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The union's response to the ruling ignored the success of the female nurses, instead pledging support for trans workers and insisting it would not change its policy despite the result. Courageous? Sticking two fingers up to the courts? No. 
Phillipson was backed by the union's Labour Link committee, which is reported to have subsequently assured union members that it would be pressing her to ensure that the Equality and Human Rights Commission new code of practice fully reflects Unison's policies. 
Call it institutional bias, ideological capture, or just the law doing its job, but what Judge Sandy Kemp’s tribunal delivered was the most one-sided outcome since Butch and Sundance decided to come out shooting. 
Never mind that this unnecessary note-taking disrupted the flow of the evidence and the legal arguments, never mind that there was a stenographer in court and the hearing was recorded, Judge Kemp had his own way of doing things and he was sticking to it.
Her win was a technical one; a grudging admission by the tribunal that NHS Fife made mistakes in handling her case. But the tribunal made it clear that it did not believe that female staff had any right to single sex spaces. 
Tom Harlow, a drag performer with a track record of disrupting women’s events, arrived early for the September 4 protest organised by For Women Scotland outside the Scottish parliament. 
Here's a suggestion: if you think you’re the good guys on the right side of history, don’t behave aggressively and get in the faces of people doing their job. Don’t be abusive. And if you do think you are women, stop being so stereotypically male. 
They said they were unable to provide answers to an FOI request asking why the rights of one counter demonstrator were given priority over the hundreds of women who attended the Women Won’t Wait event. 
As hundreds of women’s rights campaigners gathered outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to lobby their government, they found themselves battling to be heard over the noise of a deafening sound system set up next to them by a trans rights activist. 
In a statement on Equalities, Diversity, and Inclusion the library - which is at the centre of a censorship row - warns that “some material in the collection and the language that describes them may be harmful.” 
Only there’s a problem. Also in the changing room is a man, who insists he’s a woman. He shouldn’t be there, because he’s a man; this is how Sandie Peggie sees it. (And how the UK’s Supreme Court subsequently sees it too.)
Today was a new low: the accusation that she was homophobic lobbed in without evidence in the final moments of the session, based on a rumour that she was unhappy that her daughter was gay. Her daughter promptly stood by her.
Carol Potter, the chief executive, allowed this to happen. Did she sign off on the statement? She certainly allowed it to remain on the NHS Fife website even after the information commissioner warned it could be contempt of court. It’s a resigning matter. 
Highlights of the four year plan include delivering “racially conscious maternity and neonatal care” and developing staff LGBT+, Neurodiversity and Diverse Ethnicity networks. 
That’s on top of £650,535 of public money given to Stonewall in grants by the Scottish Government over the same period.
2023: “a risk of health service becoming overwhelmed” 
It’s true that less has changed than many think. But that’s due to a Scottish Government and Police Scotland communications strategy so hopeless that the Hate Monster campaign to promote the law gifted its opponents a new, instantly recognisable Scottish cultural icon. 
It is not progressive for men to shout down female speakers and to drown them out with amplified music and rhetoric. 
