1./ The winner of today's Dawn Butler award for Best Stonewall Sabotage goes to @benjamincohen who shows what happens when you spend years refusing to debate. You can no longer do it. His interview was less a car crash, more a full episode of Wacky Races.👇
2./ Cohen seems to have rehearsed for today's interview with @JustinOnWeb when he pompously railed against gay journo @cristo_radio yesterday saying he wouldn't deign to defend Stonewall against what he said were "false" charges. So ..err..what he did he do today on the BBC? 👇 
3./ At 6 minutes in to the BBC clip he says it's false Stonewall demands safe spaces for women like refuges should be open to transwomen. Strange. Here's Stonewall arguing exactly that in its Scottish GR Consultation. Of course they do it in typically disingenuous fashion.👇
4./ All the way through the GR Reform debate Stonewall misrepresented the law, saying there was no controversy because a few vulnerable transwomen had already gained access to refuges. That doesn't change the fact that women currently have the legal right to exclude them.
5./ This also ignores completely the biggest issue about Self-ID of gender: it would give access to single sex spaces in general to ANY male who chooses to identify as a women. That's what happens when you advocate for the removal of ALL safeguards as Stonewall did and does.👇
6./ Stonewall cites Clause 31 of the Yogyakarta Principles as a model. But Professor Robert Wintemute one of the authors of the original YP has disowned that later addition as a danger to women. You can read Clause 31 here. Tell me how it protects women? yogyakartaprinciples.org/principle-31-y…
7./ It states: "EVERYONE has the right to legal recognition without reference to, or requiring assignment or disclosure of, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics." In other words ANY non-trans bloke can say he's a woman.
8./ Clause 31 which Stonewall and others want to enshrine in our laws also advocates this:- "end the registration of the sex and gender of the person in identity documents such as birth certificates, identification cards, passports and driver licences."🤦♂️👇
9./ You tell me how ending ALL registration of sex and gender from birth onwards combined with a process that removes any medical or psychological safeguards to non-trans blokes later self identifiying as women protects vulnerable women (LGB or straight) in refuges or prisons?
10./ Maybe Cohen is just confused about Stonewall's position. But he shouldn't be. Pink News itself has constantly celebrated the woke rewriting of rules on the ground that removed restrictions to entry of non biological women to women's refuges. Here's just one piece from 2018.
11./ And here's a piece from last year that dismisses the concerns of women about domestic refuges. "No examples could be given...of trans women, or cis men pretending to be trans women". Could that be perhaps because safeguards currently work? 🤦♂️ pinknews.co.uk/2020/09/08/tra…
12./ Despite pressure to kowtow many women's refuges still feel empowered to defend women's spaces because they know they have the legal RIGHT to restrict entry. Self-ID would remove that right and could remove basic safeguards as it did in prisons.👇thetimes.co.uk/article/rapist…
13./ Blokes "faking being trans" may be few now but that's not an argument for removing legal protections. There hasn't been a Dunblane recently so should we relax gun ownership? No. Stonewall even argued there should be no limit to the times you could change your gender.👇
14./ Benjamin's infantile points and attempts to close down debate contrasted sharply with the calm, reasonable incisive arguments made by @SimonFanshawe. But his bluster prevented scrutiny of the scale of the changes he and Stonewall advocate in pursuit of Self-ID. Take this.👇
15./ Stonewall argues gender quotas and pay monitoring brought in to assist women must now include transwomen. Since they refuse to debate the implications of this they have ended up with their side arguing a Board made up of 50% men and 50% transwomen would be fair to women. 👇
16./ How would you ever know whether sexism was keeping women's pay lower in an organisation if you ignore biological sex? It's confused nonsense like this that risks undermining the good name of LGB people who will now be accused of undermining women's progress at the workplace.
17./ The tragic irony is Self-ID is also a danger to LGB people. Our rights would be rendered meaningless in law. That's why we have no option but to defend ourselves against not just open homophobes but part of the LGBTQ+ movement that's lost its senses. But let's applaud Ben.
18./ He's managed to reveal in all its glory just how unsupportable are the positions now advanced by the extreme wing of the LGBTQ+ movement. They bully, bluster and try to silence opponents because they know in their hearts they can't defend this madness. They shame us all.
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