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"
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
I'm looking forward to the day when Baroness Barker stands up in the House of Lords and suggests that I am a puppet of the radical vegans.
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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
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”
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.
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
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
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.
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
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." 🙄