Thread by @zeno001

1/2 @UKHouseofLords debate on changing/toilet facilities offered in public buildings for women only. Lord Lucas:

"@Stonewalluk should put away its kimono and baseball bat & settle down to the idea that maybe it needs to modify its rather extreme views."

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2/2 Lord Lucas:

"The Fawcett Society should listen to its founder and the quote that is on the statue in Parliament Square,

“Courage calls to courage everywhere”,

and get involved in the discussion in a serious way."

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cc @fawcettsociety

@fawcettsociety Lord Blencathra: "when will [the Government] stand up to the small, militant, transgender fascist lobby?"

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@fawcettsociety Lord Blencathra:

"Whether Miss Rebecca Long Bailey MP likes it or not, sex is biological and binary and is not a social construct."

cc @RLong_Bailey @lisanandy @DawnButlerBrent @AngelaRayner @MhairiBlack

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@fawcettsociety @RLong_Bailey @lisanandy @DawnButlerBrent @AngelaRayner @MhairiBlack Lord Blencathra:

"the absurdity of self-identification, with the huge loss in freedom and safety for women that that would entail"

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@fawcettsociety @RLong_Bailey @lisanandy @DawnButlerBrent @AngelaRayner @MhairiBlack "What all we 800,000 wheelchair users should have done was claim that we were self-identifying as women or men and then a whole industry would have moved into high gear to get us access to anywhere we wanted in the country..."

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@fawcettsociety @RLong_Bailey @lisanandy @DawnButlerBrent @AngelaRayner @MhairiBlack "and no doubt we would have had the police running around as well, checking out wheelchair transgender hate crimes."

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@fawcettsociety @RLong_Bailey @lisanandy @DawnButlerBrent @AngelaRayner @MhairiBlack Lord Blencathra:

"What a wonderful sexual predators charter."

@fawcettsociety @RLong_Bailey @lisanandy @DawnButlerBrent @AngelaRayner @MhairiBlack Lord Blencathra:

"I and many doctors are deeply concerned about the work of the Tavistock clinic, which is giving puberty-blocking drugs to children aged 11..."

cc @TaviAndPort

@fawcettsociety @RLong_Bailey @lisanandy @DawnButlerBrent @AngelaRayner @MhairiBlack @TaviAndPort Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne:

"the NHS hospital guidelines contained in annexe B are significantly divorced from the wording and intent of the legislation that they claim to reflect."

cc @NHSEngland

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Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist:

"Thank goodness we look after all sexes much better now."

Good grief. How many sexes does she think there are?

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Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist:

"The Equality Act also allows people with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment to be excluded from a single-sex service where it is necessary and proportionate."

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