked up a couple of points of interest, one of which may support Michale Biggs' contention that there may be some reliability issues with the Census... /1

https://twitter.com/Unity_MoT/status/1623688689065906179

...data from the new Gender Identity questions.

One point I initally picked up was an apparent issue with the presentation of the age demographics in CambU's press release. This claims that trans/non binary people are more likely to be younger and supports that by stating... /2

I've tracked down some advanced GK stats which offer some interesting insights into both the performance of our keepers this season and the difference that Carlos Corberan has made since taking over from Steve Bruce.

We're looking at Championship games here, so before... #wba ...last night, Button (DB) played all his games under Bruce while Palmer (AP) played 1 game under Bruce, 3 for caretaker manager Richard Beale and the rest under Corberan.

On the basics, goals conceded per 90 mins and save percentage, AP has a very clear lead over DB. ... #wba

Okay, so who's up for a bit of Sunday morning stats nerdery?

I've been poking around in the Census 2021 data on Gender Identity and found a few interesting features that are worth commenting on.

Let's start with something I'll come back to later, the rate at which people... /1 ...chose NOT to disclose any information in response to the Gender Identity questions, which was 5.73%.

Now this is not the only voluntary set of questions in the Census, respondants can also decline to answer the questions about religious belief and sexual orientation.... /2

Okay, so let's get into this properly, even if I've got to QT so I can make the threading work.

So the whole chair/horse/whatever definition argument rests on the assumption that any attempt to construct a precise definition of an object, such as a chair, will inevitably... /1

https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1609118658898395136

...to an infinite regress, i.e. no matter how long and detailed the definition there will always some other object which satisfies all the criteria specified in the definition, creating a reductio ad absurdium.

This may indeed be true when dealing with formal axioms in.... /2

Okay, so this is the key section from the Albion Assembly minutes dealing with the club's finances, in full, so let's break this down properly.

We start with the £4.95 million loan to Lai's Wisdom Smart, which we're still being assured will be repaid by the end of... /1 #WBA ...the year, with the funds being made available to strengthen the squad.

First, this is a clear test of Lai's credibility. If the loan isn't repaid then he has none, simple as.

If it isn't repaid then it's difficult to see where Gourlay goes from there. I can't see... /2 #WBA

One thing being missed in the reporting of the Laurel Hubbard story is a glaring anomaly in the current IOC regulations governing the participation of transgender athletes in Olympic event, on which this graph clearly illustrates.

The graph shows population distributions... /1 ...for circulating testosterone levels for normal healthy females, females with PCOS and/or hyperandrogenism, and for normal healthy males, all based on current IAAF reference ranges.

I've also added the following two lines:

1) The 'Semenya Line' shows the level below... /2