Allison Bailey
14 posts todayExcellent thread from @peter_daly on the rushed & incoherent report on reform of the GRA👇 https://t.co/d17kQR...
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @peter_daly: The @Commonswomequ Select Cttee report unfortunately looks like it has been rushed out for Christmas. A shame, given the work that must have gone into it. On first reading over lunch here are some of the flaws that stood out to me ...
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @peter_daly: Relying on the gender theory “sorting hat” fiction of sex being “assigned” (p.80). Sex is not assigned at birth - parents are asked at the 20 week scan whether they want to know the sex of their baby, because sex is already observed ...
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @peter_daly: Paras 83-86 - drawing conclusions based on medical evidence from witnesses who are not medics: Stephen Whittle, Nancy Kelley, Alex Sharpe (whose evidence was expressly rejected by Judge Gray para 131, but accepted here).
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @peter_daly: 96 - Self ID is not just question of “fraudulent declarations”. This assumes a “Trans Women Are Women” position but that some people lie about their feelings and so aren’t trans.
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @peter_daly: But objections to self-ID go to the inherent characteristics of males regardless of their gender ID. Fraudulent declarations are independent of those risks.
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @peter_daly: And see 97: The attempt to square the circle on women’s prisons - Trans women convicted of sexual offences to be excluded from women’s prisons - departs from TWAW. Which begs the question, why stick to TWAW on self-ID?
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @peter_daly: (And this prisons approach is flawed on a more fundamental level: it requires the risk of sexual violence from a particular male to have been realised before it is addressed.)
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayCaroline Noakes should step down immediately from the Women and Equalities Select Committee. If she cannot see why sex matters she has no business chairing this committee.
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @ProfAliceS: 1/Caroline Noakes MP says she has no idea why we would want to know someone's sex. There are lots of reasons. Sex has systematic effects on physical health, and is linked to wide-ranging socio-economic outcomes.🧵 ...
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayThe statutory declaration will not work. "Genuine Intent" will never be disproven. All that an accused will need to say is: "I genuinely believed that..." what, "I was the opposite sex?" or "I wished to live as the opposite sex?" You've ignored ...
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @GaryJPowell: The "Women & Equalities Committee" has transmogrified into something akin to Orwell's "Ministry of Truth". Its pronouncements now promote an ideology that represents a serious threat to the rights of women, children & gay ...
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayRT @LesbianGayNews: A Year in Review: “2021 was the year the fight to regain sex-based rights took form,” writes @jo_bartosch for @LesbianGayNews. https://t.co/ySapGn...
Allison Bailey
14 posts todayThe @Commonswomequ has produced a highly partisan, pro-trans lobby report on revising the GRA to allow sex self-ID. The GRA was never intended to allow for sex change on demand & without medical input. Calls to repeal it will grow. https://t.co/N ...