The Daily Mail [sorry]:

More than half of local authorities are still failing to comply with the ‘crystal clear’ Supreme Court ruling on biological sex almost a year after the landmark judgment.

Some 159 of the 317 councils in England are still ‘waiting for guidance’, despite the Equalities Minister saying that the ruling was ‘crystal, crystal clear’.

Well we can’t expect them to give up the chance to make life worse for women overnight, now can we.

Astonishingly, some councils even ‘made it clear they did not agree with the Supreme Court judgment’ and have maintained trans-inclusive policies, it adds.

It comes as Bridget Phillipson said on Sunday that the landmark ruling ‘set out very, very clearly what sex means’, adding: ‘It means biological sex.’

The Equalities Minister told Sky News: ‘My message to employers, for the avoidance of any doubt, is that they should understand the Supreme Court ruling and take action.’

It’s not really all that hard to understand…

The Women’s Rights Network (WRN) submitted Freedom of Information requests to 317 councils, unitary authorities and London boroughs to produce the report. Its investigation found that more than half are ‘misunderstanding or misrepresenting’ the law.

It’s only women.

WRN founder Heather Binning said it is ‘shameful’ that so many local authorities are still failing to comply with the judgment as they have a ‘moral and legal duty to protect women’s rights’.

She added: ‘It is now 10 months since the Supreme Court confirmed what every right-thinking person has always known – sex means sex, not a self-declared gender identity. There is no need for further guidance, the law is the law.’

Well but how can we be sure what they meant by “sex” and “women” and “means”? It will take several years to work it out.

WRN has highlighted more than a dozen councils whose policies are ‘problematic’ or ‘fail to uphold women’s rights’. Among them is Coventry Council, which the report states has ‘no plans to review its policies and practices in light of the Supreme Court judgment’.

Norwich Council ‘told its staff to keep using the toilets with which they feel most comfortable’, the report adds, while the London Borough of Haringey said it ‘has no plans to review its policies’.

Or to put it another way, those three councils told women “fuck you”.

Cath Dyson, one of the report’s authors said, the findings left her ‘horrified’. She added: ‘This is wrong on so many levels. Local authorities are failing the women they represent, they are failing the women who work for them and they are failing the women who use their services.’

And they’re not doing it by accident.