Thread by @Transgendertrd

We agree. Penny Mordaunt's support for self-ID was apparent in her Ministerial Foreword to the GRA consultation. Notice the framing and 'anchoring' bias - ie respondents are given the 'right' answer before filling in the consultation.
#AnyButPenny
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https://twitter.com/nmdacosta/status/1547287943890575362

GRA reform is framed as stripping away the 'barriers that hold people back, to create equal opportunities.' Why is this necessary? Because 'Trans people continue to face significant barriers to full participation in public life.'

So 'This consultation seeks views on how the Government might make it easier for trans
people to achieve legal recognition.' Difficult to disagree with these aims, it's all wrapped up.

Only then is lip service paid to 'the need to engage
with all perspectives...particularly women’s groups', but concerns are summarily dismissed: 'we are not
proposing to amend the Equality Act 2010 and the protections contained within it.'

The Equality Act single sex exceptions were already not working. Penny Mordaunt was well aware that a GRC confers legal status, strengthening discrimination claims on the basis of exclusion from women's spaces. Serious concerns glossed over in the Ministerial Foreword.

Under Penny's watch, as part of the LGBT Action Plan, Barnardo’s, Diversity Role Models, Equaliteach, National Children’s Bureau, Stonewall and The Diana Award were awarded a share of £1 million to teach gender identity ideology in schools under the banner of 'anti bullying.'

NHS England began a 'transformation of adult gender identity services' through the development of adult gender clinic pilot schemes, with responsibility for managing a national network of gender dysphoria clinics.
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No wonder Pink News chose Penny Mordaunt as recipient of their Politician of the Year award 2019.
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And no wonder Stonewall are fans.
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We are concerned that if Penny Mordaunt is elected leader of the Conservatives much of the careful work done over the last few years regarding the rights of women & girls and scrutiny of gender services for children & young people would be, if not undone, made more difficult.