🏳️⚧️💪🏼🏳️🌈 Professor, Woke, anti-growth, lefty lawyer, Proud out trans guy, transitioned 1975, he/him. Only responds to anonymous accts to show them up
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Jul 31 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Peggi has brought this case in an employment tribunal & so it can only be brought against an employer
Peggi would have to sue Dr Upton in the sessional courts & show Dr Upton directly caused detriment to Peggi by discriminating against her because she had a protected characteristic.
Dr Upton did nothing except report harassment by Peggi …
Jul 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Everyone has heard of detransitioners - most you see online were not assessed, never started transition, or took pbs or x-sex hormones
Worldwide thousands have taken the step of permanently living in their affirmed gender
98.3%+ are overall satisfied with their decision. 1/4
2. L Of the 1.7% who are not satisfied, reasons given include stigma, family oppression, prejudice, discrimination, harassment, disappointment in effect of hormone therapies, or poor surgery results
Under 3% of the 1.7% detransition
Reasons given include …
Jul 20 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. For the record I took the hit for agreeing to Schedule 3, paragraph 28 etc of the EqAct 2010
I accepted Rape Crisis’s argument that there could be some circumstances where it might be appropriate to exclude TM&W from a Single/Seperate Sex service if legitimate & proportionate
2. But the Schedules are about vulnerable women in certain settings - hence the legitimate & proportionate basis
It was never about toilet stalls, changing rooms or showers with separate cubicles
There was no assumption that TP were predators. The assumption was that …
Jul 19 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Brains are part of our biology which
- maintain our life form,
- are the basis our sentience ie, our consciousness,
- contribute to structuring our thoughts, &
- ultimately our sense of self
2. There are 64 sex dimorphic (ie different in each sex) nuclei; groups of cells, in human brains
What SDNs do, is not yet known
Limited research into 1 SDN: the BST, has shown cells do not change
- post-birth
- w/ hormone therapy
But a BST in TW resembles that in non-T women
Jul 11 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
1. In this thread @MForstater believes the HCtEW is wrong to afford anonymity to 2 Trans & 1 intersex applicants in the case the @GoodLawProject is bringing in relation to the @EHRC interim statement which suggests barring Trans people from all loos if not unisex.
Clearly…
2. … or what was referred to as transsexual in 1975
There is a general confusion today around where the line lies between crossdresser & a person who is trans (& who will transition)
I understand that confusion then calls into question which people ‘have the right’…
Jul 5 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1. This case shows (as have others such as Phoenix v the OU) how few businesses & orgs go properly through due process with employers & clients they no longer wish to employ or serve
Being fair & Being seen to be fair must both be fully documented …
2. I am not going to comment on the Applicant (AB), their issues or their actions
But on reading what is clear is that
a) some staff had come across AB outside of the business relationship
b) those staff did not disclose to the business & document that when discussing AB …
Jun 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The UK’s welfare state struggles to provide enough welfare - whether from the NHS to get well or to manage being ill/disabled or the cost of decent standard of living - to support yourself, & get an education or skill, to retrain, or simply to get a cab to the theatre …/2
2. Those fortunate enough to be in the top 10% of earners need to pay more tax l
PIP enables some of that, combined with Access to Work, it can enable a lot of that
But ATW isn’t designed for those in lower skilled / physical jobs - an ability to retrain & have workplaces …
Jun 26 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. Thank you for this great thread.
As a trans man who transitioned 50 yrs ago, I remember my feelings of trepidation & fear, then the pure joy of ‘coming home’ when in late 1973 I plucked up the courage to walk into the Union Pub in Manchester
2. … men in chiffon scarves, women in bus driver uniforms, & an ancient drag queen ‘mother’ lip synching to Diana Ross on a small stage.
Shortly after I joined GLF who met at the Turks Head on Shude Hill & the CHE Lesbian group who met in the Quaker Meeting house.
Jun 20 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
@_lliesl_ @sharrond62 @cajardineMP 1. The clinical treatment of children & adolescents is not relevant to the need to reduce the growing harassment, discrimination & hate crime targeted at individuals trans people.
2. … of pimped girls in care, @suzanne_moore can’t resist the temptation to imply certain groups are more predatory
As the week heats up it’s
as if she has set out to provoke the right wing led riots & assaults, we saw this summer in Ballymena & numerous cities last summer…
Jun 11 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
1. I don’t think the T community should be blaming self-ID (or perhaps better put as self -declaration) for its current woes
It is worth once again looking at the actual events that took place in 2016-2024 to understand today’s anger, from pro & anti self-dec, in context …
2. a. 2015 HofCommons Women’s & Equality Cttee investigated Trans Equalities, making 30 recommendations incl. calling for reform of the GRA & better NHS access to gender affirming services. L
Read their report conclusions again publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cm…
May 31 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. This is what the Supreme Court did not decide & it is still the law:
Service providers (& not the @EHRC / @SexMattersOrg ) decide for themselves what services to provide, how they are provided
incl. whether single or separate sex services , and to who they provide them...
2. I was ignored, referred to a psychologist (I didn’t go), told it was migraine related pain, offered anti-anxiety medicines
Then in 2016 a physiotherapist said “Do you know your shoulder is broken?”
Yes, Yes,YES
She got a surgeon to see me who operated. He said …
May 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Ok - Stephen for 50yrs
Prior to 1996
- I lost many jobs. The advice was that if an employer would also sack a trans women that was being treated equally.
So TP who have the human right not to experience discrimination (art 13 ECHR) had less rights than none TP
.,,
2. Prior the the GRAct:
- my wife & I couldn’t foster, or adopt, & was refused fertility treatment because I am trans (art 12 ECHR)
- if my wife had died, Soc services told us they would put the kids in foster care whilst deciding if I could look after them (Art 12 & 13 ECHR)
…
May 17 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
1. Can using pronouns to misgender a person, including a Trans person, constitute unlawful harassment?
The law does not as a rule regulate pronoun use. There are a few: e.g. Lord , Lady, Sit which carry legal constrsints in very limited settings…. 1/13
2. … But he/him, she/her, they/their are just matters of social convention, used by people to categorise individuals & to be polite.
There are 2 types of unlawful harassment:
- Criminal (The Protection from Harassment Act 1997)
- Civil (The Equslity Act 2010 s. 26)…
May 11 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1. A fundamental problem with the decision of the SCt in FWS:
The Court said it was a matter of statutory interpretation but they don’t appear to properly assess the entirety of the statute, the EqAct.
EqAct s11 says man/male, woman/female. …
2. But If s11 was to be taken to only mean sex as gonads, genitals & chromosomes, the Ct ignored entirely the decision of the ECtHr in Goodwin v UK, by failing to address the Human Rights of TP with a gender recognition certificate …
May 10 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Ok - an answer to question 1
There is no moral imperative on anyone to do anything - that would require belief in an overarching set of moral & ethical principles guiding the world we live in.
But we are just a jumble of evolutionary chances, there is no omniscient mind. 1/5
In order for society to be community, I hope we do what we can to afford each person the opportunities to live their best life during such limited time as they/we have.
I believe we choose - to beat our own path
OR
…
May 8 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
@MForstater SM team could give the world proof of their sex (however they define it - but not just the easily lied about ‘I gave birth’ statements.)
Then we can see whether the rest of us needed to know that proof
Govt has many systems that records self reported ‘sex’…
2. Those records are cross correlated with already known data held by govt agrnces
HMRC, DSS, DVLA, school, clinical, & Passport records all keep a record of any ‘change of sex/gender’. Those are accessible to relevant parties e.g. for paying pensions, immigration etc
May 4 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1. But that still doesn't permit the EHRC to go beyond its remit and instruct service providers to discriminate
The EHRC's remit is to prevent arbitrary and unfounded discrimination
Discrimination is often acceptable, we don't let 5yr olds/Blind people obtain driving licences...
2. But when a SP chooses to provide a service, it is up to them to decide what, how and to who that service will be provided.
SP's have an absolute right to exclude anyone so long as they do not exclude anyone because of their protected characteristic, unless there is an...
May 4 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1. I think I am correct & know that
Service providers (SPs) get to decide what services they provide, how & to whom
SPs have an absolute right to exclude any person provided it is not because of a protected characteristic
SPs who provide a single or Seperate sex service …
2. … may exclude a TP if it us both legitimate or proportionate to do do
Note the MAY
SPs of S/SS services may choosr to continue providing them to anyone who needs them including TP. They may choose to rename or reorganise a service so as not to exclude TP
