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16 posts todayDiscussion of GRA with Nic Williams from @fairplaywomen and Heather Peto of @LGBTLabour LGBT+ Labour - first item. https://t.co/jdzFP3... @BBCWomansHour ...
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16 posts todayRT @LizaCowanDesign: Shero. Dr. Height was my mother's partner, colleague, and friend. In 1964 they created Wednesday In Mississippi, a civil rights action group run by interfaith women of all colors and ethnicities. https://t.co/sourSg...
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16 posts todayRT @LizaCowanDesign: @Womans_Place_UK Thank you. Dr. Height was my mother's friend and colleague. In 1964 they created Wednesdays In Mississippi, an action group run by women of all faiths, colors and ethnicities. They were intersectional feminists ...
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16 posts todayDorothy Height (1912-2010), Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement, President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) 1957-97 she was considered one of the 'civil rights six'. Officially recognizing inequality for women and Black Americans ...
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16 posts todayDorothy Height (1912-2010), Godmother of the Civil Rights Movement, President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) 1957-97 she was considered one of the 'civil rights six'. Officially recognizing inequality for women and Black Americans ...
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16 posts todayIt is grassroots groups such who are making sure women's voices are being heard. We have realised we cannot rely on publicly funded bodies to speak for us or to represent us properly. Changes to laws must be publicly discussed not stitched up behind ...
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16 posts todayWomen need a seat at the table & have every right to expect this as default. We were pleased to see @fairplaywomen were invited to attend meeting on the census in June and that they queried why they were the only women's group attending. ...
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16 posts todayIn the end thousands of people responded to the GRA consultation which meant these plans were better scrutinised than they might have been – despite some people wanting to stitch things up behind closed doors... https://t.co/LeYg03... #womanshour ...
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16 posts todayVery few women – or men – knew about plans to change the GRA until women started speaking up. These were plans which would have a direct impact on whole of society and yet women were criticised for wanting to make their views known. Our submission is ...
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16 posts todayReally good to hear a proper discussion between @AskNic and @heatherisone on the GRA. The exchange is frank, polite and respectful. Thanks to both speakers and to @BBCWomansHour for having this discussion on national radio.
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16 posts todayGreat that @BBCWomansHour is discussing the Gender Recognition Act. Women have had to fight to ensure proposed changes were discussed in the public arena. This is not how democracy is meant to work. Our comment on the consultation here ...
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16 posts todayRT @BBCWomansHour: After the decision not to change the Gender Recognition Act to make self identification the key to changing gender, we talk to the women who’ve been campaigning on this issue - @heatherisone and Dr Nicola Williams from ...
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16 posts today“Laws on paper for women are meaningless unless they can be implemented. Women still need male-free spaces.” Well said @AskNic @fairplaywomen @BBCWomansHour
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16 posts todayWe have organised 27 public events - nearly every one was subject to some kind of obstruction including threats, abuse and aggressive protest. A record of our meetings and the abuse here https://t.co/kqCkiu... @BBCWomansHour ...
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16 posts todayIf the GRA was purely about acceptance, why were so many groups lobbying to have the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act removed? Women wanted their voices heard and instead received abuse. @BBCWomansHour https://t.co/AFbozW...
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16 posts todayIf the GRA was purely about acceptance, why were so many groups lobbying to have the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act removed? Women wanted their voices heard and instead received abuse https://t.co/AFbozW...