Now approaching two and a half years since my claim against the United Kingdom was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and my legal team and I still await a response.

The claim’s introduction is registered as 8 June 2022, which is curious because the claim was delivered by courier the following day, but since then nothing has happened. One addition to the record was made on 13 June 2022 to indicate the application is requiring a decision. That is waiting for the first decision which is to allocate the claim to a particular judicial formation or rule the claim as inadmissible. Inadmissible claims are generally dealt with by a single judge formation and take a matter of months to get through the system. The fact that my claim has not been thrown out as yet should indicate no grounds for an inadmissible ruling, and there are indeed no grounds for ruling this legitimate and critically important claim inadmissible, but I am disturbed to have heard literally nothing from the court after all this time.

As a reminder, justice was not served in the UK with an evidently biased Supreme Court handing down a truly shocking judgment that goes against a growing progressive international trend towards issuance of X PASSPORTS. There was something very wrong in the way the UK’s judicial system failed so badly over an issue that has been accepted as a legitimate human rights issue in other countries. I urge anyone who wants to get a better understanding of what actually happened at the Supreme Court hearing to watch the videos. I challenge anyone who seriously believes the need for X PASSPORTS had a fair hearing from the UK Supreme Court. What I found very curious was that there was dissent on the bench and this was not reflected in the unanimous judgment. It will now be for Strasbourg to decide whether it is ever acceptable to force a non-gendered person to accept inappropriate gendered classification or lose the right to travel. If they ever get to process my claim.

I will soon need to renew my passport, doing it early and losing several months in order to circumnavigate travel restrictions caused by the hard Brexit the UK imposed on itself. This is the fourth decade where I’ve had to knowingly provide false information in order to obtain a passport and accept a document that undermines rather than affirms my identity.

If my claim has been left unprocessed for almost two and a half years then how long can I be expected to wait for a decision? I’m nearly 70. Justice delayed is justice denied. And justice is no fucking good to me when I’m dead.

Leaving you now on that none too optimistic note before I get really angry and say something I might regret.