It's shocking that the @Commonswomequ Inquiry does not ask about the impact on women, but of course it can't because it has no word for them.

This erasure of the word is not just about Tampax marketing but about policy making.
Of course difficult women will answer w evidence on why this matters for women's rights

But established, funded womens groups, voluntary orgs, industry bodies will follow the ToRs which tell them from the start to discount women.

This happens in Equality Impact Assessments too.
Raising women's rights has been branded transphobic.

No one's asking about women so you have to be brave and difficult just to say there are women's rights at stake

It's shocking that after an amazing mobilisation of grassroots women's concerns that WESC don't see this
They don't ask about other protected characteristics either; disability, religion & belief, race, sexual orientation, age

Are there other groups affected by the radical notion that the govt can force women to pretend that someone with a male body is female ?
What other group *do* the WESC consider ?

"Non binary" & "gender fluid" (without defining these terms)
"Gender Fluid" is a rebranding of "cross-dresser" which is a rebranding of "transvestite", including transvestic fetishism.

WESC wants to talk about the right of men to impose a paraphilia and have ruled out from the start that this doesn't concern women

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvest…

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28 Oct
The @Commonswomequ today announced a call for evidence on reform of the Gender Recognition Act

committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evide…
Select Committees are cross party groups of MPs.

This is not the government.

What they do is make recommendations to government, which the government have to respond to.
There is no formal template for inquiries. They can vary in length, with some published at short notice in response to high profile events.

This one is a tight timetable though.

Deadline is Friday November 27

(and it says it opened on October 6 🙄)
Read 17 tweets
27 Oct
This is the most shocking thing about @fawcettsociety fence sitting position

They say (with no evidence) that it is not safe or appropriate to house males who identify as women in the male estate.

They should be treated as women with "appropriate risk assessment"
That was in 2018 .

In 2020 they admitted that current brisk assessment processes are not reliable (so appropriate ones are just wishful thinking)

The prison system has to "find another way" ( but not in the male estate, they've already ruled that out).
As @Samsmethers said in her post on ways forward trans people want validation of identity , while womens concern is safety and dignity.

It is *inexplicable* that a woman's rights organisation should trade off womens safety for men's validation
fawcettsociety.org.uk/blog/sex-and-g…
Read 5 tweets
26 Oct
Whats happening? (as twitter asks...)

Sex.....
"Gender"..... the way society treats people because of their sex.
Feminist political organising, combined with (and enabled by) material progress - electricity, washing machines, contraception etc... has enabled greater equality for women
Read 12 tweets
24 Oct
Remember the launch with much fanfare of the "free period products for schools " scheme in January.

Take up by schools has been low.

Perhaps because they've had other things on their mind, but perhaps because it wasnt backed by strong evidence of demand in the first place
Central government distributing products that are cheap and widely available.

What for?

Most schools already keep some on hand for girls caught short

While pupils experiencing neglect and extreme poverty need multidimensional support, not just a single product.
Read 9 tweets
21 Oct
Some things that happened this summer

6 June - JKR tweeted about "people who menstruate" setting off a twitter storm which was picked up by media around the world.

The BBC reported nothing.

10 June - Rowling published her “TERF Wars” essay.

Still the BBC said nothing.
11 June Eddie Redmayne and Daniel Radcliffe criticised

The BBC reported on it

12 June - BBC report on "Rupert Grint joins JK Rowling Transgender Row

14 June Sunday Times leak of Tory plans to drop self ID

The BBC didn't report it
19 June cross party LGBT group issued a statement lgbtconservatives.org.uk/news/cross-par…

The BBC report on this , also including a quote by @polblonde
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-531010…

Their report misstated the law
Read 8 tweets
19 Oct
When your allies turn out to be bullies: how @fawcettsociety got lost

Back in 2017 when many of us hadn't got our heads round the issue Fawcett put out its first statement on gender identity.

It started well.
But they had made the mistake of conflating sex and gender when they surveyed the public

(Why?? Perhaps they first consulted their ally organisations and let them set the terms?)
Nevertheless, they reiterated their mission: to focus on the lived experience of women.

This hadn't changed they said.
Read 13 tweets

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