Thread by @TransLucent_Org

On the 23rd of May 2023, @Channel4News broadcast its investigation into the Equality and Human Rights Commission @EHRC, which, in our opinion, has been a mouthpiece for the government for a significant time.

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We were the first LGBT+ organisation to offer evidence of all the concerns - and within the past twelve months, we have made three submissions (one 61 pages long) to the United Nations (GANRHI), calling out collusion, conflict of interest and impartiality of Board members.

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We often have passed this information on to other #LGBTQ orgs who have used this information in various ways, obviously not in our control. We note that @Channel4News made little reference to our allegations in their report but hope one day, that will happen (@jobrabkin).

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We have met with the EHRC several times but have had minimal access to Board members. Our four Directors met Marcial Boo & some staff (we felt at that time productively) in January, & one of our Directors met @EHRCChair (unproductively) last year, just for thirty minutes!

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We have often raised our concerns that the EHRC Board is not impartial. It should be noted by the press (@Ameliahansford @joshparry @libby_brooks @PinkNews @MetroUK @MaggieBaska @standardnews ) that several LGBT+ organisations broke ties with the EHRC over a year ago.

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The @Channel4News report suggested that the EHRC Chairwomen @EHRCChair called a trans woman "a bloke in lipstick" in a Board Meeting. If this is true, her comment is deeply discriminatory, transphobic, and unacceptable in 21st-century Britain.

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For years, the EHRC has failed the trans community, including that of healthcare, and in April, incredibly suggested the rollback of trans human rights on the FALSE basis it was helping to protect women. We want to protect women too, but changing the EA will not do that.

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As @NicolaSturgeon stated at the Rainbow Awards only last week, women's rights and #transrights are not in conflict. Both the EA and GRA have worked together very successfully for well over a decade. This is proven by the lack of litigation in this area. (@angelaeagle)

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The EHRC Board have, instead, promoted “gender-critical" views - that of a global movement which originated from the Christian far-right based in the US and with whom the @Conservatives has strong links. We know part of their campaign involves splitting the T from the LGB.

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You can find more about the right-wing campaign to split the T from the LGB here:

translucent.org.uk/splitting-the-…

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Our right-wing national press bombard the public with negative stories about trans ple, specifically trans women, stories often originating from other countries, which are distorted & twisted beyond recognition - cloaking transphobia under the disguise of sex based rights.

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We have no confidence in the independent review of the EHRC, as the KC (Gavin Mansfield) undertaking the review would seem to share views similar to Baroness Falkner. This could be viewed as a conflict of interest. We are making a complaint about this to the EHRC

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Now a little about TransLucent:

Largely because of our expose of the EHRC last year, we won the "LGBT Organisation of the Year Award 2022" at the National Diversity Awards. Our team of twelve are knowledgeable cis & trans people, all unpaid, four of whom are Directors

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