Notes & long reads
Longer-form thinking on inclusion, belonging and the cultural forces shaping how we work — published on Substack.
20 June 2026
Whose Harm Counts
The EHRC says its Code is even‑handed. Read what it does, not what it says, and the balance tips one way — and the most uncomfortable evidence is sitting in the Government’s own pa…
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19 June 2026
A Regulator That Won’t Regulate
The most important word in the Code’s 300 pages is “proportionate.” It is also the one the EHRC would not define — and that refusal hands the hardest decisions, and the legal risk.…
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18 June 2026
The Door Marked Exit
The Code’s answer to everyone it excludes is “alternative provision.” Go looking for it, and you find a door painted on a wall. Part three of The Dignity Gap.…
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17 June 2026
Common Sense and the Return of the Stereotype
The EHRC insists it is not asking anyone to judge sex by appearance. Its own Code says otherwise — and the test driving it was never in the Supreme Court’s judgment at all. Part tw…
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16 June 2026
An Iceberg and a Witch Hunt
Britain’s equality regulator went before a Commons committee to defend its new trans guidance. What unfolded was a reckoning — and the hardest questions came from inside the govern…
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8 June 2026
What Should Transgender People Expect as a Minimum Standard of Dignity and Respect?
A clear, practical guide to the baseline protections for trans people under the Equality Act 2010 — and why dignity, privacy, and respect are not optional extras.…
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6 June 2026
The EHRC Could Have Chosen Dignity
What a less harsh Code of Practice could have said after *For Women Scotland* — while still accepting that “sex” means biological sex under the Equality Act 2010…
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5 June 2026
Three Doors, One Paradox: What “Dignity and Respect” Really Means After For Women Scotland
What three doors reveal about dignity, recognition, and the quiet shift from equal access to conditional inclusion…
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30 May 2026
Compliance Is Not a Licence for Cruelty
Trans people remain protected under the Equality Act. Service providers must not use uncertainty, public pressure or single-sex service rules as cover for humiliation, exclusion or…
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22 May 2026
The Toilet Door Is Not a Border Check
The uncomfortable reality behind the EHRC Code: what organisations can write in policy is not always what they can operate with dignity…
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21 May 2026
EHRC "Draft" Code of Practice 2026: Clarity, Caution and the Reality for Trans People
What the amended EHRC "draft" Code means for service providers, trans people, and the difficult work of applying clarity without cruelty…
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19 May 2026
When Pride becomes contested, organisational values either hold or fold
Pride 2026 is not just about flags, statements or campaigns. It is about whether organisations keep their promises when the pressure arrives.…
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16 April 2026
This Is Not Clarity. It Is Compulsion Dressed Up as Compliance.
A year on from For Women Scotland, employers are being offered legal neatness at the expense of human dignity…
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31 March 2026
TDOV: When Visibility Stops Feeling Safe
When visibility brings risk instead of safety, holding the rope matters more than ever…
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30 March 2026
The Equality Act Is Not Symmetrical — And That Is Exactly What People Keep Getting Wrong
Why “if you let a trans woman in, you let all men in” is not legal clarity but a category error…
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25 March 2026
Did Girlguiding Really Have No Choice?
Law, language, and the decision to exclude trans girls…
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