The Rainbow Thieves Are At it Again.

After For Women Scotland’s triumph at the Supreme Court many of us dared to hope the defeat of trans ideology was imminent.

As if to remind us of the fragility of hope the British government proceeded to take over a year to publish official guidelines on how the judgment should be applied. What was it Ministers found so hard?

Yesterday, we found out the answer to that question when the Draft Code finally appeared.

The significance of the Supreme Court judgment lay in the fact it scythed through layers of ambiguity the trans lobby deliberately wove round the Equality Act. The EHRC’s Draft Code seems determined to reintroduce much of that ambivalence.

One clue to the EHRC’s desire to avoid clarity was the failure of its Chair, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, to refer to ‘women’ in the video it released.

The updated Code of Practice was all about avoiding discrimination against “people” she reassured us.

She then said the Code needed to be revised after legal changes…. in particular the Supreme Court judgment. There are two problems with her claim. For one thing the Supreme Court judgment did not change the law. It merely clarified it. As if that was not bad enough Stephenson then claimed the Court’s judgment had been about the “definition of sex”.

Far be it from me to point out the obvious but the Supreme Court actually ruled on whether the possession of a Gender Recognition Certificate means a man should be treated as a woman under the Equality Act. In short it’s about the legal definition of “a woman” not sex. If the EHRC is unclear about this they might want to consult the summary of the case on the website of an organisation……called the Supreme Court.

Perhaps the EHRC didn’t have time to check the Supreme Court’s description of its judgment during these 13 long months since it ruled.

So what happens now? Parliament does not have to approve the Code but it has the power to reject it and has 40 days to do so. You can bet your bottom dollar some of the usual suspects will insist on just that.

The charitable interpretation is that the Code’s artful confusions (more of those later) are an attempt to bring the likes of Zarah Sultana and her fellow trans-obsessed lefties on board. Good luck with that.

My money is on a different interpretation. In my less charitable reading the reason it’s taken so long for the Code to be published is because the EHRC and Ministers have been embroiled in intense negotiations with Stonewall, the LGBT Foundation and the rest of the lanyard-wearing, self-described queers.

These negotiations have almost certainly been about reassuring the LGBTQ+ lobby there is sufficient ambiguity in the new Code to allow them to continue to misrepresent the law. To sugar this reassurance the government has been willing to pay a hefty price. A bribe indeed.

Just three days ago - and a mere 48 hours before the EHRC’s Code was published - the government announced that next year it will host a lavish celebration in London of the LGBTQ+ lobby: the European IDAHOT Forum. Uhh?

Well may you ask.

IDAHOT (or International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia to its few friends) used to be known as IDAHOBIT, a name beyond preposterous. After years of ridicule the LGBTQ+ powers-that-be seem finally to have taken the hint. What’s not changed though is their determination to use IDAHOT (aka IDAHOBIT) to advance the toxic nostrums of trans ideology.

If there was any doubt about that let me tell you how the Labour government intends to use next year’s event to funnel an extraordinary £21M of taxpayers money to LGBTQ+ groups. Groups that will promptly use this money to try to change our laws. Including perhaps the Equality Act.

Like a drag queen Darth Vader the Trans Empire is about…to strike back.