Thread by @MForstater

This is what @fawcettsociety said in 2018 about whether women's sports could exclude males

This is what @fawcettsociety said in 2020 when @EnglandRugby decided to ignore the scientific evidence of "significant risk of injury" and not protect female rugby players

This is what @fawcettsociety said in 2018 about the need to consider the trauma and fears of vulnerable women when deciding whether male-bodied can be allowed to use single sex services as if they were female

This is what @fawcettsociety said in 2020 when @CareQualityComm said it ignores sex, @TheBMA said women's request for a female Dr could not be honoured & @rcgp gave award to a male Dr for celebrating putting their hands inside a woman's vagina when she asked for a female

This is what @fawcettsociety said in 2018 about protecting the ability to discuss the issues of sex and gender identity in politics and policy making

This is what @fawcettsociety said in 2020 when a female MP was being abused and 'reeducated' by her own party and bullied by an "institutionally sexist" trade union for stepping out of line.

This is what the rest of the women's sector (bar a tiny handful of brave individuals) said

Do you get it yet?

If you do not support women's rights in principle you will not be able to support women in practice.

There is no compromise position that you will not concede further, or fall silent on.

You have been backed into a corner by bullies you thought were allies

This happens to women a lot.

Feminism teaches us to come out fighting, and with the solidarity of other women.

#couragecallstocourage