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@WomensRightsNet
Feb 24, 2023 • 14 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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🧵 On discrimination against people with Dementia from the gender ideology language demands placed on them

👉🏻womensrights.network/section3-adults

#NoToYourPronouns
▪️ 944,000 adults have dementia in the UK

🗣 Their communication disability needs are being ignored.

👵Women are greatly affected.

#NoToYourPronouns
🔹60-70% of carers for people with dementia are women
🔹Women are 2.3 times more likely to provide care for someone with dementia for over 5 years
🔹20% of female carers have gone from FT to PT employment as a result of their caring responsibilities
🔹17% felt penalised at work
The ability to process pronouns, indeed any language elements, is diminished in all dementia types:

▪️Alzheimer’s disease
▪️Vascular dementia
▪️Mixed dementia
▪️Dementia with Lewy Bodies
▪️Frontotemporal dementia
▪️Young-onset dementia

#NoToYourPronouns
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▪️Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
▪️Alcohol-related dementia
▪️HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND)
▪️Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
▪️Learning disabilities and dementia
▪️Rare dementias

#NoToYourPronouns
Language difficulties are recognised as a major problem for people with dementia (Banovic, Zunic, Sinanovic, 2018)

#NoToYourPronouns
There are many symptoms and language processing is highly inter-related.

#NoToYourPronouns
It is well recognised that people with Alzheimer’s disease dementia experience:

🔺Impaired understanding of pronouns
🔺Abnormal over-use of pronouns
🔺Working memory impairment
(Almor et al., 1999)

#NoToYourPronouns
And it is best that conversation partners avoid pronouns in favour of “concrete, specific and simple words” (Rau, 1993)

#NoToYourPronouns
People with dementia have legal rights:
▪️ UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
▪️ Equality Act 2010-Disability
▪️ Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) under EqA
▪️ The Care Act 2014
▪️The Mental Capacity Act 2005
& can expect
▪️ Reasonable adjustments
The NHS must meet the CQC regulatory requirements of the Accessible Information Standard (AIS)

#NoToYourPronouns
🔹People with communication disabilities have rights.

🔹People with disabilities have rights.

🔹We must do everything within our power to uphold those rights.

👉🏻 For more info: womensrights.network/disability-dis…

#NoToYourPronouns
Info from @_preston_writes at loupreston.substack.com
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This Bill was always an unlawful attempt to lever in self ID in Wales, a direct threat to the rights of women and girls, and would have inevitably ended up in the Supreme Court.

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WRN and @WRNWales have been at the forefront of the campaign against the Bill.
An early version was leaked, exposing the intent to allow men to self ID without challenge.
And WRN gave evidence at the Senedd this year, after submitting our consultation response.
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We hope that @WelshGovernment now listen to these tenacious women and engage fully with them in future.

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This guidance is unlawful and is a clear example of the police going beyond the law.

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We WANT to believe that the @metpoliceuk are listening to women.
We WANT to believe that they are serious about policing impartially.
But reality tells a different story.
We would like to update you now about the below response we received about extreme trans activism within the Metropolitan Police.
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Rewind to 21 July last year, when we released this short clip to illustrate our concerns about a ‘Trans Day of Visibility’ event that had been held by a member of Metropolitan police staff.

Officers and staff had been invited to attend.
We know there were at least 50 in the room and many more listening remotely. Speaking during this session were various activists. The messages given to officers and staff were disturbing.
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We wrote to Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
Serving officers and staff should NOT be told that they are ‘bigots’ and ‘motivated by hate’ if they do not agree with trans ideology.
Officers should NOT be told to protest, lobby and to ‘get out onto the streets’.
It is staggering that the report by Baroness Casey was being disparaged.
It is shocking that officers and staff would think it appropriate or professional to boo and hiss at the mention of a prominent women’s rights campaigner.
Yet all this happened on their premises. And they see nothing wrong with that.

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Clearly not.

This powerful and heart breaking resignation letter from a former employee lays bare JL’s dismissive and abusive attitude to women in searing detail, and their lack of concern for the safety or comfort of female staff.

Along with many other women’s organisations, WRN have campaigned against the scandalous policy of companies like @JohnLewisRetail to allow men into changing rooms and toilets, whether staff or public ones.

We have written to them.
We have leafletted them.
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