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16 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
In case you missed it over the weekend

@sharoncowan22 et al released a paper accusing @mbmpolicy of lack of rigour in the their work on policy capture.

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/11/14/los…
MBM released a paper responding to the accusations

You can read both papers.

Make your self a cup of tea, there is a lot going on.

The important thing is the legal arguments are getting aired - in particular the basis for the 'trans inclusion' argument that males who identify as women have the right to use opposite sex services with women.
I've written a blog post where I pick out some of the key bits, including this amazing argument that is made in the Cowan paper

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/11/14/los…

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Maya Forstater Profile picture
17 Nov
Harry Josephine Giles has a point here

Males are excluded from female-only spaces by default

(not just *can be*: the rules exclude them, the question is do they follow the rule or try to break it)

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But as Harry says there is a problem because asking "are you the right sex to be in here?" is seen by some people as an invasion of their privacy

So organisations adopt stupid policies like this

Because they are told by @EHRC and @GEOgovuk that it is the right thing to do.

And they are confused and afraid to stand up against their own internal lobbies.

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/05/25/the…
Read 9 tweets
Maya Forstater Profile picture
16 Nov
. @ggreenwald on what is going on at the ACLU (and every progressive org, academia & media ...)

The emergence of liberal political activism at the expense of traditional civil liberties.

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-…
Its good & think he is right about the broader drivers. But I don't think he has unpacked the inherent censorious of the "trans rights" agenda. Giving ppl the right to force others to pretend they are the opposite sex is incompatible w free speech. Dissent must be punished
He is also missing the ACLU's turn to irrationality, and betrayal of female athletes on women's sports....

Read 4 tweets
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13 Nov
Friday feeling:

@mbmpolicy have just got over half their initial target for funding their work crowdfunder.co.uk/womens-rights-…

These three women are worth every penny

Keep it going!
They are getting analysis into the media
murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/media/
And heavyweight academic journals

murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/losing-sight-o…
Read 7 tweets
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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
Maya Forstater Profile picture
11 Nov
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?
Read 5 tweets
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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)
As Michael Biggs has documented the trans quickly became dominant in LGBT orgs and funding users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/LGBT…
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