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14 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
What I do not understand: while thiswas happening to @whjm, she was patron of @fawcettsociety, and Fawcett was saying nothing. Fawcett could not say JK Rowling's name. Fawcett & @EVAWuk would not talk about it.

Are we supposed to have have a stiff upper lip about this?

Why?
This employment judge got it -- open season has been declared on women who talk about women's rights .



And women's sector organisations kept up a wall of silence.

Why?
And @DavidIsaacUK1 knew this was going on.

But kept mum.

Why?

And @Keir_Starmer

Why?

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15 Oct
"Institutionally sexist" GMB now going after Rosie Duffield
"Bullying, harassment, misogyny and cronyism are endemic" said Karon Monaghan

Their arguments about the Gender Recognition Act are incoherent and do not consider women's rights and interests

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15 Oct
The principle of anti discrimination laws is that ppl shld not be treated differently because of a protected characteristic

Exceptions are put into the law in recognition that sometimes fair treatment means different. Eg to meet needs related to disability, pregnancy, sex etc
This relies on an objective reason (usually related to something physical) or may be to overcome disadvantage of a group
Exceptions are also put in in recognition of freedom of association and belief. People should not be discriminated because of religion, sex, ethnic origin etc.. but people should be able to chose form associations based on characteristics & practice their beliefs
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9 Oct
So the @CareQualityComm @CQCpressoffice have also updated their equality policy on their website.

Remember this was the mess they'd made of it before
This is their revised version.

At least they've got 9 characteristics this time (and remembered about pregnancy/maternity) , but still they refuse to say "sex" and "gender reassignment"

Instead they replace sex with "gender" and add in "gender identity and expression"
Please try again. Don't make things up.

Refusing to use the word "sex" for the protected characteristic of sex even after other errors have been corrected suggests you don't take seriously your responsibilities in relation to sex discrimination and sexual harassment
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8 Oct
Acceptance without exception: Don't. Ask. Questions.

I asked @LGBTIQAGreens about whether women can ask for a female doctor

#deleted

Karen Varley @CUPWomensPledge asked about the definition of woman in a @fawcettsociety @5050Parliament @Conservatives meeting on women in politics

#deleted #ejected

thecritic.co.uk/expelled-from-… (HT @jo_bartosch )
. @kiritunks asked about why Stonewall is lobbying to have the single sex exceptions in the Equality Act removed, at a @stellacreasy @stonewalluk meeting on Stonewall

#deleted #ejected

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8 Oct
. @TheLawSociety got so excited doing a spring clean of the protected characteristics they put pregnancy and maternity in the bin

@MaternityAction @ehrc @PaolaUccellari #sexmatters
This is what they say ..... lawsociety.org.uk/about-us/work-…
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8 Oct
Watching JK Rowling at speak @PENamerica gala in 2016

HT @DanielleDASH

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"In my 20s, I worked for Amnesty International, where I learned exactly how high a price people across the world have paid and continue to pay for the freedoms that we in the West sometimes take for granted."
" I worry that we may be in danger of allowing their erosion through sheer complacency. The tides of populism and nationalism currently sweeping many developed countries have been accompanied by demands that unwelcome and inconvenient voices be removed from public discourse.
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