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Sep 19, 2020 18 tweets 6 min read Read on X
The biggest lie that was ever told about the GRA is that it is "just about updating the gender marker on a birth certificate"

liztrussopenletter.wordpress.com/?fbclid=IwAR1l…
Amnesty International

amnesty.org.uk/have-your-say-…
The extraordinary bit in the GRA is section 22 which makes it a *criminal offence* for someone who, in the course of their job, has acquired information about someone having changed their legal sex to share that information.
There are very few exceptions - such if that person has agreed to the disclosure of the information, a court has ordered it, it is for the purpose of investigating crime or for the purpose of social security or pensions.
How this works in everyday situations where #sexmatters - such as in your relationship with healthcare professionals, in safeguarding, and in single sex services was never considered.

In practice confidentiality about sex breaks information and decision making systems
Making information about someone's sex - which is often clearly knowable *confidential* and a criminal offence to reveal is an extreme intervention by the state.

It was perhaps thought justifiable when related to very few people - akin to going into witness protection.
The idea that this level of state enforced secrecy about a person's sex should be given to anyone who declares themself transgender (or non-binary) on the basis of a simple self-declaration is...... lunacy.
Doing this without first having worked out what it means for teachers & children, doctors & their patients, medical information systems, carers & vulnerable people, social workers & foster care, police officers & suspects, security guards prisoners would be utterly irresponsible
And we know that none of this has been worked out

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/09/16/doc…
And in fact if you so much as try to talk about it you will be called transphobic and people will try to get you fired (sometimes sucessfully)

libdemvoice.org/liberal-democr…
The climate of fear around talking about this is such that no established organisation has dared to publish any serious analysis about how secrecy-about-sex interacts with systems of safeguarding, consent and care for vulnerable people.
The silence of women's organisations, human rights experts and regulators has been the scariest thing.
Like everyone who has worked so hard, and at such great personal cost to have a serious public debate about this, I have everything crossed that @trussliz will not announce a move to self ID.
But even if self-ID is not brought in in law, it has already been brought in in practice, with institutions treating people's sex as unspeakable and unrecordable information.

#sexmatters for safety, healthcare, consent and safeguarding.

Putting false information into the systems that we rely on to keep us safe, and safeguard fairness was never a good idea.

Whatever is announced, we will have to talk about this.

filia.org.uk/news/2020/5/16…

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Mar 20
This is just wow 🤯 Image
They conducted a survey which asked their members if the expression of gender critical beliefs creates a hostile environment for them Image
Their members compared recognizing that being a woman and being a trans-identifying man are different with apartheid Image
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Mar 19
Chair of a civil service SEEN sued! This case will be big & important. Let's get it funded.

SEENs are gender-critical employee networks.

Her employer is being sued for harassment for allowing the SEEN to exist!

Elspeth is being sued for harassment.

crowdjustice.com/case/seen-chai…
What are the claims of harassment?

- She said ‘only women menstruate’.

- She posted a list of the 9 protected characteristics from the Equality Act and highlighting that gender expression, gender identity and gender are not PCs. Image
She shared a link to "my body is me" by @RooneyRach

transgendertrend.com/product/my-bod…
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Mar 19
I went to this yesterday, with my pal @charlesworth102

Professor Cooper was presenting on the findings of the £0.75m @ESRC funding research project.

We were underwhelmed. Image
As @_JVigo wrote at the start of the project in 2019 it did not define what it meant by gender or sex and consistently demonstrated a lack of understanding of bodies.

In 2024 that hadn't changed. Prof Cooper slipped between "gender" and "sex" throughout

medium.com/@julian.vigo/h…
She sounded a bit deflated.

The project hadn't delivered on its ambitious goals of offering policy and regulatory recommendations and influencing govt departments and shadow ministers.

Instead she talked of envisioning "utopias"

gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=E…
Read 15 tweets
Mar 14
Hey @hopenothate @lowles_nick remember in 2022 when you you smeared LGB Alliance in your "state of hate" report. HereSNP MP & Chair of the Human Rights Joint Committee praiss LGB alliance & talks about how branding opponents hate groups shuts down debate.

Maybe you got it wrong
Maybe you got it wrong about Harry Miller too, who you smeared along with LGBA.

He isn't a police officer 🙄 and he was *unfairly* critiqued for perfectly lawful tweets.

Did you bother to read the judgment?

judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
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Judge said "The effect of police turning up..because of his political opinions must not be underestimated. To do so wld be to undervalue a cardinal democratic freedom. In this country we have never had a Cheka, Gestapo or Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society."
Read 13 tweets
Feb 23
A thread on Master McCloud.

MCloud was appointed "as the youngest and only second female ‘Master’" to be appointed to the Queen’s Bench division of the High Court in 2010.

McCloud was also on the Committee that writes the Equal Treatment Bench Book
In 2020 Mccloud spoke at this event in aid of Stonewall.

"Ensuring that all voices of minority/oppressed groups are heard" sounds nice, but it often means shutting down dissent as harassment. Image
In any case judges might have all kinds of characteristics but presenting themselves as being part of a community with responsibilities to that community undermines confidence in impartiality.

I complained about this but it was rejected as out of time.
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Feb 5
A thread on the @SexMattersOrg submission to @Ganhri1 on the hounding of Kishwer Falkner by @stonewalluk.

Women and men who speak up about sex-based rights face harassment and discrimination at work and in organisations.

This is unlawful under the Equality Act 2010.
Kathleen Stock from her job theguardian.com/education/2021…
Venice Allen from her political party mirandayardley.com/en/the-labour-…
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