Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights - caWsbar 🇨🇦 Profile picture
Non-partisan, volunteer coalition working to preserve the sex-based rights and protections of women and girls as enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Apr 28, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
Our submission to the Employment Equity Act Review Task Force with respect to the definition of the word "woman":

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Oct 31, 2021 14 tweets 12 min read
#HappyHalloween2021 !

Spooky @Mason134211f whipped up a lil' costume party on Parliament Hill yesterday. Walk with us on the journey!

#WomanIsNotACostume thread: All the usual suspects showed up for the party on The Hill: several suffragettes, a witch and a nice menagerie, including mama bear and even a beaver.

#WomanIsNotACostume #HappyHalloween2021
Jan 1, 2021 13 tweets 9 min read
And now for the good news!

📯Top 10 Victories for Women's Sex-Based Rights in Canada 2020

A re-cap of the ways Canadian women pushed back this year. Thread: 📯Top 10 Victories for Women's Sex-Based Rights in Canada 2020

#10 caWsbar members @JenniferAnne_s' & @GilleanSays' House of Commons e-petitions on #BillC16 & #BillC6 respectively, garner enough signatures to be presented to Parliament. #ReleaseTheGBA
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Jan 1, 2021 12 tweets 6 min read
Well, what a year it was. And now for our...

📯Top 10 Canadian Gender Self-ID Fails 2020

A roundup of notably outrageous events resulting from Canada's gender self-identification laws and policies. Thread: 📯Top 10 Canadian Gender Self-ID Fails 2020

#10 @RugbyCanada rejects @WorldRugby's sane guidance on keeping the sport sex-segregated

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Jun 9, 2020 7 tweets 1 min read
Our Vision

We envision a Canada where women and girls can be assured that their sex-based rights to bodily privacy, dignity, fairness and security are upheld both in law and in public policy. 1/7 Where women are free to assemble and discuss women's issues without the threat of being silenced, censored, harassed or assaulted. 2/7
Mar 8, 2020 16 tweets 3 min read
Thread. For #InternationalWomensDay we asked our members WHY they joined us:

"I saw women's rights being eroded in Canada in front of my eyes. I found myself asking 'Where is a women's group in Canada who is standing up for women?' I'm happy caWsbar is filling this huge need." "I joined caWsbar because I was horrified to learn that women can no longer say no to those born male in our sex-segregated spaces such as shelters, safe houses, change rooms, etc - if those individuals now identify as women."
Jan 11, 2020 10 tweets 2 min read
Our Position Statement (thread)

caWsbar asserts that:

1. Sex -- as distinct from gender -- is a material, biological reality; 2. There are only two sexes – female and male;
Dec 31, 2019 12 tweets 5 min read
📯Top 10 Canadian Gender Self-ID Fails 2019

A roundup of notably outrageous events resulting from Canada's gender self-identification laws and policies. Thread: 📯Top 10 Canadian Gender Self-ID Fails 2019

#10 Canadian cyclist Veronica Ivy's (aka Rachel McKinnon's) Twitter feed, which included wishing women a fiery death and mocking the death of beloved Magdalen Berns