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Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
@stephenwhittle
Jun 17 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1. Let me be clear -

I abhor all predatory sexual behaviours, & violence, whoever it victimises.

The grooming gangs saga & the failure of the state to recognise girls as victims has become a deep stain on our criminal justice system

But despite her real work experience …
2. … of pimped girls in care, @suzanne_moore can’t resist the temptation to imply certain groups are more predatory

As the week heats up it’s
as if she has set out to provoke the right wing led riots & assaults, we saw this summer in Ballymena & numerous cities last summer…
3. … With glee she heaps blame on the innocent alongside the guilty. Whose homes will now be 🔥 out?

@suzanne_moore implies grooming gangs happened because of failed safeguarding, due to fears amongst authorities of being branded racist and - surprise, surprise, transphobic. From Suzanne Moore article in the Telegraph: “ "Progressives" who ran several of the councils involved are clueless about safeguarding. We have seen it around the trans issue, where any notion of safeguarding of children or vulnerable women has gone out of the window. Not all trans people are predatory, we are told. Well, of course not, but a few are.”
4. @suzanne_moore implicated as guilty:

- Pakistani & Kashmiri men

- Asylum seekers

& …🥁🥁🥁🥁
- Trans people

She admits most are not sexual predators, but ..,
5. … doesn’t mention that of 700k/annum of predatory offences, almost all by ‘white British’ cis men

Instead @suzanne_moore focuses on stoking Right Wing tropes & culture wars

Why else mention failures in safeguarding & Trans people?

Every community has those who ..
6. … commit sexual offences but the numbers of TP who do, are so minuscule that every single prosecution will be headlined in media like the Torygraph & Times

Moore also doesn’t mention the small but growing numbers of non-trans women prosecuted for predatory sexual offences …
7. … almost all ‘white’ - far more than any other ethnic group, & many more than any prosecutions of TP.

This is dog whistle journalism of the worst sort - apparently concerned, but setting out to cause social division & unfounded hatred of people who are different. ….
8. Sorry, @suzanne_moore but your ‘opinion journalism’ has fallen into the burning sulphurs of the right wing bigot

I am very sorry to have seen that happen

What did we ever do to you?
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Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
Jun 11
1. I don’t think the T community should be blaming self-ID (or perhaps better put as self -declaration) for its current woes

It is worth once again looking at the actual events that took place in 2016-2024 to understand today’s anger, from pro & anti self-dec, in context …
2. a. 2015 HofCommons Women’s & Equality Cttee investigated Trans Equalities, making 30 recommendations incl. calling for reform of the GRA & better NHS access to gender affirming services. L
Read their report conclusions again publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cm…
3. b. Nicky Morgan, Minister for Equalities said Govt would look at
- reforming the GRA
- reviewing unnecessary requests for gender info, &
- improving access to NHS Services, see assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Read 20 tweets
Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
May 31
1. This is what the Supreme Court did not decide & it is still the law:

Service providers (& not the @EHRC / @SexMattersOrg ) decide for themselves what services to provide, how they are provided
incl. whether single or separate sex services , and to who they provide them...
2. … Service Providers decide whether it is legitimate AND proportionate to exclude anyone from their services.

Employers must provide single sex bathrooms - at least 1 each for males & females unless seperate rooms (which can all be unisex).

Handwashing can be shared

BUT …
3. … Employers become service providers the minute they let staff use the toilets

As Service providers, Employers get to
decide to whom & how they give access to those services

Neither Sex Matters nor the EHRC can dictate how services are provided & to whom they are provided
Read 4 tweets
Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
May 27
1. Trans broken arm syndrome is when any & every health issue is seen & overshadowed by a person being trans

I lived & worked with a broken shoulder from 1976 - 2016.

40 yrs in pain despite repeatedly stating I had fallen from a 1st floor window ledge (whilst painting windows)
2. I was ignored, referred to a psychologist (I didn’t go), told it was migraine related pain, offered anti-anxiety medicines

Then in 2016 a physiotherapist said “Do you know your shoulder is broken?”

Yes, Yes,YES

She got a surgeon to see me who operated. He said …
3. … the normally 15min op took almost 3hrs

He shaved off a piece of broken bone still attached & growing. The lump on the rear of my shoulder was the bone about to break through my skin

He also found I had snapped my bicep.

2 screws, 78 stitches, 3 tubes of superglue…
Read 12 tweets
Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
May 22
1. Ok - Stephen for 50yrs
Prior to 1996
- I lost many jobs. The advice was that if an employer would also sack a trans women that was being treated equally.
So TP who have the human right not to experience discrimination (art 13 ECHR) had less rights than none TP
.,,
2. Prior the the GRAct:
- my wife & I couldn’t foster, or adopt, & was refused fertility treatment because I am trans (art 12 ECHR)
- if my wife had died, Soc services told us they would put the kids in foster care whilst deciding if I could look after them (Art 12 & 13 ECHR)
…
3. When we had 1st child we asked if I could be registered as a parent (nb not as a father)
It as refused - so our children lost any privacy as to their conception solely (Art 13 & 8 ECHR) ..,
Read 4 tweets
Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
May 17
1. Can using pronouns to misgender a person, including a Trans person, constitute unlawful harassment?

The law does not as a rule regulate pronoun use. There are a few: e.g. Lord , Lady, Sit which carry legal constrsints in very limited settings…. 1/13
2. … But he/him, she/her, they/their are just matters of social convention, used by people to categorise individuals & to be polite.

There are 2 types of unlawful harassment:
- Criminal (The Protection from Harassment Act 1997)
- Civil (The Equslity Act 2010 s. 26)…
3. … CRIMINAL: the Protection from Harassment Act s.1. states a person must not pursue a course of conduct which

- amounts to harassment of another,
- which they know or ought to know amounts to harassment of the other.
Or
- that involves harassment of 2 or more people ….,
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Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
May 11
1. A fundamental problem with the decision of the SCt in FWS:

The Court said it was a matter of statutory interpretation but they don’t appear to properly assess the entirety of the statute, the EqAct.

EqAct s11 says man/male, woman/female. …
2. But If s11 was to be taken to only mean sex as gonads, genitals & chromosomes, the Ct ignored entirely the decision of the ECtHr in Goodwin v UK, by failing to address the Human Rights of TP with a gender recognition certificate …
3. The Court appears to have dismissed those rights as laid down in Goodwin & has determined sex was as held by Ormrod LJ in Corbett v Corbett (1971)

Other than regressing the law 55yrs, the Court did not consider why the EqAct schedule 3 exists. …
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