Does Kathleen Stock's presence on @SussexUni campus give trans and nonbinary students reason to feel unsafe? Let's look at the evidence:
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1/12 Back in 2018, @docstockk emailed her Philosophy students, to reassure them on this very point. She said:
"I make a practice of using preferred pronouns and names. I would never discriminate against any student for any aspect of their identity, including being trans."
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This is what I'd say if I were a Labour frontbencher being asked "is it transphobic to say only women have cervixes?"

First of all, I want to say that I don't think my friend and colleague Rosie Duffield is transphobic, and I'm very sorry that she doesn't feel able to join 1/n us at Conference this year. I will be working hard with the rest of my front bench colleagues over the next year to defuse the tensions around this issue and ensure that everyone can have their say without fear of abuse.

Now, to your question, I think the issue originally 2/n

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On 17th June, local residents and councillors asked a series of questions about the future of domestic abuse services in Brighton & Hove, following the defunding of @riseuk earlier this year.

We heard some welcome commitments, but we are still very concerned.

1/14 We have been asking since February for the tender documents for domestic abuse services, but @BrightonHoveCC has missed deadline after deadline and still not released them.

We have seen the Equality Impact Assessments used. You can read them here: brightonriseup.wordpress.com/update-june-20…

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The @ONS have decided that it's no longer possible to ask people simply what their sex is, even though this has been asked in every census since forever. Women have used the resulting data to prove that we face ongoing and widespread discrimination, at large and small scales 1/10 The people making decisions about the census, however, have been persuaded that some (unknown number of) people won't respond to the census at all if they have to answer this very basic factual question. 2/10

I like Lloyd, but this article is a mess. Here's a long and detailed thread explaining why, mostly in pictures. Really happy to meet in person to discuss it, @lloyd_rm. /1

https://twitter.com/lloyd_rm/status/1275371330255405057

First two paragraphs were so full of inaccuracies I had to annotate them twice. Sunday Times article is here if you want to check what's actually been reported: thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-… /2

Just started reading the @UKLabour manifesto and there's so much great stuff in there! I'm going to pull out some of my favourite bits as I go along and put them in this thread. Might turn out quite long! 1/n @UKLabour Fracking ban
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