On How England Can Go Fuck Itself to Be Quite Honest

The recent High Court decision to reject Liberty’s application for judicial review against the EHRC marks a sobering moment in the UK’s ongoing relationship with equality law. By affirming the EHRC’s reinterpretation of “sex” under the Equality Act, effectively narrowing protections for trans people, the ruling gestures not toward clarity, but toward exclusion under the guise of legal neutrality. This isn’t merely a technical matter of statutory guidance, oh god no. It is the quiet codification of a political retreat: one that leverages the language of law to reframe trans existence as a legal ambiguity, not a lived reality. The...