Here is the clip of @joannaccherry asking @KishwerFalkner incoming chair of @EHRC some good questions and getting good answers

parliamentlive.tv/event/index/42…
JC: You see human rights and equality as intertwined. Do you agree that it is important that we look at each of the PCs as equal and deserving of enforcement?

KF: There has never been a hierarchy of rights - the reason they have not been given hierarchy is because they are equal
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JC: There is a heated debate in the public sphere between those w the PC of gender reassignment and those w the PC of sex in relation to single sex spaces. Is it the duty of @ehrc to approach all cases with a fair balance of interests rather than framing one over the other?
KF: "as a principle absolutely right, but specificities would depend on the policy framework and the strategic aims of the particular case"

JC: Doesn't it come down to what the Equality act says, what the law is?

KF: Yes indeed it does, that is why i referred to policy
JC: "Would you agree with me that all guidance issued by @EHRC should be grounded in statute and case law, and that sometimes policy can be removed from statute case law. What underpins the EHRC should be the Equality Act and the HRA?

JF: Yes, I agree

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12 Nov
Congratulations @David_Goodhart @jessbutcher @sumeithompson1 Lord Ribero - I hope they return EHRC to its mandate of upholding the Equality Act and protecting everyone's rights without hierarchy.

In particular: I hope they sort out the mess of guidance on single sex services
As raised @joannaccherry to @KishwerFalkner yesterday.

The incoming Chair confirmed EHRC's job is to uphold the act and give guidance based on law and statute

Single sex services are an everyday aspect of equality and inclusion a-question-of-consent.net

They will have a job to do in revising the current unworkable guidance, but lots of support to do it from women and service providers who want clarity

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/05/25/the…
Read 6 tweets
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)
As Michael Biggs has documented the trans quickly became dominant in LGBT orgs and funding users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/LGBT…
Read 6 tweets
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

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/11/10/on-…
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 ?"
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
Read 11 tweets
9 Nov
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

Read 10 tweets
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?)
Read 4 tweets
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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