Human rights busybodies should keep out of the trans toilet row

The problems with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the bureaucracy behind it aren’t limited to the spanners they push into the wheels of immigration enforcement. They also now appear to be meddling over hard-won sex-based rights. A letter from the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner, Michael O’Flaherty, is likely to be seized upon by the trans lobby to further their cause.

An urgent ECHR exit just became a great deal more plausible – and rightly so

The missive suggests that any serious government effort to put the landmark ‘For Women Scotland’ Supreme Court ruling – which held that the legal definition of ‘woman’ in the Equality Act is based on biological sex – could possibly amount to an existential threat to the human rights of trans people. It goes on to sa