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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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Jun 7
The belief discrimination case of Ricky Garrett v London Ambulance Service NHS Trust has been overturned on appeal.

Mr Garrett was a litigant in person.

The original tribunal found that he had been discriminated against for his belief that "we are all one (human) race" and his non-belief in systemic racism, when, following a complaint about an overheard conversation he was ordered to write an academically referenced written reflection on systemic racism.
This was the original conduct - a discussion with a colleague following workplace promotion of the idea of systemic racism with which Mr Garrett disagreed. Image
The investigation said his misconduct wasn't about him disagreeing with the theory of systemic racism but the way that he said it.

He was told to write an academically referenced essay to see if his position changed. Image
Read 8 tweets
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Jun 6
Thank you to @louie_french, Shadow Minister for Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport for coming to the launch of our report Getting Back on Track: using the Equality Act to enable and protect sport for women and girls at the House of Lords this week.

It was such a good event!Image
@sharrond62 hosted and @wsusportsunion @Womeninsport_uk @SportSEENuk and @WomensRightsNet were in attendance. Image
Everyone wanted to talk about how the Equality Act works in sport. Image
Read 13 tweets
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May 23
The @EHRC says that information about sex is "likely to constitute special category data for the purposes of the Data Protection Act and UKGDPR".

It gives no caselaw for this. Image
This means that organisations that are following the code would need revise their data protection policies and train all their staff.

Organisations like... the EHRC...

Whose own data protection policy doesn't say anything about treating sex as special category data.

equalityhumanrights.com/about-us/conta…Image
equalityhumanrights.com/what-we-do-you…Image
Read 11 tweets
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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")
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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. "
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