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15 Oct, 5 tweets, 3 min read

Erasing the word ‘mother’ from policies that affect only women & girls is not ‘gender-neutral’ but erases the significance of sex in the very area where sex is all important. Inclusive language doesn’t exclude the words women have used to describe themselves for centuries.

Without public debate, the Scottish Government has removed the word ‘mother’ from its maternity policies at the direction of Stonewall, the organisation that the Scottish Goverment is paying to lobby it to make such changes.
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#NolanInvestigatesStonewall and @SexMattersOrg is calling for a public inquiry into the influence of Stonewall and its associated organisations over public bodies. We think that the “Nolan Principles” of public life have been systematically breached.
sex-matters.org/posts/campaign…

@ONS

Listen to Episode 6 of #NolanInvestigatesStonewall for all the details including how allowing Stonewall to dictate policy can leave bodies such as the @ONS with ‘egg on their face and reputational damage while Stonewall is nowhere to be seen’…
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

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Find the @SexMattersOrg briefing for employers
‘Understanding the risk of following Stonewall guidance’
here, along with other publications and resources ⬇️

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“Is it right that in a democracy a lobby group can have so much influence within government, on government policy and if Stonewall can have it who else can have it?”
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