Hadley Freedman talked to For Women Scotland about the interesting fact that Scotland has done absolutely fuck-all to put the ruling into practice.

Politicians are “thwarting” the Supreme Court ruling on women’s rights and are putting women at risk, according to the feminist group For Women Scotland (FWS).

Ruling in favour of the campaigners, who brought the court case, the judges said in April that the term “sex” in the Equality Act refers to biological sex, when it comes to the provision of single sex spaces. This means the term “women” refers to — hold onto your hats — women, and women-only spaces are lawfully provided for women. The term does not mean, as the Scottish government insisted, and spent at least £374,000 arguing, a man who identifies as a woman, known as a trans woman.

And why not? Because of the “man” part. It’s really quite simple once you figure it out.

Susan Smith, 53, a former financial adviser and one of FWS’s three founding members, says: “Both the Scottish government and the UK government claim they accept the Supreme Court ruling, but they have done nothing to implement it. Rather, they have gone out of their way to thwart it. Bridget Phillipson [the secretary for women and equalities] in particular is trying to fudge the law by sitting on the Equality and Human Rights Commission [EHRC] guidance, and it is having a serious impact on women.”

Well maybe it is, but you see that doesn’t matter, because women don’t matter. Men matter, and men who say they are women matter times a billion, but women don’t matter. Once you accept this obvious fact it’s all smooth sailing.

After the ruling, the EHRC drafted a code of practice advising businesses and public bodies how to maintain single-sex spaces, including hospital wards and prisons, in order to comply with the ruling, and urged the government to bring it to parliament “at speed”.

Honestly do they really need a written code of practice? Is it really that difficult? Just do what you were doing until the Trans Juggernaut rolled over the horizon. Put your pants on one leg at a time, and don’t tell men they can bounce into women’s toilets and locker rooms.

More than three months later, however, Phillipson is still refusing to sign it, saying she is concerned the guidance is “trans exclusive” — and if she means that it excludes males from women’s-only spaces, she is correct, because that is what flows from the court’s ruling.

It’s “trans exclusive” only in the sense that it doesn’t treat claims of being trans as a reason to force women to put up with men in their spaces. It’s just the same old guidance we’ve had for decades: don’t force women out of public life by refusing to let them piss in a room with no men in it. Continue to let women have their own spaces, shut the fuck up about trans whatevers, and move on.

Trina Budge, 54, a farmer from Caithness and FWS’s third founder, adds: “You know, we asked to meet with Phillipson just before the verdict last April, and she said no.”

Did Starmer contact them? They all burst out laughing at the thought.

I love them. I want to be their best buddy.