Enormously significant judgement for feminism and free speech today in @MForstater case. Women who believe sex is real and question gender identity beliefs are protected under the Equality Act. Well done everybody who supported #istandwithmaya
As someone who as been maligned and misrepresented simply for stating sex is real, I am enormously relieved by this judgement not just for @MForstater but for thousands of women who have been cancelled for expressing an opinion, however respectfully.
It’s now for those people in positions of power to think carefully about their failure to stand up to intolerance - or why they stood by when women were attacked and misrepresented by online mobs - some, sadly, whipped up by publicly funded organisations and public figures
My activity in this area was through the work of my parliamentary committee examining how sex was defined in the census - I also FACILITATED DEBATE by holding meetings in parliament to discuss sex and gender - for this I was subject to unacceptable abuse & false accusations
The meetings I helped facilitate included transsexuals on the erosion of their rights by sex self ID, doctors on the evidence base of transitioning young people, human rights lawyers & people working with abused women + feminist academics and activists . None were bigots
I am so grateful to @MForstater for her bravery and I hope the “institutional capture” she refers to will be addressed. Women have rights under the law to single sex spaces and services. Now they are able to defend those legal rights without being threatened and intimidated.
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