Am disgusted by what I have heard the former Vice-Chair of the Bar Council Ethics Board saying today. This, more than anything else that has come up at the #AllisonBailey tribunal, brings the bar and the arbiters of its standards into disrepute.
Attempts by ANY man to "overcome" lesbians’ boundaries and the nature of same-sex attraction are repugnant, let alone a workshop for males devoted explicitly to "strategising" on how to do so. Stonewall apparently approve bc it 1) has never condemned the workshop 2) knowingly
hired the male who ran it and 3) has (via its CEO) likened lesbians to racists.
And now CM, ex-advisor to the Bar Council's Standards Board, uses the same homophobic race/integration metaphor rallied to slur lesbians and gay men.
This prejudice towards homosexuals - lesbians in particular - is disgusting. It shows how far we have to go to thwart the rape culture that both targets us sexually and demonises us. CM seems unaware that sexuality is also a PC under the EA, exclusively defined by biological sex.
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What do you have against female-only spaces, which women need and want and the law protects for a reason? Why do you begrudge women the right to determine our boundaries and the legal definition of woman on which our protections rest?
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@JoeOttenX@uracontra_ What evidence do you have for your implied assertion that trans-identified males are at risk from other males in the UK?
What evidence do you have that trans-identified males are more at risk from other males than women are from ALL males?
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@JoeOttenX@uracontra_ Clue: Trans-identifying males are almost twice as likely to COMMIT murder than to be the VICTIMS of murder. In the UK (2008-17),12 transwomen committed homicide while 7 were victims: transcrimeuk.com/2017/11/16/tra…
The UK is one of the safest places in the world to be trans.