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10 Dec, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Rape Crisis Scotland is taking a break from social media to protect staff wellbeing after they have experienced an "onslaught of abuse" on social media, citing intimidation, harrassment and intimidation
They've received quite a lot of criticism over the last few days - but i'm not sure what they are classing as abuse.

If anyone sees any could you post it below the thread

twitter.com/search?q=(%40r…
I've seen the word "bullshit"
someone said "appalling" and "betrayal"
"loathsome"
"embarrassing"
"appalling patronising nonsense"
The reason I ask is because the Law Commission is proposing criminalisation of tweets w the potential to cause "serious emotional distress" (😱)

So i'd like to see the receipts for the threshold of harm that causes a charity to close its social media

lawcom.gov.uk/project/reform…

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10 Dec
Baroness Barker in the HoL on Keira Bell case "The legal team has brought several cases designed to oppose LGBT rights & restrict reproductive rights, actions consistent w orgs such as the Heritage Foundation & the Alliance Defending Freedom, extreme evangelical US orgs"
She then goes on to ask an unrelated question parliamentlive.tv/event/index/be…

Legal team? Does she mean Jeremy Hyams QC and Alistair Henderson. No I think she is having a pop at Keira for using Paul Conrathe as solicitor.

So much guilt by vague association.
This brave young woman has suffered an unnecessary double mastectomy and hormone treatment that has altered her voice and may have damaged her fertility.

Baroness Barker has no compassion, erasing her agency and smearing her as a puppet of US religious right
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10 Dec
Kate Scottow has won her appeal and her conviction under s.127 of the Communications Act is quashed

On valentines day last year she was convicted for a dozen tweets of using a public communications network to “cause annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety”

spectator.co.uk/article/i-stan…
You can only imagine the "annoyance, inconvenience and anxiety" for this mother and student being arrested, locked in a police cell for 7 hours, having her computer and phone impounded for months, then being tried, convicted and fined.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
This is how the whole thing started...



From here the criminal justice system was used to harass and terrorise a woman for mildly annoying tweets.
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8 Dec
So what is going on with the Good Law Project crowdfunder?

Remember the initial launch was about a 14 year old transboy suing the NHS for delays - it raised about about £20K in the first days but has had a big boost since the Keira Bell judgment

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
This original case sounds quite similar to child S whose statement was included as evidence for the Tavistock in the Keira Bell case
Good Law Project Director Jolyon Maugham has argued that the justice system engineered to exclude the voices of trans children, and particularly Child S
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8 Dec
This is extraordinary

Changing the word "gender" to "sex" makes it absolutely clear that when a woman does not consent to a person of the opposite sex putting their fingers inside her, that means no.

If @rapecrisisscot think this doesn't matter they are not fit for purpose.
When the GRA -conflating sex & gender- was going thru parliament no one thought that it would be used for this. They did not think it thru.

People who argue for this on the basis of "be kind" did not think this thru.

At some point you have to say no.

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/09/16/doc…
I thought that that point might be when @stonewalluk was telling schools they should allow boys to identify into girls showers.

I thought it might be when @rcgp was giving out a prize celebrating male doctor for intimately examining women without consent.
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8 Dec
The right private life is the basis of "trans rights" - it is a limited right.

Sometimes govt can require info from people to fulfil a necessary function in a democratic society.

Collecting info on sex is on of those

If you can't ask trans ppl their sex you can't ask anyone
The right to privacy is basically the right to say "none of your business" in answer to Qs -

eg. What is your sex? age? sexual orientation? what is in that email? what is your religion? who are your children? how much money do you earn? are you pregnant?
It includes not just the right not to answer a question, but the right not to have that information recorded in a database where the information can be processed.

Or- where it is necessary to be recorded it shld be controlled & kept secure

(hence we have GDPR -data protection)
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4 Dec
Well this is interesting Maria Munir says they is trans lead for @AmnestyUK_LGBTI and worked on the joint statement with Liberty.
Does Maria work for Amnesty.... no they doesn't, they works for ...

.....Stonewall

stonewall.org.uk/people/maria-m…
Maria is 'famous' for coming out as non-binary to President Obama saying “In the UK we don’t recognise NB people under the equality act, so we literally have no rights." 🙄

yorkmix.com/video-york-stu…
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