1/Caroline Noakes MP says she has no idea why we would want to know someone's sex. There are lots of reasons. Sex has systematic effects on physical health, and is linked to wide-ranging socio-economic outcomes.🧵
https://twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status/1473209554901024768
2/We need accurate data, disaggregated by sex in order to understand differences in the lives of women and men, and in order to tackle sexism. doi.org/10.1080/136455… (Open Access version) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
3/ONS lost to @fairplaywomen at Judicial Review when they attempted to change the meaning of the word sex in order to undermine the collection of clear data on sex. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
4/The hypothesis that gender identity is a more powerful predictor than sex for any particular outcome cannot be tested without data on both sex and gender identity. politicalquarterly.blog/2021/07/27/why…
5/Those who use the claim that gender identity trumps sex as a justification for not collecting data on sex seek to make it impossible to test their assumptions. This demonstrates a radically anti-scientific approach to evidence.
6/Without data on sex, organisations cannot fulfil their public sector equality duty to monitor and publish data on the protected characteristic of sex. bera.ac.uk/blog/has-athen…
7/The fact that the Women and Equalities Select Committee don't understand that sex matters is troubling. Even more troubling is their acceptance of the view that discussion and debate on issues of sex and gender identity are harmful. 
8/In a democracy, consultation and discussion are not harmful, they are essential. What has it come to when this has to be explained to MPs?
9/The absence of open discussion exposes organisations to policy capture, weakens democratic discourse and can only be detrimental to the ability of policymakers to know the views of the people they represent. doi.org/10.1111/1467-9…
10/Team #nodebate have lost, and the poverty of their arguments is exposed for all to see. I hope for a changing of the guard at the Women and Equalities Committee. We deserve better.
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