Thread by @fairplaywomen

THREAD: Huge congratulations to Katie Alcock @wontsomeonethi2 for holding @Girlguiding to account. They were wrong to expel her for raising concerns about a policy that allows male children to sleep, wash and undress with females, and keeping parents in the dark /1

@wontsomeonethi2 @Girlguiding Speaking up in public about the girlguiding trans policy was one of the first Fair Play For Women campaigns back in 2018. Here's our director Nicola Williams @AskNic talking on daytime TV at the BBC studios /2

@wontsomeonethi2 @Girlguiding @AskNic Back in 2018 it was hard to get air time and we were in the midst of the #nodebate era. Girlguiding, Stonewall and the NSPCC all refusing to defend the policy /3

Back then sex denialism was strong. We spelt out the clear implications of the policy; male teenagers sleeping, washing and undressing with girls, and parents not told. The response:

"but they don't identify as male. They identify as female" /4

Raising safeguarding issues was met with incredulity and suspicion. Common sense was thrown out the window. /5

We are proud to have stood up for girls when few dared to speak the truth.

"when she looks around she can see that no adults even dare to say that child is male" /6

Even the @NSPCC was shamefully disregarding its own evidence about child sexual abuse /7
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"they are male children. There is no difference in their body or between any other child"

"There is a difference in the way that they feel and the way that they identify" /8

Stonewall was misrepresenting the law. We were one of the first organisations to call them out /9

Katie Alcock's case has guaranteed that the safeguarding issues surrounding Girlguiding's trans policy can and must be discussed openly, without fear of sanction. The era of #Nodebate is over. /10