#IStandWithMaya ❤️
We hope @WEP_UK @WEP_Scot @WEP_Wales @ManduReid are following Maya Forstarter's appeal today
An appeal that gets to the very crux of women's rights in the UK today- women's right to say #sexmatters
Case details 👇🏿
We hope @WEP_UK @WEP_Scot @WEP_Wales @ManduReid are following Maya Forstarter's appeal today
An appeal that gets to the very crux of women's rights in the UK today- women's right to say #sexmatters
Case details 👇🏿
It is vital that @WEP_UK get to grips with the issues at the crux of this appeal
It is also key that the @EHRC is intervening on behalf of Maya & indicates how far we have come despite the silence of our feminist leaders at WEP
#IStandWithMaya #SexMatters
It is also key that the @EHRC is intervening on behalf of Maya & indicates how far we have come despite the silence of our feminist leaders at WEP
#IStandWithMaya #SexMatters
WEP bursts at the seams with radical, women centred policies ❤️ & our leader @ManduReid is smart, compassionate & down to earth ❤️
However we have left the heavy lifting of defending #womensrights to those without the protection & weight that we have as a party.
#sexmatters
However we have left the heavy lifting of defending #womensrights to those without the protection & weight that we have as a party.
#sexmatters
WE can not let this untenable situation continue 💔
@WEP_UK's silence discredits us, it undermines our essential policies and in doing so undermines women & girls
Please do reach out to us either on twitter or via our website 👇🏿
#IStandWithMaya
wepsbr.com/blog
@WEP_UK's silence discredits us, it undermines our essential policies and in doing so undermines women & girls
Please do reach out to us either on twitter or via our website 👇🏿
#IStandWithMaya
wepsbr.com/blog
The Index For Censorship agrees that the initial ruling was incorrect
Here is there skeletal argument 👇🏿
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill
hiyamaya.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/forsta…
Here is there skeletal argument 👇🏿
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill
hiyamaya.files.wordpress.com/2021/04/forsta…
Day 2
When the barrister @janeErussell suggests that @MForstater is implying 'sex superiority'
To assert this is to suggest that women occupy a position of structural power over men. This is objectively not the case
#sexmatters #sexnotgender #IStandWithMayaForstater
When the barrister @janeErussell suggests that @MForstater is implying 'sex superiority'
To assert this is to suggest that women occupy a position of structural power over men. This is objectively not the case
#sexmatters #sexnotgender #IStandWithMayaForstater
Barrister @janeErussell claims that re sex 'society has moved on'
Given that sex is not a social construct this would seem nonsensical
It is also true that this is not the case in the law- this is not helped by the Barrister using sex & gender interchangeably
#IStandWithMaya
Given that sex is not a social construct this would seem nonsensical
It is also true that this is not the case in the law- this is not helped by the Barrister using sex & gender interchangeably
#IStandWithMaya
Listening to a court trawl through endless (reasonable) tweets & statements smacks of a witch hunt & targeted harassment through the courts
#ThisIsNotADrill #IStandWithMaya
#ThisIsNotADrill #IStandWithMaya
Using DSDs as 'evidence' that sex is a spectrum is not fit for court
It is offensive, inaccurate & conflates sex characteristic variations with ideas of gender identity
It is worrying how these ideas have been embedded into bench mark guidance
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill
It is offensive, inaccurate & conflates sex characteristic variations with ideas of gender identity
It is worrying how these ideas have been embedded into bench mark guidance
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill
The Barrister quotes Simone De Beauvoir 🙄
(yep, she went there)
Simone did not believe sex is a spectrum, that 'society has moved on' or that sex is immaterial in 'becoming a woman'
Appropriating women's political movement to attack our rights is a #newlow
#IStandWithmaya
(yep, she went there)
Simone did not believe sex is a spectrum, that 'society has moved on' or that sex is immaterial in 'becoming a woman'
Appropriating women's political movement to attack our rights is a #newlow
#IStandWithmaya
The Barrister refers to The Yogyakarta Principles
One of the founders Professor Robert Wintemute recently denounced them because at no point was the impact on women (of removing sex & replacing with gender identity in law) considered 👇🏿
#IStandwithMaya
sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
One of the founders Professor Robert Wintemute recently denounced them because at no point was the impact on women (of removing sex & replacing with gender identity in law) considered 👇🏿
#IStandwithMaya
sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
'Sex is clearly changeable'
'You can literally change sex because the GRA 2004 says you can' (well it doesn't actually)
Barrister @janeErussell
Maya Forstater V CGD Europe
28.4.21
#sexmatters #sexnotgender #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill #LegalFiction
'You can literally change sex because the GRA 2004 says you can' (well it doesn't actually)
Barrister @janeErussell
Maya Forstater V CGD Europe
28.4.21
#sexmatters #sexnotgender #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill #LegalFiction
*Natal women
Once more for the back of the class- We are not BORN women. We are girls & we mature into women.
It would seem a good opportunity to quote Simone De Beauvoir again 😊😂
#IStandWithMaya
Once more for the back of the class- We are not BORN women. We are girls & we mature into women.
It would seem a good opportunity to quote Simone De Beauvoir again 😊😂
#IStandWithMaya
Stopping for lunch/cocktails
Ended on a page turner when Karon Monaghan QC interjected for the @EHRC to school the testimony of
@janeErussell
It would turn out that sex is immutable ❤️#colourmeshocked
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill
Ended on a page turner when Karon Monaghan QC interjected for the @EHRC to school the testimony of
@janeErussell
It would turn out that sex is immutable ❤️#colourmeshocked
#IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill
Ben Cooper acting on behalf of Maya has just shown the judge a picture of Gregor Murray
😆
(I think he flinched)
Gregor Murray (now suspended for harassing women) is 'non-binary' - it is being suggested that referring to him as 'he' is an act of transphobia
#IStandWithMaya
😆
(I think he flinched)
Gregor Murray (now suspended for harassing women) is 'non-binary' - it is being suggested that referring to him as 'he' is an act of transphobia
#IStandWithMaya
For more detailed tweeting from the court please see @SexMattersOrg
To read more & support their work 👇🏿
sex-matters.org/where-sex-matt…
To read more & support their work 👇🏿
sex-matters.org/where-sex-matt…
We eagerly anticipate the courts ruling in the coming months
Many are concerned at the length of time this appeal will take.
Don't be 👇🏿
Many are concerned at the length of time this appeal will take.
Don't be 👇🏿
https://twitter.com/legalfeminist/status/1387436922239438854?s=20
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