2. If Harriet Harman believed that the Equalities Act gave trans people the right to use the single sex spaces of their acquired sex, how was it needed to accept the Vera Baird amendment which allowed exceptions to a general rule of access to those spaces?
3. If states pass laws in order to comply with European Court decisions and subsequent legal shenanigans render those laws ineffective, is there no provision for a direct appeal to enforce the original judgement? If not, why not?
1. A civil servant who helped draft the GRA confirms that it was intended that trans people count as their acquired sex for all practical purposes and that ideas like 'biological sex' never entered into it.
Why didn't the Supreme Court ask for evidence on the intention of the GRA when weakening it?
(in a side bar, my limited encounters with Harriet Harman during her time at NCCL/Liberty gave me a strong impression that she was quietly scornful of trans people...)
When my father bought our first stereo, he also bought a fairly random selection of classical LPs, permanently forming my taste for the great Romantics. Brahms Third was one of the first works I became obsessed with.