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5 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
A reflection on leveling up over the past year..

There has been a lot of this (ordinary people finding ways to express their concern)
Precious little of this ...
No movement here

These people would rather be irrelevant

But a big shift in the Lord's around the MOMA Bill debate

And more MPs speaking up now

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Maya Forstater Profile picture
6 Jun
Hmm. I don't know how the govt will or can regulate legal Crowdfunders (since you can crowd fund for anything on generic sites, or set up your own).

And this is one of those illiberal moves not-to-applaud just because it is getting at someone you don't like
The ability of the public to bring JRs is important.

And there are permissions hearings and cost orders to deter the vexatious and frivolous.
I do think @CrowdJustice has been unwise to flex its own self-regulation for the Good Law Project.

Normally the rules require the "case owner" is the claimant and their lawyers sign off on the case page. But for GLP these constraints and quality control are removed.
Read 5 tweets
Maya Forstater Profile picture
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…
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Maya Forstater Profile picture
2 Jun
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…
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Maya Forstater Profile picture
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
Maya Forstater Profile picture
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
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Maya Forstater Profile picture
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
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