Thread by @WomensRightsNet

A short thread🧵 on why #NoToSelfID is important right now. @scotgov want to reform the Gender Recognition Act #GRA & remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria. To a process where people can self declare the gender they wish to live as This is Self ID /1

Self-ID allows individuals to declare themselves to be something they are not. They use the word ‘gender’, which is not adequately defined for individuals to declare whether they are a man or a woman and a boy or a girl /2

Implications for women & girls are:

👉Self ID allows any man to say he's a woman & be treated on a female hospital ward

👉Self ID allows any man to say he's a woman & play in women's sports

👉Self ID allows any man to say he's a woman & enter a rape crisis centre
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👉Self ID allows any man to say he’s a woman & provide intimate care to vulnerable women & girls
👉Self ID allows any man to say he's a woman & provide intimate care to people with disabilities who can't consent
👉Self ID allows any boy to say he's a girl & use girls toilets
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👉Self ID allows any boy to say he’s a girl & sleep in the same room as girls on residential outings
👉Self ID allows any police man to say he's a women & intimately search female suspects
👉Self ID allows any man to say he's a woman & take a job that is for women only
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👉Self ID allows any man to say he's a woman & accept an award for women only

👉Self ID allows any man to say he's a woman & be counted as a woman in official data
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👉Self ID allows any man to say he's a woman & if he commits a crime it is recorded as a woman's crime

👉Self ID allows any man to say he's a woman & serve his sentence in a female prison /7

That's why we say #NoToSelfID and we encourage you to say #NoToSelfID too

#SexMatters
#SexNotGender
#KeepPrisonsSingleSex
#NotOurCrimes
#WomensRightsNetwork
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