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Maya Forstater Profile picture
@MForstater
Nov 16, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Does anybody want to buy a bridge?

Galop is crowdfunding for £10k to "keep our National Conversion Therapy helpline open"

You might think that is an odd thing for a £1.6m organisation to do....
Until you learn that Galop only raises about £15k a year from donations.

The rest comes from government contracts.

Galop say in their Crowdfunder that work with victims of conversion therapy "every day"
Which is odd because when Stonewall, Mermaids etc did a national survey they could only find 43 people who said they had had such a negative experience in relation to gender identity
transgendertrend.com/conversion-the…
How much helpline does £10k buy you? And why, given that Galop already run two helplines (on hate crime and domestic abuse), are people not already using its existing services to report this abuse?

(Indeed you would think Galop would have some numbers on this 🤔)
Galop say a new helpline is specially needed now during the govt consultation on conversion therapy which may be triggering...
But also, the govt's proposal to ban conversion therapy (for which Galop is campaigning) includes a plan to commission a helpline (starting the process in Nov before the consultation is finished).

Who better to do that then the org already running the "National Helpline"?
I hope @trussliz tendering process has an equality policy that includes belief discrimination

Galop's policy on who they hire and who they block suggests they operate a "No TERFS on our Turf" policy which is not fully inclusive of all LGBT+ people

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Feb 6
I gave evidence in the Sandie Peggie case because the hospital board & male Dr refused to accept as findings of fact that that men are more likely to commit violent & sexual crimes, that men are more dangerous to women, so women are more heavily impacted by men in their spaces than vice versa.
You can read my witness statement here.

These are the facts it attests to.

You don't need a degree of any sort to understand these facts.

sex-matters.org/wp-content/upl…Image
I also gave evidence on the fact that some men who identify as "transwomen" are manifesting a specific paraphilia (sexual fetish). Image
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Feb 3
I've written to @stonewalluk CEO Simon Blake applauding his leadership in discarding Stonewall's previous extreme and divisive definition of "transphobia". Image
And explaining the damage that it did. Image
It's not good enough to quietly back away from it after doubling down for so long Image
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Feb 1
Another thing that has been removed from Stonewall's website this year is the page defending the Diversity Champions scheme, and covering my case.

web.archive.org/web/2024120923…
It said that Stonewall's guidance was in line with the Equality Act 🤨 Image
The government's @oeogovuk has recently admitted it is a clear misinterpretation of the law to suggest that the Equality Act requires allowing people to access opposite sex facilities because they have the protected characteristic of "gender reassignment"
gov.uk/government/pub…Image
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Jan 11
New trans policies are being developed by @cabinetofficeuk @DCMS @SciTechgovuk and has settled a gender critical claim for 100k.

@SexMattersOrg looks at the bad policies
In 2016 this guidance by @agendergovuk was published on gov.uk

"This guide gives general advice to civil servants about transsexualism and gender reassignment issues relevant to Civil Service employees."

It is full self-ID

web.archive.org/web/2016040705… Image
Its a shocking document which makes wild claims

- 50% of the transsexual population died by their own hands by the age of 30.
- there could be between 7,800 and 17,880 “intersex” civil servants
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Nov 14, 2024
15 months after calling me in for questioning about a tweet, and having sat on the CPS decision that there was no crime for 2 months, the Met bothered to call me up at 7pm this evening to tell me, and then put out this press statement. 🙄

#TheProcessIsThePunishment Image
Here is the tweet over which they wasted their time, my time, my lawyers time and taxpayers' money.
Thanks to @DanielBerke1 for patiently chasing the Met for the past 15 months & @SarahvAtDSC for hand holding.

How much bullying can the police get away with against people who can't stand up for themself or get a media story.
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Sep 9, 2024
Minister for Women & Equalities says "We are proud of the EqAct & the rights & protections it affords women. The Govt does not plan to amend legal definitions in the act.”

Hundreds of women are going to Parliament on Wednesday to ask the govt to rethink.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
You can be proud of the Equality Act and still be vigilant about women's rights, and those who seek to deny them.

In 1897, a proposal was put before Cambridge University’s Senate to grant full degrees to female graduates. Male students responded with outrage.

An effigy of a woman on a bicycle was suspended out of the window of a building opposite the Senate.

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It took 22 more years before 1919 the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed permitting women to become join professions and to become lawyers and civil servants and to sit on juries.

But the institutions resisted. Image
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