Susan Dalgety Profile picture
Jun 7 6 tweets 3 min read
🧵Today the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice committee will hear evidence about how data will be affected by self-ID. Or will they?
As @EHRC wrote earlier this year to @ShonaRobison the collection and use of data is one are where they have very real concerns
But only two witnesses have been called to give evidence on data. Paul Lowe, head of National Records of Scotland, the man who has just delivered the worst census returns in living memory
And Kevin Guyan a researcher who has just published this book 👇🏼
Leading social sciencists like @ProfAliceS who submitted evidence to the committee to show the negative impact of collecting data by “gender identity” which is subjective instead of biological sex, were not invited
Which leads one to ask, what is the committee afraid of? Why listen to only side of an argument ? Aren’t they worried they may be helping to make bad law? Answers on the back of a 2022 Census form please #SexMatters

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Susan Dalgety

Susan Dalgety Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @DalgetySusan

Apr 11
Short 🧵I have met online and IRL some of the kindest, most empathetic, thoughtful women through the campaign to protect women’s sex-based rights. For a @scotgov minister to suggest they are akin to racists and anti-semites is reprehensible
The minister has blocked me so I can’t address her directly, however I hope the FM @NicolaSturgeon will remind her of her duty to the electorate. As a minister, Slater must show respect for all, not just those people she chooses to side with. See point 1 of ministerial code
Slater also accused women’s groups of being funded by US hard-right groups. A claim that has no basis and is made in a deliberate effort to defame legitimate campaigners. Has she read the 7 principles of public life that underpins the ministerial code? Honesty is fundamental
Read 4 tweets
Feb 27
🧵In advance of the @scotgov statement about gender reform and self-ID on Thursday, here’s 4 comment pieces from Scotland’s national press over last 4 days
First up is @joannaccherry whose defence of women’s rights is legendary

archive.is/2022.02.25-073…
@holyroodmandy editor of Holyrood magazine. Her incisive writing on this issue has exposed the intellectual, political and legal hole at the heart of self-ID
holyrood.com/editors-column…
Read 6 tweets
Feb 23
🧵I am no lawyer, but @ianssmart is. A damn fine one and former President of Law Society of Scotland. He wrote an article a few days ago which sets out his informed opinion that reform of the GRA is outwith the legal competence of the Scottish parliament ianssmart.blogspot.com
Let me summarise: Under the 2004 GRA Act, a gender recognition certificate means that for all purposes, a person's acquired gender is their new legal sex. A man becomes a woman, legally (and vice versa of course)
As Ian says in his blog, "a woman is a matter of law, someone born a woman, or possessed of a gender recognition under the 2004 Act"
Read 10 tweets
Feb 23
Words matter. They contain power. The power to heal, to hurt, to change the world, for better or worse. By describing young women as "self-identifying" YWCA Scotland is saying the being female is a choice
That young women can self-identify out of their biological sex, the defining factor of women's oppression as Hadley Freeman wrote in her brilliant essay recently unherd.com/2022/02/why-i-…
YWCA Scotland says it is "a feminist organisation and part of a worldwide movement of women leading change". Its vision is "a world where the voices of women are heard, respected and celebrated". So why is it undermining feminism by asserting that being female is a choice?
Read 4 tweets
Feb 22
Thread: Yesterday MP Mhairi Black said in parliament: “People often think that we have male and female, but the truth is that 1-2% of the global population is born intersex, which means they present characteristics of both sexes..."
She is wrong to use the political term "intersex" when describing people with different sexual development (DSD) and to say that they "present with characteristics of both sexes. People with DSD are not "between" sexes they are male or female.
Conditions range from hyopsadias, where the opening of the urethra is not located at the tip of the penis to Turner Syndrome in girls where one of the X chromosomes is missing or partially missing causing a range of medical/development challenges
Read 9 tweets
Feb 6
Short 🧵

In a piece in New Statesman, journalist Marie Le Conte argues that gender critical feminists have been ‘radicalised’ in a similar way to QAnon believers and other extremists.
Quite apart from the extremely offensive analogy, she - and other women who share her view - completely misunderstand, or deliberately ignore, what gender critical feminists are arguing. Perhaps it will help if we look - yet again - at the root cause of this culture war
Feminism is based on the inarguable fact that women and girls across the world are oppressed because of their biological sex; the form that oppression takes depends on the culture of the society a woman lives in, FGM in Sudan, abortion ban in Texas…
Read 7 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

:(