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Founder of Survive and Thrive, The Fearless Facilitator Method® Facilitator | Speaker | Podcaster | Feminist | Campaigner Rights of Women & Girls. Personal X
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Got married on Saturday. Best day of my life. Laughed all day danced all night. Gave the bridal speech about feminism & marriage not being mutually exclusive and the abomination that is the Supreme Court overturn of Roe v Wade.
#politicalbride
#feministallyhusband
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Dr Hilary Cass will sit as a cross-bench Member of the House of Lords. This is it. Never has a peerage been more well deserved. In floods of tears here that she has the recognition for the task she took on with such aplomb, curiosity, insight and fairness.
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Hi people who wish to be Prime Minister. When asked about *women* and the biology of *women* and the rights of *women* your immediate response shouldn’t be to quote a man, refer to rights of men who want to identify as women and ignore those of 51% population who are WOMEN 🤦♀️
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Really significant that
@bhlabour
Hove CLP last night voted overwhelmingly in favour of policy to protect sex based rights for women & girls, for clarity that sex in Equality Act means biological sex & not to be confused with gender. More than double votes in favour than against.
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The safeguarding of children is not a culture war. Brighton has no single sex services for women who have been raped by biological men with a penis. This is not a culture war. It is the defence of women’s and girls sex based rights.
In the face of Tory culture wars, where trans people are unjustly belittled and used as pawns, I will stand firm as the MP. Brighton Pavilion, let’s unite against this divisive rhetoric. Together, we can champion dignity, respect, and equality for all.
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As former National Women’s Officer of the Labour Party & Pavilion member I am concerned about the protection of single sex spaces for women, the epidemic of medically transitioning teenage lesbians, fair play in sports for women. Not heard him say anything about these issues.
Brighton Pavilion is a place where diversity thrives, and we could make history by electing its first trans MP. For almost 40 years I’ve been a voice for trans people. Now I want to take that voice to parliament.
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I will always vote Labour. But my Party should reflect with curiosity, humility & empathy why JKR speaks for so many women sick of being dismissed as toxic & questions about womanhood redrawn as purely about trans rights. Erasure of women wont win votes it makes you misogynist
With apologies to Strike fans waiting for book 8, I spent much of today writing this.
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This is my local hospital in Brighton. It is currently being investigated for over 100 deaths & recent CQC inspection showed there is a culture of bullying and harassment. So the Execs issue a statement on hormone filled milk of trans parents🤦♀️
#priorities
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I am so utterly disappointed in
@SarahChampionMP
diminishing and belittling concerns about serious harms caused to vulnerable children, usually girls, that she not only filibustered but goes online with this cheap shot. Debasing the Palace of Westminster. Do better.
@UKLabour
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Headline Correction: Tom Gray was selected as Labour’s candidate.
Attended hustings, history revisionism and “trans candidate” aside, I was struck by just how poor, unfocused, incoherent, lacking in policy or position, local knowledge & unable to answer questions Izzard was.
🚨 Breaking
Eddie Izzard has failed to be chosen as Labour’s candidate for
#Brighton
Pavilion at the next general election.
Read here:
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Bella Sankey has been privy to 300+ pages of legal correspondence from a family in Brighton about the specific harms her council Trans Toolkit has caused their child. The school even admitted causing harm to the child. Sankey never acknowledged the letters.
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2 MPs commit to protection of single sex spaces as per Labour policy.
@wesstreeting
here:
@ToniaAntoniazzi
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He receives no backlash. She is subject to an orchestrated campaign of abuse by Labour Students/Young Labour & some councillors. 1/2
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Proud to expose the fast track from classroom to clinic in Brighton. PSHE Brighton received concerns from parents, governors & staff about curriculum material, teacher behaviour and harm to children from every secondary school, some primary schools and even a few nursery schools
Rachel Cashman, co-founder of PSHE Brighton, talks about the "fast track from the classroom to the clinic" in Brighton, leading to a local GP giving teenage girls testosterone injections just after their 16th birthday. You can watch Rachel's full talk and the rest of the
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Some things for every Labour candidate to consider given they have told us all weekend to judge them on their record of protecting women’s rights and protecting women’s spaces and protecting women from harm. A 🧵
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Excellent, clear, unambiguous information 🧵 👇 from
@wesstreeting
I urge all those adults, including many MPs, claiming to be the voice in service of gender distressed children to read this and seek to understand rather than shout. Gender distressed children deserve better.
Puberty Blockers. A 🧵
Children’s healthcare must always be led by evidence.
Medicine given to children must always be proven safe and effective first.
I know there’s lots of fear and anxiety.
Let me explain why this decision was taken.
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2 years ago my mother died of uterine cancer. This year I had a radical hysterectomy for the same reason plus endometriosis. No human born a biological man can or will ever understand the physical or emotional implications of either. Poorly judged appointment.
We are excited to share with you all that we welcome Steph (
@PompeySteph
) to the team as our new CEO. Supporting to move forward with our missions as a charity - we are all grateful to have Steph on board. Watch this space for more updates soon 💛
#Endometriosis
#Adenomyosis
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As former National Women’s Officer & Head of Equalities for the Labour Party I am connected to a huge number of women members across the country & all political leanings within the Labour movement. My phone has blown red hot with rage & with despair from them during this election
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Every single Labour MP, Parliamentary Candidate, Councillor (particularly in my city of Brighton & Hove) and yes Young Labour & Labour Students - take note our policy is to protect the single sex spaces for biological women. Exactly as
@ToniaAntoniazzi
made clear on NYE 2023.
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Thank you
@YvetteCooperMP
for clarity on
@BBCr4today
re: single sex prisons. Now can you ask
@Keir_Starmer
to support
@RosieDuffield1
and thousands of other women members in right to speak up for sex based rights without being slurred by members of the PLP in Parl on TV or CLPs.
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Very important and welcome intervention from Keir Starmer, acknowledging that the allocation of a GRC should not confer rights of a biological man to enter single sex spaces such as toilets & therefore also changing rooms, prisons, refuges, hospital wards & other services.
🗣️ Asked by The Times if trans women with gender recognition certificates have the right to enter women-only spaces, the Labour leader said: “No. They don’t have that right"
Follow the latest updates at our live blog ⬇️
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Some of us are baffled that defending sex based rights is considered “anti-woke political weaponisation” by the former Mother of the House…. 👀
“I do think the temperature has been raised by people using anti-wokery as a political weapon.”
@HarrietHarman
is "baffled" by J.K. Rowling's comments about Labour abandoning women adding she disagrees with the author.
🎧:
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Whilst Question Time was a red line for so many, we need to step back and look at the conditions created to hit the line in the first place. No debate. Silencing women for being “transphobes”. Refusal to recognise legitimate clash of rights & respond productively.
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Whilst all this is going on, I learned yesterday that my fellow Labour Party members who are councillors refer to me as “That Fucking Cashman Woman” when these individuals have never spoken to me and I cite National Labour Party policy. Perhaps I will stick that on a lanyard.
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@bindelj
Women are only feminists with a negative carbon footprint! 🤦♀️
JKR started with nothing. Her talent put her in a position of wealth, power & influence. I am grateful she uses that power & position to help the rest of us rise & as air cover & support for our voices to be heard.
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As a former trustee of
@fawcettsociety
I welcome the creation of a Parliamentary Women’s Caucus. Vital it doesn’t shy away from the most fundamental issue of our time = interdependence & contradictions in protecting rights of women, gender distressed children & trans adults.
Now that there's more women in Parliament than ever before, the real work begins.
Fawcett is thrilled to be convening women MPs to facilitate launch of a women's caucus.
Read more:
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This matters because it demonstrates that
@UKLabour
members in Hove are aligned with the public in seeking protection of rights for women & girls, support trans identified adults & gender distressed children. And not the Brighton Council gender ideological view on these issues.
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@MattJBall
@wmarybeard
Well said Matt. Mary, to some of us you remain an inspiration. Forget Twitter I am looking forward to hearing you talk in Brighton in May where you will receive a warm welcome and an engaged audience. Take care and don't let the trolls get you down. X
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Equally proud to know and stand with
@ToniaAntoniazzi
and
@RosieDuffield1
Tonia has merely stated current Labour policy defending single sex spaces.
@wesstreeting
said the same on Sky last week without the pile on from (mostly) young Labour & councillors
#politicalpartysexism
Just in case of any doubt,
#IStandWithTonia
, my good friend and strong feminist sister. And just for the record, Tonia is a current
@UKLabour
whip and former Shadow Minister, rightly understanding and expressing the views of most people who vote in the UK.
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Equally possible to answer a question about a member of one’s own Party, a candidate for that Party in the election without using the word “toxic” thereby associating toxicity with that (woman) member. Not a good look for people who wish to be PM to have a woman problem.
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For any and all politicians who might be wondering about why language matters for biological women in the protection of single sex spaces, services and sex based rights, listen to the calm explanation from Naomi Cunningham 👇
Sex Matters chair Naomi Cunningham spoke to Clare Foges on LBC.
Why is the ‘trans debate’ so toxic?
Because one side decided they could just lay down the law, assert a new reality and have no debate at all…
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It is possible for politicians to answer questions about the rights of both women, gender distressed children & trans identifying adults without insulting actual biological women in the process - see below from Shadow Secretary of State for Health
Labour's Wes Streeting:
'We will not allow anything in conversion therapy legislation that stops medical professionals delivering the holistic care that Dr Cass rightly says we need.' 1/
Great interview
@roseveniceallan
via
@YouTube
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@hannahsbee
Interesting that there is a link between those who now have policy influence at The BMA and those cited in evidence and the judgements in the tribunal case of Allison Bailey has having had influence in Stonewall.
@LissaKEvans
This individual, cited in the tribunal of Allison Bailey? 👇
If so important that the BMA have due diligence around bias in their policy determination and assessment of evidence to ensure decisions are evidence based not ideological positioning.
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Good policy to transform the lives of women and girls becomes lost. Collective intelligence to make Labour’s change for women, for gender distressed children & trans adults is missed. Because inclusion isn’t real if the voices of women are silenced because some fear challenge.
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Thoughtful contribution from
@lisanandy
She has read
@thecassreview
recognises lack of evidence for puberty blockers, supports
@DHSCgovuk
ban on unregulated private prescribing of these drugs to children and seeks dialogue that is evidence based for gender distressed children 👏
Lisa Nandy agrees with Wes Streeting on protecting
young people from the harm of puberty blockers.
#CassReview
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@bindelj
@Emmabarnett
Yes I have just written to Woman’s Hour in response and sharing my experience of uterine cancer and endometriosis. Excellent from Emma Barnett on this. More of this respect for women and girls sex based experiences and rights please
@BBCWomansHour
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@FiLiA_charity
@BrightonHoveCC
Worse than just snatching the document, Brighton Council deemed it “offensive”. What is offensive is Brighton Council’s treatment of women and girls.
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Nothing that
@ToniaAntoniazzi
has said is “transphobic” She has restated Labour policy as voted by the National Policy Forum, supported by Shadow Cabinet and restated by Shadow Cabinet members, which is to protect single sex spaces for women.
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This matters because it speaks to structural inequality & misogyny still exists today, playing out in politics called “culture wars”. But impacts women not just on a QT debate but in every area - security, safety, health, prison, sport, pay, treatment @ work & the list goes on
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As we enter 2024 I urge everyone to use this year to be more curious, read more evidence, think about associating factors in any circumstance & not just repeat rhetoric one has been told by their tribe. Leaving this here ⬇️ as a starter.
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Children harmed, families destroyed as in Cass Report - not a culture war. Women lost their jobs for defending their rights - not a culture war. Rape victims told to share services with men who have a penis the literal weapon of rape - not a culture war. Politicians - wake up!
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Labour Leadership: I am torn between
@jessphillips
&
@Keir_Starmer
doing my research I found this podcast. Worth a listen. Insight in to what drives Jess. Influenced me more than most leadership coverage.
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��It is the job of any organisation, whether that is a school or a sports club or a governing body, or, in fact, a world governing body like the IOC, to have a responsibility to safety.” Sharron Davies
Excellent article in
@guardian
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This from
@wesstreeting
is exactly the response women would hope for from the entire Shadow Cabinet. Thank you for not gaslighting women’s concerns and seeking to balance rights for all in a complex context.
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@TheOnlyGuru
Hi
@sally_lindsay
have you read
@thecassreview
disappointing to see you step in to a space where you are engaging in online activity targeted at other people’s children. In an area that is highly complex, with huge safeguarding issues and can’t be reduced to celebrity endorsement
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🧵 👇 about a Labour branch debate on a sex based rights & NHS motion entirely in line with national LP policy. Those who brought the motion branded “divisive” & “toxic” inc by local councillors who hold influence, power & voice in the community. The motion passed by a big vote.
Blimey.
Just back from my LP branch meeting. Not the best night for it, but a good turnout and a *really intense* debate on sex and gender. The 'GC' side won: 'clarify the EA' and the leaning of "sex" the main point. But my reflections...
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My god, the composite watered down to the most basic equal rights for women, all entirely in line with existing Labour Policy, 70% of members supported it & the unions voted against. What a sorry state of affairs for Scottish women at work
@LabWomenDec
@LWDScotland
"The principle of women’s sex based rights is a moderate one, that has widespread support"
Great speech from Laura Bird, Edinburgh Southern CLP, presenting parts of motion agreed at
@ScottishLabour
Women’s Conference, at
#ScotLab24
Wording in thread⬇️
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@polblonde
Q: How will you protect women’s rights and safe spaces?
A: Invoke the murder of a gender distressed child, gives assurances that demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of existing equality law. Lists the name of women. “Fabricated differences”
But women are culture warriors
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There are people in the Labour Party seeking to reach out to women and to the trans community to transcend the barriers of division because equality matters. It’s not a culture war. It’s a matter of life chances, opportunity and fairness. But reaching all cant exclude women
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My God, I have cried a lot in the last week with relief, grief and whole load else. This piece of disingenuous performance from the adult human female who has perpetuated so much of the
#nodebate
in Labour that has contributed to ongoing harm to children has made me cry with rage
Cass report could be moment to join up services for all children questioning gender and ensure much earlier access to support for wide range of conditions but that depends on what happens next-won’t be silenced in demanding ministers prioritise them and not their backbenches.
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@UKLabour
Pertinent this week as Brighton Council published their revised Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit which upon summary reading appears to be more unlawful than its predecessor & fails to understand The Cass Report 👇
Excellent 🧵 👇 on the astonishing publication of the revised Brighton and Hove Trans Inclusion Toolkit and how on summary this new version is as unlawful if not more so than the previous version.
They published consultation on last day of school year 🤦♀️
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Well said
@wesstreeting
& let this be a signal to
@NHSEngland
who has allowed this to proliferate because whilst Specialised Services have rightly focussed on
@thecassreview
elements the equality and diversity policy team has been almost entirely focused on “trans rights” alone
@VictoriaPeckham
I support the nurses and I’m horrified that they’ve had to resort to legal action. We’ve got to find a better way through this and I’d be happy to meet them. We’ve got to find a way through that treats trans people with respect and respects women’s safe spaces.
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As
@HarrietHarman
says a record number of women in Parliament. Now is the opportunity for a thoughtful dialogue about sex based rights, implications of reforming GRA for protections of biological women, ramifications of Supreme Court case on definitions in Equality Act and more!
Now record 264 women MPs!
Chance to work cross party on women’s priorities.
@fawcettsociety
will convene meeting for all women MPs enabling them to embark on process of setting up powerful Women’s Caucus. *Childcare, *violence against women, *equal pay. Now is the time for change!
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Not a single lawyer in the United Kingdom has contested the Advice provided by Karon Monaghan KC. Although rumour has it the Council are trying hard to find one. They have announced a ‘review’ of the Toolkit with no plan, process or timetable exposing schools to huge risk.
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This 👇 is shocking from longstanding member of
@UKLabour
NEC. Wilful misunderstanding differences between rights of trans identified adults & the rights & protections of gender distressed children. Dismissing world leading clinical evidence. Appalling - Ann can & shld do better!
Q: How can you claim to support the rights of LGBT members when you won’t call out transphobic policies the leadership support like implementing the Cass report and separating trans people in hospitals?
#AskAnn
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Most recently as the last few days PSHE Brighton has been advised of refugee children from a war zone living in our city of sanctuary who were told by teachers there are 100+ genders and perhaps their trauma is actually because they are born in the wrong body.
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Excellent 🧵 👇 on the astonishing publication of the revised Brighton and Hove Trans Inclusion Toolkit and how on summary this new version is as unlawful if not more so than the previous version.
They published consultation on last day of school year 🤦♀️
The new draft of the Brighton & Hove Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit has just been published by
@BrightonHoveCC
. It doesn’t yet seem to have considered recent legal advice or evidence reviews, including Monaghan and Cass.
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Leading U.K. Equality Law KC
@k21fem
reviewed the Brighton Trans Toolkit which is the basis for all policy and practice in schools and found it to be emphatically unlawful:
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👇 is important because it demonstrates
@NHSEngland
issuing advice to its own staff and the wider NHS that is in contravention with Government position and its own policy position. To understand why, one has to understand how NHSE is structured.
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One cannot be summarily removed from post within a political party for holding gender critical beliefs.
@UKLabour
take note - the recent case of Laura Pascal could be deemed illegal, let’s also think about those calling for sacking of PLP members Duffield and Antoniazzi.
♀️ JUDGMENT ⚖️ has landed! WE WON!! Wow! Just Wow! This is HUGE!! Our Gender Critical beliefs Are Worthy of Respect in A Political Party!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 🙏💚♀️💚♀️💚
#AliVsGPEW
Please Tell the World 📣
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Excluding the voice of one community because we don’t like what they might say or the challenge they bring in the end is an act of political self harm. I want Labour to be successful that is why I will vote Labour & continue to be outspoken. To help Labour learn, heal and change
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Shame on you
@jackiebmsp
- if there was no whip why did 2 Labour MSPs who voted with conscience get sacked from their roles? Poor policy, gaslighting women & rewriting history Never have I been more ashamed to have grown up in Scottish Labour than now.
@LabWomenDec
“We weren’t whipped…we arrived at a consensus as to what we would do”
Deputy Leader of Scottish Labour,
@jackiebmsp
, gives an insight into voting on the Scottish GRR Bill but says she wants further guidance from the EHRC
#bbcdn
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PSHE Brighton has had sight of legal correspondence sent to Brighton Council (ignored) , safeguarding concerns raised with the council & schools (ignored), submissions of concern about the Trans Toolkit made via formal council committees (ignored) dating back years.
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It’s all very well for President of Universities UK to discuss sector as crucibles of free speech and protection of rights to disagree now. Where was this when
@Docstockk
was at Sussex facing vile abuse,
@JoPhoenix1
undermined,
@runthinkwrite
too + many others!! Consistency key.
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Now the “spousal veto”. The idea that letting a woman leave a marriage before it becomes a lesbian marriage is some sort of “veto” is offensive. We have been told this weekend to judge Labour on their record for women. Maybe the trans widows should ask Tony Blair to speak up.
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Home from
@UKLabour
Conference, my first since 2017. Struck by the thoughtful, considered & constructive conversation with every Minister & every member I met on sex & gender issues, rights & protections for women, trans identifying adults & gender distressed children.
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Here are the facts on Bryson. He was on bail & so clearly could have got the single clinician sign off for the new GRC. Excellent Labour no longer propose that it’s just a GP but of course specialists are all totally sound - just look at the Webberleys 👀
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This Observer editorial should be read by every Labour MP & Council Leader before they make sweeping statements about “culture wars” in relation to child safeguarding & supporting gender questioning children & young people under 18 years old.
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Delighted that
@Keir_Starmer
has been unequivocal this morning about the teaching of gender ideology in schools.
He may like to read this by his esteemed peer Karon Monaghan KC about the unlawfulness of the Brighton Trans Toolkit
BBC News Channel on Starmer and gender a few minutes ago
‘It’s something they’d probably rather not be talking about’
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Furthermore the U.K. leading KC on equality and human rights law assessed the council’s Trans Toolkit and found it to be emphatically unlawful.
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Lots of DMs telling me I am a turkey voting for Xmas or akin to a victim who keeps going back to their abuser. Thanks for your feedback. The misogynists don’t get to own Labour Party. Change can happen. I want to create the change not walk away and leave them to rule the roost!
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On the day the UK High Court makes a judgement unequivocal about strength of
@thecassreview
as best evidence that exists. Part of
@The_TUC
comes out with this. Union leaders need to reflect deeply on issues of harm to children & role of those in power over children in doing so.
NEW on the Commons blog: ‘Trade Unions Oppose the Cass Report’.
We’re so proud to have passed this motion at our NEC, which then passed at LGBT TUC. It’s now the business of all trade unions to oppose Cass:
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Harriet’s answer on schools guidance is just wrong here. In Brighton there are examples of teaching according to the unlawful Trans Toolkit in every school in the City.
Important breaking story in tomo’s Observer: Brighton council at risk of being sued by two parents for its use of trans guidance that leading equalities & human rights KC Karon Monaghan has advised is unlawful on multiple counts. More in my column tomo.
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@hannahsbee
All of the cases reported to PSHE Brighton start with the way that gender is discussed in schools, which is not in a broad and balanced way and ushers confused children at critical stage of development down a specific pathway, highlighted by
@thecassreview
to be inappropriate
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Sankey referred to parents in the council chamber as making “baseless smears”. Yet parents from every secondary school, most primary schools and some nursery schools in the City have raised concerns with local community groups because the council ignore them.
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On the clinical side
@hannahsbee
book Time To Think exposed the Brighton NHS clinic referred to in my speech above, a pattern of prescribing behaviour in breach of multiple regulations and offering x-sex hormones to teenagers within a 10-30 minute consultation & no diagnosis.
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Here’s how council staff and Labour Group went around snatching statements of a woman sexual assault survivor at a meeting about safety of women, because a man identifying as a woman was unhappy at their existence. No balance of rights of women & trans identifying adults there
At an event organised by
@BrightonHoveCC
with the title 'Re-imagine Brighton & Hove' with a focus on 'how we can make Brighton & Hove a safer city for women and girls'
Someone has just gone around the room SNATCHING the following documents from people.
#VAWG
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Great to see
@ameliagentleman
and
@guardian
cover this important story.
Student psychotherapist wins apology over expulsion for gender-critical views | Transgender | The Guardian
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@UKLabour
Also pertinent given this week’s judgement in Bailley versus Stonewall which appears to determine that Brighton Council and/or Allsorts could be liable for legal action on basis of their Toolkit and materials supplied in schools 👇
Pleased to see
@michaelpforan
setting out the potential new legal implications for Brighton & Hove City Council & Allsorts following the judgement in Bailley v Stonewall this week. The council have published revised version of the Toolkit which seems more flawed than predecessor
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If this wasn’t enough
@thecassreview
showed the concerns and curiosity raised by parents in relation to Brighton Council children’s services and schools were entirely vindicated. Positively kafkaesque the lock down of state institutions fast tracking kids from classroom to clinic
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PSHE Brighton has seen correspondence to Governors in one school in Brighton dating back to 2016/17 complaints of breast binding of young girls without parental consent. In 2023 the Headteacher admitted to another complainant their child been harmed by the same practice.
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Here’s a full thread culminating in how senior members of Brighton Labour Group referred to me as “that f****ing Cashman woman” angry at my raising safeguarding concerns about their practices and behaviours
Proud to expose the fast track from classroom to clinic in Brighton. PSHE Brighton received concerns from parents, governors & staff about curriculum material, teacher behaviour and harm to children from every secondary school, some primary schools and even a few nursery schools
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@UKLabour
introduced The Equality Act which provides protections for women, as a protected characteristic.
The orchestrated approach of Labour Students/Young Labour in targeting only a woman MP calls in to question their behaviour in accordance with this Act.
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@LissaKEvans
This individual, cited in the tribunal of Allison Bailey? 👇
If so important that the BMA have due diligence around bias in their policy determination and assessment of evidence to ensure decisions are evidence based not ideological positioning.
strategic relationships?
ZA: sometimes yes
BC: SL email shows advice being sought - substituting words like mother and pregnant women
ZA: yes
BC: we see Miss Russell (senior person in policies team) discussing how SW can embed in GC
ZA: yes
BC: one of the key areas is
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The list could go on but message to women in Hove is clear.
@UKLabour
members are with you. Labour members agree we need to protect the rights of women and girls & support trans identified adults & gender distressed children. Only Brighton council favour some rights over others.
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Important settlement agreement here and suggests the OU begin to understand that their actions towards gender critical staff has been discriminatory.
Another example of why it is important
@UKLabour
Government thinks carefully about HE Freedom to Speak Act before repealing it.
Personal Announcement (thread)
I have agreed to settle a long-running legal dispute with my employer
@OpenUniversity
and a colleague. Here is the agreed statement:
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Labour forget what these “unintended consequences” of policy do when they do not think about the how policies knit together and the real world consequences when rights collide.
It rightly scuppered the SNP…..
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This by Julie Bindel is a must read for anyone interested in the personal cost of speaking up for the rights of women and girls. I am proud to know her and thankful to her for the path she has made for women like me & many many many others. Huge love.
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Or indeed the “specialists” that everyone relied on at The Tavistock. Remember
@thecassreview
was described as one the greatest clinical scandals in a generation. Because ideological clinicians didn’t have the requisite rigour in making appropriate clinical decisions.
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In the
@guardian
article linked 👇 one fifth of the women said they would spoil their ballot and hundreds said they were sick of women’s rights and protections labelled as “toxic and divisive”. Really good to see the Guardian cover this and I hope incoming
@UKLabour
listen.
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@cathydevine56
Excellent in principle albeit Cass came out very strongly on the dangers of a CP ban and the complexities of that issue and Labour appear to have just gone gung ho and ignored that…..
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The questions Labour need to consider on the GRC process are well articulated here:
"Keir Starmer doesn't understand what this entails."
Discussing the Labour leader's stance on sex and gender,
@ForWomenScot
's Susan Smith tells
@RachelSJohnson
it should be 'harder' to get a gender recognition certificate, not easier.
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I agree with
@JonAshworth
that politicians are not toilet monitors. This is why the contradictions in policy transcend toilets and applies also to prisons, hospital wards, refuges, changing rooms (see current legal action) and rape crisis services.
'A trans woman in a restaurant that only has a man and a woman's toilet facilities, which does she use?'
'I'm not a toilet monitor.'
Jonathan Ashworth is the latest Labour politician to be asked by
@NickFerrariLBC
about the party's stance on gender identity.
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Important decision from the U.K. High Court this morning.
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With a v few notable exceptions, Labour politicians dismiss women, brand them toxic and reframe the entire policy area as a trans issue failing to acknowledge any impact what so ever for the safety and security of women. Challenge this and we are the creators of a “culture war”
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Excellent by
@polblonde
staggers me that my own Party leadership are making such bold statements directly impacting child safeguarding without thinking of consequences. What has happened to their professional curiosity &critical thinking.
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@thecassreview
Yet what Sankey & Emma Daniel the new Cabinet member for children, schools and families this is appropriate is to mock concerns about safeguarding and engage in reductive performance about lanyards. When they haven’t even been bothered to engage in harms they have caused to kids
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@thecassreview
As a consequence the NHS has moved to a position of multi-disciplinary decision making for safeguarding reasons, just as this Labour policy is set to weaken the rigour in clinical decision making and move to individual single doctor decisions.
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Despite the National Policy Forum agreeing not to introduce Self ID, we essentially have it through the back door.
Don’t believe me see the legal experts coming out one by one today 👇
A medical report from just one doctor (Harrop, Webberley, Kamaruddin); no need for approval from a panel; a "cooling off period" suggests day one rights. This is self ID.
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Another case settled because employer is forced to recognise that their behaviour towards those who believe that sex is binary, immutable and biological has been unlawful & discriminatory.
Will they begin to learn that people are entitled to believe in sex based rights…
🚨Case Update: Settlement Reached🚨
Having been expelled from my Masters’ degree in Psychotherapy over 3 years ago, after speaking out about the impact of gender ideology on child safeguarding, I am extremely pleased to announce that I have agreed a settlement with the Metanoia
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