Thread: IPSO has commissioned an independent report to find out how newspaper coverage of transgender issues has changed over time and why.
Where trans coverage used to be disrespectful and pejorative over a decade ago now it is not, but now there are new problems.... /1
Journalists are now too scared to cover trans issues. Fearful of backlash on social media and transactivists.
Here is what they said /2
"We’re nervous about doing coverage" /3
"I have never seen anything like the trouble my publication had over this article." /4
IPSO’s transgender guidance to always use preferred pronouns was frequently singled out as being problematic by women's groups.
"IPSO is complicit in promoting one view of the sex-gender issue" /5
Editors and writers share these concerns
"There are lots of examples of where we aren’t able to report properly because of the pronouns guidance" /6
"what matters to everyone else is their sex, not their innate gender feelings" /7
Read more about what the investigation found here and the work we are doing to ensure honest, accurate and fair coverage of matters of sex and gender identity. /end
This is a population-based study using records from a variety of registers in Sweden in 2011. They found 324 transgender people that had undertaken sex reassignment surgery between 1973 and 2003. /2
It's a relatively small study of transsexuals - not self-identifying transgender people as Kathleen said @Docstockk
A total of 60 crimes were identified, 14 of those classified as violent crimes. Eight violent crimes had been committed by transwomen and six by transmen. /3
In 2016 the IOC was desperate to find an easy solution to let pre-op transwomen play women’s sport. They used weak retrospective & anecdotal data that showed a few transwomen running slower after transition - the findings of transwoman Joanna Harper /2
This led to every sport from elite to grassroots introducing new transgender policies based on lowering testosterone for 1 year. The future of women’s sport balancing on flimsy anecdotal evidence from a few trans amateur runners & cyclists. It’s now coming back to bite them /3
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
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
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
Thank you to over 1000 people who’ve helped secure our future. Of course women support #FairPlayForWomen, but men do too. After all, everyone has, or had, at least one woman in their lives. 👩👦
“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.”
"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
"But there should be balanced consideration of how the needs of all those with protected characteristics should be considered, based on the mix of the population and customer demand" /3