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Aug 15, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
All universities should just agree to admit all young people who they have made conditional offers to, based on their teacher-predicted grades. (The idea they can reliably select the best candidates on the basis of a UCAS form or an interview is anyway a bit of a myth.)
It would do absolutely no damage to the system whatsoever and would be right and fair for a cohort of young people who have already been royally screwed over by the pandemic.
This piecemeal uni-by-uni approach is very unfair as it means a young person's chance of making their uni if their results have been downgraded is arbitrary, and it is understandably causing awful anxiety for young people.
(Sure, this will throw up difficult practical issues. But it is something govt & whole sector must work on in partnership. This is something that needs to happen, and the system needs to work around it.)

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Dec 20, 2023
Why has the government’s school guidance for gender-questioning children engendered such different reactions? A thread.
There are two views of sex and gender when it comes to children. 1. When a child questions their gender it’s the sign of a fixed trans identity, and disclosure is akin to coming out as gay/lesbian/bisexual.
2. When a child questions their gender it may be a sign of a fixed trans identity that will last into adulthood but evidence suggests it's more likely to resolve itself through puberty & can be associated with things like autism, processing same-sex attraction & childhood trauma.
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Dec 24, 2022
Would this convicted male sex offender - who doesn’t have gender dysphoria but legally identifies as female and has since been arrested after allegations of exposure in a female changing room - have been granted a GRC in Scotland? V probably I think.

lamag.com/citythinkblog/…
Unless he self-reported to police he was applying for GRC for risk assessment. And to those wrongly saying to discuss these cases is to conflate trans people with sex offenders: no, it an appropriate discussion of risks of allowing anyone male to self-declare as legally female.
I cannot believe the naivety of those in my mentions in recent days- mostly men I have to say- who’ve said “but why would a male sex offender want to identify as female?” 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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Dec 23, 2022
This reports something Starmer said for Pride last summer. Labour’s last manifesto too vague on women’s rights: they should commit to clarifying sex means biological sex in Equality Act alongside gender self-ID ie keeping gender ID & sex separate in law.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
That would be a good way to balance women’s sex-based rights to single-sex spaces and female-only intimate care with easier route to legal recognition of trans people’s gender identity. Trans people protected under gender reassignment in Eq Act; everyone female under PC of sex.
Introducing gender self-ID so it means anyone including predatory men can change their sex for legal purposes without reforming Equality Act as Scottish government trying to do poses unacceptable risks to women and girl’s safety, privacy and dignity.
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Dec 23, 2022
Much of debate about impacts of Scottish GRR Bill on the practical implementation of the Equality Act is (understandably) focusing on single-sex spaces. But there are important effects on women’s pay discrimination claims & female-only intimate care for disabled women too.
The GRR Bill passed by Scottish Parl will make it harder for disabled women to access female-only care. This puts their privacy, dignity & safety at risk. This should be getting more attention. I’d like to know what @HelenaKennedyQC thinks about this too.

murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2022/09/19/sec…
This, from @hen10freeman, is instructive on the importance of female-only intimate care for disabled women. Wd be good if human rights lawyers like @HelenaKennedyQC were to acknowledge the rights of women like Henrietta when commenting on this debate, or explain why they’re wrong
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Dec 23, 2022
Disappointing to hear both minister and interviewer get the impact of Scottish GRR bill on single-sex spaces wrong, listening back to @BBCRadio4 PM just now. It’s complex but journalists are going to need to get across the law fast.
I know I’m beginning to sound like a broken record but it’s wrong to say someone changing their legal sex with a GRC has no impact on single-sex spaces. It changes the threshold at which it is lawful to exclude someone biologically male & trans from a female-only space.
And thus makes it more complex for providers to legally justify providing a female-only space.
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Dec 22, 2022
These are v serious new allegations from two young men about safeguarding fails & child sexual abuse in a Scottish charity a decade ago, some involving a former CEO who’s a convicted paedophile. Hope they are properly investigated.
The former CEO: James Rennie

theguardian.com/uk/2009/oct/29…
This is why child safeguarding is so important: because predatory men seeking to abuse children will always seek the cover of charities working with children that purport to do good.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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