Dear @KathViner - @guardian is welcome to write about my case, but please fact check it.

Being the child of a journalist is not the same as being a journalist.

And a journalist writing about their own child is still primarily a parent.

Where are your editorial standards?
Claim 1: She repeatedly proclaimed on social media that “transwomen are men”.

Not true.
Claim 2: She repeatedly proclaimed on social media that “it is not possible for someone who is male to become female”

Not true
Claim 3: Forstater has strongly endorsed an article ...

Lets unpack that...
1. "Strongly endorsed" = I tweeted a link to an article and said it was important

2. This was after I lost my job, so what is it doing in the Guardian narrative *before* I lost my job - are they trying to suggest spurious causality?

3. The article is not about "transgender people’s use of pronouns" - it is about the social norm that *other people* must comply with the demand to use non sex based pronouns.
"in other words..." 🙄

No the article does not discuss trans people's desire to assert their identity or compare it to sexual violence

Guardian: if you are going to talk about the article then why not quote from it and link to it?
uncommongroundmedia.com/banned-from-me…
Claim 4: the tribunal’s ruling was that Forstater aggressively denied the identities of people with whom she might have to work

Not true
The judgment did not say that I did anything aggressively, nor that I was aggressive.

So no that was not the "basis of the judgment" it is a smear on my character entirely made up by @guardian in order to discredit me and by extension JK Rowling.
Nor does does the judgment say "denied the identities of people with whom she might have to work".

Why not quote from the actual judgment?

Because that wouldn't work as a device to smear JK Rowling.

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17 Apr
That's the initial target in <12 hours 😊
Thankyou!
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10 Apr
I unintentionally misgendered this person on Twitter in June 19

They complained to Scouts who undertook an investigation of me leading to a process still ongoing

I submitted evidence which was not read by Scouts

Some of my evidence ended up in my employment tribunal judgment
The complaint was that I had
(1) deliberately misgendered Murray
(2) spread lies about them
(3) "Broken the Scout Law" in these two tweets

There was lots of other baseless accusation: calling me an anti trans bigot, unsafe for children, causing pile ons (please don't!) , making claims that Scouts was working w Transgender Trend, which GM called a "hate group".

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Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia...
In 2019 they said they were developing a new policy (no new policy has been published)
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3 Apr
Its April. My appeal is coming up soon.

It is two years since I lost my job @CGDev for disagreeing w the erasure of sex

16 months since CGD's representatives stood up in court and said such things as "how can you possibly tell what sex someone is?"

15 months since JKR tweeted
In that time not one international development blogger, open government commentator, women in development commentator has written a word.

There has not been one article in the development, voluntary sector etc.. press @devex @CivilSocietyUK @ACEVO @ThirdSector
CGDev pleaded & the judge agreed that my view is "not worthy of respect in a democratic society" --

putting it on par w naziism

How they square this w writing perfectly sensible articles like this, I do not know, and no one has had the courage to ask

cgdev.org/blog/why-world…
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21 Mar
I am thinking about #digitalidentity and how your personal data is required and used by official and commercial systems

Basic data protection requires it be accurate, reliable and purposeful.

So if they record my sex it shouldn't then be mixed up in a category that's not sex
Current systems which mix up sex and self identified gender cause all kinds of risks and problems, which get worse with interoperability
What would good ID look like in relation to sex?

Are these 5 system characteristics adequate?
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17 Mar
Debate in the House of Lords on amendment 87B starting

parliamentlive.tv/event/index/4a…
Baroness Alica Kennedy - this bill is about gathering evidence about abuse against women and girls

Sexual harassment in public spaces - it is mainly not reported.

Rape charges are falling

Crimes disproportionately effecting women and carried out by men
"Gender" perceived to be the motivation for high percentage of hate crime

or does she mean sex?
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