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Apr 14

The elections for the role of Police & Crime Commissioner are taking place on 2nd May. The incumbent @ASPolice PCC, @ShelfordMark is seeking re-election.
We call upon the women of Avon and Somerset to hold ALL their PCC candidates to account.
Ask him and all other candidates -
🚨Will they commit to single sex services for domestic violence and sexual violence victims?
🚨Will they commit to ensuring their Women’s IAG is just that – for women?
They are currently failing women.
#AskYourPCC #RespectMySex
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The overwhelming majority of domestic violence and sexual violence victims are women.
The overwhelming majority of domestic violence and sexual violence perpetrators are men..

Yet not a single female-only support service exists in the Bristol area for women who have suffered domestic or sexual violence. Sadly, this is replicated in other regions.

It is unacceptable and scandalous.
Yet our police forces and PCCs are complicit in this.

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Women who go to these services are traumatised and vulnerable.
They may well encounter a male who has self-identified as a 'woman' or even a male who says he is 'non-binary'.
Why aren’t they deserving of value @PoliceChiefs @AssocPCCs?
Why aren't their needs, and their trauma, important?
Why don’t you #RespectMySex?
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Women's Rights Network - WRN

@WomensRightsNet

Apr 11

What has the #CassReport got to do with sport?

While the focus of Cass is on the medical and surgical pathway of vulnerable children and young adults, it appears that sports NGBs may have been part of the problem. Our analysis of over 70 transgender sports policies reveals many which support the social transition of children - against the advice of Cass

Children who socially transition - being treated as the opposite sex, using pronouns and a name of their choice, being allowed to use the toilets and changing rooms of their choice - are more likely to undergo medical treatment later, says the Cass Report.

Over 50 sports allow males to self-identify into female categories for competition. We were shocked to find examples of sports encouraging participants - including children - to use preferred pronouns and names, and to use the changing rooms / toilets of their choice. It is not the role of any sport to facilitate the social transition of children and young people.

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Take Sailing. The governing body, @RYA, exhorts club officials to ask members for their name and pronouns, stating that ‘other club members should use the right pronouns’. If anyone in the club makes a mistake, they should be ‘politely reminded if they accidentally forget to do so’.

The RYA changing room policy states: ‘trans people should be able to use the toilets, showers and changing rooms of their self-identified gender, whether or not they undergo gender surgery or retain the physical characteristics of their former gender.’

Reminder to all: self-identification is NOT the law in the UK.

‘The use of single sex facilities can be challenging for trans people,’ says the RYA.

Not worrying about the women and girls who might find it ‘challenging’ to share their facilities with any old Tom, Dick or Harry who fancies being female today.

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Sailing’s policy is possibly the worst we have had the misfortune to read. But it’s a crowded field. Sports with policies that allow males into female categories, also actively welcome males into female changing rooms and toilets.

@EnglandHockey states that clubs should ‘support the trans person with their choice of changing facilities’.

@EnglandRounders says: ‘best practice is freedom of choice’. If a club member complains that a person of the opposite sex has entered the changing room, ‘the person who objects should be supported to find an alternative space’.

We know that women and girls give up sport when they encounter males in their single-sex spaces.

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Women's Rights Network - WRN

@WomensRightsNet

Apr 10

The #CassReport has detailed what many of us have been warning for some time.
@NHSuk GIDS services have comprehensively failed vulnerable children and young people.
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#FirstDoNoHarm was ignored and instead activists were given free rein to promote a treatment pathway which encouraged young people to embark on life-changing medical and surgical treatments.
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There were so many red flags: the rise in young women questioning their gender identity; the fact that 10 whistleblowers raised serious concerns about the rush to transition children and young people; the fact that decisions were being made on the basis of next to no evidence.

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Women's Rights Network - WRN

@WomensRightsNet

Apr 4

In January our report #StateSanctionedSexualAssault was published. Only days later, @PoliceChiefs withdrew the policy.

Did each force follow suit or carry on breaching the law? Here goes with a breakdown ……

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First up:
@CambsCops
@DerbysPolice
@LincsPolice
@NorfolkPolice
@syptweet
@SuffolkPolice
@sussex_police
@ThamesVP
All told us they were RETAINING the unlawful policy despite the ongoing review. Outrageous.
If you’re a woman living in any of these force areas, do let your Chief Constable, your PCC and your MP know your views.
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telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/1…

These forces 👇 will still allow opposite sex strip searching on a ‘case by case’ basis (you’re not fooling anyone there, it’s still UNLAWFUL).
@ASPolice
@bedspolice
@BTP
@gmpolice
@HertsPolice
@nottspolice
@WestYorksPolice
You may also want to ask them what they think they’re up to.
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Women's Rights Network - WRN

@WomensRightsNet

Mar 25

Elite sportswomen fear for the future of women’s sport because lax rules allow males into female categories, says a @BBCSport survey of top-flight women in 28 sports.

Good to see a survey of this kind on the BBC. But, and there’s always a but, the survey was not all it seemed.

‘A questionnaire was sent to 615 athletes, including any applicable transgender athletes, in 28 sports,’ says the BBC. We don’t know what ‘any applicable transgender athletes’ means – is it males identifying as female or females identifying as males? Either way, the results are likely to be skewed.

When asked: ‘How comfortable do you feel about transgender athletes competing in female categories in your sport?’ 73% of the 143 respondents said they were uncomfortable (45) or very uncomfortable (59).

We’d say that's an overwhelming majority – and in line with other anonymous surveys of female athletes – but the BBC says: ‘while those uncomfortable on transgender participation in elite women's categories outnumbered those comfortable by 10 to one from the respondents, the results cannot be taken as representative of how elite British sportswomen feel across the board.’

How is a 10 to 1 majority unrepresentative? 🤷‍♀️1/4

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Women told @BBCSport: Having transgender women in female categories was like 'going back in time and putting women at the bottom of the pile again,' said one woman. Others said it created an 'unfair playing field' and could be 'harmful'.

These comments align with what women and parents have told WRN. From grassroots through to elite sport the inclusion of males in female categories is wrecking women’s sport, and putting women and girls in danger by allowing males to self-identify into female changing rooms and toilets. 2/4

The BBC report quotes trans-identifying male Dr Joanna Harper, a sports scientist at Loughborough University, saying it: 'isn’t clear how much athletic advantage transgender women retain.'

We point @BBCSport to the overwhelming evidence published in numerous peer-reviewed publications that clearly demonstrates that male advantage is retained despite any amount of testosterone reduction.

We quote: ‘Broadly, males are bigger and stronger than females. It follows that, within competitive sport, males enjoy significant performance advantages over females, predicated on the superior physical capacity developed during puberty in response to testosterone.’ 3/4

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Women's Rights Network - WRN

@WomensRightsNet

Mar 21

Health systems are failing women in so many ways, as this important article in @bmj_latest highlights.
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The Women’s Health Strategy published in 2022 pointed out multiple problems around menstrual and gynaecological conditions, HRT, pregnancy and maternity care.
But that’s just the tip of an iceberg of inequality.
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Diabetes is more common in men, but women are more likely to die of diabetes-related conditions such as coronary heart disease (44% excess risk) and stroke (27% more deaths).
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