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@MForstater
Oct 4, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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The witchfinders are out because @RosieDuffield1 liked a tweet in which I used the word cross dresser
Stonewall say trans includes "cross dressers"
Global Butterflies (who contributed to the SRA template ) says "transgender" developed to cover 3 terms: transsexual, drag queen and cross dresser
The SRA template uses the term gender expression
Meaning clothing, haircut, voice on a full or part time basis....
Or as Stonewall tells the kids, if you are a girl you might dress in a certain way or read certain books
The SRA says that if a male colleague decides their gender expression means they feel more comfortable using the ladies them they can.
And as an elected representative if you so much as like a tweet questioning whether the lawmakers really did intend this, the enforcers will pop up to condemn you and invite you for a struggle session.

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May 13
The OfS-Sussex judgement is logically flawed and can't be allowed to stand. @ObhishekSaha with a very good analogy about paths.

Sussex's defence was that it had a high level sign saying "this path will only be closed for very good reasons". Therefore it must have had a very good reason 🙄

timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ofs-su…
I really like this footpath analogy...

In order to keep the footpath functionally open the local authority has to apply some rules to the users of the path. It has a duty to keep the path open for cyclists and pedestrians, but not for motorbikes. This is in the bye-laws

(this is the university's equality act compliant equality policy that is part of its governance)
There are some short parts of the path that are so unavoidably narrow that the local authority puts up signs saying "cyclists dismount here" to keep the whole path safe and open for all users.

That is fine, the path is still open to pedestrians and cyclists.

(that's a proportionate means to a legitimate aim in the Equality Act, its "no noisy protests that disrupt exams")
Read 5 tweets
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Apr 9
This is quite the exercise in missing the point by Prof Shreya Atrey in Modern Law Review.

FWS will have a severe impact on "transgender, gender fluid, gender non-conforming, polygender, genderqueer and intersex" it says (without defining any of these terms).

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…Image
Remember, FWS was just about whether a GRC changes a person's sex for the purpose of the Equality Act.
Atrey says the protected characteristic of sex should be amended to include sex characteristics, gender, gender identity, gender expression and gender performance. 🤨 Image
Read 7 tweets
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Feb 12
A curious thing about the draft government guidance: It has no conceptual underpinning at all

“In recent years, we have seen a significant increase in the number of children who are questioning the way they feel about being a boy or a girl, including the physical attributes of their sex and the related ways in which they fit into society. “

Er ok…🤷‍♀️
It then dives into “where a child or their parent has raised a request relating to social transition”

The phrase appears 29 times in the guidance, but is never explained what it means or what it might involve.
The schools are told they must "consider what is in the best interests of the child and other children, and a decision relating to social transition may not be the same as a child’s wishes. "
Read 7 tweets
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Dec 3, 2025
The judgment in the case of Maria Kelly v Leonardo is out and it is awful.

As bad as James Tayler’s judgment in Forstater v CGDE in 2019 (and just as likely to be turned over on appeal).

gov.uk/employment-tri…Image
The phrase “gender identity” appears 36 times in the judgment Image
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.

Maria complained and got nowhere. Image
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Dec 1, 2025
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.

I wish her all the best in her future endeavours.
There is not enough of Naomi to go around... ❤️ Image
Sex Matters board will be led by Interim Chair Dr Emma Hilton
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Nov 15, 2025
Melanie Field reading list.

Field worked at the Government Equality Office when the Equality Act was being drafted, and then at the EHRC during the Stonewall years.

(Pictured here soon after leaving the job with Robin White, Stephen Whittle and Nancy Kelley) Image
The day of the Supreme Court's judgment was "long and difficult" for Field who had long promoted a different view of the Equality Act.

Field's big theory is that the the Supreme Court's decision was driven by the problem of pregnant transmen with GRCs... Image
Field wrote in the Guardian about how she disagreed with the Supreme Court.

theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…Image
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