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Michael Foran

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Michael Foran

@michaelpforan

Associate Professor of Law @OxfordLawFac & Tutorial Fellow @KebleOxford | Public Law, Equality & Jurisprudence | Sex, Gender Identity & the Law (CUP 2026)

Oxford

Joined April 2017

Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Oct 21, 2024
I’m a Dr because I have a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge, where I completed a thesis on Equality Before the Law, the Rule of Law and unlawful discrimination. It won the Yorke prize. I probably know more about discrimination law than a D list news presenter.
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Jul 18, 2025
If a patient asks for female only intimate care but her doctors and nurses don’t know whether or not they’re female, how do they meet the patients needs?
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Oct 6, 2023
If you think the phrase “women’s boundaries matter” is a bigoted dog-whistle you may be suffering from misogyny. Symptoms include failure to respect boundaries and a belief that women asserting their boundaries is motivated by hatred rather than privacy, dignity, and consent.
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Feb 11, 2025
Sandie Peggie has requested nothing more than what she is entitled to under law: a single sex changing facility at work.
The Critic
@TheCriticMag
Feb 11, 2025
Sandie Peggie should not have had to change with a male person, explains @michaelpforan thecritic.co.uk/the-truth-abou…
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Feb 16, 2025
It's been revealed that NHS Fife are still investigating Sandie Peggie for accusations their lawyer, Jane Russell, is arguing she is guilty of in open court. I can't stress how shocking it is to pre-judge an ongoing disciplinary process like this.
Nurse who challenged trans NHS doctor threatened with sack after ‘misgendering’
From telegraph.co.uk
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
May 27, 2025
The Scottish Government has been ordered to pay the costs and expenses of For Women Scotland arising from the legal dispute between them.
For Women Scotland
@ForWomenScot
May 27, 2025
The court order has now been issued by the UK Supreme Court.
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Feb 17, 2025
I’m staggered by the way NHS Fife’s legal team have behaved. Consistent and extensive failure to comply with a judicial order, baseless objections to x-exam, inconsistent claims about key evidence, and now prejudging an ongoing disciplinary investigation. It’s just shocking.
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Jul 25, 2025
It is absolutely extraordinarily that Jane Russell would, on no basis at all, imply that three lawyers and one forensic expert have engaged in professional misconduct in what can only be a desperate attempt to discredit evidence that is damaging to Beth Upton.
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Oct 31, 2024
I’ve just finished lecturing to some of the best first-year students I’ve had the pleasure of meeting in my career to date and checked my email to see this. Life is good.
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Feb 20, 2025
Dr Upton had no such right under our law. NHS Fife was under a clear obligation to provide separate sex changing facilities and Dr Upton was legally a man for all purposes.
Sally Hines
@sally_hines
Feb 19, 2025
The number of high profile commentators posting blatant untruths about this case is astonishing. Dr Upton had every right to use the facilities she was using. So again, a trans person, with or without a GRC, has the right to use the facilities that align with their gender
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
May 29, 2025
I’m delighted to announce that this September I will take up the post of Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Law at Keble College. I couldn’t be more excited to be joining this incredible community of scholars.
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Jul 23, 2025
Interesting how both Isla Bumba and Kate Searle relied on Google to provide them with advice on the law relating to single sex changing rooms. I wonder what their views are on people googling their symptoms and relying on that for medical advice.
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Jul 18, 2025
Naomi Cunningham’s junior in Peggie v NHS Fife, Charlotte Elves, has played an absolute blinder today. Great cross this morning and then took complete control of an extraordinary developing situation in response to the irresponsible NHS Fife statement.
Lawyers for nurse in trans case criticise 'irresponsible' health board
From bbc.com
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Michael Foran
@michaelpforan
Jul 28, 2023
This is a perfect example of the conflict of rights between sex and gender. Pretending there’s no clash leaves individual duty bearers in an impossible situation.
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