Dear Judge, you are creating case law

An open letter to the people whose decisions ripple through every courtroom that follows

Every judgment you make about a trans person sets a precedent. Please make sure you are not being wrongly influenced.

Your decisions travel further than you think

If you are reading this, you are someone with the power to shape lives through the decisions you make. Whether you sit in a family court, an employment tribunal, a criminal court, or any other setting where justice is meant to be served, the judgments you hand down affect real people in real and lasting ways. They also set precedents. They create the case law that other judges will look to when making their own decisions. What you decide today will ripple through courtrooms for years to come.

I want to talk to you specifically about decisions involving trans people, because I am concerned that some of the evidence and argumentation reaching you is not what it appears to be.

The evidence landscape has been contaminated