Campaigning to uphold sex-based rights and protections ✊🏽 Reminding the twittersphere and beyond of WEP's promise to centre women #SexNotGender #sexmatters
Dec 1, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@ManduReid says ‘we wouldn’t say the process of voting in self ID as undemocratic had we won’
No. We have been critiquing the process for 4yrs
We didn’t win BECAUSE IT WAS UNDEMOCRATIC & so many women have left.
Only 110 members for a leaders speech tells that story.
Mandu’s failure to facilitate robust evidence based discussions means we are in the laughable position that the Party thinks we can have self ID & protect single-sex spaces.
A fact the UN VAWG rapporteur pointed out in her letter to Nicola Sturgeon last week.
Dec 1, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
WE are really concerned about the project @ManduReid & @WEP_UK are now involved in.
Right2Equality do not have a grasp of #VAWG sector principles nor #maleviolence.
Those naive enough to believe Party spin may be *shocked to discover the Party has no money, but for feminist women this is no shock at all
Nov 26, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 Today @ManduReid gave her key note Conference speech to a staggering 110 people.
This must be a record for the smallest conference speech ever.
It is with profound pain that we tweet this.
A speech high in emotion & platitudes, low in content.
Huge claims, included ‘bringing down Borris’s government. Yes really.
Since last conference, full of promise around donut economy, Black maternal deaths & more have amounted to nothing.
No campaigns. Zero.
Nov 25, 2022 • 13 tweets • 9 min read
@ManduReid's leadership has will sadly become knownfor dismissing expertise & the majority view of Party members on self ID.
The Party's assembly was clear in its support of single-sex spaces, yet #wep#groundhogday brings back the same tired motion that was rejected previously
Whew! This is Sarah taking over the tweets from our wonderful A. She has done a grand job launching #RespectMySex and speaking to @WEP_UK candidates. Unfortunately, this has also filled our mentions with some grim content... (1/7)
I just want to say thank you to all our feminist sisters slogging it out here in Twitter, it's not always an easy place to be. Nobody wants to be dealing with porn-soaked replies about sex toys whilst making the kids' lunch... (2/7)
1] Disappointing to see @TabithaMortonWE stating that Sani's What Is A Woman is a 'MUST read'
The article starts with a bizarre interpretation of Bouvoir, & suggests 'British Feminism' has toxic corners when it comes to women discussing their own sex
prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/what-…@TabithaMortonWE The article uses images of the Hijra. India ruled in 2014 that a third gender marker & 3RD spaces, so no, this is not the 'corners of British feminism' discussing this
Many Hijra are openly gay men because of Indian homophobia (homosexuality is illegal)
shonaghdillon.co.uk/single-sex-ser…
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'Out of 837 submissions there are only six (that I can find and I did trawl through all of them but could well have missed one), from organisations that work within the male violence against women movement'
Lesbian's are same sex attracted. In law this is described as an orientation. This is key as this embeds the idea that lesbianism is not a choice or a kink.
It is this terminology that has protected lesbians (in law) against conversion, punishment, shaming & corrective rape.
Apr 24, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
The callous nature of our 'immigration' system manifests itself into daily horrors
When we campaigned for the end of Yarl's wood style detention facilities did we imagine that this would lead into a further lowering of standards in 'open accommodation'
theguardian.com/global-develop…
'open' facilities like Brigstock house are staffed and families are essentially under a curfewed house arrest.
UKBA documents outlining it's plans claim that vulnerable families with specific medical needs are “not suitable for the open accommodation.”
The opening testimony from at the @WEP_UK members assembly on self ID stated that 'trans women face the same risks from men as women and girls do'....🧐.
The UK is one of the safest EU countries to live. In fact there were no reported transgender murders in the UK at all in 2016. Since the start of the Trans Murder Monitoring project in 2008 there has been on average just under 1 transgender person murdered in the UK each year.
