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Jan 3, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...

Courts should treat people with respect while not losing their grasp on reality

Taylor v Jaguar - the Tribunal rewrote history to avoid using pronouns as they actually were at the time Image
Forstater v CGD

The Tribunal's primary concern with language was not giving offence Image
Employment Judge James Tayler used "assigned at birth" because I didn't say it is offensive 🙄

No, its just nonsense. Image
Maria Maclachlan was made to refer to her male assailant as "she"

feministcurrent.com/2018/06/21/int…
On the other hand: Bell v Tavistock starts with a good reality based definition of gender dysphoria. Image
Judge Julian Knowles in Harry Miller v College of Policing says he doesn't intend to diminish people's experience but he is going to use the language 'man' and 'woman' to refer to biological sex Image
Judges take leave of reality because the Equal Treatment Benchbook and associated training tells them to. Image
They say "whats the harm"?

The harm is we you don't start with a commitment to the truth then how can justice be served?

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More from @MForstater

Feb 3
I've written to @stonewalluk CEO Simon Blake applauding his leadership in discarding Stonewall's previous extreme and divisive definition of "transphobia". Image
And explaining the damage that it did. Image
It's not good enough to quietly back away from it after doubling down for so long Image
Read 5 tweets
Feb 1
Another thing that has been removed from Stonewall's website this year is the page defending the Diversity Champions scheme, and covering my case.

web.archive.org/web/2024120923…
It said that Stonewall's guidance was in line with the Equality Act 🤨 Image
The government's @oeogovuk has recently admitted it is a clear misinterpretation of the law to suggest that the Equality Act requires allowing people to access opposite sex facilities because they have the protected characteristic of "gender reassignment"
gov.uk/government/pub…Image
Read 8 tweets
Jan 11
New trans policies are being developed by @cabinetofficeuk @DCMS @SciTechgovuk and has settled a gender critical claim for 100k.

@SexMattersOrg looks at the bad policies
In 2016 this guidance by @agendergovuk was published on gov.uk

"This guide gives general advice to civil servants about transsexualism and gender reassignment issues relevant to Civil Service employees."

It is full self-ID

web.archive.org/web/2016040705… Image
Its a shocking document which makes wild claims

- 50% of the transsexual population died by their own hands by the age of 30.
- there could be between 7,800 and 17,880 “intersex” civil servants
Read 21 tweets
Nov 14, 2024
15 months after calling me in for questioning about a tweet, and having sat on the CPS decision that there was no crime for 2 months, the Met bothered to call me up at 7pm this evening to tell me, and then put out this press statement. 🙄

#TheProcessIsThePunishment Image
Here is the tweet over which they wasted their time, my time, my lawyers time and taxpayers' money.
Thanks to @DanielBerke1 for patiently chasing the Met for the past 15 months & @SarahvAtDSC for hand holding.

How much bullying can the police get away with against people who can't stand up for themself or get a media story.
Read 5 tweets
Sep 9, 2024
Minister for Women & Equalities says "We are proud of the EqAct & the rights & protections it affords women. The Govt does not plan to amend legal definitions in the act.”

Hundreds of women are going to Parliament on Wednesday to ask the govt to rethink.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
You can be proud of the Equality Act and still be vigilant about women's rights, and those who seek to deny them.

In 1897, a proposal was put before Cambridge University’s Senate to grant full degrees to female graduates. Male students responded with outrage.

An effigy of a woman on a bicycle was suspended out of the window of a building opposite the Senate.

sheilahanlon.com/?p=292Image
It took 22 more years before 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed permitting women to become join professions and to become lawyers and civil servants and to sit on juries.

But the institutions resisted. Image
Read 22 tweets
Sep 3, 2024
There is new statutory safeguarding guidance out for schools in England which tells them to consider risks and harms to gender questioning children as part of safeguarding.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
When this was out for consultation earlier in the year Adam Jepsen, Chief Health and Sex Education Officer of the Family Planning Association said that the government must withdraw it.

"These changes do not support trans children" he argued.

fpa.org.uk/reverse-damagi…
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Who is Adam Jepson and what is the Family Planning Association? 🤨

Mr Jepson has lots of commercial experience but none in health or education.

Given that contraception advice is mainly a by-women-for-women thing he seems an odd choice.

linkedin.com/in/adamjepsen/…
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