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Maya Forstater
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Sex Matters. Stand up for single sex services https://t.co/Y1x50j1cVc This is not a culture war
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Apr 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Stonewall publishes a story about asexual "conversion therapy" to support its campaign for a new criminal law.

It is distinctly odd. Image Elizabeth gets married then tells her husband she isn't sexually attracted to him and doesn't want to have sex with him (or anyone else).

What was she doing getting married? 🤷‍♀️ Image
Apr 4 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
The CEO of @AdvanceHE has written to university vice chancellors acknowledging that "certain policy statements" cited in the @officestudents decision on @SussexUni "originated in part from" their template. Image The parts in yellow came word-for-word from the Equality Challenge Unit/ Advance HE template....

i.e. almost all of it. Image
Mar 26 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
The ONS have new guidance out on their gender identity data from the census....

They say that you can take it from them with "high confidence" that around 1 in 200 people have a "gender identity different from their sex at birth" 🤨 Image But low confidence as to whether these are "trans men" "trans women" "non binary people" or others.

So what is it they are confident about? Image
Mar 23 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
So who is "Mr X" the trans identifying man held in high security male prison after multiple convictions for luring boys into sex acts while pretending to be a teenage girl on social media? Could it be Nigel "Emma" Davies who posed as a teenager online and shared indecent images?

No. Davies wanted to engage with young girls. Davies was convicted but not jailed.

transcrimeuk.com/2024/05/16/emm…Image
Mar 14 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
The core of the Melanie Hill v Metropolitan Police case is a Trans Day of Visibility event which took place on 31st March 2023, a week after British women's rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen was violently attacked in New Zealand while trying to speak.
spiked-online.com/2023/03/28/i-t… In the run-up to the event, she was demonised in the Australian and New Zealand media, who portrayed her as a neo-Nazi. Attempts were made to have her visa revoked and to shut down her Let Women Speak tour.
Mar 13 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
What did the Met Police not want you to see in Melanie Newman's witness statement?

Out of 114 paragraphs they wanted to exclude 37 paragraphs, almost a third of her statement. Image They said that the paras were of insufficient relevance.

They spent half a day arguing this (after a whole day trying to get one of their witnesses anonymised) .

The tribunal said no.
Mar 13 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
From Trans & Non-binary forum meeting in Dec 2022.

Met police told it should protect GenderGP & Mermaids from burn out.

Suggestion of promise by Community Engagement Officer that "anti-trans groups" will be investigated.

In June the following year they put me under investigation.Image More in the same meeting about supporting Mermaids following the "binder incident" Image
Mar 9 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
International Women's Day 2025 thread.

In Darlington this man thought that the public sector equality duty requires censoring of gender critical speech to "foster good relations". 🙄 In Derby @WRNDerbyshire were told they weren't welcome on the women's march
Feb 26 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Some thoughts on reading the judgment turning down Ryan Castellucci's bid for non binary recognition Image
Image Judges have the habit of suspending their judgement in these cases and writing down ridiculous things.

Cut his hair to pass as a man? 🙄🤪

Men with long hair are men. Image
Feb 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A lot of newspapers are showing photos of Dr Upton and Nurse Peggie side by side.

It is worth remembering that Upton is 6ft tall and Peggie is 5 ft 6. This is what that looks like to scale. Image Not like this... Image
Feb 16 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
“Nevermind the quality, feel the width” !? 🥴

This @thetimes splash
about Sandy Peggie’s sex discrimination case is wrong in so many ways.

Starting with the photo - why do they make Sandie appear to tower over ft Dr Upton? Image “gender sits at the heart of a dispute that has pushed an ET in Scotland into the front line of the global culture wars.”

Women’s right to be protected against sexual harassment at work, and to be provided with adequate sanitary facilities is not a “culture war”.Image
Feb 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Prof Whittle appears to be arguing individuals shouldn't be able to held liable for sexual harassment if their inappropriate behaviour was sanctioned by their employer.

* This is not what the Equality Act says. Prof Whittle's bad takes - calling a man a man can be a crime Image
Feb 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I gave evidence in the Sandie Peggie case because the hospital board & male Dr refused to accept as findings of fact that that men are more likely to commit violent & sexual crimes, that men are more dangerous to women, so women are more heavily impacted by men in their spaces than vice versa. You can read my witness statement here.

These are the facts it attests to.

You don't need a degree of any sort to understand these facts.

sex-matters.org/wp-content/upl…Image
Feb 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I've written to @stonewalluk CEO Simon Blake applauding his leadership in discarding Stonewall's previous extreme and divisive definition of "transphobia". Image And explaining the damage that it did. Image
Feb 1 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Another thing that has been removed from Stonewall's website this year is the page defending the Diversity Champions scheme, and covering my case.

web.archive.org/web/2024120923… It said that Stonewall's guidance was in line with the Equality Act 🤨 Image
Jan 11 • 21 tweets • 9 min read
New trans policies are being developed by @cabinetofficeuk @DCMS @SciTechgovuk and has settled a gender critical claim for 100k.

@SexMattersOrg looks at the bad policies In 2016 this guidance by @agendergovuk was published on gov.uk

"This guide gives general advice to civil servants about transsexualism and gender reassignment issues relevant to Civil Service employees."

It is full self-ID

web.archive.org/web/2016040705… Image
Nov 14, 2024 • 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, 2024 • 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.

sheilahanlon.com/?p=292Image
Sep 3, 2024 • 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.

fpa.org.uk/reverse-damagi…
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Aug 13, 2024 • 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.

tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user…
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Jul 27, 2024 • 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

theguardian.com/education/2021…