Its ground hog day ....

This time last year @SarahbaxterSTM @thesundaytimes made a half-correction (but didn't apologise) for using the title of an article I didn't write to make claims about me and call me "a very rude person"
Because that's the kinder, gentler thing to do
A year later it is @ForeignPolicy that wants to use the title of the same article to call me an "anti-trans troll"

Because, you know, "the gender critical movement is illogical, anti-feminist and cruel"

(But allowing bullies to use the pages of respected magazines to smear women with innuendo is kind, feminist and rational ? 🙄)
"Pronouns are Rohypnol" was not discussed in my employment tribunal, (neither the phrase nor the article) but it turns up in the judgment in the section where it said "Clair Quentin had alleged I retweeted transphobic material".
The "allegation" that I had retweeted transphobic material didn't come from the counsel for CGD and it didn't come from Clair Quentin's witness statement, and it was nothing to do with a colleague or any harassment.

It came from evidence i put in of Quentin trolling me
Quentin was a surprise witness who pitched up to say that when I had tweeted about Pips Bunce I was really tweeting about Quentin (someone i barely knew) because we were both on "tax twitter" and Quentin was non binary.
So i put in a supplemental witness statement to say i hadn't tweeted about Quentin, but Quentin had been trolling and trying to bully me on twitter - telling professional networks not to talk to me
hiyamaya.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/supple…
In the evidence was thread of tweets where Quentin had after i had lost my job and launched my case told someone not to talk to me and had included screen shots of a bunch of my tweets

This is where the "pronouns are rohypnol" tweet came from

drive.google.com/file/d/1jOm_89…
Its a weird thing that those tweets are in the judgment at all which is supposed to be about testing my belief against the Grainger Criteria - and about which I had submitted an extensive witness statement and a tonne of evidence.

mforstater.medium.com/claimants-witn…
Anyway yes doing mental gymnastics with language puts a cognitive load on people and confuses them.

If you mess around with language enough people don't notice that you've pulled a switch between who is being a bully and who is being bullied.

fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/

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18 Dec
Foreign Policy have - kinda, sorta - corrected the false statement about me in Grace Lavery's article, and posted a correction note.

The whole paragraph is still misleading in an article which could have 30 correction notes on it.

This is what happened
In the first version Lavery claimed I lost my job after tweeting "pronouns are rohypnol"
Lavery has a thing about this: wanting me to be known as Maya "pronouns are rohypnol" Forstater and linking my name to this article and Lavery's interpretation of it persistently

I would call this behaviour trolling:

twitter.com/search?q=rohyp…
Read 17 tweets
18 Dec
It is well worth watching and reading Liz Trusses speech in full from yesterday

conservativehome.com/parliament/202…

Her focus is on the conservative values of liberty, agency, and fairness, and on moving the equality agenda out of identity politics and into the geographic inequality.... and literally moving the Equality Hub up North so the decisions are outside of the London bubble.
However you judge the authenticity or effectiveness of conservative commitments and policies on inequality, there is lots in the speech to like, and the degree of influence of the arguments that we have been making is unmissable.
Read 17 tweets
18 Dec
There is so much wrong with this article by Grace Lavery.

Jesse Singal gets at much of the detail

The biggest point for me though is captured in the framing by @ForeignPolicy

Their headline:
Their tweet
The case of Bell v Tavistock is a judicial review about the welfare and rights of children under 18 with gender dysphoria in England

- is it right that they can consent to take puberty blockers?

(I.e. the Q of Gillick competence)
Read 14 tweets
15 Dec
Thompson Reuters makes $5.9 bn revenues and $1.2bn operating profit a year.

But they are calling women who have managed to collect $1.3 million "bullies" for taking cases to court to protect their rights.
Thompson Reuters is willing to let the "trans rights" tail wag its "impartial news provider" dog.

I wonder if it does the same with @Westlaw - information it provides to legal professionals and corporates.

Does it communicate the law as it is or Stonewall's wishful thinking?
I wonder if they are also willing to let their trans rights activism tail wag their legal journals dog?

Their European Human Rights Law Review carried this article on my case by Sociologist Paul Johnson

Johnson thinks that my belief is outlawed....

Read 6 tweets
15 Dec
If there is no conflict of rights, then why is it that when we try to defend our rights to freedom of expression and against discrimination at work as women who believe that sex matters it is called being "anti trans rights"?
You must not talk about the conflict of rights

Even acknowledging that we have any rights which conflict with what transactivists want is transphobic

transactual.org.uk/transphobia
Even presenting us as maybe having a point is transphobic
Read 4 tweets
15 Dec
This is incredibly shoddy work @TRF @hugo_greenhalgh @rachelmsavage @antozappulla and does not stand up the @Reuters principles of integrity, independence, and freedom from bias

in.reuters.com/article/britai…
My case is not "pushing back against transgender rights" it is case about belief discrimination.

It is about the right of people not to be discriminated against at work & by service providers for holding or not holding a belief about the nature of sex and gender identity.
Adding up some numbers in the public domain is not much of an investigation.

It is the work of a pocket calculator and 15 minutes.

The rest of the time was spent looking for the fabled shady right wing money... none was found
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