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Maya Forstater Profile picture
@MForstater
Feb 2, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Just catching up on that #mumsnet chat
It's sad and infuriating.

Why does a chat about how to get more women into public life have to also include a chat about how to get more transsexual males into public life?

They are two different groups with different barriers. Image
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Raise the level of debate... Image
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Erm, Caroline, these one word answers aren't really landing well...
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Consider yourself listened to...
Flashbacks to when Penny Mordaunt visited mumsnet.

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Nov 15
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
The day of the Supreme Court's judgment was "long and difficult" for Field who had long promoted a different view of the Equality Act.

Field's big theory is that the the Supreme Court's decision was driven by the problem of pregnant transmen with GRCs... Image
Field wrote in the Guardian about how she disagreed with the Supreme Court.

theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…Image
Read 11 tweets
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Nov 14
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…
At paragraph 36 she says there are there are no equivalent exceptions to the single sex service exceptions that apply to employers.

She seems to have forgotten the provisions about protection of women in Schedule 22! Image
She said that the FWS case was principally decided by reference to maternity rights.

It wasn't. The SC concluded "it important that the EA is interpreted in a clear & consistent way so that groups which share a PC can be identified by those on whom the Act imposes obligations so that they can perform those obligations in a practical way"Image
Read 16 tweets
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Oct 31
The man in the middle here is Ollie Entwistle, OBE Deputy Director, LGBT+ Policy and Operations at the Office for Equality and Opportunity
Ollie was Chair of the Civil Service Rainbow Alliance for 9 years from 2008 -2017, then held a number of roles in the GEO.

So all the time that the government was getting the law wrong and getting Stonewall prizes for he was leading this. Image
In 2012 he wrote in Civil Service World about his personal opinion that the government shouldn't renege on its commitment to this particular approach to diversity. Image
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Read 7 tweets
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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.

whatdotheyknow.com/request/line_m…Image
Read 15 tweets
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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

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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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