Some WESC submissions that are worth a read....(my thread of bookmarks)
Judge Paula Grey is president of the Gender Recognition Panel
She doesn't make any recommendations, but she sets out how the process currently works
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
Judge Paula Grey is president of the Gender Recognition Panel
She doesn't make any recommendations, but she sets out how the process currently works
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
Which chimes with my analysis of the GRP User Panel and statistics drive.google.com/file/d/1WU2ddI…
She is also co-author if the Equal Treatment Bench Book and writes about how the judges are trained by Gendered Intelligence
She is also co-author if the Equal Treatment Bench Book and writes about how the judges are trained by Gendered Intelligence
There is the government's own response
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
On single sex spaces they say the law is clear that service providers are able to restrict access to spaces on the basis of biological sex where there is clear justification.
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
On single sex spaces they say the law is clear that service providers are able to restrict access to spaces on the basis of biological sex where there is clear justification.
The response from @womensaid is significant.
Their members want trans survivors to get support they need but not by undermining their ability to serve women with female staff & female only services
They highlight lack of clarity
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
Their members want trans survivors to get support they need but not by undermining their ability to serve women with female staff & female only services
They highlight lack of clarity
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
This was their position in 2015
They have moved on alot - they have been consulting with members since last year, and have had the courage to say what their members told them, not what Stonewall wanted to hear
data.parliament.uk/WrittenEvidenc…
They have moved on alot - they have been consulting with members since last year, and have had the courage to say what their members told them, not what Stonewall wanted to hear
data.parliament.uk/WrittenEvidenc…
You remember this is the report that Stonewall commissioned from @nfpSynergy where they interviewed managers of women's domestic violence services and heard *none of this*
Something wrong with this listening process I think!
stonewall.org.uk/system/files/s…
Something wrong with this listening process I think!
stonewall.org.uk/system/files/s…
. @Transgendertrd 's evidence is excellent and full of evidence - focused on young people, particularly girls
@cwknews @charlesworth102 and the team
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
@cwknews @charlesworth102 and the team
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
Then there is the evidence from @SexMattersOrg - which draws on the gender dissidents survey that I did in the summer, the GRP User Group minutes, the paper by @RebeccaMKBull and Alesandra Asteriti and the work of @mbmpolicy
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
Barnardos have lost the plot.
Obviously they submitted this evidence before Keira Bell v Tavistock - maybe they will have a rethink?
They seem to have lost all sight of safeguarding principles committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
Obviously they submitted this evidence before Keira Bell v Tavistock - maybe they will have a rethink?
They seem to have lost all sight of safeguarding principles committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
In particular they are concerned about the " risk of unnecessary disclosure within educational institutions" of a child's sex.
They want adults to keep secrets with children, and to lie to other children about sex.
They want adults to keep secrets with children, and to lie to other children about sex.
The BMA's evidence is interesting in that none of relies on refers to medical expertise.
They say that GD is neither a medical or a MH issue based on survey responses to the govts consultation.
What is the point of doctors or medical research, eh?
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
They say that GD is neither a medical or a MH issue based on survey responses to the govts consultation.
What is the point of doctors or medical research, eh?
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
Sport England say more guidance is needed.
(but they also seem to have forgotten sex in their commitment to equality, at paragraph 11. Sex Matters!)
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
(but they also seem to have forgotten sex in their commitment to equality, at paragraph 11. Sex Matters!)
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
Ruth Pearce who gave oral evidence provides supplementary evidence which, extraordinarily, accuses the other presenters Kathleen Stock, Rosa Freedman and Alice Sullivan of "distortions" and "untruths"
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
This is what Pearce says about the Swedish Study.
These were *not* the findings of the Swedish study....
These were *not* the findings of the Swedish study....
Here is my earlier thread on the Swedish Study
https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1349167477410902020
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