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@MForstater
Sep 30, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
The fight for women's rights is #unfinishedbusiness.

@britishlibrary thinks the next step is telling girls prostitution is a good career🙄

I wonder if they've noticed the feminist fightback for the definition of women & against commodification

Lets make a virtual exhibition!
An introduction from @helenlewis "A feminism unafraid to talk about the female body. A rejection of the extremes of identity politics. And – just as radically – a movement that happens in the real world rather than purely online. "newstatesman.com/politics/femin…
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Iconic images
Protests and stunts
Women's voices


Legal battles
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The vicious response to women speaking up

medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k…
And of course echoes of the suffragette/ suffragist tensions

the11thhourblog.com/post/women-ced…
If you are a historian of feminism curating an exhibition an exhibition on the fight for women's rights and you miss all this, what is it you are doing?

Will this be a lovely exhibition about deckchairs on the Titanic?

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Nov 14
15 months after calling me in for questioning about a tweet, and having sat on the CPS decision that there was no crime for 2 months, the Met bothered to call me up at 7pm this evening to tell me, and then put out this press statement. 🙄

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Here is the tweet over which they wasted their time, my time, my lawyers time and taxpayers' money.
Thanks to @DanielBerke1 for patiently chasing the Met for the past 15 months & @SarahvAtDSC for hand holding.

How much bullying can the police get away with against people who can't stand up for themself or get a media story.
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Sep 9
Minister for Women & Equalities says "We are proud of the EqAct & the rights & protections it affords women. The Govt does not plan to amend legal definitions in the act.”

Hundreds of women are going to Parliament on Wednesday to ask the govt to rethink.

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You can be proud of the Equality Act and still be vigilant about women's rights, and those who seek to deny them.

In 1897, a proposal was put before Cambridge University’s Senate to grant full degrees to female graduates. Male students responded with outrage.

An effigy of a woman on a bicycle was suspended out of the window of a building opposite the Senate.

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It took 22 more years before 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed permitting women to become join professions and to become lawyers and civil servants and to sit on juries.

But the institutions resisted. Image
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Sep 3
There is new statutory safeguarding guidance out for schools in England which tells them to consider risks and harms to gender questioning children as part of safeguarding.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
When this was out for consultation earlier in the year Adam Jepsen, Chief Health and Sex Education Officer of the Family Planning Association said that the government must withdraw it.

"These changes do not support trans children" he argued.

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Who is Adam Jepson and what is the Family Planning Association? 🤨

Mr Jepson has lots of commercial experience but none in health or education.

Given that contraception advice is mainly a by-women-for-women thing he seems an odd choice.

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Aug 13
What do we know about Imane Khelif & Lin Yu Ting who won Olympic gold medals in women's boxing?

1) We know there is a condition called 5-ARD which leads to males being born with undescended testes and female looking genitals.

The 3 women's medal winners at Rio in 800m had it. Image
World Athletics adopted DSD regulations after that.

We know a lot about this because Caster Semenya challenged @WorldAthletics to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The court said the regulations are proportionate to maintain fairness for women.

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We know that some people disagree.

@Nike for example says Semenya is a victim of discrimination and should have the "right to run" against women.

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Jul 27
A thread about academic freedom, sex and gender.

This is not the only topic where university VCs have not defended academic freedom strongly enough, but it is a very good demonstration of the problem.

@bphillipsonMP
Prof @Docstockk was hounded out of @SussexUni
She has been waiting for 3 years for the results of an @officestudents investigation

theguardian.com/education/2021…
Prof @JoPhoenix1 was canceled by @Uni_of_Essex & hounded out of @OpenUniversity

368 colleagues signed a public letter calling OU GC Research Network transphobic.

OU was found liable for 25 counts of belief discrimination and harassment

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
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Jul 24
A study of "conversion practices" in Northern Ireland.

When the #BanTherapy lobby are shouting about "torture" and calling for a new criminal law you'd think they would be able to find compelling examples

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Someone said "don't go through with it" Image
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