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@JoPhoenix1
Sep 20 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Your daily reminder that reading all the successful judgments and apologies, we learn several things:



1. Being called transphobic can be a form of workplace harassment.

2. Suggesting that GC beliefs are *inherently* anti-trans can be a form of ... centaur.reading.ac.uk/118472/
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...harassment.

3. Being publicly denounced at work for expressing GC beliefs is a form of workplace harassment

4. We are winning at an unprecedented rate Image
5. If you organisation has a dominant gender affirmative culture, your managers may well be afraid to side with you and this can lead to workplace discrimination.

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Sep 19
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1/ The issue I have with arguments like this one is that they do not stand up to scrutiny and they fly in the face of the evidence, the law and the facts.

So, @SamFowles let's go through your argument and evidence.
2/ What is this GC movement you are so keen to dismiss? Women who believe that sex is immutable. FYI, believing this is not transphobic unless you think that GC beliefs are inherently transphobic. If so, you find yourself in the company of unlawful harassers as the ...
3/ run of gender critical employment tribunals has shown. Yes, there have been three losses - but that is in a context where there have been 18 successful outcomes (including county courts).

This is *unprecedented* in the history of belief discrimination claims...
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Jul 19
Thread on what I am calling, for the moment, the 'geography' of rape and sexual violence.

1/ Last year, along with @WomensRightsNet, I published a report called "When we are at our most vulnerable" in which we reported, after an FOI to all police constabularies, a shocking...
2/ level of sexual violence in hospitals and health care settings.

womensrights.network/hospital-report
3/ Around the same time, The Guardian and the BMJ also reported a shocking level of sexual assaults from patients in hospitals.

.theguardian.com/society/2023/m…
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May 20
A bittersweet congratulations to Roz Adams and her legal team (esp Naomi Cunningham from @legalfeminist and @SexMattersOrg).

For those that do not remember: Roz was run out of Edinburgh Rape Crisis after fighting for the rights of a rape victim to have a woman provide .. 1/
...counselling services. This is a significant win, not just for Roz whose claim has been thoroughly vindicated but also for rape victims who deserve better than to get caught up in a set of politics in which women's needs are...2/
... sublimated to the desires and politics of some who deny the realities of male violence and its effects on women.

Roz is such an impressive, measured, thoughtful woman and my first thoughts go to her. Winning is such a validation. Yet, as @MForstater recently said, 3/
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May 11
A short story of feminist fractures:

Once upon a time (November 2011), there was an academic (me) who started a research centre at Durham University. It was the Centre for Sex, Gender and Sexualities. Back then, it was terribly fashionable to 'queer' everything.
The Centre was a broad church that accommodated old skool feminists like me and queer theorists. It was also a flag Centre to accommodate lesbians, gays and bisexuals (you know - the old skool queers) as Durham had no LGB much less LGBTQi network.
We hosted a gala launch on the banks of the Thames. I invited Sara Ahmed. The speaker was a queer scholar who did literary criticism.

I never thought much of QT - no one I knew could ever answer whether the queer in QT was a noun or a verb.
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Feb 11
In rebuttal:

I see that several academics who are either in law, sociology or criminology are dismissing the recent GC employment tribunal wins. They claim these are "petty" small pay outs, just advisory, etc. etc.

So, by way of rebuttal I thought I would pull together a few facts (or as we like to say in academia, evidence).

1. There has been a significant drop in the number of people making claims in the Employment Tribunal, but even still each year for the last 15 years there has been circa 100K or more claims made:Image
2. Discrimination on belief grounds is a tiny fraction of the overall claims - the majority of which are for breach of contract, race, disability or sex discrimination. Belief discrimination cases total circa 1-3% of all ET claims with the percentage falling.
3. Between 50%-60% of all ET claims since 2008 are either settled via ACAS or withdrawn.
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Feb 7
Short tweet thread - some reflections on the judgement and the last two weeks

In some parts of the X/twitter, I have been accused of making the judgement all about me. Well, yes. And no. The judgement is all about me and my former employer and OU employees.

But it is also about what many of us inside academia (and outside) have been suffering. Since @MForstater a ridiculous narrative started that one can hold GC beliefs but not express them. The focus since Forstater has been on helping employers and organisations understand that they cannot discriminate against someone who holds GC beliefs. Understandably, because until Maya won the EAT, our beliefs were thought to be equivalent to nazism.
The legal wins since Forstater have been racking up. But there was one piece of the puzzle that had yet to be settled in a court - what are the parameters within which those who oppose us can make their protestations known. What is the lawful expression of opposition and what is not?
It was always my contention, from the day that my former colleagues published the open letter (petition) stating that GC feminism is transphobic, tweeting and retweeting about the network and the open letter and saying calling the network transphobic and asking for the The Open University to 'disaffiliate' the network were acts of harassment and discrimination.

I was very open about this in a tweet thread I did on 17 June 2021.
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