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Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS,
@stephenwhittle
🏳️‍⚧️💪🏼🏳️‍🌈 Professor, Woke Green, anti-growth, lefty lawyer, Out proud trans guy, transitioned 1975, he/him. Abuse flows off my back like water off a 🦆’s
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Feb 9 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
1. @garylfrancione for 40yrs, I studied trans lives in a socio-legal context, in the UK & Europe,

That included frequently reviewing what TP & clinicians think about what being trans ‘means’

I found no evidence of any consistent or agreed ideological viewpoint amongst them. … 2. TP & Trans healthcare providers have wide & varied range of views/beliefs about trans identities;
- how TIs come into being
- how they develop
- what transition & persistence mean.

There is little consistency in those views or in any relationships between those areas

So …
Feb 7 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1. Laughable - the post below is about me

App. Some TERFs believe I must have been groomed to transition & in my transgender ideology & beliefs by some abusive man/men

I cannot imagine where I found the time for that to happen?

I have had an incredibly busy life … Text from X Jean Ruane @JeanRuane X.com Jean Ruane @Jean Ruane If you delve into her past you might, in addition, also conclude there to be strong evidence of a manipulated, groomed woman, in service to abusive men who sought to have their paraphilias enabled and normalised. 2. I have 4 degrees, 3 in law including a PhD - the law degrees studied part time
I l worked as a lecturer in law for 33 yrs, the last 17 as Professor of Equalities Law
I have a wife (48 yrs together) & we raised 4 amazing young people …
Jan 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. (Trans)gender ideology is not real.
It is an invention of people who have absolutely no skin in the game (apart from making: a name for themselves, money, & status amongst other equally lonely people)

They are not trans,
They haven’t got trans identified children … 2. Most of them don’t know any trans people (except to point at)

Certainly hardly any of them have had a trans person direct any aggression at them

And yet:
They think they have an absolute right to stop one of the most successful (98% satisfaction) healthcare treatments …
Jan 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. No it isn’t - we talk to our healthcarers

15yrs ago a lump grew. My GP was concerned enough to refer me for an urgent biopsy

The best place was the local ‘Vulval clinic’ but they arranged for me to attend out of hours

The Dr & nurse were both kind & respectful, but… 2. … best was the nurse

After the lump removal (it was benign) I heard the nurse talking to the Dr:

“I’ve changed the dressings pack, I couldn’t give Professor W sanitary towels.
I think we need to change the clinic name if we are to have more gentlemen attending”

I went …
Jan 19 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1. @LizJone55098804

All Service providers decide what services they are going to provide, how & when they will provide them, & to whom

The only restrictions might be local bylaws, & if they are discriminating against a person BECAUSE of their protected characteristic. … 2. … If a Trans Person brings a discrimination claim to Court that service provider discriminated against them because they have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, the Service provider has a potential defence as contained in various exemptions in the EqAct. …
Jan 18 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
1. @AshReganMSP The Equality Act is about preventing discrimination, & harassment including

between men & women
& towards
‘Those undergoing, intending to undergo or having undergone gender reassignment’

Research by @TransLucent_Org has 2. … demonstrated that Trans women are not a threat in any way to women’s safety.

You can read the results of over 380 FoI’s to Public bodies including all major local authorities & over 160 NHS Trusts here

translucent.org.uk/what-foi-data-…
Jan 5 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
1. @PreetKGillMP For 50yrs since the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) 1975 , Women’s rights have been protected

At the time the Sex Discrimination Bill was going through Parliament. Baroness Summer asked in Cttee whether the Act covered those women who ‘have had a sex change’’. … 2. The response was that ‘Yes, it did’

But in practice it didn’t

Following a decision in White v British Sugar [1979] it was determined by the Equal Opportunities Commission [EOC] (a precursor of the EHRC) that the folk we now call Trans people had a …
Jan 3 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
@_oatc_ 1. For pity’s sake - you asked that question just before 10pm last night & want an answer on a Saturday morning. Give us some life space.

Long-Short answer:

The ECtHR recognised our rights to bodily & developmental autonomy, privacy & marriage, & the obligation…
1/12 Text of original question: oatc @_oatc_•12h Hmm, so ECtHR was wrong to tile that sex changes, UKSC was right in saying only a notional "certified sex" changes after a GRC is issued, your new Birth Certificate & your opposite sex marriage are frauds & those of us born our gender changed nothing in transition? Really? 2. … of the UK Govt to respect the changes made . Has it ever said ‘sex’ changes?

A lot of this arises from definitions - how do we define sex. But that’s another question

I’d argue the science points to TP having innate biological differences from non-T people in some sex …
Jan 2 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. The questions i would ask GC women as they take JKR’s money to fight cases in order to remove the hard won rights of trans people to be recognised in law in their affirmed gender, and to not experience arbitrary & unfounded discrimination are:
… Group of gender critical women with sign saying adult human female 2. “in what way has a the existence of a trans woman (or trans man) affected YOU?

“Have the feelings of a particular trans person resulted in you losing your job because you are a woman?

“Has a trans person refused you a service …
Dec 29, 2025 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Speaking as one of those trans guys, I can confirm that thousands of us walk amongst you

We use your loos - so please put up the seat when you pee & remember to flush after you poo

We use your gyms - so please use a towel & wipe your sweat off the equipment … 1/6 2. We use your changing rooms - so please clean the washbasin after you shave & put your towel in the basket for washing

We take your jobs because we work harder than you ever imagined possible

We date your ex’s & they are overjoyed that a guy showers before making love …
Dec 26, 2025 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
@IanBell460060
1. In the UK, there is a difference - in law & medicine - between a child & an adolescent with the competence to address medical interventions

Competence requires a young person to have enough understanding and intelligence to fully grasp … 2. … a medical treatment's purpose, effects, and risks, allowing them to consent without parental help.

Competence is assessed individually by the clinician who evaluates competence based on the adolescent’s developmental stage, cognitive ability, and experience, …
Dec 26, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. I wish that research had been done - it might have lng settled this debate.

It has been done at the Utrecht & Amsterdam clinics on cohorts of gender incongruent kids stretching back to 1990

Broadly it found PBs made patients less depressed but not less dysphoric … 2. … An unsurprising finding as PBs just pause life, they don’t progress the body to the preferred state. Social transition improved overall well being provided the child had parent, school & peer support.

The biggest improvement in well being comes with starting hormone …
Dec 22, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I encouraged all sorts of speakers, & have never suggested or voted to no-platform anyone

2016 I invited my (former) friend Julie Bindel to debate Susan Stryker on these issues

We had a great debate & then Julie joined ~30 colleagues & TP for a curry in Manchester’s curry mile 2. The assumption is I am against academic freedom & free speech. I am not

But just as I am very polite to anyone I meet including GC /SR activists, I consider it disrespectful not to use my name & pronouns as used by everyone else for me & which I prefer

I once …
Dec 22, 2025 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
1. If Prof Sullivan is a ‘real’ academic she would hope that her teaching or lectures encourage students to develop their critical thinking, to speak up, & to protest things they have concluded are wrong. — in other words to use right to speak freely, & where they see … 2. … injustice to stand against it & to act

Prof Sullivan gave her talk & used the opportunity to practice her freedom of academic speech

So why the complaint? A typical GC Activist, she gave her talk but did not like it when her attitudes to Trans people were …
Dec 17, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. If driving 40 in a 30 mph zone you broke a ‘strict liability’ criminal law.

Strict liability means you have no defence to the crime even tho nothing untoward happened, & you caused no harm to anyone.

You will be convicted even if driving 40 to save a life. That … 2. … may be used to plead mitigation & the sentence on conviction may consequently be reduced

The civil law is different & it requires some detriment to have occurred to the claimant. If found to cause the harm, you will be told to compensate them

The Equality Act is …
Dec 11, 2025 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Trans people (TP) have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment because individuals & institutions who were prejudiced towards TP, practiced discrimination detrimental to TP’s life quality, health, employment & wellbeing solely because they were trans… 2. The European Court of Justice awarded us some protection in employment in 1996

It took until 2008 to get protection in goods, services, housing & other facilities

I experienced 30yrs of blatant arbitrary & unfounded discrimination before we properly gained protection …
Dec 5, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. Medicines produce effects
Patient leaflets list some effects as beneficial effects & some as side effects

E.g. semiglutude was originally developed to amplify the insulin response in diabetics

Originally, listed as a side effect is that it makes you feel … 2. … full more quickly when eating, & so you tend to less, & you may lose weight

Now semiglutude is listed as having the beneficial effect of losing weight, & a side effect can be ‘low blood sugars’ as it improves your insulin production but you are not diabetic …
Dec 5, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. Growth in numbers of TP (of all ages) started much earlier, 1996 to be precise

That growth in numbers has gradually slowed in the last 4 years, now being replacement rate

The first factor in growth was visibility - people could see others who felt as they did. … 2. Second is the change in parental attitudes. They are more open to listening & letting teens be their own people
Third is the change in rights - no longer being refused employment or college place/ or facing instant dismissal if found to be trans
Fourth society’s acceptance …
Nov 15, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. 1971 GnRH agonists (PBs) discovered

1982 first used to lower sex hormones when treating hormone-sensitive cancers eg prostate & breast cancer. Still the most significant use of GnRH agonists

Mid-1980s were trialed to stop precocious puberty in kids age 0 to 11. This … 2. … is still the 2nd most common use of PBs

1990 Netherlands Utrecht GI clinic first used to pause puberty in trans youth.
TY must be
- at serious risk of significant self harm.
- have long term gender incongruence,
- supportive school, parents, & peers
…
Nov 8, 2025 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1. I agree.

All gender clinics can do is offer detrans services on the same basis as trans services, which ATM are not good, but nowadays all gender clinics do provide detrans services

Re complaints of lack of follow up:

(a) Until 2000s most NHS services just wanted TP … 2. … out the door

Underfunding & lack of research funding, & anti-trans attitudes meant TP were a Clnician’s sole responsibility. Once treatment/surgery provided it was ‘goodbye’ as quickly as possible

(b) research has no benefit to Hormone manufacturers, They already have …
Nov 5, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. You accused me of living a “segregationist lifestyles & go to pricey schools, deliberately getting as far away from the poor as they can get

How could they know the issues important to working/poor ppl, if they NEVER associate w/us?“ … 2. Am I not allowed to speak in my defence?

Despite constant prejudice, discrimination & hate crime victimisation, I have done my level best to live a decent life.

I have pursued public service as my employment, and throughout the rest of my life as a volunteer. …