Mermaid's associate Helen Islan (mimmymum) is smearing Fair Play For Women again. This time accusing Nic Williams of profiting from 'transphobia' and stoking a 'transphobic frenzy' /1
The irony here is off the scale. "It pays her bills"

The truth is Nic Williams has worked for 3 years full-time for FREE on our campaigns to defend sex-based rights. This has been her job for 3 yrs with NO PAY when she could have been earning a top-level salary elsewhere /2
This is not sustainable. So after getting a full-time director for free for 3 years it is now time for us to pay a small directors salary or lose her. No one can work for free indefinitely. /3

crowdfunder.co.uk/fairplayforwom…
Thanks to the generous support of 1000+ donations we now have enough to cover our running costs for the next 12 months. But it is vital we push onto our stretch target of £60K in this last week to secure our long-term future. There is lots still to do /4

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While women work to defend the rights of other women and girls on a shoe-string, relying on good will and donations from other women, the likes of Mermaids are awash with money. How dare they smear us. /5
Mermaids associate Helen Islan accuses us of being invested in a 'transphobic frenzy' while they pay out almost a quarter million on staff alone. /6
In this years World Rugby policy review meeting Gendered Intelligence was there arguing that trans inclusion was more important than the safety of women and girls. We were there arguing the opposite. We hold our own alongside giants with funds in the hundreds of thousands. /7
And Stonewall - the mightiest of them all - with a whopping income of £8 million. Getting hundreds of thousands from the likes of Comic relief, National Lottery & government itself. With a team of staff drawing massive professional salaries. This is who we stand up against /8
Have no doubt this is an almighty David & Goliath fight. They have used their millions to ensure policy capture across the board. It is now up to ordinary women like us to reverse this. We are moving mountains against the odds but we need your help /9

crowdfunder.co.uk/fairplayforwom…
Our crowdfunder is a drop in the ocean compared to the £ millions sloshing around enabling the trans pressure groups to erase women and girls. The bare-faced cheek of them to attack us and Nic Williams over money! /10
She was one of the first women to dare to show her name and face in public. She's had her reputation forever smeared, including accusations printed in national newspapers that she is as bad as the KKK /11

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She regularly receives abusive and threatening emails for the work she does to defend women and girls. /12
Despite all this we persisted. In 3 years we have built a professional, reliable & trustworthy source of well-informed, considered & responsible output that is now consulted regularly by UK and international policy-makers, academics and many others /13

crowdfunder.co.uk/fairplayforwom…
Thank you to everyone who is standing by us. Your comments on the crowdfunder are spurring us on! ❤️

"Loving your work. Keep it up. You can thank mimmymum for bringing your crowdfunder to my attention"

/14


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And another great comment left for us!😂🥰

"Good Luck, Nic. Thanks to mimmymum for yet further encouragement. She has been immense in this fight in peaking ordinary people".

/15


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Thanks Roger! (and mimmymum!)

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Thanks Elizabeth!

"Been meaning to do this for ages, 'thanks' to mimmymum for reinforcing the need!"

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Thanks Helen!

"This is such an important cause to protect the rights of women and girls. 'Thanks' to Mimmymum, your rude and libelous comment brought this case to my attention."

crowdfunder.co.uk/fairplayforwom…
Thanks Liz!

“Thanks for the reminder mimmymum. Nic Williams deserves a knighthood, yes a knighthood for all the work she is doing FOR FREE for women. You might be glad of it yourself one day”

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Thanks Mimmymum!

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1 Nov
Women and girls NEED access to male-free toilets and changing rooms. This is just one of the heart-wrenching stories we've received on this topic /1
This is why we campaign for female-only spaces for women and girls. Sex matters in policy making and we make sure that never gets forgotten. You can read our other stories and resources here /2

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This is why we will be submitting evidence to this government review on toilet provision in the UK. Female-only toilets are important and necessary. Mixed-sex toilets *exclude* women and girls from the services they need. /3

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“Men should be protecting sex-based rights and segregation in relevant environments as well. I don't want to share my protected space with women and I'm not even worried about my physical safety, so women's spaces have to protected at all costs ...
"...because it's just too easy for any man with ill intent to use self ID to gain access. Also, we have to acknowledge reality, the only thing assigned at birth is a name.”
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31 Oct
Thread: The government is launching a technical review on toilet provision. They are aware that many women want male-free toilets and not mixed-sex /1

"Women are also likely to feel less comfortable using mixed sex facilities and require more space"

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"The government wants to ensure dignity and respect for all. The Equality Act provides that sex, age, disability and gender reassignment are protected characteristics. This does not mean that gender-specific toilets should be replaced with gender-neutral toilets" /2
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Encouraging. Fair Play For Women will be submitting evidence to this review.

"We want to maintain safeguards that protect women and the proper provision of separate toilets, which has long been a regulatory requirement, should be retained and improved.”

thetimes.co.uk/article/7355c8…
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Here's what our supporters are saying:

“From sports to domestic violence services and the NHS, to the correct use and collection of data, eg Census, women need to defend our rights from the attack on the female sex and single sex facilities we fought long and hard to secure.”
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“Thank you for all you do, for me, my mother, my sister and my daughter”
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WESC want evidence of how GRC impacts women. They need look no further than today’s #womenprisonJR. Proof that having a GRC gets males into female only spaces - including males considered too dangerous to have unsupervised contact with women. /1
The GRA2004 meant the MOJ decided to put high-risk trans prisoners on the female prison estate rather than the male one to give them ‘association with other women’ and to deliver ‘female services’. /2
The GRA2004 meant when the MOJ did it’s equality impact assessment on the protected characteristic of sex they didn’t assess the difference between the male-born ‘females’ and the female prisoners. The adverse impact on women in prison never found its way into the assessment /3
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