@SVPhillimore THREAD ON SHARPE'S PAPER:
Sharpe writes (p. 4) that the sex-based exemptions, provided by the 2020 UK Equality Act, so far, have not been successfully challenged in court. The suggestion is that women don’t need to worry about losing any rights...
Sharpe writes (p. 4) that the sex-based exemptions, provided by the 2020 UK Equality Act, so far, have not been successfully challenged in court. The suggestion is that women don’t need to worry about losing any rights...
@SVPhillimore ...resulting from a change in gender legislation, because these problems never arise (in courts). And why is that? Sharpe’s answer (p. 4, FN 20): ‘The reasons for this include the fact organisers of women-only spaces generally respect the rights of trans women...
@SVPhillimore ... and because the exceptions set a high evidential bar. It may also be due, at least in part, to trans women self-excluding from women-only spaces because of the chilling effect of the exceptions and because of the toxic environment...
@SVPhillimore ...that has arisen in the wake of proposed reform of the GRA.’ Well, other reasons come to mind. 1. Many organisations (women’s shelters, rape crisis centres) fear being taken to court, because they struggle with funding as it is (and cuts in legal aid), ...
@SVPhillimore ... so they accommodate trans women. 2. Many organisations (companies, police, schools, etc.) have been trained by Stonewall and Mermaids and were – wrongly – told that trans-women may not be legally excluded from women-only spaces.
@SVPhillimore Sharpe assures women that there is nothing to worry about, because they will retain their sex-based exemptions – ignoring that trans activists are clamouring to abolish these exemptions. Sharpe writes that the exemptions have a ‘chilling effect’ on trans women, ignoring...
@SVPhillimore ...the ‘chilling effect’ trans women have when they demand to share intimate spaces with victims of sexual violence in women’s refuges or in female prisons. Trans activists don’t like the exemptions of the EA...
@SVPhillimore ...because it interferes with their overblown need for validation (think of all the selfies taken in women’s toilets). If they could legally enter all of the women-only spaces, this would be proof that ‘a trans woman is a woman’....
@SVPhillimore At present the exemptions prove that ‘a trans woman is a trans woman’. It is important to resist these demands to do away with sex-based exemptions, because this would harm women.
