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🤨 Let's look at the evidence....
Here is how the Coventry University study defines conversion therapy...
They compare it with their preferred approach "unconditional acceptance"
Exploring whether a child's dysphoria is a symptom of a development disorder.

Exploring whether "asexuality" has another cause.

= Conversion therapy according to this study
Here is a case example they give from their interviews
And here is one of the very few a academic studies they cite as evidence on the nature of gender identity conversion. They say @ZUCKERKJ is a conversion therapist
Let's look at what the government's consultation on conversion therapy is asking people who say they've had it.

They are certainly not ruling out therapists and other clinicians
Let's look at what JK Rowling has been harassed and condemned for
Let's look at what @JamesEsses was expelled from therapist training for ...
And let's look at what Naomi Cunningham said at the Middle Temple which caused Jayne Ozanne to call her a transphobe and apologise to the trans community that she had been allowed to speak legalfeminist.org.uk/2021/11/17/con…
If @Nancy_M_K wants people to believe that the policy she is campaigning for doesn't target legitimate therapy, why didn't she speak up when she could have defended Ken Zucker, James Esses, Naomi Cunningham,David Bell, Keira Bell, Sonia Appleby, JK Rowling etc...

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May 16
There has been much sound and fury about the Supreme Court judgment and claims that it is very *difficult* to tell who should use which toilets.

Remember: this has always been the law.
Back in 2003 a group of transexual men sued a pub after it asked them not to use the ladies.

They were backed by the Equal Opportunities Commission.

They lost.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/n…Image
Then there was the case of Croft v Royal Mail.

Father of 3 Nicholas Simpson became Sarah Croft. He wanted to use the ladies at work. His employer said no.

He sued (again with support of EOC) and lost.

a-question-of-consent.net/2020/08/16/cro…Image
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May 11
This, by one of the Darlington nurses is heartbreaking (CW: CSA)

Women should not have to tell these stories to get the basic dignity that is their right under workplace health and safety law.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
This is what we mean when we say sex matters. It is what the Supreme Court meant when they said you have to be clear about what the different groups are.

It's not a legal nicety. It's not complex. It's not difficult.

It's just basic respect for women's humanity, with common sense.Image
I am so angry at all the highly paid people failing to do their job, who would not see that it is abusive to allow men into women's changing rooms, toilets and showers.

And even now who are resisting implementing the law. @NotPostingMatt @NHSConfed Image
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May 7
Minister @RhonddaBryant says “We are opposing the amendment and are not intending to introduce similar legislation.”

Let’s look at the knots he ties himself in

He says “data accuracy is important. That is equally true for any data used in a digital verification service.”

OK so your new law will enable people to prove their sex accurately then? 🤔
Bryant says “the government is already developing data standards on the monitoring of diversity information, including sex, via the Data Standards Authority.”

This is distraction.

Monitoring diversity information (which is about populations) is not the only reason why you want sex data.
Some times people want to make sure their sex is accurately recorded:

- For their own healthcare
- For social care
- For a job where sex matters
- For sport
- For safeguarding
- For use of single sex services
“the @StatsRegulation published updated guidance on collecting and reporting data and statistics about sex and gender identity last year, and all Govt Departments are now considering how best to address the recommendations of the Sullivan review, which we published.”

“That is the first reason why we will not be supporting this new clause or the amendment today.”
Read 10 tweets
May 4
A 🧵about signs.

What do I mean by this sign excludes all men?

I mean the sign itself is discriminatory. Image
It says women only, which means no men.
It is lawful because the situation meets one or more of the “gateway conditions” for a lawful single sex service in the EqA, and it is a proportionate means to a legitimate aim.
Who does the sign discriminate against? 

Men directly.

What all of them?

Yes, because they are all excluded by the rule. Even the femmes, the crossdressers, the transwomen, the non-binaries and the gender fluids.
Read 31 tweets
May 1
Here we are at @LSELaw for a legal panel discussion on the FWS case. Video will be available later. Image
Naomi Cunningham says the ruling changes very little .. and it changes everything. Image
Under the old understanding there was a route to exclude men with GRCs from women only services but it was unclear and uncertain. It sounded difficult to operate. And the @EHRC statutory code said case by case.
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Apr 28
Wow...

So the lineage of that policy that Sussex University has just been fined £0.5m for goes back via Advance HE and the Equality Challenge Unit to the SWP! 🤯
The Sussex policy comes almost word for word from the ECU policy which is based on the Association of Colleges Policy 2005 Image
Which Dave Renton said he drafted with SWP Laura Miles (author of Transgender Resistance: socialism and the fight for trans liberation) Image
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