Faith Elisabeth Lilley

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GENDER CRITICAL TRANSPHOBIA IS A BRAINROT CULT

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2.49 The Supreme Court in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers (For
Women Scotland) [2025] UKSC 16 has ruled that a GRC does not change a
person’s legal sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. The judgment
held that ‘sex’, ‘woman’ and ‘man’ mean, respectively, biological sex, biological
woman and biological man for the purposes of the Equality Act. The judgment
uses the expression ‘biological sex’ to describe the sex of a person at birth.
The phrase ‘biological sex’ has the same meaning when used throughout this
Code. This is also referred to as ‘sex at birth’ in this Code.
2.50 This means that, in relation to the Act, a person’s sex remains their biological
sex, whether they have a GRC or not. For example, a trans man with a GRC is a
woman and a trans woman with a GRC is a man, for the purposes of the Act.
2.51 This Code only relates to the application of the Equality Act 2010. It does
not deal with the implications of the For Women Scotland judgment for the
application of section 9 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to any other
legislation.
2.52 A trans person will be protected from discrimination because of gender
reassignment, whether they have a GRC or not.

Dear Ms Lilley,

Thanks for taking the time to contact us again.

Our social media guidelines are publicly available for anyone to view. You can find these through any search engine, and they are applied equally and fairly to any situation no matter the individuals involved.

As stated however, Martina is not a BBC member of staff, nor was she working for us at the time of the post. The BBC's social media guidelines apply only to those working for us.

We have shared your ongoing concerns about any further work with Martina, with management at BBC Sport.

This concludes Stage 1 of our complaints process. That means we can’t correspond with you further here. If you remain unhappy, you can now contact the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit

Dear BBC Complaints Team,
Thank you for your response.
However, I do not believe it addresses the substance of my complaint.
My complaint was not about Martina Navratilova’s employment status, nor whether she presents a flagship programme. It was about whether a BBC-associated presenter publicly referring to an identifiable transgender woman, Dr Beth Upton, as a “predator” and “sexual predator” complies with BBC standards on respect, civility, harm, and bringing the BBC into disrepute.
Your reply appears to sidestep that central issue.
Whether someone is staff or freelance is not especially relevant to public perception. Viewers understand Martina Navratilova to be a BBC presenter and associate her conduct with the organisation.
I would therefore like this complaint escalated and specifically ask:
Does the BBC consider such public allegations acceptable conduct from its presenters or contributors?
Were BBC social media/conduct standards considered in this case?
Are these standards applied consistently where transgender people are the target of abusive commentary?
I would appreciate a substantive response to those points.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC’s) former chairwoman, Kishwer Falkner, has joined ‘gender-critical’ House of Lords peers in calling for an abortion scheme to be scrapped in the UK.

The 71-year-old life peer was among several to support an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill which would scrap the ‘pills by post’ scheme.

Implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, the postal scheme allows those who are less than 10 weeks pregnant to have abortion medication delivered to their homes. It was praised for improving access to medical abortions by alleviating the fears and social stigma of being spotted in a sexual health clinic.

However, House of Lords Conservative peer, Baroness Philippa Stroud, has requested the service be scrapped completely in amendments that members will vote on this week.

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Guidance to exclude trans people is coming in May

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We wanted to provide an update on what is happening following the Official Strongman Games World Championships 2025 which were held in Arlington, Texas over the weekend. It appears that an athlete who is biologically male and who now identifies as female competed in the Women's Open category. Official Strongman officials were unaware of this fact ahead of the competition and we have been urgently investigating since being informed. An attempt has been made to contact the competitor involved but a response has not been received.

Had we been aware, or had this been declared at any point before or during the competition, this athlete would not have been permitted to compete in the Woman’s Open category. We are clear - competitors can only compete in the category for the biological sex recorded at birth. Official Strongman is inclusive and proud to run events which do not discriminate against athletes based on personal characteristics. Any athlete is welcome. But it is our responsibility to ensure fairness and ensure athletes are assigned to men or women’s categories based on whether they are recorded as male or female at birth.

Given this, we have disqualified the athlete in question from the Official Strongman World Championships 2025. All athlete points and places will be altered accordingly to ensure that the rightful places are allocated to each of the Women’s Open athletes.

The Official Strongman World Championships is an event which is rightly one of the pinnacles of the strength world. We are disappointed on behalf of all those who fairly and legitimately took part that the attention has been taken away from their efforts which deserve celebration, no matter how they performed or where they finished. We stand with them and stand with fairness.”

Strongman Corporation wants to ensure that all athletes, no matter what their
gender circumstances are able to compete in their perspective gender categories
fairly and evenly. The transgender policy of Strongman Corporation mirrors that of
the International Olympic IOC committee medical guidelines with respect to
transgender athlete competition, and must be adhered to for fair competition.
Those who transition from female to male are eligible to compete in the male
category without restriction. Those who transition from male to female are eligible
to compete in the female category under the following conditions:
1. The athlete has declared that her gender identity is female. The declaration
cannot be changed, for sporting purposes, for a minimum of four years.
2. The athlete must demonstrate that her total testosterone level in serum has
been below 10 nmol/L for at least 12 months prior to her first competition
(with the requirement for any longer period to be based on a confidential
case-by-case evaluation, considering whether or not 12 months is a sufficient
length of time to minimize any advantage in women’s competition).
3. The athlete's total testosterone level in serum must remain below 10 nmol/L throughout the entire period of desired eligibility to compete in the female
category.
4. Compliance with these conditions must be monitored by testing. In the eventof non-compliance, the athlete’s eligibility for female competition will besuspended for 12 months.
a. Athletes must provide documentation of all continuous medical
testing over the course of the year showing approved levels.
b. Athletes are responsible for their own medical costs and testing.
Any individual may appeal a decision made by Strongman Corporation about their status.

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4/ Mainstream Media: "Shocking!"

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Panel 1: The man rides and puts a stick into his own front wheel. Text reads, “Labour appoint Starmer as party leader.”
Panel 2: He falls off the bike in pain. Text reads, “Labour attack all marginalised communities.”
Panel 3: He’s lying on the ground, clutching his knee, blaming others. Text reads, “Why is nobody voting for us?”
The meme criticises the Labour Party for self-sabotaging and then acting surprised at low public support.

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Katie Freeman-Tayler, of children's safety group Internet Matters, said on Thursday that availability of free and low cost VPN services to children, and their potential use of them, was "concerning".

"This makes it easy for them to circumvent important protections introduced under the Online Safety Act, such as age checks designed to shield them from adult content," she told the BBC.

But Ofcom says platforms required to introduce "highly effective" methods to check user age must not host, share or permit content that encourages use of VPNs to get around age checks.

The government has also told the BBC it would be illegal for platforms to do so.

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After the Supreme Court ruling the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) issued interim guidance saying trans women "should not be permitted to use the women's facilities" in workplaces or public-facing services like hospitals, with the same applying for trans men using men's toilets.

Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden later said the "logical consequence" of the judgement and the EHRC guidance was that people will have to use toilets and other facilities of their biological sex.

In April, British Transport Police became the first to announce it would change its strip-search policy to have trans people searched by an officer in line with their birth sex.

The EHRC is expected to put forward a more detailed code of practice for ministerial approval this summer.

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