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Jul 26, 2022 30 tweets 13 min read Read on X
Stonewall's defensive briefing about its Diversity Champions scheme just keeps getting longer

#StonewallLies

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Stonewall provides advice to *employers* ... they are referring to the wrong Code of Practice here.

Their guidance differs markedly from the Code of Practice

They've got unpublished legal advice? 🤷‍♀️ Great. "Trust us!"

sex-matters.org/wp-content/upl…
For example the Code of Practice says that where an employee is transitioning the employer should talk to them about using *different* facilities.

Stonewall say that all facilities are provided based on gender-self identity
"gender identity" they say can be used interchangeably with "gender reassignment"
The impact of this is that they tell employers *not* to monitor the protected characteristic of sex, but only "gender identity"

.... trans women are women you see.
What they subtly misstate here is that the protection against discrimination in the Equality Act does not mean that a person has changed sex
Here they say they don't want to ban the word "mother" they just want to redefine it, and make it impossible to use to describe the rights of actual mothers.

In their view a man who has fathered a child can be a "mother"
Does Stonewall see a conflict between employers obligations to protect "LGBTQ+" (that's not a protected characteristic!) and gender critical employees.

No they say...
Why then did they lead this open letter condemning the EHRC for intervening in my case?

consortium.lgbt/ehrc-open-lett…
Why did their Head of Trans Inclusion email Garden Court Chambers to complain about Allison Bailey express gender critical views on the internet and chairing a WPUK meeting?
With one breath they say protection for GC beliefs are "very narrow", and with the next they tell employers to go above and beyond the law.

In fact protection against harassment & discrimination is the same for any PCs. That's why its called the *Equality* Act
Its normal to use everyday language to describe the law they say ....

... but also the Equality Act doesn't use the term "biological sex" 🙄
The EHRC's new guidance on single-sex services is confusing therefore.

(everyone knows "sex" means what Judith Butler says, its not confusing at all... )
This is what the Equality Act says.

Sex discrimination includes discrimination related to pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.

(But its nothing to do with biological sex says Stonewall)
This is nonsense.

There is an *exception* which allows the provision of single-sex services.

The Equality Act sets out a list of circumstances where these exceptions can be applied. It does not mention "gender identity"
Being a Stonewall Diversity Champion or Workplace Equality member does not affect impartiality they say
They email Diversity Champions members and encourage them to tweet in support of Stonewall's preferred legal changes.

And then award them Workplace Equality Index points for doing so.
Are we campaigning to amend the Equality Act. No they. say.

Meanwhile what they told the Women and Equality Select Committee was yes.
And here again in their vision for change.

2 - reform to Equality Act

(also 4. judicial clarity on "sex by discrimination" - that means removing protection from rape victims)
"many of these cases"

This was a single case
Will this judgment stand the test of time?

safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2021/01/12/cps…
This is what Nancy Kelley said about Stonewall's desire to influence the BBC
This is what the Information Commissioner's Office says

"Such is the potential for a scheme to be misused as a campaigning tool, the Commissioner considers that there is an unusually strong public interest in transparency. "
The Stonewall Workplace Equality Index is quite clearly a tool for ideological enforcement sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
Stonewall complain about FOI requests.

What they don't say is that the advice they have been giving to members to claim "commercial interests" and "confidentiality" is not in line with the law, according to the ICO

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/…
Yesterday they added this shocking barefaced lie, trying to distance themself from the previous day's tweet about 2 year olds being trans

(can you see why they don't want to use the terms "sex" and "transsexual" which are in the Equality Act?)

Organisations that are concerned: This is bad advice.

Don't look to Stonewall's FAQ or unpublished legal advice to get the facts or the law straight.

Ask your general counsel, not the LGBTQ+ team or your social media colleagues.
Promote real inclusion, which recognises that everyone has equal human rights.

Everyone has a sex, and there are important legal protections against sex discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, belief discrimination and for "gender reassignment".

[ENDS]
And the thread keeps going....

Are they or aren't they involved with nursery schools?

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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
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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

Peter Wilkins flags this as slanderImage
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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
Jul 5
Stonewall has had another rebrand.

Gone is the shortlived EHRC teal and Pepto-Bismol pink theme and in comes a "going back to our roots" and grown up purple... Image
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The old flag is flying prominently Image
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Jul 3
The nomination of Mary-Ann Stephenson as new chair of the EHRC brought the witch hunters out.

Stephenson has a PhD in equality law. She is Director of the Women’s Budget Group, and has been director of the Fawcett Society, chair of the Early Education and Childcare Coalition and a board member of Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre.Image
A bunch of charity CEOs (some of whom are part of "Equally Ours" with her) wrote a letter saying darkly she "previously supported views seen at odds with inclusivity for all" Image
There was a petition accusing her of making "anti-trans statements" and "association with groups advocating for the curtailment of trans people's human rights"

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…Image
Read 30 tweets
Jun 3
In the case of Peter Wilkins v @dstlmod there is a bit about a "threatening FOI" Image
Wilkins had requested disclosure of DSTL's strategy on gender identity and gender expression.

The request was refused because it was anonymous. Image
After the judgment I repeated the request Image
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