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9 Nov, 10 tweets, 9 min read
Deeds not Words

@fawcettsociety @Samsmethers @fionamac2017

This is what you said about women being able to debate about sex and gender
This is what you said about @helenlewis being cancelled by @Ubisoft (and them saying in future they will be careful not to hire any such #difficultwomen)
This is what you said about someone, possibly JK Rowling, but you could not say her name

This is what they said about my case (after much pestering by @fairplaywomen to say *something*)
This is what you said about @selina_todd @BluskyeAllison @bindelj @8RosarioSanchez @Docstockk Rosie Duffield and on and on and on...

(Here is Michael Biggs with a good run down of what has been happening - this is systematic users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/Free…)
The Christian Institute did a good write up about how Fawcett Society 's own President @whjm was targeted and silenced on this issue

Fawcett have said nothing

christian.org.uk/news/jenni-mur…
Even Sam Smethers has been put on a list of "notable TERFs" alongside the other witches for very mildly defending sex based rights, and so is potentially cancellable

rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trans-exc…
Fawcett has three choices for their next long-term CEO

A) Hire someone who will join in the condemnation of #difficultwomen (aka 'TERFs')

B) Hire someone who will fearlessly stand up for sex based rights

C) Hire a CEO who will continue to equivocate, fudge and make concessions
It is awkward to stand up for Helen Lewis now, because it raises the Q of why the organisation hasn't stood up for other feminists getting cancelled previously

But it is worse to keep staying silent, and completely giving up on ever standing up for women
It you can't stand up for #difficultwomen having political voice what is Fawcett for?

@Zahra_Latif @EmilyAnstead @carobee @ayeshahazarika
@Baronessjenkin @ReshamKotecha @MrsMoz @IainSimpson @tanya_tunley @fionamac2017

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11 Nov
One more thing about numbers ONS says there are 1.1 million LGB adults in the UK - that is 2100 in 100,000

So when Stonewall & co took on the T as part of their movement this is what it looked like (and some of those trans people were also homosexual) Image
As Michael Biggs has documented the trans quickly became dominant in LGBT orgs and funding users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/LGBT… Image
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11 Nov
A post on numbers -

In the run up to the Gender Recognition Act in 2003 the government estimated that there were 5,000 transsexuals in the UK, thats 10 in 100,000 adults or 0.01%

Around 5,500 GRCs have been issued to date

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In the run up to the consultation on self ID in 2018 the government said there were up to 500,000 trans people in the UK - thats 1% of adults

The @Commonswomequ is now asking "Why is the number of people applying for GRCs so low ?" Image
In 2003 the 5,000 figure was based on people who had changed their details with the DVLA, passport office or HMRC, based on work by pressure group Press for Change

The 2018 government estimate is based on work by pressure GIRES to estimate the number of "gender variant" people
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7 Nov
. @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?)
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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.

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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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