@MForstater's Threads
This is excellent! If you care about women & girls AND the human rights of transgender people watch @GoonerProf & Susan Smith @ForwomenScot give evidence to @SP_European Scottish Parliament on how sex & gender identity should be framed in next census
The MSPs are well prepared. Rosa & Susan are utterly sensible & clear, making case that sex & gender ID/reassignment are separate things. The human rights of people with both characteristics can be protected without undermining the other, if not conflated parliament.scot/parliamentaryb…
There is a second panel with Vic Valentine @ScottishTrans & Tim Hopkins @LGBTIScotland. The discussion is respectful and open on all sides. No one says there should be #nodebate, or that it is transphobic to discuss how public policy should respond to sex and gender identities.
I chaired a session at @ChathamHouse on #IFFs illicit financial flows yesterday #CHIllicitFinance - event was deep discussion of how organised crime, kleptocrats ( & terrorists) move & transform money into 'clean' assets & how regulators, law enforcement, banks etc try to stop it 
Participants were people at the sharp end of seeking to understand & uncover IFFs in order to prevent crime & bring perpetrators to justice: anti money laundering experts, cops, gov, banks, service providers, NGOs, academics, FATF, Europol etc...
Discussion was wide ranging: effectiveness of AML, threat of virtual currencies, use of shell corporations, public private pships to share info & intel, beneficial ownership registration, technology & AI, reconciling transparency & privacy, derisking & financial inclusion
Well thats disappointing by @comicrelief . Here is the backstory: One of their four strategic funding priorities is "Empowering women and girls to be free to lead the lives they choose" which they brand as " #genderjustice"
The funding strategy is all about ensuring women & girls voices are heard in policy conversations through vibrant, active feminist movements. Tackling violence against women, and improving understanding about the influence of gender norms 👍
Presumably CR & their partners understand women & girls to be female people ♀️. Not people who identify w or are defined by stereotypes of femininity 💃(because thats the basis of feminism). At the same time they want to support human rights of transgender people (which is good)
Mega thread by @DanNeidle on the Financial Secrecy Index & from @alexcobham in response (respect to both for engaging, and to anyone ploughing through it)
I want to add something which isn't picked up in the point-by-point discussion, but is important to assess the Index. The stated aim of the index is identify the extent to which jurisdictions "use secrecy to attract illicit and illegitimate or abusive financial flows" (1/)
Its about identifying 'crimeogenic hotspots for multiple evils'. This is how the FSI describes itself. And this is how most users in the media, public and other organisations see it. So this seems like clear common ground to evaluate it from. (2/)
