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So this has preoccupied me....

What did she mean by the "pearly gates of womanhood" ? Which all these sage, learned human rights types were nodding along to?

So I looked it up.

She meant prisons.

Those gates
gardencourtchambers.co.uk/events/transju…

transnetworklondon.org.uk/trans-in-the-c…
google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…
Advocating for the policy that led to this....
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/o…
And this womenarehuman.com/non-transition…
But we shouldn't be preoccupied.

...about the rights and welfare of female prisoners, and female prisoners .

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Impressive @mbmpolicy indepth paper on the interaction between GRA self ID & womens rights by discrimination lawyer @elletorrito "There is cause for significant concern that single sex service provision on lines of natal sex will be rendered unworkable" murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2020/02/11/bri…
Highlights problems w the @EHRC statutory code.

It does not even include the example from legislation itself! But instead includes a negative example (how did that get in there? 🤔)

This is why a new code on single sex services is needed as per @Commonswomequ recommendations!
Also highlights the problem with the interpretation of the EqA in my case - requiring a level of sophistry of language on the part of service providers and service users that would make ordinary single sex provision impossible.
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Employment law podcast covers my case.

A fair (and quite dry) explanation of the case and the Grainger criteria

HT @MilsomChr
Although it gets my "lack of belief" wrong. It is not a lack of belief that "people can self identify" (people can do what they want...).

It is a lack of belief that everyone (incl me) has an inner gender identity, separate from and more important than our sex.
But his point on whether "lack of belief" shld be judged by full Grainger criteria is good

eg. being a vegan is a life-defining belief w cogency, seriousness etc... but liking bacon sandwiches can be just 'meh'.... still shldnt be discriminated for not believing 'meat is murder'
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Dispatches from the witch trials:

The first time I met Kate Scottow was outside the Linda Bellos/ Venice Allen trial

Linda & Venice walked out free women with their names cleared that day.
The next day Kate was arrested

14 months later she was tried under section 127 (2) of Comms Act for "persistently using a public electronic comms network for purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety"

-> up to 6 mths prison, up to £5K fine
Generally this has is used to mean things like making 100s of nuisance calls

The court heard about 15 (!) tweets posted over a 7 month period Sept 18 - Mar 19

This is how it began: In September 2018 Kate had tweeted: “Lets hope they take a serious stance on your racism”.
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