1st of Feb - a year ago today I made this speech @Womans_Place_UK

What an amazing day it was.
As I said then "I am not an academic feminist, not a
professional feminist, not a radical feminist, not a socialist feminist. I am a feminist and I'm an ordinary woman
who knows what a woman is and who refused to shut up about it."
"I will stand beside Labour women, Conservative women Liberal Democrats, Greens SNP and the women who find
themselves politically homeless, Democrats and Republicans, men of all political stripes, transsexuals who do not demand that we deny reality....
.... people who are motivated by religion and people who have no religion because a free society depends on protecting the beliefs we do not share and debating
ideas openly"

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1 Feb
Reducing risk of sexual crime (voyeurism, exposure, assault - a risk mainly posed by men) is just one reason we have sex segregated spaces in some situations (privacy & dignity is another).

& Unisex options are often possible so that everyone can be accommodated comfortably
The "Swedish Study" is a peer reviewed long term follow up study of 324 ppl undergoing surgical transition

Included in its findings is that MtF transsexuals retained a male pattern of criminality including violent crime

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
This is an inconvenient finding for people advocating for allowing males to be able to self-identify into previously female-only spaces

They say there is no basis for concerns about the risk for women.
Read 17 tweets
31 Jan
A thread on the "evidence" of US right wing funding of UK gender critical groups

Rayya thinks she's found it!

Oh no, turns out it was an unrelated argument about engagement with Facebook posts
Well not actual evidence, but definitely a website which doesn't mention UK groups

Read 7 tweets
28 Jan
Some more on @RCObsGyn

Compare and contrast.

This is their response to the Shrewsbury maternity scandal

(dated statements, named quotes, links to what they are talking about)

rcog.org.uk/en/news/statem…

rcog.org.uk/en/news/campai…

rcog.org.uk/en/news/action…
In general they put things out as news - e.g. response to new regulations and government decisions

rcog.org.uk/en/news/rcog-a…

rcog.org.uk/en/news/rcogfs…
They rarely post "position statements" - in the past three years they had only posted 2 that weren't joint statements agreed with other institutions

rcog.org.uk/en/news/campai…
Read 4 tweets
28 Jan
Back in September 2018 I asked this question, which lead to a twitter discussion, which lead to me losing my job.

The Q wasn't about Bunce really but about whether, when you have a policy that is about empowering women, you change the definition to suit a man?
People who responded, smart people, usually robust economists said things like this.

I was surprised...but I could why they might fence sit, or SEK to be (apparently) inclusive, since the #manels question is fairly minor.

But when it really matters people might say no?..no?
Like when someone who has lived all their life as a man and has recently "become" a woman asks for a seat on a forum where women have a chance to talk to medics about how women are treated in pregnancy and childbirth.

You'd say no then right?

Read 6 tweets
28 Jan
Can you imagine the drafting process of this weird statement?

"Let's put out a statement on the Tavistock v Bell appeal"

"But don't mention the case by name"

"What about children being prescribed puberty blockers and put on a path to sterilisation?"

"No don't mention that!"
"What about our tweet where we said we supported the intervention by Stonewall and the Good Law Project?"

"don't draw attention to that. Don't mention it. Just mention the other orgs"

"Um, the statement is a bit short now, and vague..."
"pad it out then, talk about other cases"

"Won't that look weird though? We haven't put out position statements on other cases?"

"You're right. Ok, just be vague there , and then add something else.... let's talk about our position on decriminalising abortion"
Read 5 tweets
28 Jan
So 30 hours after its original tweet the Royal College of Obs and Gyn publish a statement 🤨

But they only tweet it as a reply, so not many people have seen it

I wonder which came first - was this policymaking by twitter?
This was the original tweet
But it is not what they say in their policy position.

The policy position just says the court of appeal should consider Gillick.

We can all agree with that.

The High Court considered Gillick. That is what the judgment was based on.
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