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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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Apr 18
I have seen quite a lot of this question going around.

Its called the "transman gotcha" and it is addressed in the Supreme Court judgment. Image
It goes like this: If you exclude "trans women" from women's spaces then you must include burly, bearded "trans men" Image
The answer in the judgment is that the Equality Act exceptions mean that both sex discrimination and gender reassignment discrimination prohibitions are disapplied so a service provider can lawfully exclude both ways. Image
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Apr 15
There will be much talk of the single-sex exceptions in the Equality Act over the next few days.
These are the exceptions that allow service providers to offer services that are only open to one sex or the other (found at Schedule 3 Part 7 of the Act). (1/7) Image
Without these provisions service providers would be committing sex discrimination by excluding men or women.
Service providers don’t need to “use these exceptions” to exclude people, they just provide the service in the normal way. If they were to get sued they (or a lawyer) can point to the exceptions to show the service is lawful. (2/7)
The exceptions disapply both the prohibitions against sex discrimination and gender reassignment discrimination.

Again service providers don’t have to “use the exceptions” to exclude someone based on a particular protected characteristic. (3/7) Image
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Apr 7
Stonewall publishes a story about asexual "conversion therapy" to support its campaign for a new criminal law.

It is distinctly odd. Image
Elizabeth gets married then tells her husband she isn't sexually attracted to him and doesn't want to have sex with him (or anyone else).

What was she doing getting married? 🤷‍♀️ Image
The couple go to therapy, which seems like a reasonable course of action.

The story says "made to" but with no detail as to how she was forced. 🤔

She stopped going with no ill consequences for her. Image
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Apr 4
The CEO of @AdvanceHE has written to university vice chancellors acknowledging that "certain policy statements" cited in the @officestudents decision on @SussexUni "originated in part from" their template. Image
The parts in yellow came word-for-word from the Equality Challenge Unit/ Advance HE template....

i.e. almost all of it. Image
... this policy was influential and contributed to the culture of declaring everything "transphobia" and of hounding and not protecting those accused of it. Image
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Mar 26
The ONS have new guidance out on their gender identity data from the census....

They say that you can take it from them with "high confidence" that around 1 in 200 people have a "gender identity different from their sex at birth" 🤨 Image
But low confidence as to whether these are "trans men" "trans women" "non binary people" or others.

So what is it they are confident about? Image
They divide the apparent trans response into type A (e.g. sex male, says no to gender identity same question says "woman" for gender ID)

Type b 1 (says no to gender identity same question w no further answer)

Type b 12(says no to gender identity same question and then gives matching answer e.g. Male and man)Image
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Mar 23
So who is "Mr X" the trans identifying man held in high security male prison after multiple convictions for luring boys into sex acts while pretending to be a teenage girl on social media?
Could it be Nigel "Emma" Davies who posed as a teenager online and shared indecent images?

No. Davies wanted to engage with young girls. Davies was convicted but not jailed.

transcrimeuk.com/2024/05/16/emm…Image
Could it be former children’s holiday camp manager Cameron Osman who engaged more than 70 teenage boys in sexualised chat pretending to be a 16-year-old girl “Lizzie lemon”.



He is in prison. No idea what pronouns he now uses. independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…Image
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