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Maya Forstater
@MForstater
Sex Matters. Stand up for single sex services https://t.co/Y1x50j1cVc This is not a culture war
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Nov 14 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
15 months after calling me in for questioning about a tweet, and having sat on the CPS decision that there was no crime for 2 months, the Met bothered to call me up at 7pm this evening to tell me, and then put out this press statement. 🙄

#TheProcessIsThePunishment Image Here is the tweet over which they wasted their time, my time, my lawyers time and taxpayers' money.
Sep 9 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
Minister for Women & Equalities says "We are proud of the EqAct & the rights & protections it affords women. The Govt does not plan to amend legal definitions in the act.”

Hundreds of women are going to Parliament on Wednesday to ask the govt to rethink.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/… You can be proud of the Equality Act and still be vigilant about women's rights, and those who seek to deny them.

In 1897, a proposal was put before Cambridge University’s Senate to grant full degrees to female graduates. Male students responded with outrage.

An effigy of a woman on a bicycle was suspended out of the window of a building opposite the Senate.

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Sep 3 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
There is new statutory safeguarding guidance out for schools in England which tells them to consider risks and harms to gender questioning children as part of safeguarding.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/… When this was out for consultation earlier in the year Adam Jepsen, Chief Health and Sex Education Officer of the Family Planning Association said that the government must withdraw it.

"These changes do not support trans children" he argued.

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Aug 13 • 27 tweets • 10 min read
What do we know about Imane Khelif & Lin Yu Ting who won Olympic gold medals in women's boxing?

1) We know there is a condition called 5-ARD which leads to males being born with undescended testes and female looking genitals.

The 3 women's medal winners at Rio in 800m had it. Image World Athletics adopted DSD regulations after that.

We know a lot about this because Caster Semenya challenged @WorldAthletics to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The court said the regulations are proportionate to maintain fairness for women.

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Jul 27 • 37 tweets • 12 min read
A thread about academic freedom, sex and gender.

This is not the only topic where university VCs have not defended academic freedom strongly enough, but it is a very good demonstration of the problem.

@bphillipsonMP Prof @Docstockk was hounded out of @SussexUni
She has been waiting for 3 years for the results of an @officestudents investigation

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Jul 24 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
A study of "conversion practices" in Northern Ireland.

When the #BanTherapy lobby are shouting about "torture" and calling for a new criminal law you'd think they would be able to find compelling examples

rainbow-project.org/news/conversio… Someone said "don't go through with it" Image
May 7 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
I am blocked by the independent legal advisor to the OU's post-Phoenix review 😱.

Could she be using TERFBlocker?
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Apr 10 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Stonewall are reverse ferreting saying they agree with the Cass Review Image Remember what they said before:

- hormone blockers pay a vital role in healthcare for "trans children"

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Apr 3 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Here we are.

Stonewall recognizes that "misgendering" is something like "criticising religion"

Is it criminal to criticise religion ? ❌

Is it harassment to criticize religion? ❌

Would it be lawful for an employer to require staff never to criticize religion? ❌ This is the same Stonewall which has trained the police forces that think "misgendering" is criminal.

The same Stonewall that never stepped in to say it wasn't, as people were arrested. Image
Apr 1 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
On March 13 2024 I made a complaint to the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office about Master McCloud, a serving judge who has been engaging publicly and inappropriately in debates on sex and gender.

forstater.com/the-judge-to-w… The judge (who remains in post) had been posting on Linked in as "Judge in the High Court" ... The Judicial Conduct Standards say don't do this. Image
Mar 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is just wow 🤯 Image They conducted a survey which asked their members if the expression of gender critical beliefs creates a hostile environment for them Image
Mar 19 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Chair of a civil service SEEN sued! This case will be big & important. Let's get it funded.

SEENs are gender-critical employee networks.

Her employer is being sued for harassment for allowing the SEEN to exist!

Elspeth is being sued for harassment.

crowdjustice.com/case/seen-chai… What are the claims of harassment?

- She said ‘only women menstruate’.

- She posted a list of the 9 protected characteristics from the Equality Act and highlighting that gender expression, gender identity and gender are not PCs. Image
Mar 19 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
I went to this yesterday, with my pal @charlesworth102

Professor Cooper was presenting on the findings of the £0.75m @ESRC funding research project.

We were underwhelmed. Image As @_JVigo wrote at the start of the project in 2019 it did not define what it meant by gender or sex and consistently demonstrated a lack of understanding of bodies.

In 2024 that hadn't changed. Prof Cooper slipped between "gender" and "sex" throughout

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Mar 14 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
Hey @hopenothate @lowles_nick remember in 2022 when you you smeared LGB Alliance in your "state of hate" report. HereSNP MP & Chair of the Human Rights Joint Committee praiss LGB alliance & talks about how branding opponents hate groups shuts down debate.

Maybe you got it wrong Maybe you got it wrong about Harry Miller too, who you smeared along with LGBA.

He isn't a police officer 🙄 and he was *unfairly* critiqued for perfectly lawful tweets.

Did you bother to read the judgment?

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Feb 23 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
A thread on Master McCloud.

MCloud was appointed "as the youngest and only second female ‘Master’" to be appointed to the Queen’s Bench division of the High Court in 2010.

McCloud was also on the Committee that writes the Equal Treatment Bench Book In 2020 Mccloud spoke at this event in aid of Stonewall.

"Ensuring that all voices of minority/oppressed groups are heard" sounds nice, but it often means shutting down dissent as harassment. Image
Feb 5 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
A thread on the @SexMattersOrg submission to @Ganhri1 on the hounding of Kishwer Falkner by @stonewalluk.

Women and men who speak up about sex-based rights face harassment and discrimination at work and in organisations.

This is unlawful under the Equality Act 2010. Kathleen Stock from her job theguardian.com/education/2021…
Jan 24 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Day 2 of fumbling around, and awkward silences amongst trans-rights-twitter trying to find "the line" to take on Jo Phoenix's judgment. Image Perhaps they are looking back at their previous lines... Image
Jan 23 • 36 tweets • 9 min read
Jo Phoenix's judgement is a resounding win.

The judge was surprised & disappointed at the lack of basic rigour by some of the OU witnesses.

They were trying to deny direct discrimination which they had done blatantly and openly thinking it was "right". Image There were the open letters, and the tweets.
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Jan 10 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
I worked for Kids Company, back in 2000. I didn't stay long. You could see the problems then, long before it blew up in 2015.

Camilla really meant well I think but the organisation was out-of-control.

@my_impact_is describes the situation well.

osca.co/2015/02/need-t… One of the issues was that in order to make it pay Kids Company inflated reports on the number of children they were seeing claiming to “intensively support” 18,000 young people and “reach” 36,000. The individual centres were seeing much, much fewer.
Dec 6, 2023 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
Sex Matters wrote to Gillian Keen in Oct 2022 with @SafeSchools_UK @Transgendertrd @BayswaterSG @fairplaywomen @AllianceLGB

"schools must take a “safeguarding first” approach..." Image "Schools should protect all pupils from bullying & harm, & make reasonable accommodations for those w gender distress. But schools must not pretend that a child has actually changed sex. " Image
Dec 6, 2023 • 37 tweets • 13 min read
Things that @KemiBadenoch talked about today in Parliament.

1. The disgraceful way that Rosie Duffield has been treated

theguardian.com/society/2023/j… 2. How Labour party MPs stood on a platform with an attempted murderer in response to the Government's S35 Order
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