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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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Jul 22
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

whatdotheyknow.com/request/line_m…
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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Jul 22
Judgment in the case of Peter Wilkins v @dstlmod finally published.

It is quite a read.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687e55f1…Image
DSTL run the MOD research centre at Porton Down.

Lynn O'Donnell had writen a document entitled Line Managers Guide to supporting LGBT+ Identifying staff.

It included the old Stonewall definition of transphobia (which has now been withdrawn). Image
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The action starts not long after the Forstater EAT judgment.

Prof Sophie Scott is awarded the Faraday Prize and O'Donnell goes onto DSTL's "distillery" chat forum to say 'tis a pity she's a TERF....and linked GC views to rise in violence against LGBT people

Peter Wilkins flags this as slanderImage
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Jul 11
The High Court has granted an anonymity order in relation to three individual "trans and intersex" claimants in the Good Law Project's case against EHRC for its interim update.

judiciary.uk/judgments/good…Image
Any information possibly identifying the claimants has been withheld from the public domain. Image
Also, somewhat oddly, the Good Law project has redacted the names of its legal team members in publishing the facts and grounds. Image
Read 16 tweets
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Jul 5
Stonewall has had another rebrand.

Gone is the shortlived EHRC teal and Pepto-Bismol pink theme and in comes a "going back to our roots" and grown up purple... Image
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The old flag is flying prominently Image
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Jul 3
The nomination of Mary-Ann Stephenson as new chair of the EHRC brought the witch hunters out.

Stephenson has a PhD in equality law. She is Director of the Women’s Budget Group, and has been director of the Fawcett Society, chair of the Early Education and Childcare Coalition and a board member of Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre.Image
A bunch of charity CEOs (some of whom are part of "Equally Ours" with her) wrote a letter saying darkly she "previously supported views seen at odds with inclusivity for all" Image
There was a petition accusing her of making "anti-trans statements" and "association with groups advocating for the curtailment of trans people's human rights"

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…Image
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Jun 3
In the case of Peter Wilkins v @dstlmod there is a bit about a "threatening FOI" Image
Wilkins had requested disclosure of DSTL's strategy on gender identity and gender expression.

The request was refused because it was anonymous. Image
After the judgment I repeated the request Image
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