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7 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
. @Ubisoft cancelling @helenlewis for wrongthink

Thank you @IanDunt for standing up.

So important that people stand up for their colleagues and their peers when the mob and cowardly organisations come for them.
Helen says she believes that "trans women are women"

But she also criticises self ID and defends single sex spaces - and speaks up strongly for the need to be able to talk about this, including the freedom of speech of those who disagree with her

newstatesman.com/politics/femin…
Helen's is a careful, moderate voice in all of this. Moderate enough to stay on the right side of @jolyonmaugham @samsmethers @fawcettsociety (... but will they stand up for her?)
If you think that anything other than compliance at every turn will appease this movement you will be proved wrong

#yoursilencewillnotsaveyou

#sexmatters

#IstandwithHelenLewis

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6 Nov
Live tweeting @EngenderScot webinar on the Equality Act
First up Nicole Busby on sex and gender reassignment under the Equality Act

She wrote this paper

engender.org.uk/content/public…

"There are 9 protected characteristics". Good start!
The basics - this is what the Equality Act is about
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3 Nov
From previous reporting on the case: male offender in male prison w a female name.

Halfway through the day judge tells prosecutor must call the sex offender "she". Image
The case was *about* breaching a sexual harms prevention order by using fake names to evade detection and confuse victims Image
The sex offender has since changed his name back to Brandon but is said to be awaiting an appointment with the gender identity clinic.

The defendant, on trial for using false names entered pleas under different names .... Image
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1 Nov
The examples in the statutory code are v. odd.

They are coy about crucial bits of info

Like here. Was it a women's health spa? In which case yes it is legitimate to exclude members of the opposite sex

If it was a mixed sex spa why does the example only ref women complaining?
And this one - a female who has no surgery or medication but passes for male (is the EHRC on drugs?)

But it's a non threatening example.

Why no make it about a male who has no surgery and lives "as a woman"

Would be covered by S7. But should they be in the female spa??
And this one. A clothing store has a women's changing room . So it excludes men. Men can't just say "but there are cubicles!" They'd still be turned away presumably... So the cubicles don't make it ok
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31 Oct
. @GATEOrg are looking for a consultant to write a hit piece on UK feminists who are concerned about the replacement of sex by gender in law and policy and the transing of children...
Gate have noticed (as we have been saying for ages) that the movement of people concerned about gender ideology in the UK are not in the main right wing or religious but feminist and LGB lead.

These are people who founded and supported Stonewall and marched against section 28.
This does not fit with the story that the LGBT orgs and their funders have been telling themself: that the only people who object to the replacement of sex by 'gender identity' are conservative political and religious groups

globalphilanthropyproject.org

@GPP_Updates
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31 Oct
Kemi Badenoch confirms "Providers have the right to restrict the use of spaces on the basis of sex, and exclude transgender people with or without a GRC if this is justified."

But what does "if this is justified" mean?

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/10/31/a-g…
The Equality Act allows for single sex spaces - including everyday privacy and dignity.

A single sex service means applying a sex based rule to the space
The question is does the Equality Act allow some people to claim that the sex based rules don't apply to them -- that some males can use female only spaces?

There isn't much specific case law on this - but there are good principles that apply from age discrimination cases.
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29 Oct
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
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