Thread by @WepWomen

#IStandWithMaya ❤️

We hope @WEP_UK @WEP_Scot @WEP_Wales @ManduReid are following Maya Forstarter's appeal today

An appeal that gets to the very crux of women's rights in the UK today- women's right to say #sexmatters

Case details 👇🏿

It is vital that @WEP_UK get to grips with the issues at the crux of this appeal

It is also key that the @EHRC is intervening on behalf of Maya & indicates how far we have come despite the silence of our feminist leaders at WEP

#IStandWithMaya #SexMatters

WEP bursts at the seams with radical, women centred policies ❤️ & our leader @ManduReid is smart, compassionate & down to earth ❤️

However we have left the heavy lifting of defending #womensrights to those without the protection & weight that we have as a party.

#sexmatters

WE can not let this untenable situation continue 💔

@WEP_UK's silence discredits us, it undermines our essential policies and in doing so undermines women & girls

Please do reach out to us either on twitter or via our website 👇🏿
#IStandWithMaya
wepsbr.com/blog

Her skeleton argument can be viewed here 👇🏿

hiyamaya.net/employment-app…

The Index For Censorship agrees that the initial ruling was incorrect

Here is there skeletal argument 👇🏿

#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

hiyamaya.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/forsta…

Day 2

When the barrister @janeErussell suggests that @MForstater is implying 'sex superiority'

To assert this is to suggest that women occupy a position of structural power over men. This is objectively not the case

#sexmatters #sexnotgender #IStandWithMayaForstater

Barrister @janeErussell claims that re sex 'society has moved on'

Given that sex is not a social construct this would seem nonsensical

It is also true that this is not the case in the law- this is not helped by the Barrister using sex & gender interchangeably
#IStandWithMaya

Listening to a court trawl through endless (reasonable) tweets & statements smacks of a witch hunt & targeted harassment through the courts

#ThisIsNotADrill #IStandWithMaya

Using DSDs as 'evidence' that sex is a spectrum is not fit for court

It is offensive, inaccurate & conflates sex characteristic variations with ideas of gender identity

It is worrying how these ideas have been embedded into bench mark guidance

#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

The Barrister quotes Simone De Beauvoir 🙄

(yep, she went there)

Simone did not believe sex is a spectrum, that 'society has moved on' or that sex is immaterial in 'becoming a woman'

Appropriating women's political movement to attack our rights is a #newlow

#IStandWithmaya

The Barrister is now speaking French

c'est quoi ce bordel? 🧐

#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

The Barrister refers to The Yogyakarta Principles

One of the founders Professor Robert Wintemute recently denounced them because at no point was the impact on women (of removing sex & replacing with gender identity in law) considered 👇🏿
#IStandwithMaya

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…

Apparently 'sex has moved on since 1971'

shame the #paygap hasn't 💔

#IStandWithMaya #sexmatters

'Sex is clearly changeable'

'You can literally change sex because the GRA 2004 says you can' (well it doesn't actually)

Barrister @janeErussell
Maya Forstater V CGD Europe
28.4.21

#sexmatters #sexnotgender #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill #LegalFiction

*Natal women

Once more for the back of the class- We are not BORN women. We are girls & we mature into women.

It would seem a good opportunity to quote Simone De Beauvoir again 😊😂

#IStandWithMaya

Stopping for lunch/cocktails

Ended on a page turner when Karon Monaghan QC interjected for the @EHRC to school the testimony of
@janeErussell

It would turn out that sex is immutable ❤️#colourmeshocked

#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill

Ben Cooper acting on behalf of Maya has just shown the judge a picture of Gregor Murray
😆

(I think he flinched)

Gregor Murray (now suspended for harassing women) is 'non-binary' - it is being suggested that referring to him as 'he' is an act of transphobia

#IStandWithMaya

For more detailed tweeting from the court please see @SexMattersOrg

To read more & support their work 👇🏿

sex-matters.org/where-sex-matt…

We eagerly anticipate the courts ruling in the coming months

Many are concerned at the length of time this appeal will take.

Don't be 👇🏿