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Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, Profile picture
Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS,
@stephenwhittle
🏳️‍⚧️💪🏼🏳️‍🌈 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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Nov 8 • 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 • 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. …
Nov 5 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Long 🧵👇🏼
1/18. Internally revealed” makes it sound like a spiritual experience, as in the revealing of God, Christ or Faith

I have never had faith, but I did wonder why, if those exist, they were not revealed to my mother, who died in terror having never received faith. … 2. Of course I know why, & it is that those things are fanciful myths revealed, if at all, & experienced as ‘real’ through spiritual experiences as described so well by William Temple

I understand why some trans people will talk of a revealing of an inner essence - the …
Nov 4 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Newnham college is allowed to decide, whether, how, when, where & to whom it provides its educational services

University Education does not meet the EqAct’s requirements that define a single or seperate sex service

To be able to claim to b single sex service The EqAct … 2. … requires one of the following conditions be met:

a. that only persons of that sex have need of the service

b. the service is also provided jointly for persons of both sexes, and
the service would be insufficiently effective were it only to be provided jointly. …
Nov 3 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. Apparently to c1ss GC women & men, lesbian or gay, the 19 years I lived as a daughter, female child & teenage girl means nothing

14yrs of study, all my academic, non-fiction or other reading means zero.

My years of teaching policy and feminist legal theory & practice … 2 … or feminist human rights mean zilch. My years of research & my many amicus briefs or expert witness statements in the asylum courts in order to prevent the deportation of vulnerable women & children are as dust.

Despite being part of in 1972-4, & a Lesbian …
Nov 3 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
1. A ‘round about’ argument by @akuareindorf

“We, the Commissioners for the Commission for Equalities & Human Rights (EHRC) say we now know what Equality Act means in law

“We say proposed EHRC guidance to the Equality Act, provides guidance according to what we say the … 2. … law is

“We say there is no point assessing the impact of tye guidance on people & business, because the law being as we say it is, our guidance is correct

We think the law, as we say it is, must be followed. Assessing the impact of our guidance is pointless, because…
Oct 17 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. I spent many years seeking the cause & whilst there are small studies, there will never be gold standard studies because of the ethics of treating some. & not-treating others, in order to obtain a true random control group

As there is evidence of people experiencing (1/7)… 2. … this mismatch between body & self perception throughout the historical & anthropological record across hundreds of different societal structures - in traditional cultures across the six inhabited continents - and that’s despite the repression of imperial colonialism & …
Sep 30 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
1. I provided research for the Discrimination Law Review, which became the Equalities Review, a body which I was part of. I sat on the general group, the specific duties group & the statutory duties group of that body.
The Equalities Review formulated the final Equalities Act … 2. The question of access of TP to separate & single sex facilities was discussed in depth.

Consequently it was agreed to continue the principals formulated in 1999, following principles developed in EC law.

EC law allows anti-discrimination law to have exceptions where…
Sep 29 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
1. Welfare based on the principle of contribution is a ‘pay or receive nothing’ system

A backdoor to privatising welfare & health through insurance payments

But where does that leave hungry children, children or adults with disabilities, children & others seeking asylum ?? … 2. Welfare based on the principle of contribution is a nonsense.

That isn’t welfare, pay in advance to meeting your needs ie. pay your insurance contributions

The UK’s post WW2 welfare system has been the envy of much of the world.
We paid NI to Govt to…
Sep 27 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. Apparently Trans folk are forcing them to ‘accept our depravity’

What depravity?

In the 70s we were called sex perverts, my retort was
“great, but as I’m not getting the sex I’m not sure how to pervert it”

Eventually most of the wild grew up and realised we were hard … 2. … working at our jobs (we’re always the best & work hardest so as to keep them), paid the bills, raised the kids, grew our gardens - just like them

Now we are ‘depraved’, ‘delusional’, ‘fraudulent’, ‘groomers’ etc.

Ask yourself where that idea about trans folk came from…
Sep 23 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
1. I provide country reports for the courts

After a 4 to 6 year wait, approx 75% of people seeking asylum will be given temporary leave to remain as they are found to be genuinely at risk of persecution in their home country

This might be because they are from a war zone, or… 2. … because they have certain political or religious beliefs, or they are disabled, LGBT*, or have a mental health condition.

When writing a country report I read the statements the asylum seeker has provided to the home office.
I then read …
Sep 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Oh dear - Pure 1980s homophobia as well as being transphobia now

That is an awful lot of teaching staff, scout leaders, football club volunteers, ministers, choir masters, and Dads etc who will
“need to be able to explain the nature of their relationship”.,, 2. … And once explained just tell me how that will prevent any abuse of any child

Total bonkers overreach assuming all men are predatory … but wait, something like 10% of c-is heterosexual men will admit to having not properly gained a woman or girl’s consent at some time ..,
Sep 7 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1. Neither gender nor sex trumps the other, each case stands on its own merit

The law is an empathic instrument & is designed to re-balance the scales, not to create unwarranted burdens

When revisited it will become clear that they manner in which the SCt judgment was … 2. … presented, not its central decision, has allowed a level of
- unwarranted triumphalism,
- gross over-misinterpretation &
- the spreading of a great deal of misinformation.

It will be revisited as soon as with a Gender recognition certificate challenges ..
Sep 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Might be worth considering what Helena Kennedy said of the FWS decision in debate in the House of Lords on Thursday 1 May 2025
You can search in in Hansard under
NHS: Single-sex Spaces for Staff, Vol 845 … Quote: Dame Helena Kennedy KC in the House of Lords; “The judgment makes it clear that the decision was limited to the question of statutory interpretation and that it was not involved in making policy—so the difficult business of policy follows. But the judgment also made it clear, and it was emphasised - although unfortunately this has been lost in some of the utterances by people who should have known better-that its conclusion "does not remove or diminish the important protections" that there have to be for trans people and which are available to them under our own legislative... 2. Look at the next para in the decision in P v S & CCC [1996] ECJ

“22 To tolerate such discrimination would be tantamount, as regards such a person, to a failure to respect the dignity and freedom to which he or she is entitled, and which the Court has a duty to safeguard.” …
Aug 28 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
1. Indeed, in 1990 I sat down & read 201 ‘trans’ related papers by a lawyer/legal academic, or another discipline when they purported to discuss TP & law

Every paper stated TP wanted to change their birth registration & ‘disappear’ into the anonymity of successful passing. 2. Notably, not 1 of the lawyers/legal academics/ philosophers or sociologists had spoken to a TP when doing their ‘research’. Few in medical disciplines had

These academic papers were not based on research but would be better described as ‘sexy’ one offs, reviewing …
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. … allowed their personal choice to develop.

I expect they chose to use the words their friends used to refer to whoever had parental responsibility in their family unit.

As we had determined to always tell our children the truth (using age appropriate language) …
Aug 13 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
1. You will find it difficult without really getting to know a few T people & listening to them

The only story I can tell is mine, but this is not about me. I could disappear into anonymity & never explain myself to anyone ever again.

But I outed myself a… 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 2. No S/SS service has been threatened with litigation over an exclusion as no TP has sought to bring a case to court

The Court cases have been brought by women & relate to their right to hold a belief

This is a manufactured moral panic. How often do women come across …