“Where the discourse about sex and gender is going on online, there are get-outs. You can be abusive, you can walk away, you can produce false evidence. … Whereas you can’t do that in court. You have to answer the question because the judge will make you.”
The UK solicitor Peter Daly has represented some of his country’s most righteous activists. Women fired for maintaining that people can’t change sex. An LGB organization attacked for declaring doctors should not block the puberty of gender-nonconforming children. A whistleblower alleging bias in the civil service.
In For Women Scotland v. The Scottish Ministers, Daly represented LGB Alliance, The Lesbian Project, and Scottish Lesbians as intervenors to explain (in conjunction with barristers Karon Monaghan and Beth Grossman) why UK law should not, and does not, require gay women to let trans-identified straight men into their clubs, parties, or dating apps. The Court ruled resoundingly in favor of FWS and Daly’s clients in April 2025.
Daly is a partner at Doyle Clayton. He’s based in Brighton, England.
On April 25, GCLS interviewed Daly to learn:
What just happened
Why lawyers should represent the victims and antagonists of gender identity theory
Whether Jolyon Maugham is the English Chase Strangio
The surefire way of knowing that a British person doesn’t know what they’re talking about
Note on the audio: It starts with a preview, then starts at the beginning.
The interviewer is Glenna Goldis, a lawyer in New York who publishes the newsletter Bad Facts. Follow her on X.
The recording was edited by Jos Grover, president of LGB Alliance USA.
Links
Sex Matters, the charity launched by Maya Forstater
Eleanor Frances, the government whistleblower
For Women Scotland judgment
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