It turns out our view is "worthy of respect in a democracy" (although my appeal still to be heard on that)
Women spoke up though the democratic means of holding meetings, considering evidence, debating, writing, talking to friends, family, our MPs, demonstrating, direct action
In the face of lies, abuse and bullying , and the cowardice, indifference and capture of our own womens organisations, trade unions, voluntary sector and the human rights movement.
Self ID is off the table in England & Wales, for now. But we still need to fight it in Scotland. & get Labour to understand authoritarian irrationality is political suicide. We need to unpick it from institutions run ahead of the law. We need policies to recognise #sexmatters
I hope everyone is feel a bit braver this morning. And proud of yourselves and the risks you've taken, and the integrity we have acted with.
Women speaking up in the UK made their voices heard, and women and men around the world are speaking up.
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The phrase “gender identity” appears 36 times in the judgment
Leonardo’s policy is that any member of staff who is proposing to to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process for the purposes of reassigning their gender can use the toilets intended for the opposite sex.
I am hugely grateful to Naomi Cunningham for the work that she has done as the first chair of Sex Matters, and for her equally important role as a barrister representing claimants using the law to fight for justice.
The arguments made on behalf of the Women and Equalities Minister yesterday were a desperate attempt to shoehorn "case-by-case" back into the single sex services following the Supreme Court judgment.
At paragraph 36 she says there are there are no equivalent exceptions to the single sex service exceptions that apply to employers.
She seems to have forgotten the provisions about protection of women in Schedule 22!
She said that the FWS case was principally decided by reference to maternity rights.
It wasn't. The SC concluded "it important that the EA is interpreted in a clear & consistent way so that groups which share a PC can be identified by those on whom the Act imposes obligations so that they can perform those obligations in a practical way"
Ollie was Chair of the Civil Service Rainbow Alliance for 9 years from 2008 -2017, then held a number of roles in the GEO.
So all the time that the government was getting the law wrong and getting Stonewall prizes for he was leading this.
In 2012 he wrote in Civil Service World about his personal opinion that the government shouldn't renege on its commitment to this particular approach to diversity.
Peter Wilkins case exposes another public body (this one part of @DefenceHQ) that lost sight of the Equality Act and of civil service principles of impartiality and objectivity.
One colleague accused him of making a "threatening" FOI request when he tried to draw attention to @dstlmod 's Line Manager’s Guide.
The FOI was turned down but I tried again.
At first DSTL said they couldn't find the document.
I said "have another look, its on your intranet" and they located it.
Then they thought long and hard about whether they could withhold it on security grounds.