Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026substack.com/@sarahphilli...substack.comBriefing note on the Conversion Practices BillI will be discussing this Bill at the Battle of Ideas on Sunday 18 October so publish here a recent briefing note I drafted, to put my concerns in context. 022
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreBarbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I’ve followed and supported this defamation claim for some time. The offer to compromise makes cogent points on the findings of the BSB and its independent reviewer dismissing the complaint as an obstacle to a defence of truth to defamation, and on the vulnerability of the complainant as a witness 192
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/an-open-of...sarahphillimore.substack.comAn open offer to settle to Jolyon MaughamThis offer was rejected and is now withdrawn. 0123
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/some-more-...sarahphillimore.substack.comSome more thoughts on freedom of speechThose who crusade on behalf of individuals, to promote an ideology or increase fund raising, must owe some duty of care to their psychological well being. 072
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 15/08/2026sarahphillimore.substack.com/p/the-curiou...sarahphillimore.substack.comThe Curious Incident of the Invisible Police at the Pride EventsIf the police are going to argue in the High Court that they have a 'duty' to visibly support the LGBTQIA++++ community which overrides their statutory duty of impartiality - where are they? 041
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreEF @frohe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Everyone attacking male basketball players for saying they want to play for the WNBA should read this (but they won't) 192
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comYours sincerelyRecent controversy over US male basketball players brings the 'test' for 'what is a woman' into stark relief. 082
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comThe Conversion Practices BillIs this capable of bringing down both the criminal AND family justice systems? Much more work needs to be done to analyse the impact of this bill on the already tottering family justice system. 194
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 14/06/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comA letter to the Mayor of ChippenhamOn 13 June 2026 I went to Chippenham Pride. It was dedicated to gender identity. Where does this leave women's rights, children's safety and the rule of law? 094
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 08/06/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comThe police have a duty to be impartial11 months after victory against Northumbria, we are here again against Wiltshire Police. Of all the organisations we have lost to gender identity, the police are among the most serious casualties. 042
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 30/05/2026substack.com/@sarahphilli...substack.comTruth, Lies and the Public Interest.What are the dangers of academia corrupted by ideological delusion? Whose version of 'truth' should prevail in court? To what degree can it ever be in the 'public interest' to assert what is untrue? 042
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 28/05/2026www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...telegraph.co.ukYou are seeing this page because our security systems have detected some unusual activity on this connection. To regain access to The Telegraph website please try the following: 1165
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 10/05/2026substack.com/@sarahphilli...substack.comWeasel Words: Response to the Good Law Project's request review of the BSB decisionWhat the Good Law Project are attempting is to diminish the protection of article 10 ECHR for every regulated professional. This must be resisted. 042
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 25/04/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comThe only way out is throughIt's yet another fight between the liberal and the illiberal. But if you think dishonest disparagement is a substitute for argument, you will not have me as either your victim or your audience 031
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 14/04/2026You platformed Alan Baker, a very violent man out on licence for really serious criminal offences and you tell us this in the kind of man we should ‘include’ in single sex female spaces because he says he’s a woman. Expect comment. 051
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 04/04/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comHis milkshake brings ALL the boys to the yardWill the Good Law Project's determination to fight 'transphobia' on every front mean the embrace of some very dubious allies? 2103
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreBarbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The Bar Standards Board sent the GLP a detailed determination rejecting the complaint of harassment on 27 March 2026. Yet it has taken the GLP almost a week to update its followers on this outcome, and to do so with redaction of examples of the complainant’s own abusive language cited by the BSB 2218
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/03/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comRight Here. Right Now.Another stunning technical victory for the Good Law Project shows that sanity is being restored to the public debate about gender identity, slowly but ever so surely. 072
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 21/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comOn shameFor years now I have been noticing an interesting insistence from many that 'shame' is the way out of gender identity ideology. I disagree. 141
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 18/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comHolding free speech hostage: when does 'minority stress' overcome fundamental human rights?The continuing saga of Christian social worker Felix Ngole has yet another chapter, this time at the EAT. What can this tell us about belief versus manifestation of belief? 121
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 16/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comFirst I was afraid, I was petrified...And now I am livid. Gender identity ideology corrupts everything it touches. And that is dangerous. 3112
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 14/02/2026If only trans identifying men could follow their own advice! 151
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreNaomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Michael Foran's excellent clear explainer of yesterday's GLP v EHRC judgment. knowingius.org/p/good-law-p...knowingius.orgGood Law Project v EHRCThe High Court has dismissed a judicial review brought by the Good Law Project and three individuals challenging the lawfulness and accuracy of the Interim Update issued by the Equality and Human Righ... 24718
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreRob Colley @welshracer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026High Court dismisses challenge to single-sex toilet guidance: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHigh Court dismisses challenge to single-sex toilet guidanceCampaigners claimed the guidance for employers, such as hospitals, shops and restaurants, was 101
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreNick Wallis @nickwallis.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Superb round up of the week's gender stories by the SEEN in journalism network: open.substack.com/pub/seeninjo...open.substack.comLandmark cases, trans crime and a parliamentary debateMedia update and overview February 1-8 0135
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 03/02/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comTilting at WindmillsWhen the world is burning, why court a fight with a determined and unreachable ideologue, who has deep pockets filled with other people's money? 010
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 03/02/2026The Good Law Project, as reliably wrong as ever. Euan Weddell is neither young nor a woman. And I have not harassed him. But fools and their money are soon parted! 441
Reposted by Sarah Phillimorewomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/01/2026'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt 143883
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreMargaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 16/01/20261. The Darlington nurses won their discrimination case against an NHS trust, but a piecemeal destruction of unlawful practices is too slow. Sex Matters says, "The coming year will test whether institutions are willing to comply with the law – or whether they will have to be compelled to do so."sex-matters.orgWhat will 2026 bring for sex-based rights?The Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act brought legal clarity to sex-based rights last year, and most people agree with it. 2346
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreLabour Women's Declaration @labwomendec.bsky.social · 16/01/2026An Employment Tribunal has ruled that the Darlington nurses were unlawfully harassed and discriminated against after being required to share women’s changing rooms with a male colleague. This case underlines the need for clear guidance — and for trade unions to stand firmly with women members. 25613
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreThe Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 16/01/2026🔺 BREAKING: Darlington NHS nurses win harassment claim in trans rulingthetimes.comDarlington NHS nurses win harassment claim in trans rulingDarlington NHS nurses win harassment claim in trans ruling 86911
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreLissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Victory for the Darlington nurses in their tribunal case. From the judgement: 713318
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Basic intellectual hygiene is when you see a screenshot of something where someone you disapprove of or dislike or think is evil or any of the above is doing something worth mocking, you should go check first. In this case, it appears she was answering an Iranian Harry Potter fan. 1219827
Reposted by Sarah PhillimoreVerity Adevrescu @verity-adevrescu.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Don't forget to sign! 085
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 11/01/2026open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comWords as incantation and the death of satireI worry about words used as 'spell casting' rather than to promote discussion, which infects all controversial debate, not merely around gender identity. I also worry about the impact of this on me. 021
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 26/12/2025open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comI'm Every WomanThe new thought terminating cliché has arrived and it is 'living as a woman'. If this means 'successfully passing' then what are the implications for the (majority) of trans identifying men who don't? 011
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 10/12/2025open.substack.com/pub/sarahphi...open.substack.comLetter before ActionI publish here my letter to Jolyon Maugham. There is no freedom of speech to tell harmful lies about others. 071
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Have a good day Sammy. I have to get on with my day. I am glad at least you agree that medicalising children to prop up an ‘identity’ should be a last resort. 210
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Of course not. You are just another mentally fragile person who thinks an ‘identity’ makes you special or interesting. Be and do whatever you like that is within the law. I don’t care about your ‘gender’ - I care about your sex. If it’s male, stay out of female spaces. 130
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/11/2025You tell me Sammy. Even if the answer is ‘none’ I am still not going to agree that we let men into women’s spaces. Please stay out. 130
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/11/2025We don’t. So your opinion is just as worthless as mine. But what we do know is that medicalising children didn’t ramp up until 2015 and there is still no evidence that that intervention has benefits: increasing evidence of the harm it does. Do what you want to your adult body. Leave children alone 120
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Trans identifying men are men. You can’t change sex. This is a fact and it is not ‘racism’ or any kind of phobia to acknowledge a fact. Women have a right to single sex female spaces. I will go on saying and believing this. If it distresses you, don’t engage with me. 130
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/11/2025So it’s interesting isn’t it that we didn’t have a wave of children committing suicide from 1900 because they couldn’t medically transition? 220
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/11/2025And here I am, responding to a rude and insulting trans identifying man without becoming emotionally dysregulated - because I am not mentally ill. It will be interesting to see how long ‘Sammy’ can last. 110
Sarah Phillimore @sarahphillimore.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I am very aware of my privilege and very aware of when I see others attempting to abuse it. White men are demanding access to female spaces: just as they have always done. Women will continue to resist them. 130