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This is a thread about my journey to oppose the initiative to "clarify" the Equality Act 2010 by adding "biological" in front of "sex":
When I first heard about this, circa October last year, my first thought was that it seemed like a good idea. I welcomed the initiative, signed the petition, promoted it, both on twitter and during interviews about my book 'Born in the Right Body'.
I had always been a #RepealTheGRA supporter, ever since I learned of the GRA2004 legislation. I read it, pondered on it extensively, analysed it and the Equality Act. I'm not a lawyer, but I am a doctor and I needed to understand why women have lost single sex provisions.
Questions -
Will clarifying the definition of sex stop sex-falsification on official documents?
Will GRC holders still be permitted to withhold past employment records and previous names?
Will it stop safeguarding breaches?
Will it stop men appropriating the word woman with…
Will clarifying the definition of sex stop sex-falsification on official documents?
Will GRC holders still be permitted to withhold past employment records and previous names?
Will it stop safeguarding breaches?
Will it stop men appropriating the word woman with…
the prefix ‘trans’?
Will some men still be able to access women-only facilities?
Will the women’s pond at Hampstead be returned to women?
Will men like Mridul Wadhwa be removed from their posts for contravening schedule 9 of the EA?
If sex means biological sex, will S7 of the…
Will some men still be able to access women-only facilities?
Will the women’s pond at Hampstead be returned to women?
Will men like Mridul Wadhwa be removed from their posts for contravening schedule 9 of the EA?
If sex means biological sex, will S7 of the…
EA make sex change a reality?
Will clarifying sex stop the appropriation of female culture/political representation?
How exactly is ‘gender’ defined in law?
Gender is not assigned - how does one reassign that which was not assigned in the first place?
Why have we written a…
Will clarifying sex stop the appropriation of female culture/political representation?
How exactly is ‘gender’ defined in law?
Gender is not assigned - how does one reassign that which was not assigned in the first place?
Why have we written a…
Apparently, anyone who wishes to uphold the integrity of woman as a sex-based political class is a fundamentalist and purist. The idea that woman is categorised by her sex rather than ‘identity’ is the new extremist position to take. Women who advocate such an audacious…1.
stance have certainly felt the backlash to such a preposterous proposal and have been branded authoritarian, unpleasant and abusive. Nice deflection. And one that might work if we were truly few in number but the truth is many women and men hold this ‘extremist’ view. It is…2.
based on science after all. Our lived experiences are superfluous evidence to that fact. You could argue that the real purists are those who believe in ‘true trans’ - those whose subjective sense of self, as the opposite sex, is a genuine feeling that comes from the very…3.
🧵It's all the speeches this lot didn't want you to hear from the @StandingforXX #LetWomenSpeak rally yesterday at #SpeakersCorner Hyde Park! Huge thanks to @roseveniceallan and @ThePosieParker who was much missed.
Thread will grow as I get through them! Subtitles coming later!
Thread will grow as I get through them! Subtitles coming later!
First up we had @RachelK01840150 with this barnstorming speech about the unpopularity of women who made historic gains for women's rights! 🔥
Charlotte Edwards, @rafaellacjthis, gave this short address against the medicalisation of gender non conformity.👏👏
#BeingYouNeedsNoCure
#BeingYouNeedsNoCure
Hayton is right; the ‘trans’ issue is not about balancing needs but about doing the right thing. Of course women are right to protest the impact that allowing men to legally falsify their sex, has…1.
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on women’s rights. That lie - that sex category error - that forms the GRA and is shored up by the protected characteristic of gender reassignment within the Equality Act, is contrary to doing the ‘right thing’. What happens, indeed, when you legally admit men into the female…2
sex class? Aside from the terrorisation of women in prison and the violation of single-sex spaces; all safeguarding protocols are negated across the board. What is deemed good for a small minority is a right to hide past employment records/ID, lie about one’s sex on official…3.
Look what slogan has made it all the way to Australia 🇦🇺
#RepealTheGRA
spectator.com.au/2023/03/guilt-…
#RepealTheGRA
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From little acorns…
We will grow a massive and sturdy oak that spreads its branches wide, withstands storms, and grants protection to women & children
Next time men come with their axes, and their tame women, to chop it down, we’ll be ready
Next time men come with their axes, and their tame women, to chop it down, we’ll be ready
I was on an Irish Penal Reform Trust @IPRT webinar last year when they launched their report on Irish prisons. I raised BK + the other 2 men in Limerick women’s prison, the solitary confinement issue, the Mandela Rules. I was told “That’s outside the scope of our report.” #KPSS
Could whoever’s briefing @LeoVaradkar pls point out legal experts have been saying for years the GRA has put the State in an impossible position; not just about prisons, but closed psych wards, hospital wards, schools etc; Irish gov have statutory responsibility for safeguarding.
You can have “gender identity” in law (hiding sex/falsifying records) OR safeguarding, but not both. There’s no “privacy right” to hide sex (+ criminal background; see @NoXYinXXprisons report), only a dangerous privilege. Governments MUST #RepealTheGRA + all sex falsification.
‘Transgenderism’ seeks to unmoor us from the reality of our sexed bodies, which for women results in the complete denial of what the female body experiences and is subjected to with regards male violence. As @KnownHeretic states, ‘it preaches disassociation from primary sense…
awareness.’ Believe not what your eyes and instinct tells you. It’s an attack, not only on boundaries but on the female body itself. It allows for the complete commodification, colonisation, objectification and pornification of women. This is, of course, is nothing new with the…
exception that it is being sold back to us as a form of human liberation from material bondage. Oh, the irony. In truth it’s a liberation of a no holds barred society where every kind of fetish/paraphilia is brought out into the glorious sunshine. Hence, the mainstreaming…
Apparently, the characteristic of GR is defined below. It’s a sex ‘reassignment’ process that involves physiological or other aspects of sex change. This process can be started with a mere thought - I think, therefore, I am. Or with the physical mimicry of gender stereotypes. 1.
Gender itself, is not defined but we all know it to be imposed behaviour/expectations placed on both sexes. In effect, GR applies to those who believe/wish they are/were the opposite sex. It is a characteristic based on belief, not fact. S7 describes the manifestation of…2.
that belief in a physical and metaphysical manner. It conflates sex with gender without ever explaining gender. We are just to accept that ‘transsexuals’ are people who are capable of sex change/reassignment. If that is not considered a belief then it must be a blatant lie…3.
We want to remove “gender reassignment” from the Equality Act because, under it, an autogynephilic man successfully argued he had a right to override the limited consent for women’s intimate care being only female
In other words, his perversion & predation were protected acts
In other words, his perversion & predation were protected acts
How unfortunate
Our analysis that existing protected characteristics cover people in genuine need of discrimination protection sounds simple because it cuts through the gender fog.
Our analysis that existing protected characteristics cover people in genuine need of discrimination protection sounds simple because it cuts through the gender fog.
Is it even ethical to be discussing amendments to the GRA, knowing it blatantly renders women politically powerless and is the antithesis of child-safeguarding? Those drafting the act knew it would affect women’s sex-based rights: from sex-discrimination/equality law, privacy…1
…political/proportional representation to safeguarding. The effects of sex-falsification on official documents that enables child-safeguarding violations, are indefensible.
Is it a level of moral bankruptcy to attempt to mitigate and compromise on a piece of legislation…2.
Is it a level of moral bankruptcy to attempt to mitigate and compromise on a piece of legislation…2.
…clearly incongruent to the human rights of half the planet? Embedding the concept of ‘legal/acquired’ sex will do little to reinstate the biological reality of women and their right to exist as political beings with different needs to men. If this were a question of ethics…3.
🧵 Since writing about my experience of psych hospital the women who’ve told me their stories proves these places aren’t safe for women. Women at their most vulnerable with no escape, with various other issues & often have male induced trauma. As a result of our experiences.. 1/6
We don’t trust authority or those who are meant to care if we need support or are in a crisis. Me & other women purposely avoid asking for help or tellingly told by medical professionals that psych facilities are best avoided even when very unwell. 2/6
Avoiding these places is not always possible. Women, who can be as young as 18 like I was require a safe single sex environment to get better/learn to manage. Where they aren’t in high alert 24/7. That feeling never leaves & nor does the genuine trauma of being inside. 3/6
Women asking orgs and individuals whether they support #RepealTheGRA isn't a purity test (like some people engaged in purity spirals for years now claim). It's a good faith question so that we can:
1. Start the conversation
2. Decide who to support with our money and resources
1. Start the conversation
2. Decide who to support with our money and resources
There are many myths around repealling the GRA that are generated by people who don't want it repealed, including that "repealling would mean leaving EHCR". This is untrue. There are 46 countries in EHCR and not all of them have GRA-type laws.
GRA2004 is obsolete now. It was brought in when same-sex marriage was illegal, to allow "transsexuals" to marry same sex partners. Same sex marriage is now legal. Equality Act 2010 protects people who underwent, or plan to undergo gender reassignment, from discrimination.
Thread on some international law stuff.
One of the arguments from those who oppose #RepealTheGRA is that the GRA 2004 caters to a tiny minority of the population and is finely balanced.
One of the arguments from those who oppose #RepealTheGRA is that the GRA 2004 caters to a tiny minority of the population and is finely balanced.
Now let's step way back in time. Following the end of WWII, a process of decolonisation started. The economic implications of that process are relevant here. Newly independent countries wanted to nationalise the economic resources of their own land. Sovereignty included resources
Western countries claimed they had acquired those resources legally and at the very least deserved full compensation for those nationalisations, which were a form of expropriation. The battle played out as much at the United Nations General Assembly as outside.
Limp response to #RepealTheGRA petition from @CabinetOffice
The 2004 Act is "effective," "balanced" and grants individuals their "wish," so women & children - the majority - just have to tolerate deprivation of safety, privacy & dignity.
#nothankyou
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The 2004 Act is "effective," "balanced" and grants individuals their "wish," so women & children - the majority - just have to tolerate deprivation of safety, privacy & dignity.
#nothankyou
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The 2020 position, following Stonewall's GRA reform/"self-ID" push, is no longer current. How can @cabinetofficeuk not have moved on in response to events, including @scotgov debacle? The voting public knows gender laws are absurd & harmful. Debate must happen #RepealTheGRA
And if @RishiSunak doesn't clean up the gender mess on his watch, it'll just become a replay of the "Tory sleaze" saga. Reality matters!
#RepealTheGRA
#ForFactsSakeRepeal
#FFSRepeal
#ScrapGenderLaws
#FactsFirst
#TruthToPower
#ReturnToTruth
#BackToReality
#TimeForTruth
#RepealTheGRA
#ForFactsSakeRepeal
#FFSRepeal
#ScrapGenderLaws
#FactsFirst
#TruthToPower
#ReturnToTruth
#BackToReality
#TimeForTruth
Scottish parliament just voted 59 to 64 against an amendment that would have prevented registered sex offenders from being able to #SelfID under the proposed #GRRBill.
No democratic mandate whatsoever for any of this...
Shouts of *shame on all of you* from the gallery! 💪
No democratic mandate whatsoever for any of this...
Shouts of *shame on all of you* from the gallery! 💪
"TherEs nO conNNecTioN beTweEn the TwaNs C0mUniTY aNd $eX oFfendErs!" we hear, over and over again, ignoring the anecdotes and evidence to the contrary, with varying degrees of credulity.
Why vote to make sure they can get a GRC then? WHY?
#NoToSelfID
#RepealTheGRA
Why vote to make sure they can get a GRC then? WHY?
#NoToSelfID
#RepealTheGRA
This person has a GRC
This person is a sex offender
This person is not alone in that joint status.
Make it make sense!
This person is a sex offender
This person is not alone in that joint status.
Make it make sense!
[🧵] Since #TransWomenAreConMen is trending, here's a relevant anecdote that I found while researching for a video.
In this court case from 2018, an applicant for a gender recognition certificate appealed against the panel's multiple decisions to reject their application.👇
In this court case from 2018, an applicant for a gender recognition certificate appealed against the panel's multiple decisions to reject their application.👇
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The whole thing makes *VERY* informative and enraging reading, but here are some highlights.... /
The whole thing makes *VERY* informative and enraging reading, but here are some highlights.... /
/ The applicant, Jay, was a trans identifying male prisoner, divorced from his third marriage, who had been convicted of "obtaining explosives with *intent to endanger life*" 😬😬😬
"Who's life?" seems like a pertinent question? Sadly I don't have that info.... /
"Who's life?" seems like a pertinent question? Sadly I don't have that info.... /
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Men don't belong in women only spaces. Allowing men in women only spaces dramatically increases women's risk of sexual assault.
We are often told "transwomen are the most oppressed group in society"
Zero "transwomen" were killed in the UK in the last few years. Men who call themselves trans are demonstrably one of the safety demographic in the UK.
Zero "transwomen" were killed in the UK in the last few years. Men who call themselves trans are demonstrably one of the safety demographic in the UK.
There really is no way forward but to #RepealTheGRA.
This is a definitive clash between Gender Reassignment otoh, and Sex, Sexuality & Belief oto.
GR, without the practical enforcement of its legal certificate, is little more than personality expressed via gender stereotypes.
This is a definitive clash between Gender Reassignment otoh, and Sex, Sexuality & Belief oto.
GR, without the practical enforcement of its legal certificate, is little more than personality expressed via gender stereotypes.
But because in reality it’s a psychological condition, it’s inescapably locked into escalation.
I feel like a man (euphoria)
I look like a man (validation)
I’m treated as a man (confirmation)
Treat me like a man (inclusion)
See me as a man (imposition)
Say I’m a man (control)
I feel like a man (euphoria)
I look like a man (validation)
I’m treated as a man (confirmation)
Treat me like a man (inclusion)
See me as a man (imposition)
Say I’m a man (control)
This escalation set it on a fixed course from its beginning,
to override the Protected Characteristics that would otherwise undermine it.
Sex renders GR a fiction.
Sexuality reveals it as constructed, not innate.
Belief denies it outright.
This is protected by law.
to override the Protected Characteristics that would otherwise undermine it.
Sex renders GR a fiction.
Sexuality reveals it as constructed, not innate.
Belief denies it outright.
This is protected by law.
Recently, I have been working with some intelligent women who knew that to get repeal of the Gender Recognition Act the timing and the wording of such a campaign was key. 🧵
At the heart of this initiative was a desire to take a niche cause and make it a universal one with mass appeal. A clever approach was needed and it would take time and care to construct it. Time, it turns out, that we did not have.
We had hoped to make progress while attention was diverted to the laudable petition from @SexMattersOrg to get a quick fix to better define the sexes (sign it if you have not done so, yet).
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6232…
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6232…
An unjust authority removes property from its rightful owner, and gifts it to an undeserving thief who covets it.
Then a law is passed, declaring the stolen property now belongs to both the interloper AND the rightful owner.
The rightful owner objects.
Then a law is passed, declaring the stolen property now belongs to both the interloper AND the rightful owner.
The rightful owner objects.
People then suggest that the rightful owner must be punished for failing to recognise the interloper & thief as a rightful owner of their stolen property.
There is no recourse for the rightful owner to reclaim what is rightfully theirs, or deny the validity of the thief's claim.
There is no recourse for the rightful owner to reclaim what is rightfully theirs, or deny the validity of the thief's claim.
The rightful owner is punished more harshly for the 'crime' of reporting the theft & refusing to recognise the validity of the 'new owner' than the thief is for laying claim to stolen property. The thief garners public sympathy as the purported victim of the rightful owner's ire.
