I welcome this news if, as the government says, it will outlaw gender reassignment for under 18s, but we need to get the language right. 'Gender identity' is a belief system and I don't want to see it acknowledge as a reality anywhere in law. ...
This is a lost opportunity by @EHRC to make clear that having the protected characteristic of gender reassignment protects you from discrimination *within your sex* unless you have a GRC & even then you can be excluded from women-only spaces. ...
Prof. Kathleen Stock leaves Sussex with her head held high. All the best @Docstockk for whatever comes next. https://t.co/xtcLq3...
RT @SophieXY44: #IStandWithLesbians When gay men were dying out and our own mothers were too afraid to touch us or love us, it was lesbians who stood by us, who nursed us, attended our funerals and became our voices. It’s our turn to stand with them. ...
RT @LilyLilyMaynard: “Women are used as support beings for transwomen- to affirm their identities. This is the primary reason men are going to the women’s estate.” @BluskyeAllison https://t.co/JuOHou...
RT @MForstater: @francescrook giving her final lecture as head of the Howard League at #WPUKPrisons talking about how there are too many women in the prison system - for short sentences. Only 2 women last year got a sentence of over 10 years. Women ...
RT @RichardJGarside: Thank you to all our speakers. @francescrook @LucyBaldwin08 @francesbarber13 @JoPhoenix1 and @RosieDuffield1 To @BluskyeAllison for chairing it so well, and to Charlie Weinberg and @Mocha_Soul for opening and closing the event ...
RT @MForstater: Rosie Duffield whooop whooop ! @RosieDuffield1 #WPUKPrisons https://t.co/RFR7TI...
RT @MForstater: Lucy Baldwin on women in prison. 46% have previously attempted suicide. 60% have a history of abuse. 95% of children don't stay in their own home. We are criminalising poverty and trauma. #WPUKPrisons https://t.co/ybdVOR...
RT @MForstater: . @francesbarber13 on the judgment that it is not unlawful for male prisoners to be placed in women's prisons - undermining women's rights for a small minority of men #WPUKPrisons there are rapists in women's prisons ...
RT @RichardJGarside: Well that was one hell of an event. Hundreds of people meeting to discuss women's imprisonment. Must have been the largest event on this topic since, well, ever, I think #WPUKPrisons
RT @Pomegranate2021: Well done @BBCNews for this robust defence of its journalism: 'The article looks at a complex subject from different perspectives and acknowledges it is difficult to assess the extent of the issue. It includes testimony from a ...