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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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The judgment in the case of Maria Kelly v Leonardo is out and it is awful.

As bad as James Tayler’s judgment in Forstater v CGDE in 2019 (and just as likely to be turned over on appeal).

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I am hugely grateful to Naomi Cunningham for the work that she has done as the first chair of Sex Matters, and for her equally important role as a barrister representing claimants using the law to fight for justice.

I wish her all the best in her future endeavours.
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Melanie Field reading list.

Field worked at the Government Equality Office when the Equality Act was being drafted, and then at the EHRC during the Stonewall years.

(Pictured here soon after leaving the job with Robin White, Stephen Whittle and Nancy Kelley) Image
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Field wrote in the Guardian about how she disagreed with the Supreme Court.

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The arguments made on behalf of the Women and Equalities Minister yesterday were a desperate attempt to shoehorn "case-by-case" back into the single sex services following the Supreme Court judgment.

sex-matters.org/posts/publicat…
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The man in the middle here is Ollie Entwistle, OBE Deputy Director, LGBT+ Policy and Operations at the Office for Equality and Opportunity
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Peter Wilkins case exposes another public body (this one part of @DefenceHQ) that lost sight of the Equality Act and of civil service principles of impartiality and objectivity.

One colleague accused him of making a "threatening" FOI request when he tried to draw attention to @dstlmod 's Line Manager’s Guide.

The FOI was turned down but I tried again.
At first DSTL said they couldn't find the document.

I said "have another look, its on your intranet" and they located it.

Then they thought long and hard about whether they could withhold it on security grounds.

Finally they decided they couldn't

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So here it is.

In all its glory.

How to create a hostile environment for gender critical staff and end up in employment tribunal.

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