Britain’s First Trans Judge Appeals to ECHR Over Supreme Court Gender Ruling

Britain’s first transgender judge has lodged an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights against the Supreme Court ruling on gender. The Express has more.

The UK’s highest court in April confirmed that the definition of a woman in equality law is based on biological sex following legal action by campaign group For Women Scotland.

But the retired judge Victoria McCloud is pushing for a rehearing of the case. She argues that the Supreme Court undermined her Article 6 rights to a fair trial after it refused to hear representation from her and did not hear evidence from any other trans individuals or groups.

Ms McCloud said: “There is no space for decision-making about us, without us.

“I intend to ensure that there will be no peace for the gender-critical ideological movement, the Labour Government appeasing it, or space in our schools, homes and workplaces for an ideology which causes harm, misery and oppression of a small and law-abiding minority in our formerly tolerant country.” …

The Trans Legal Clinic has launched a legal fundraiser for £150,000 to raise funds to support the case. 

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ElaineH
ElaineH
7 months ago

Being gender critical is not an ideology. It a fact based on human biology. End of!

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
7 months ago
Reply to  ElaineH

For goodness’ sake will nobody rid us of these turbulent judges.

Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
7 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

The problem is the position of power they hold. They shouldn’t be making law. That’s the job for the Crown in Parliament.

stewart
7 months ago
Reply to  ElaineH

“Gender critical” = not detached from reality.

The fact that then position that is rooted in reality is the antithesis says everything about the dire state of our society.

RW
RW
7 months ago

I sincerely wish I had never encountered more “harm and misery” than having to use the Men’s toilet because I’m a man and I congratulate these people that their lives are so entirely free of anything resembling a real problem that they apparently have nothing else to worry about. If that’s not paradise, I can’t be far from it.

BS Whitworth
BS Whitworth
7 months ago

Are there other transgender judges? I think we should be told.

Mogwai
7 months ago
Reply to  BS Whitworth

I wonder if that judge has a penis…in the most non-pervy way possible, of course.

Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
7 months ago

Let me see if I understand this correctly.

The elected representatives of the people made a law specifying that equality of the sexes is based on biology. The Supreme Court confirms this. Then someone comes along who thinks that the elected representatives got it wrong. But instead of trying to get elected to Parliament, or trying to persuade said elected representatives to change the law, Victoria McCloud decides to appeal to a foreign court, a court in which the voters of our country have no voice, and over which they have no control, or influence.

Have I got this right?

Heretic
Heretic
7 months ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

Excellent points!

“And I do declare, That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm:
So help me God.”

1689 English Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights – 1689 / COMMON LAW | JAOC.ORG.UK

Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
7 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

I’m convinced now that if we’re going to save our country we have to return to the state of affairs outlined in the Bill of Rights.

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
7 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

True until 1997.

johnnythefish
johnnythefish
7 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

Blair is the source of so many of our problems. He lit the fuse.

RW
RW
7 months ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

It’s not really a foreign court but one established by an international organisation founded (among others) by Great Britain. Like all other member states, Britain has a judge in it which got elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from three proposed British candidates and British members of this assembly got elected/ appointed by the parliament of the UK.

There’s certainly a lot which can be criticized about the ECHR and considering its recent decisions, eg, about Switzerland not doing enough to protect Swiss citizens from climate change when there’s factually nothing anybody in Switzerland could do about this, it’s certainly sensible that the UK, or, for that matter, any other member, should withdraw from it but this particular line of attack makes no sense.

Marcus Aurelius knew
7 months ago
Reply to  Jeff Chambers

yOU mUSt be A BRexITeEr

RW
RW
7 months ago

Brexel dilemma 2025: How can we keep up posing as wanting to exit from something we actually left years ago?

It seems the only chance to “keep on brexing” is the rejoin the EU first.

Hound of Heaven
Hound of Heaven
7 months ago

The decision making is not about you, your honour, it is about biological facts. How hard is that?

Mogwai
7 months ago

Well if we’re putting biology aside, clothes horses are horses! 😮

Do not partake of the lie, do not be apathetic and do not accept absurdities as truth. It only empowers and emboldens the deluded narcissists further;

”Trans rights means state compulsion to force people to pretend that a falsehood is true.

The man is a woman because he says he is a woman.

The penis is female because the man to whom the penis is attached says he is a woman.

Believe this falsehood and act to ensure that others are forced to believe it or face punishment by the state.

If you don’t support doing this, you oppose trans rights.” Wesley Yang

Reform totally need to abolish this poisonous garbage. The kids are getting bombarded left, right and centre;

”Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth (@PHU_NHS
) has bed-side care charts in the children’s ward.

Every child has their ‘pronouns’ listed.

This is the NHS imposing ideology on sick children.”

https://x.com/JamesEsses/status/1956245225795367348

Covid-1984
Covid-1984
7 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Just because you’re born in a stable, it doesn’t make you a horse.

David Norman
David Norman
7 months ago

The way he has indulged his own fantasy and his failure to accept reality surely indicate that he was never fit to be made a judge in the first place.

RogerB
7 months ago

He he he. You’ve got to laugh.

BillT
BillT
7 months ago

if you identify as the other sex, then you are mentally ill and not competent to judge on such issues.

Westfieldmike
Westfieldmike
7 months ago

Why are you calling him she?

john1T
7 months ago

This story is one more nail in the ECHR coffin. Time to leave.

Marcus Aurelius knew
7 months ago

He or she who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

RTSC
RTSC
7 months ago

So a retired Activist Judge. Does anyone believe he wasn’t completely biased and inclined to promote his personal politics prior to his retirement?

No, me neither.

Adethefade
Adethefade
7 months ago

He’s nit a ‘transgender’ judge, he’s a male judge who openly acts out his autogynephilic fetish.

Covid-1984
Covid-1984
7 months ago

Question: What do you call a judge with no v*gina?…… Justice Todger…

john1T
7 months ago
Reply to  Covid-1984

I’m going to remember that. This absurd creature deserves to be laughed at.

Peter W
Peter W
7 months ago

I thought a judge was supposed to be impartial. How can this one be?

Marque1
7 months ago

I rather doubt that he appeals to anyone.

Pete Sutton
Pete Sutton
7 months ago

Fancy having to address that weird-faced creaure as ‘Your honour’ – yuk!

Hester
Hester
7 months ago

so are they a man now deciding they are a woman?

Tedward
Tedward
7 months ago

You Brits need to get out of the ECHR and start electing judges. Having judges appointed by a commission made up of lawyers & judges locks in the status quo & enforces orthodox policy views.

marebobowl
marebobowl
7 months ago

How dare she waste taxpayers money!

brightlightsweetown
brightlightsweetown
7 months ago

The problem is that the ‘trans women’ want real women to change everything we have fought for to accommodate this tiny minority. If ‘transwomen’ have no male genitalia then fine, but to have a male pretending to be female because that is how he ‘feels’ then that’s a big fat NO.