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.🧵
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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18 Dec
Le Monde "In the United Kingdom, professors and intellectuals are alarmed at threats to freedom of expression, in particular with regard to sex and gender issues, sources of deep tension between some feminists and trans activists." @Docstockk @mary_leng lemonde.fr/international/…
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3/ Des universitaires comme Alice Sullivan s’inquiètent aussi de revendications identitaires susceptibles d’entraver la recherche. « Des activistes réclament que les spécialistes de sciences humaines ne collectent plus de données fondées sur le sexe,
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2/ Sonia Appleby, children's safeguarding lead for Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. "Ms Appleby's job meant protecting children at risk from maltreatment, and stopping impairment of children's health or development." bbc.co.uk/news/uk-584532…
3/ Maya Forstater. Discriminated against because of her beliefs, which include "that sex is immutable and not to be conflated with gender identity". bbc.co.uk/news/uk-574265…
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4 Nov
1/ 2021 NHS Staff Survey. It is a basic principle of questionnaire design that when you expect the respondent to pick one option, the responses must be mutually exclusive. People who identify as non-binary are also male or female. And why can you self-describe sex but not age?
2/ How has this changed over time? NHS Staff Survey 2019 Version. You can self-describe and prefer not to say for sex, but non-binary is not included.
3/ NHS Staff Survey 2015 Version. Just 2 sexes (though they call it gender). The move away from collecting data on sex is recent and has been carried out without proper discussion or scrutiny.
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1/ FAO @ucl and @ucl_ucu colleagues. There is an EGM Thursday 12 August 2021, 13:00-14:00 to discuss USS. A motion calling for UCL to rejoin the Stonewall Diversity Champions scheme has been added to the agenda at the last minute.
2/ This is a clear attempt to pass a divisive motion with inadequate notice while many members are away during August. I hope some members will be able to attend to challenge these underhand tactics.
3/ In the wake of the Reindorf review, universities and UCU need to reflect on the legal and ethical implications of Stonewall membership. There are consequences for both academic freedom and equitable treatment of women staff and students. sex-matters.org/posts/the-work…
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1/ The idea of non-binary passports could seem trivial. But this is part of a campaign to remove sex as a category in law and data collection. This was clear in the recent battle over sex in the census. ihttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f728d27a-e28b-11eb-a821-58982b1c936d
2/ The argument was initially accepted by the Methodological Assurance Review Panel that the sex marker on documents issued by the state, such as passports, must be seen as valid for the purposes of the census. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
3/ Yet when the passports office decided to allow people to change the sex marker on their passport without a change of legal sex, there was no parliamentary scrutiny of this decision, and no discussion of wider implications for data collection.
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1/ Nancy Kelley, CEO of Stonewall likens "gender critical" beliefs to anti-Semitism. The core tenets of the beliefs that she objects to are that sex is real and that it matters. The only motivation for this crass comparison is to justify #nodebate bbc.co.uk/news/uk-572814…
2/ Recall that Nancy Kelley was involved in no-platforming me for arguing that sex should be measured accurately in the 2021 Census. thetimes.co.uk/article/stonew…
3/ The reason gender identity extremists invoke anti-Semitism, fascism and Holocaust-denial is simply so that they can bring "no platform for fascists" into play. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
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