Author Archives: Gordon Dangerfield

In my last blog post in August of last year I made these observations (and feel free to skip or skim the paragraphs which follow in bold if you don’t need them repeated): Paragraph 28 of Schedule 3 [of the Equality Act 2010] provides as follows with regard to single sex services: A person doesContinue reading “FOR WOMEN SCOTLAND (AGAIN)”

This would have been the first of the three articles promised in my last post. However, I’ve revised the original article to incorporate the important speech given this week by the English Attorney General, Suella Braverman, and I’ve divided the original article into two parts. This is the first part and the second will followContinue reading “WHY SINGLE SEX FEMALE SERVICES ARE NOT FOR BIOLOGICAL MALES”

Over the next week or so, I’ll be putting up three articles arising out of a workshop run by the group Frontline Feminists to which I was honoured to be invited recently. I’m very grateful to all of the women participants who worked through these ideas with me, and without whom these articles wouldn’t haveContinue reading “WITH THANKS TO THE FRONTLINE FEMINISTS”

I’m very pleased to be able to update you all at last on developments in Mark’s action for malicious prosecution. Since my post of 26 July last year when I shared my firm’s letter before action to the Lord Advocate, we’ve been engaged in what is called “pre-action correspondence” with the defenders. I’ll say moreContinue reading “MARK HIRST V CHIEF CONSTABLE AND LORD ADVOCATE”

The decision of the Inner House of the Court of Session – Scotland’s highest civil court – in the judicial review brought by Fair Play For Women constitutes a disappointing defeat in the battle for a common sense interpretation of “sex” as meaning “biological sex” to apply in all legal contexts. It is, however –Continue reading “THE FAIR PLAY FOR WOMEN DECISION: BATTLE LOST, WAR WON”

Let me start by offering my hearty congratulations and heartfelt thanks to Marion, Trina, Susan and all at For Women Scotland for their sensational victory in the Court of Session this week. They have done a mighty service to every person in Scotland who still has a grip on reality. For all non-legal folks, beContinue reading “FOR WOMEN SCOTLAND: WHAT THEIR VICTORY MEANS”

The Scottish Government believes that transwomen are women and that this statement is so self-evidently true that it is not even up for debate. I believe that transwomen are not women, and that this statement should not require debate in any rational society.          Which of these two opposite beliefs you hold is important because whichContinue reading “WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE ABOUT TRANSWOMEN? TAKE THE TESTS”

As part of their coalition with the Green Party, the Scottish Government have pledged to introduce gender self-identification within the first year of the present Parliament. For the reasons I have previously given, this means that men will legally become women just by saying they are, and women will become men just by saying theyContinue reading “IN DEFENCE OF REALITY”

I’ve been asked if I can make still clearer why it’s a big deal that the Fabiani Report has shown such utter contempt for the truth, as detailed in my last post. The court order The following is part of the court order, called an “interlocutor”, made by Lord Pentland at the Court of SessionContinue reading “THE FABIANI WHITEWASH AND THE COURT ORDER”

If you want to know how utterly bereft of truth the whole political process now is in Scotland you need look no further than the Fabiani Whitewash – aka the “Report of the Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints”. One of the many reasons why the Sturgeon clique had to concede AlexContinue reading “THE FABIANI WHITEWASH”