Journalists... This Goliath sues David case is a story....

Time for a profile of Bev, Kate and Malcolm, the plucky upstarts

And for more on detransitioners, the story Mermaids doesn't want told
You can quote from Bev Jackson's excellent speech at @LabWomenDec Stonewall and co see as the kind of thing that should get you ousted from your job and from the public debate

labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
In the league of Orwellian documents the pleadings in this case (that no lawyer put their name to!) are right up there.

drive.google.com/file/d/12q_P2a…
Basically they are competing in the public square of ideas.

Including "opposing changes in the law"

Impeding the work of Mermaids by challenging misinformation
Talk about being worthy of respect in a democratic society....

that these organisations are stamping their feet like this in public is a sign of how much license to dictate policy they have been given by public organisations.

A public inquiry is needed.

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2 Jun
"Stonewall law"

The purpose of the Freedom of Information Act is to keep information about our relationship with public bodies that could cause reputational damage out of the public domain
The purpose of the Charities Act is to allow people to organise together for the public good.

We get to define what the public good is.

Disagreement with us is not in the public good
The purpose of the Equality Act 2010 is to support "our community".

The EHRC should not intervene to support other people's rights.

consortium.lgbt/ehrc-open-lett…
Read 4 tweets
26 May
Stonewall's new range of clothing is "unisex"

(by which they mean designed for men, as if the needs and realities of being female don't matter)
Similarly their policies

"All LGBTQ+ couples and parents should have their relationships recognised on all official documents"

....sounds nice, right?

What does it mean?

In the case of surrogacy - that the "intended parents" should be recorded on the original birth certificate not the mother who carried the child.

Removing women's rights and commodifying their bodies
Read 6 tweets
24 May
Some thoughts on Stonewall's rebrand and strategy.

Erm.... does anyone else think that the rebrand is an 'up yours' to EHRC??
They went from LGB to LGBT in 2015 .... now adding "queer, questioning and ace" (asexual .... a spectrum which includes "demisexual", which means heterosexual who experiences sexual attraction based on emotional connection with a person...)
This is likely to mean that lesbian and gay men are a minority in the LGBTQ+ movement.

The government's LGBT survey (not a representative survey, but still interesting) suggests this is already the case amongst 16-24 year olds
Read 15 tweets
20 May
OMG.

None of these are valid FOI exceptions.
Here is what she asked for

whatdotheyknow.com/request/725207… Image
Here are the kinds of things that are indicators of a vexatious FOI request ImageImageImage
Read 5 tweets
20 May
Nancy Kelley complaining about complaints and accusing people of wild conspiracy theories.

Lets remind ourselves of the complaints that Stonewall sent to Garden Court Chambers to try to get Allison Bailey disciplined at work.
"Retweeting threats of violence"
"Liking and writing posts calling trans women men"
Read 10 tweets
17 May
Thread: going around saying something is toxic tends to make it more toxic, rather than less so.

Orgs & politics should be working to bring difficult issues back to a more normal level of disagreement.

The complete failure of orgs to do their job on this continues to shock
I am also an advocate of people sitting around talking for solving problems (what else is there?)

Orgs exist to do this - it's what justifies their overhead cost.

This is the office of CGD Europe where I used to work. You can see the Palace of Westminster from the windows
When I started talking about this it was with the naive hope that CGD might use its sunlit meeting room to host a discussion amongst development professionals about sex and gender in their orgs & policy advocacy.

It was the kind of thing we did
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