🏳️⚧️💪🏼🏳️🌈 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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Aug 27 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
1. Andrew @AusPsychReview I have no desire to get into long but pointless conversations
I believe your starting point - your fundamental assumption - is incorrect
The question then becomes should I waste my time trying to explain why to someone who is not open to listening. …
2. But I will give you some benefit, not of doubt, but of hope.
Can we agree that Mental ill health refers to a range of conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, or behavior, causing distress & impairing their ability to function in daily life? …
Aug 25 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. All law is a response of those in governance to a social concern
In any society those who live within it, agree to abide by the rules created by those we have voted for - that’s democracy
In contemporary society it is usual to consult society’s members. …
2. Legal gender recognition came about as a result numerous court cases, & several consultative processes, which ultimately led to the GRAct 2004.
Theresa May’s proposed reform of the GRA had so many - a national consultation found 70% of 140k people favoured the reforms. …
Aug 24 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The Trans / autism correlation has been known since the 1970s
Originally hypothesised that the autism form of neurodivergence gave TP the ability to single mindedly focus (eg obsess as in train spotting) on transition & getting treatment
Now the view is more complex.
2. Consideration should be given to the impact on young females of the fashion/social media/film & tv focus on hyper-feminisation as the aspiration for girls growing up
Despite the success of new role models such as the Lionesses, many autistic youngsters feel very ..
Aug 22 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. @anisogamyrules The message below is typical of the gender critical activist nebulous transphobia I get daily
Our 4 kids were not compelled to call us (their parents) anything. For many years they used our first names
They ultimately chose to call us Dad & Mum, but we .,,
2. … a long time ago, in an effort to prevent any other kid or young adult having to go through what I went through.
I recognise I had a safe job, & a pension now I am retired. I am articulate & able. I have an educated wife of 47 yrs who has never doubted who she met. …
Aug 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. @jenni65714 I think the EqAct has worked extremely well
The EqAct exemptions can be used by genuine single or separate sex services as a defence, if a TP who is not employed, or refused a service, then brings litigation over those matters
- & they have worked
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)
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