🚨 Why have Northumbria Police @northumbriapol commissioned a survey 👇 targeted at 18-25 yr olds using highly contested ideological language, to inform them how to ‘engage’ with the @ForWomenScot Supreme Court ruling?

Just comply with the law!

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sunduni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7Q… This survey is being carried out by the University of Sunderland @sunderlanduni and was commissioned by Northumbria Police.
It will have been authorised at the highest level.

The Chief Constable is Vanessa Jardine, National Police Chiefs Council lead @policechiefs for ‘LGBTQ+’ issues.

The very same chief who was responsible for the unlawful strip search policy based on self ID. #StateSanctionedSexualAssault

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One-third of local council swimming pools ONLY offer mixed-sex changing facilities for swimmers. These ‘changing villages’ are a magnet for sexual predators.

WRN has been collating court reports where males have been convicted of crimes committed in mixed-sex changing rooms. Here are a few examples…

Two men were jailed after being convicted of secretly filming around 6,000 women and children, in swimming pool changing rooms in leisure centres throughout London and the south-east … 1/8 Young girls at leisure centres in Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield were secretly filmed by a Police Community Support Officer from Derbyshire. This man also filmed women and children at Centre Parcs near Nottingham… 2/8

Day 15 of our Christmas campaign.

These are not just women’s lingerie fitting rooms, these are @marksandspencer mixed sex lingerie fitting rooms and they are open to men.

Our old friends at M&S, purveyors of the nation’s underwear, are pulling a huge con trick on their female customer base, and subjecting female changing room assistants to the behaviour of predatory men.

One woman’s dreadful shopping experience below – and the response from M&S is a shocker too.

1/5 A female customer of @marksandspencer contacted WRN after an appalling experience at the lingerie changing rooms in their Kingston store.

All these cubicles are in one enclosed space in the female lingerie area, and the customer naturally expected them to be for females only. However, while in the changing rooms, she noticed a male person emerging from the cubicle opposite hers. This naturally distressed her.

So she wrote to M&S to request their official policy in relation to lingerie fitting rooms.

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Day 12 of the WRN Christmas campaign and we return to @Morrisons – but  not for the Christmas shopping.

We’ve highlighted some appalling incidents there already, but there are many more. Even young children are not safe in Morrisons’ toilets, which seem to be a magnet for predators.  

Setting aside the ‘Katie’ Dolatwoski incident, the pattern there is still shocking.

1/4 This was an incident in a Loughborough @Morrisons.

A 16 year girl with learning difficulties was allegedly raped in a baby changing area.

“I tried to leave and he would not let me. I was talking loud because I wanted someone to know that something was not right in the baby changing room.
“He told me to shut up.”



2/4guardian-series.co.uk/news/9476489.l…

A Pathway To Hell

The Pathways trial — which will give puberty blockers to vulnerable children, is a pathway to horrific lifelong harms and litigation which could cost taxpayers millions of pounds.

No child can give informed consent to an experiment which carries significant and well documented risks which include sterility, loss of sexual function, bone loss and possible cognitive impairment and increased cancer risk.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38594047/

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40438403/

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40924893/
1/ There is a large body of research which shows adolescence is a period of neurological changes which govern decision making, our response to rewards and our assessment of risk.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC46…
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35758886/
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All our unions, including the three largest in the UK, seem heavily invested in Transgender Awareness Week with not a thought for the dignity, privacy and safety of their women members.
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The unions publish guidance and model policies which are unlawful. The Supreme Court ruling in FWS was clear that trans identified men are not permitted to use women's facilities and yet the trade unions dictate otherwise putting female members in harm's way.
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Yet another report of voyeurism in a unisex changing area. This kind of offending is now commonplace because providers and councils enable offenders with easy access in mixed sex 'changing villages' or similar. Single sex spaces are a vital safeguard against such activity and yet we see more and more women only facilities being replaced by mixed sex provision 1/4 We know these convictions will be the tip of the iceberg and many more victims will be unaware of their images being shared and their privacy violated in such an extreme manner. So why do our councils continue deliberately putting women and girls in harm's way?
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While police officers are busily investigating people for tweets, rapes are being reported to the @metpoliceuk at the rate of ONE every HOUR - and we know that’s only a fraction of the real rate.

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dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… Less than 2% of these rape reports will lead to a conviction.

This is an abject failure by every aspect of the justice system.

Shockingly, a quarter of the incidents reported in London concern a victim under the age of 18.

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bbc.com/news/articles/…

Women in prison are amongst the most vulnerable groups in society. More vulnerable still are the tiny number of girls under 18 held in prisons.

Yet @hmpps’s Youth Custody Service maintain that girls should NOT be held in single sex institutions.

1/8 Secure Training Centres, Secure Children’s Homes and the Secure School all incarcerate girls alongside boys.
There is not one single option for female only accommodation for girls under 18 in the prison estate, despite ample evidence that girls who go to prison have almost always been serially abused and exploited by males.

penalreform.org/issues/women/k…

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It’s 100 days since the Supreme judgment. 100 days during which @Girlguiding could have looked at their dreadful ‘inclusive’ policies and changed them.

Reader, they have not.

This thread 🧵 may distress you if you thought your daughter’s welfare and safeguarding were a priority.
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Their section on what the law says makes no mention of the Supreme Court judgment of 16th April.

The Equality Act is referred to, but if there is any review of policies since the judgment, it’s not apparent.
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THREAD. 🧵
“I honestly could not believe what I was reading when I saw this survey. As a gender critical police officer, I have been openly called a 'nazi, 'fascist', 'militant' and 'obtuse' - just for expressing my views post-Forstater".

This National Police Chiefs’ (NPCC) survey 👇 has been circulated to officers and staff nationally following the Supreme Court judgment. A serving police officer leaked the survey to us and shared their shock.

We suggest the NPCC (the head honchos of every UK police force) just need to follow the law. Now.

(WRN will not share the link to this survey publicly)
1/ The officer said:
"There is no mention of the horrendous treatment of gender critical people and, indeed, it actually goes above and beyond to imply my abusers might be the actual victims of the ruling".

"I have no hope that the current NPCC might do the decent thing and kick ideology out of policing once and for all. They seem intent on destroying the trust of the public, undermining the law and trashing what little morale there is left within the rank and file”.

Read on – and brace yourselves.
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Lines on the retirement of Thomas Bach

So. Farewell then Thomas Bach
9th President of the IOC

Your tenure in the top job
Has been marred
By scandal
After scandal

From which you have emerged
Smelling of roses,
Until the boxing debacle.

Men punching
Women
For sport
Was frankly
A step too far.

Stepping down
From the top job
Is the best thing
You’ve ever done

(with apologies to the late EJ Thribb)

Let us count the ways Thomas Bach has destroyed women’s sport …
1/7 The darkest day in Olympic women’s sport has to be 1st August 2024 when Angela Carini became the first woman boxer to square up against a male. IOC-sanctioned violence against women.

That’s on you Thomas Bach. #NonEGiusto


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https://x.com/WomensRightsNet/status/1818964051495387389

What would you do if you spotted a long-haired man in a bikini exiting the female changing rooms at your local swimming pool?

Alan’s immediate instinct, as the lifeguard on duty, was to report the incident to his managers as a failure of safeguarding good practice. 🚩

The managers at Wilmslow Leisure Centre, run by @EBLeisure where Alan worked, saw things differently. Alan was told that anyone may self-identify into the changing room that ‘aligns with their gender’. Nothing to see here.

What happened next was astonishing . . . 1/ 5
Alan knew that a male in a female changing room was a RED FLAG for danger. He, and his colleagues, had no idea that the company operated a Trans Policy that allowed males into the female changing areas. A letter signed by 18 employees, querying the safeguarding risks of the policy was sent to management. At which point Alan was called in for a dressing down . . . 2/5

Women’s Rights Network launches its Red Flag Campaign this week to highlight the dangers of mixed-sex leisure centre changing rooms for women and children. Nearly 90% of sexual crimes in leisure centre changing rooms are committed in mixed-sex facilities. 1/6
There are NO single-sex changing facilities in ONE-THIRD of local authority swimming pools in the UK providing easy hunting grounds for predatory males seeking access to women and children in a state of undress. 2/6womensrights.network/post/leisure-c…

BRACE YOURSELVES 🚨
What would be your conclusion about an official internal police document that noted the terms ‘TERF’ and ‘FART’ to describe GC women, yet didn’t condemn these?

Would you think that the police had actively ‘taken a side’ rather than remaining impartial?

You’d be right. Read on ….
1/7 The recently withdrawn ‘Transgender Handbook’, for officers and staff in @swpolice does just that.

They’ll need to hastily rewrite this given the Supreme Court judgment of course.
We suggest they also examine their attitude to dissenting women (who were right all along).
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In all the excitement over the new policies to protect females in football, cricket and netball it’s easy to forget that there are many sports in the UK that still allow males into the female category - despite the Supreme Court Judgment.

In 2023, we launched the WRN Fair Sports Awards. Of the 74 sports we analysed, only SIX protected the female category at all levels from grassroots through to elite level.

A staggering 77% had policies that allowed males to compete in the female category, with just under 15% protecting elite categories but throwing every other female to the wolves.

A year later the situation had improved with 68% of sports still allowing males into the female category.

As sports governing bodies finally wake up to their legal responsibilities here’s our handy guide to the sports that have yet to update their policies to comply with the Equality Act 2010.

The situation is moving so fast that we haven’t yet updated our website but we hope that when we do 0% of sports will be discriminating against women and girls. In the meantime here's our list ... 1/ ❌= Unfair ✅ = Fair and Safe
NOTE: Sports are also marked ❌if they protect competition but not recreational or grassroots sport

Akido ❌
American Football ✅
Archery ❌
Athletics ✅
Baseball and softball ❌
Badminton ✅
Baseball (elite) ❌
Basketball - under review
Bobsleigh - no policy
Bowls ❌
Boxing ✅
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu ✅
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For the first time in many years women who line up on the start of Sunday’s @LondonMarathon can be sure that there will be no males in their category, thanks to the Supreme Court Judgment.

Perhaps . . .

The London Marathon, whose @EnglandAthletic licence covers the entire race, should have excluded males from the female category from 31 March 2023, when @BritAthletics banned all post-puberty males from the female category. Instead, London Marathon has ignored the rules, and all pleas from women’s groups to do the right thing by its women runners.

Now the highest Court in the land has declared that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex. In other words, London Marathon's female category must be for females only.

Top of the ‘to do’ list for the marathon organisers this week must be weeding out the males who have erroneously entered the female category, and switch them to the male or non-binary categories.

No ifs. No buts. It’s the law. And always has been.

The LM entry list is not yet published but we know of several male runners who have declared their intention to run the London Marathon in the Female category, thereby breaking UK Athletics rules…

First up is Emma Smith, formerly Matthew, who works for @BBCSport … 1/4 Emma Smith raced in the female category in 2023’s London Marathon and is entered for next Sunday’s race. He raced in the Female category at the licensed Tatton Park 10k earlier this month in preparation.

Smith posts frequent updates on social media. Interspersed with reports from sports events such as the Women’s Football World Cup and the Paris 24 Paralympics are updates on his oestrogen therapy, feminizing surgery and those ‘oh so embarrassing female wardrobe malfunctions’.

We hope his @BBCSport colleagues weren’t too distressed the day his boobs kept popping out of his dress at work. He reported from the Ladies’ loos: ‘The gender euphoria is real, but it is also very annoying’.

In fact, his outfit updates from the Ladies’ loos at BBC Salford are so frequent we wonder how he has time for any actual work, or race training.

Next up is Sarah Stephenson-Hunter… 2 / 4

A tale of two letters
Today is the expected final day of the Newman v Metropolitan police tribunal.
Do the Met treat GC women differently to Trans activists?
Let the Met's own communications speak for itself.....
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1/6 WRN had of course raised our own concerns with the Met about the content of their Trans Day of Visibility 2023 after receiving a number of reports.

We were told that it was not a matter for a complaint and that they had no control over what was said by the external speakers invited in to New Scotland Yard.

A dismissive response.
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Misogyny in the Met
WRN have followed the ongoing Newman v Metropolitan Police tribunal with interest.
In particular we noted the apparent lack of willingness of the UK’s largest police force @metpoliceuk to engage meaningfully and honestly with those who understand the material reality of sex.
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We heard yesterday at the tribunal, that a senior officer in the Met couldn't confirm that being male is a risk factor in violent crime.

This must come as a shock to the Met Commissioner and all those officers who have promoted their Male Violence strategy (which the Met call Violence Against Women and Girls, or VAWG).
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What are the rules when women who identify as men access male changing rooms?

TRUE STORY! 🧵

Summer 2023: a woman in a bikini walks through the men’s changing rooms at a local authority swimming pool run by Kirklees Active Leisure (KAL) @activeleisure

After her swim, the bikini-clad female went back to the male changing area to get dressed.

A man in the changing room tells us he was shocked, uncomfortable and worried.

But, when he reported it to the staff on reception, they told him they knew about her, had received complaints, but as she ‘identifies as a man’ she was entitled to use the men’s facilities.

Of course, we know that’s not the case …
1/ 6 On further investigation, by the man’s wife, it emerged that Kirklees Active Leisure’s swimming pool policy allows males and females to use the changing room that is 'relevant to the gender with which they identify'.

In other words, the changing rooms are mixed-sex.

She asked KAL if she would be safe on their premises if men could identify as women and access the female changing room.

She asked why there were no single-sex changing rooms?
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On Tuesday, we had the privilege of attending an event organised by the wonderful women of @WRNScotland at Holyrood, sponsored by the indomitable @TessWhite4NE.

This focused on the importance of safeguarding women’s rights in Scotland’s public services.

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WRN Scotland launched their hard-hitting report into rapes and sexual assaults in Scottish hospitals.

It was pleasing to see that so many MSPs and other concerned women and men attended.


2/6 bit.ly/3DhQ3uA