New JR by the Good Law Project with US hormone doctor trade association, Gendered Intelligence and Brook

Trying to use the Equality Act to remove safeguards on sterilising gender non conforming kids
goodlawproject.org/update/healthc…
This is shocking.

Being a transgender is not (so they say) a medical condition.

The Equality Act protected characteristic does not require medical diagnosis.

Yet the EqA protected characteristic is being used as a lever to remove safeguards from extreme medical treatment
Their case is that whatever safeguards are put in place around "trans children" should be compared to "non trans children": as if the EqA was there to protect people's right to be sterilised without consent!

No one is sterilising non trans children to make them look better
The only justification for puberty blockers ... Otherwise children will go through irreversible changes (aka growing up, sexual maturity, ability to become a parent).

And this must be stopped for cosmetic reasons

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6 Oct
A bit more on the global funding story

(AKA: where is my right wing money?)
@victor_madrigal 's report quotes from Meet the Moment : A call for Progressive Philanthropic Response to the Anti Gender Movement by the Global Philanthropy Project group of LGBT funders Image
They report how anti-gender movements "funnel" money overseas (sounds dodgy doesn't it?) Image
Read 15 tweets
4 Oct
MUST READ: This is Dr Marci Bowers, transwoman, WPATH Board Member, world-renowned vaginoplasty specialist who operated on Jazz Jennings talking to @AbigailShrier
This is Erica Anderson, clinical psychologist at the University of California San Francisco’s Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic, transwoman WPATH Board member
They are saying the things that have got @ALLIANCELGB and @Transgendertrd called "Hate Groups" by Stonewall and Mermaids, that have got @JamesEsses investigated, James Caspian's research stopped, & @LisaLittman1 & Abigail Shrier hounded.
Read 5 tweets
4 Oct
Q "has the TERF responsible been fired" ...
A"its an understandable but incorrect assumption that a TERF was responsible"

This is extraordinarily unprofessional & concerning from @RainbowNHSBadge scheme.

40 NHS Trusts are part of the "NHS Rainbow Badge assessment model"
Try that exchange substituting a slur for a person with any other protected characteristic in place of "TERF" and ask yourself if this is an acceptable way for a public body to behave?
The scheme is a collaboration of @LGBTfdn @stonewalluk @LGBTConsortium @LGBTSwitchboard and @GLADDUK

Several of those orgs signed a letter condemning @ehrc for recognising that people w gender critical beliefs are protected by S.10 of the Equality Act

consortium.lgbt/ehrc-open-lett…
Read 5 tweets
28 Sep
Thread of evidence session by Dr Vickie Pasterski, defence witness for Helen Webberley

"Diagnosis is very straightforward. It’s self diagnosis. I can’t know their identity"

Doesn't see difference between 16 year old and 40 year old in terms of consent
Pasterski is a big fan of Dr Webberley
This is what Pasterski patients say on Reddit
Read 10 tweets
28 Sep
At 38 minutes - Robin Moira White "the go to lawyer for trans cases". Some good questions from @Emmabarnett. She has done her homework
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Robin gives advice on toilets - both in workplaces and in education. We don't have segregated workplaces any more. there used to be race segregation in NASA. There used to sex segregation.

(dodges the question of why we still have sex segregation in toilets)
Says an example of proportionate means to a legitimate aim of trans exclusion would be "breast screening", a higher degree of nakedness. It may be legitimate to say to a trans user that they need to come at a different time. That is the extreme of the position. [No case law here]
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