Today’s vote should have never been needed. MPs passed the bill last year by a clear majority, before a handful of unelected Peers stalled it to a halt in the House of Lords - not through honest debate but through procedural game-playing. The public deserves better.

Today I met with our trans, non-binary and gender diverse members. So many members have written to us explaining that the updated EHRC guidance is unworkable. I will work with our trans non-binary and gender diverse members to change the law for legal gender recognition.

I am Eldur, a gay man from Iceland who has spent years speaking out against the sexualisation, medicalisation and sterilisation of gender-non-conforming children, and against the erosion of gay rights, women’s rights and free expression. I am currently facing a lawsuit in Héraðsdómur Reykjavíkur (Reykjavík District Court) brought by Ugla Stefanía Kristjónudóttir Jónsdóttir — co-author of the notorious Dentons “playbook” and Reykjavík City’s “transgender issues specialist” — simply because I called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors what they are: child abuse. The second preliminary hearing is this Thursday, 20 August. The case is moving forward. I am approximately €2,000 short of the target, and my legal fees are due at the end of August. Without this sum, my defence is at risk. This is not just about me. It is a SLAPP-style attempt to bankrupt and silence a gay man who refuses to lie about sex, biology, and the safeguarding of children. Ugla’s lawsuit is designed to scare anyone who dares question the current orthodoxy. If it succeeds, it sets a dangerous precedent: that critics of gender ideology can be dragged through the courts and financially ruined for telling the truth. I have no large organisation behind me. I am an ordinary Icelander relying on the goodwill of people worldwide who still believe in evidence-based safeguarding, free speech, and the right of gay men to say that men are not women and that children need protection. £2,000 is needed now to cover the next tranche of legal costs and keep this fight alive. Every donation, no matter how small, makes a real difference. If you believe children should not be sterilised, that women’s spaces should remain sex-based, and that gay people should not be cancelled for defending biological reality, please stand with me. Donate here to my legal fundraiser: gofundme.com/f/help-me-defen…

Journalists are being smeared as racists and killers simply for reporting the truth There are lists of us being drawn up and circulated The press-regulation ghouls are shamefully trying to exploit another tragedy Now would be a great time for the media to stand up for itself