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Nov 26, 2022 10 tweets 11 min read Read on X
🧵Today we launch our #AllIWantForChristmas Campaign
It will run from 26 November to 24 December Like last year we will focus on the need to protect single-sex spaces for women & girls. #AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /1 Image
This year, our
#AllIWantForChristmas Campaign will focus on retail areas in stores particularly changing rooms & toilets.
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /2
To get us started let's remind ourselves of last year's campaign
Last year we got our message into several shops using many creative methods
#AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /3 Image
Why do we still need to campaign for single sex spaces?
Many retail stores are ignoring the safety dignity & privacy of women & girls by providing mixed sex changing rooms
#AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex /4 Image
Often the stores don't tell us they are mixed sex & only use a fabric curtain for screening!
How can any store provide mixed sex changing rooms & use curtains as a safety precaution? 🚩
#AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwork /5 Image
Nearly 90% of sexual assaults in leisure centres & swimming pools happen in mixed sex changing rooms How does fabric keep predatory men away from women & girls in a state of undress?
#AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
#WomensRightsNetwor
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Fabric curtains don't keep you safe!
There have been many examples of men filming women & girls or
opening curtains
How many shops do you change in that offer you a piece of fabric as a shield against predatory men?
Please complain when they do. 💚🤍💜
#AllIWantForChristmas
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It's not just shops that are using mixed sex spaces
❗️The NHS has mixed sex wards
❗️Vulnerable prisoners are sharing with men who say they are women
❗️According to Ofsted 79% have experienced sexual assault in school many are in mixed sex toilets
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You Can
COMPLAIN about mixed sex toilets & changing rooms
TELL your children's school toilets should be single sex
TELL your elected representatives that organisations should be Equality Act 2010 compliant
ASK politicians if they include men in their definition of women
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If you feel as strongly as we do why not come and join us
#AllIWantForChristmas
#SilencedRights
#SaveOurSpaces
#RespectMySex
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“I honestly could not believe what I was reading when I saw this survey. As a gender critical police officer, I have been openly called a 'nazi, 'fascist', 'militant' and 'obtuse' - just for expressing my views post-Forstater".

This National Police Chiefs’ (NPCC) survey 👇 has been circulated to officers and staff nationally following the Supreme Court judgment. A serving police officer leaked the survey to us and shared their shock.

We suggest the NPCC (the head honchos of every UK police force) just need to follow the law. Now.

(WRN will not share the link to this survey publicly)
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The officer said:
"There is no mention of the horrendous treatment of gender critical people and, indeed, it actually goes above and beyond to imply my abusers might be the actual victims of the ruling".

"I have no hope that the current NPCC might do the decent thing and kick ideology out of policing once and for all. They seem intent on destroying the trust of the public, undermining the law and trashing what little morale there is left within the rank and file”.

Read on – and brace yourselves.
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Unbelievably, survey responses are sought to help the Chief Constables (the heads of each police force) to identify what now needs to be done and to detail how this ‘emotive and deeply personal’ subject effects them.

After the initial sorting hat questions, survey respondents are asked how they feel about the judgment.

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Silly us, we thought legal compliance would be the shared focus. They are the police after all.
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Lines on the retirement of Thomas Bach

So. Farewell then Thomas Bach
9th President of the IOC

Your tenure in the top job
Has been marred
By scandal
After scandal

From which you have emerged
Smelling of roses,
Until the boxing debacle.

Men punching
Women
For sport
Was frankly
A step too far.

Stepping down
From the top job
Is the best thing
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(with apologies to the late EJ Thribb)

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Allowing a convicted child rapist to compete at Paris 2024 was a new low. Passing the buck by blaming the Dutch Olympic Federation was par for the course. You could have introduced rules banning athletes, coaches and officials with criminal convictions but nahhh, it’s only women … nothing to see here.

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What would you do if you spotted a long-haired man in a bikini exiting the female changing rooms at your local swimming pool?

Alan’s immediate instinct, as the lifeguard on duty, was to report the incident to his managers as a failure of safeguarding good practice. 🚩

The managers at Wilmslow Leisure Centre, run by @EBLeisure where Alan worked, saw things differently. Alan was told that anyone may self-identify into the changing room that ‘aligns with their gender’. Nothing to see here.

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At the time of the incident, in July 2024, Everybody Health and Leisure was following the @_UKActive Transgender Access Guidance, which was withdrawn after the Supreme Court ruling.

The operator recently said:
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Women’s Rights Network launches its Red Flag Campaign this week to highlight the dangers of mixed-sex leisure centre changing rooms for women and children. Nearly 90% of sexual crimes in leisure centre changing rooms are committed in mixed-sex facilities. 1/6
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BRACE YOURSELVES 🚨
What would be your conclusion about an official internal police document that noted the terms ‘TERF’ and ‘FART’ to describe GC women, yet didn’t condemn these?

Would you think that the police had actively ‘taken a side’ rather than remaining impartial?

You’d be right. Read on ….
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They’ll need to hastily rewrite this given the Supreme Court judgment of course.
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This section on ‘Gender Critical Beliefs’ 👇makes clear that the ‘approach of policing’ must not be challenged.
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In all the excitement over the new policies to protect females in football, cricket and netball it’s easy to forget that there are many sports in the UK that still allow males into the female category - despite the Supreme Court Judgment.

In 2023, we launched the WRN Fair Sports Awards. Of the 74 sports we analysed, only SIX protected the female category at all levels from grassroots through to elite level.

A staggering 77% had policies that allowed males to compete in the female category, with just under 15% protecting elite categories but throwing every other female to the wolves.

A year later the situation had improved with 68% of sports still allowing males into the female category.

As sports governing bodies finally wake up to their legal responsibilities here’s our handy guide to the sports that have yet to update their policies to comply with the Equality Act 2010.

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Akido ❌
American Football ✅
Archery ❌
Athletics ✅
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Bowls ❌
Boxing ✅
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu ✅
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Canoeing ❌
Climbing ❌
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