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Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
@stephenwhittle
Nov 5 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1. You accused me of living a “segregationist lifestyles & go to pricey schools, deliberately getting as far away from the poor as they can get

How could they know the issues important to working/poor ppl, if they NEVER associate w/us?“ …
2. Am I not allowed to speak in my defence?

Despite constant prejudice, discrimination & hate crime victimisation, I have done my level best to live a decent life.

I have pursued public service as my employment, and throughout the rest of my life as a volunteer. …
3. You have judged every part of my life, falsely without evidence

I went to a public school being 1 of 30 children who achieved high enough grades in the 11+ exam to be given a full scholarship place

My mother sent me there to save me being suffocated by my 2 older sisters …
4. I lived a life of poverty from 1973 to 1995. My dad kicked me out on the weekend after my 18th birthday - I was still doing A’levels. A teacher took me in for 3 months then I was on my own.
In 1975 I was homeless & sleeping rough for 3 mths before sofa surfing for 6 mths
6. - no one would rent a room to an androgynous person pursuing a sex change. I survived doing jobs on construction sites, being a bookkeeper, tefl teacher etc

I got a Bedsit eventually then in 1976 I got a flat in the Moss Side crescents until 1981.
I met my life partner …
7. … in 1977, and in 1981 we bought a 2 bed terrace with 1/2 a roof & outdoor loo for £2400

We then moved to Longsight & now in Heaton Chapel - so yes I’ve moved on in life but then so do many people.

Your wild accusations & dismissal of everything I have done in my life …
8. .., ignorant, grossly unjust, & I don’t have to take it from someone who knows sweet fa about my life

Mine has been a decent life & when I die I hope I will feel I did my best, that I did my duty to the world I wish to see, not the cruel & evil one I currently see
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Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
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1/18. Internally revealed” makes it sound like a spiritual experience, as in the revealing of God, Christ or Faith

I have never had faith, but I did wonder why, if those exist, they were not revealed to my mother, who died in terror having never received faith. …
2. Of course I know why, & it is that those things are fanciful myths revealed, if at all, & experienced as ‘real’ through spiritual experiences as described so well by William Temple

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3. … language of spiritual revelation serves well to explain the otherwise inexplicable

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Others will talk of a ‘break through’ experience, such as a …
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Nov 4
Newnham college is allowed to decide, whether, how, when, where & to whom it provides its educational services

University Education does not meet the EqAct’s requirements that define a single or seperate sex service

To be able to claim to b single sex service The EqAct …
2. … requires one of the following conditions be met:

a. that only persons of that sex have need of the service

b. the service is also provided jointly for persons of both sexes, and
the service would be insufficiently effective were it only to be provided jointly. …
3. c. a joint service for persons of both sexes would be less effective, & the extent to which the service is required by persons of each sex makes it not reasonably practicable to provide separate services

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Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
Nov 3
1. Apparently to c1ss GC women & men, lesbian or gay, the 19 years I lived as a daughter, female child & teenage girl means nothing

14yrs of study, all my academic, non-fiction or other reading means zero.

My years of teaching policy and feminist legal theory & practice …
2 … or feminist human rights mean zilch. My years of research & my many amicus briefs or expert witness statements in the asylum courts in order to prevent the deportation of vulnerable women & children are as dust.

Despite being part of in 1972-4, & a Lesbian …
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Nov 3
1. A ‘round about’ argument by @akuareindorf

“We, the Commissioners for the Commission for Equalities & Human Rights (EHRC) say we now know what Equality Act means in law

“We say proposed EHRC guidance to the Equality Act, provides guidance according to what we say the …
2. … law is

“We say there is no point assessing the impact of tye guidance on people & business, because the law being as we say it is, our guidance is correct

We think the law, as we say it is, must be followed. Assessing the impact of our guidance is pointless, because…
3. … even if it cripples the economy, it is the law as we say it is & therefore our merely practical guidance - not regulations - are correct & we require everybody to act accordingly

What is not said by @akuareindorf is:

“We (the EHRC & its Commissioners) repeatedly claim …
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1. I spent many years seeking the cause & whilst there are small studies, there will never be gold standard studies because of the ethics of treating some. & not-treating others, in order to obtain a true random control group

As there is evidence of people experiencing (1/7)…
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3. … empire building of the puritanical /RC Christianity of Northern states.

The best medical guess is multi factoral, but we are a long way off knowing what those factors might be.

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1. I provided research for the Discrimination Law Review, which became the Equalities Review, a body which I was part of. I sat on the general group, the specific duties group & the statutory duties group of that body.
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Consequently it was agreed to continue the principals formulated in 1999, following principles developed in EC law.

EC law allows anti-discrimination law to have exceptions where…
3. … proportionate & legitimate. You can be exempt from offering the same opportunities for some elements to all eg an employer can say his blind employers may not be offered training as forklift truck drivers.

The decision must not be arbitrary, that is it must be …
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