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Holding Labour to account on women’s sex-based rights. RTs ≠ agreement with all views nor stance of media outlet. Sign our Declaration https://t.co/Z6zCo0mVQP
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Storming speech from @joannaccherry in the #IWD2022 Commons debate. "What you cannot define, you cannot protect and what you cannot name cannot be properly discussed and debated". If no-debate was weakening before, Joanna's finished it off. #SexMatters.
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@DawnButlerBrent Your tweet is disgraceful and brings our party into disrepute. That's our tweet.
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@UkLabour peer @PeterHain."I am on JK Rowling’s side. she’s been absolutely vilified simply for calling for equal rights. You’ve got to protect women’s spaces. I just worry about a lot of the battles that have been very hard won for women. being reversed".
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"Do biological males with gender recognition certificates have the right to enter women-only spaces? It’s a simple yes/no question”.Starmer is emphatic. “No. They don’t have that right. They shouldn’t. That’s why I’ve always said biological women’s spaces
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@ToniaAntoniazzi asks:."Why is @BritishCycling neither following #EA2010 nor implementing the agreed guidance of the Sports Councils Equality Group's report on transgender inclusion?". #FairnessInSport is now at risk for all women inc elite British athletes like Dame Laura Kenny
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YES! BREAKING!!.Thank you to all of you who helped with this campaign! .Lord True has just announced that the government will accept @LordLucasCD's amendment, supported by @LordPhilofBrum & many others, to replace the word person with mother & expectant mother. #SexMatters.
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Standing ovation for surprise guest @RosieDuffield1 at #LWDBrighton - “there comes a point where you have to stand up and speak”.
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As @RussellFindlay1 speaks powerfully about rape being a male crime and calls for measures to prevent predatory men applying for a GRC @NicolaSturgeon and @AnasSarwar leave the chamber. For shame on them both.
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At today's Zero Tolerance event where Nicola Sturgeon was speaking, women were told not to mention single-sex spaces. It's an age-old message: women, stay silent to stay safe. But one brave Edinburgh woman wouldn't wheesht. Solidarity, sister. #NoToSelfID #WomenWontWheesht.
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We booked a @LabWomenDec supporters table tonight at #LWNGala2022, plus many other of our signatories are also here @Keir_Starmer spoke to us, said he supports single sex exceptions & agreed to finally meet us to discuss our #FreeSpeech to discuss #SexBasedRights in @UKLabour.
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Historic speech @LordPhilofBrum.9.23 minutes of essential listening."Many public bodies are misinterpreting the Equality Act 2010. Please will the government defend women who speak up for women's rights based on sex?".#MOMABill .#SexBasedRights.#SixWords.
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"What women want is acknowledgement they've been punished for stating facts which men like Blair, like Starmer now freely assert. This matters more than Labour’s muddled position on reform of gender recognition or refusal to accept Eq Act needs clarifying".
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Thanks @joannaccherry ."Gender critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act. What is this government doing to make sure that women can debate and discuss their rights under the Equality Act without fear or abuse, without fear of threats and without fear of violence?"
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@jk_rowling Thanks @jk_rowling!.We'll keep working inside @ScottishLabour @WelshLabour @UKLabour to reclaim fairness & evidence-based law making. It's a long haul, but all polling shows the majority of our party's voters & members agree with us. We WILL prevail & DANCE not die on that hill!.
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As Marion Millar attends for police questioning for speaking up for women's rights, we reflect on the Scottish Hate Crime Bill consultation. We and others warned that the legislation would be used to intimidate and silence women. #IStandWithMarionMillar #WomenWontWheesht.
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“Labour is still refusing to let the LGB Alliance, the Labour Women’s Declaration and FiLia, a huge grassroots feminist charity promoting women’s rights, have stands at its conference. What are they so afraid of?” #LetWomenSpeak
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Andrew Marr: "Is someone who thinks that only women have a cervix welcome in the Labor Party?".Keir Starmer: "We need to have a mature, respectful debate about trans rights." .The question was about WOMEN.
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"Starmer has a woman problem, or more specifically, he finds the women who argue for their sex-based rights to be respected, both in law & in practice, extremely irritating. "So where does that leave women like me, who are instinctive Labour supporters,
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@1_elainesmith LWD signatory, barnstorming at #LabourWomen22 conference!."I find the term Cis, as used by the Women's Conference Arrangements C'ttee Chair offensive & I am sure other women attending the conference will too. This term ‘Cis’ is limiting, confusing & divisive. 1/4
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Breaking news:.Government agrees to @LordPhilofBrum's request for an investigation into the circumstances of the resignation of Professor Kathleen Stock @Docstockk from her post at University of Sussex.#IStandWithKathleenStock .
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“I am not a transphobe. I never have been. I never will be. I simply want to use the word ‘woman’. Thank you to all the women in this room who have given me courage. @RosieDuffield1 #LWDBrighton.
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We absolutely condemn the violence and aggression shown to women at #LetWomenSpeakAuckland, & call on politicians & media commentators to do the same. There can be no justification for this. Women have been threatened & intimidated for too long. Enough. #WomenWontWeesht.
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"Our legal fees amount to more than £250K. from small donations. while our win is great news for lesbians, gay men & bisexuals, we can’t help but reflect that a sum like that would have been better spent on projects such as our helpline for young people".
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"Labour cannot “both sides” this. Streeting was brave and principled enough to change his mind on this issue. Others have to follow. It may not be comfortable, but this is the only way back.". Praise for @UKLabour's @wesstreeting from @glosswitch. #Cass.
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@jackiebmsp Have you no shame, Jackie? You boasted that your amendments 127 & 130 would protect women - and Labour's commitments under EA2010. We thought that was over-claiming but took you at your word. The amendments fell, but you supported the Bill regardless. That is truly contemptible.
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LWD's response to @times article on @RosieDuffield1:."We call on our party’s complaints team to either conclude or abandon its investigations into Rosie & for the leadership to follow Wes in apologising for how Rosie & other sex-realist women are treated".
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"Keir Starmer said that Lord Cashman’s comments were “totally inappropriate. That’s why it was important that the whip was withdrawn as it was, very swiftly.”.Lord Cashman had the whip suspended on Sunday.". Correct decision @UKLabour .
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Tony Blair advises @Keir_Starmer that "the government should avoid any vulnerability on “wokeism”. Having said "I agree with Tony" on sex & gender, let's hope the PM appoints a Women & Equalities team which will follow science, fairness, evidence & #Cass.
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Here's Lord Blencathra telling Baroness Chakrabarti that the reason so many men spoke on #Amendment214 is because the women were afraid. Please, everyone, think about that. Some of the most privileged women in the land are afraid to defend women's rights.
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Women's rights should be at the heart of the Labour movement. We firmly reject the allegations that women's and LGB rights groups advocating for our sex based rights are transphobic or hateful #ExpelMe #SexNotGender.
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"I absolutely take the criticism on the chin. Stonewall haven't been open to argument & discussion".Coles: They ran a campaign saying TWAW. Do you agree with that?.@wesstreeting: No. ".Congrats to Wes for speaking up & for committing @UKLabour to fully implement #Cass.#Watershed
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"Firstly, a woman is an adult female, so let’s clear that one up. We don’t think that self-id is the right way forward. We’ve reflected on what happened in Scotland. want to modernise process, get rid of some indignities, keep it a medical process. ".1/2.
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Thanks @UKLabour peers @HayteratLords @LordPhilofBrum plus peers from other parties & cross benches including @ShaistaGohir @BaronessDeech.@Baronessjenkin for writing this letter to @thetimes:."The implication that there is a way to live “as female” is a patronising, regressive.
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Shouts of "we want to get home" from the SNP as Conservatives call for an extended timetable to allow #GRRBill to be debated in full. The SNP want to rush through this poorly-drafted legislation today/tomorrow no matter what. This isn't how a credible parliament should work.
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The head of Stonewall was given a platform to talk on the Qatari-funded channel. Did she use that platform to speak out about homosexuality being illegal in Qatar? No, she took "pleasure" in lying about feminists and smearing @LGBAlliance. Shame on her. #ComeOutOfStonewall.
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This is a new low, even by @ucu standards. We call on @ucu to take action against the branch committee who clearly are unfit for office. In this message they've confirmed their opposition to academic freedom and to representing all members. #IStandWithKathleenStock.
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What a difference a few years makes. The view from 2018. Suffragette colours - and women's rights - are allowed until they're not. #Scarfgate
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Here's LWD Scotland's statement in response to this shock vote at #ScotLab24."The sight of a sea of men’s hands voting against the motion from women’s conference was chilling. Scottish Labour & the trade unions involved need to take a long hard look at themselves"
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“I was inundated with women saying I’m glad you said this because I felt afraid about voicing my concerns. I thought if some of the strongest women I know are feeling silenced, we’ve got a problem”.Refreshing to hear politician reflect on changing his view.
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The CEO of #Stonewall is finally saying the quiet bit out loud. That women shouldn't be allowed our own spaces. That lesbians should accept males into theirs. @UKLabour - You happy this is what you are signed up to? (Using £££s from our membership fees).
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"The prioritisation of gender above sex. across NHS departments fundamentally fails to recognise the consequences of denying sex-based rights on patient safety, dignity and privacy." Today's report from @Policy_Exchange should be read by all politicians.
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Shona Robison speaking now. "There is no evidence that predatory and abusive men have ever had to pretend to be anything else to carry out predatory and abusive behaviour." Can't believe she would actually say something so very, very stupid. #WomenWontWheesht #NoToSelfID.
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"I’m completely bewildered by the number of women who say they believe sex is mutable. They claim to be feminists, but are prepared to put the rights of men with psychological problems before those of women". "Everything we have fought for is in danger".
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I have had staff asking me not to speak tonight but I have done it. It has taken me 4 years to work out my own head around it #LWDBrighton @ToniaAntoniazzi I hope it will encourage others to speak up too.
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More good questions in @HouseofCommons, inc this one from @JNHanvey:."Does she agree that preventing women from lawfully organising under the protected characteristic of sex forms part of an emerging culture of women being cancelled, intimidated & silenced and is deeply harmful"
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"This refusal is part of the Party's historic suppression of dissenting views on gender identity & the outdated,. discriminatory assumption that those. advocating for . the protection of women's rights should not have a platform/voice within the party".1/.
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@theJeremyVine @Keir_Starmer Angry women on doorsteps have told us this is make-or-break. If @UKLabour is to convince women that we're the party of women's rights, we need to be able to say what a woman is. Politicians who won't give a clear answer come across as either cowardly, deceitful or deluded.
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Thread. In the week of #GIDs closure & #AllisonBaileyWins. @UKLabour doubles down on its refusal of our conference stand application. With result that MPs Diana Johnson, Feryal Clark, Steve McCabe, Tonia Antoniazzi, Marsha De Cordova, Rosie Duffield & Mary Glindon go on record.
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@johnmcdonnellMP @elliemaeohagan John, we've consistently called for careful, respectful, evidence-based dialogue to resolve conflicts of rights and you've never once tweeted your support. Anti-materialist Ellie-May says no-one knows the difference between men and women and you think she's showing the way?.
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Standing ovation for @RosieDuffield1. Thank you for speaking up for women's #SexBasedRights. @Keir_Starmer needs to stand with women against the misogyny & abuse. Women are FED UP of @UKLabour gaslighting women re our rights. @stellacreasy @AngelaRayner
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Seen on Sheringham beach today. Solidarity with @millar_marion .#WomenWontWheesht .#HatefulHaberdashery.#WeAreAllMarionMillar.#IStandWithMarionMillar .#IStoodUpForWomenToday
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Recommended explainer thread for all @UKLabour advisers to @Keir_Starmer & @AnnelieseDodds & their policy teams, on how our party's proposals for GRA reform contradict our manifesto commitment to protect single sex services & why serious review, consultation & rethink is needed.
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Statement in support of Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1 @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer #SexBasedRights #MoreLightLessHeat
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This attack on our working group member and @EdinburghUni academic Shereen Benjamin is vile. We call on Edinburgh University and @ucuedinburgh to condemn it and to affirm their commitment to academic freedom and freedom of speech.
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"Labour Women’s Declaration which supports sex-based rights, said“The sight of a sea of men’s hands voting against the motion from women’s conference was chilling. Scottish Labour & the trade unions involved need a long hard look at themselves”.@LabourList.
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There's nothing to beat waking on a Saturday to the sound of women cutting their @UKLabour membership cards into tiny pieces. This is crass, stupid, sexist and plain wrong on every count from @Keir_Starmer. A misjudgement of colossal proportions. #WomenWontWheesht #SexMatters
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Watch Laura Bird's speech here as she proposes the women's rights motion. LIke & share if you agree wtih her, especially if you are a trade union member. if you're at #ScotLab24 today come to our stall & discuss.
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Thanks @ToniaAntoniazzi for her speech on the data needed for an effective #VAWG strategy. "We know that the offending patterns of men and of women show the highest differential of all, so we need to monitor the sex of victims & of perpetrators of all crimes".#SexNotGender.1/3
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Congratulations to @jk_rowling and the other nominees for the @guardian Person of the Year.
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We welcome @UKLabour's front bench acknowledgement that sex & gender are different & the move away 'from ducking the question & fence-sitting'.The conflict of rights between #SelfID & #SexBasedRights merits proper discussion. The era of #NoDebate is over.
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Mantel said online attacks on Rowling after her essay were “unjustified & shameful”.“It is barbaric that a tiny minority should take command of public discourse & terrify those who disagree with them.
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Hello to our new followers and thank you for taking our follower count to 10K. That's 2K additional followers since September. We think the tide is turning in @UKLabour - people are waking up to the threat to women's rights. @Keir_Starmer @AnnelieseDodds time to meet with us.
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Andrew Marr: "What's wrong with this phrase? Woman - adult human female?" Ed Davey: "LibDems believe that trans rights are really important because trans people are some of the most discriminated against in our society." .The question was about WOMEN.
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@LGBTLabour Deep disappointment, anxieties over exclusionary language. Apology & reparations? For what? @RosieDuffield1 is right. EA2010 art.738: Single sex exceptions would allow: a cervical cancer screening service to be provided to women only, as only women need the service. @Keir_Starmer.
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We are dismayed that anyone in Labour thought that caricaturing women as having no political analysis would be a way to win votes. If the Party has any notion how appalling this post is, they will apologise and begin some serious campaigning respecting women.
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Thank you @ThangamMP for showing this solidarity with women & girls in Scotland!.Your fine example will surely help @ScottishLabour MSPs find the courage to properly defend their manifesto commitments to women, now at risk in the #GRRBill. #Scarfgate.#PurpleandGreen.#NoToSelfID
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"It is unclear how the BMA can hope to replicate four years of work by Cass & her team in just five months". Thanks @wesstreeting for standing firm on #PubertyBlocker ban & #Cass implementation in full.
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Breaking, good news:.Edinburgh has a female only rape crisis service, again. #NoToSelfID.#16DaysOfActivism.#EndViolenceAgainstWomen.
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@SexMattersOrg @stellacreasy @Amina_Lone @feline_charm @AndrewAtter @bindelj @justice4women @RosieDuffield1 @UKLabour @fairplaywomen @Womans_Place_UK Hi Stella, you have not sat down with us either, nor, as far as we are aware, any of the other groups @Amina_Lone listed. And it shows. Will you? We speak on behalf of the thousands of Labour members & supporters who have signed our Declaration.
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"The IOC could take a swab from inside their cheeks, which is all a sex test involves. All you need to know about the IOC is that it gave medals to two biological males for punching a bunch of women in the face".@HadleyFreeman @iocmedia.#SaveWomensSports.
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Polling of @UKLabour members shows support for policy shift against self-ID & in support of retention of medical process & single-sex exceptions. It confirms our Declaration represents mainstream views of members. We take issue with the wording of. 1/5.
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“My self-reflection began when I saw attacks on JK Rowling on social media; I saw the way Rosie Duffield was being treated".We welcome @wesstreeting's frankness & call on @UKLabour @AnnelieseDodds to rethink policies agreed while we were silenced & blocked.
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For avoidance of doubt, here is @UKLabour's official position defending single-sex spaces,as set out by @AnnelieseDodds & repeated by @ToniaAntoniazzi. All polling confirms this is also the position of the majority of UK voters inc Lab voters AND members.
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"One Scottish GP said. Parents. had turned to her surgery very distressed, sometimes saying their children had changed after the rights charity Stonewall had visited their school".#GetOutOfStonewall.#CassReview.#Safeguarding .
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@wesstreeting On behalf of the thousands of @UKLabour voters, supporters & members who have signed our Declaration:. Thank you Wes for your commitment to follow the evidence in decisions such as this one, and to implement the #CassReview in full.#Safeguarding .#Lesbianrights.#PubertyBlockers.
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One audience member says it needs to be made very clear in next Labour manifesto that Sex and Gender are not the same thing and Sex should not be replaced by Gender in our policies. #LWDLiverpool22.
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It's news to us that @Keir_Starmer welcomes discussion with anyone wanting to find a way forward. We're still waiting for a response to our open letter in 2020. We've consistently called for respectful, evidence-based dialogue to resolve rights conflicts.
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Our statement about the current situation in Cazenove Ward by-election where @HackneyLabour has suspended campaigning for its chosen candidate Laura Pascal. In summary, we urge @UKLabour "to sort itself out & join us in supporting a Labour win on Thursday".
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We're dismayed to hear that Marion Millar has been charged. Everything about this is wrong - the targeting of women who talk about their rights, the waste of police time, the chilling of freedom of expression. #IStandWithMarionMillar #WomenWontWheesht
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@stellacreasy Stella, we'd like you to delete that tweet accusing us of lying. We can see it's being RTd and we don't think that's fair. We didn't exist in 2018 and we have never met you.
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After 2 days of nail-biting (& entertaining) Supreme Court drama, LWD was proud to co-host tired & cheerful @ForWomenScot heroines Marion, Susan & Trina & their barristers Aidan & Spencer last night at Westminster.(Trina already on night train when pic taken!).#WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
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Another woman in the Labour Party being harassed for rightfully challenging public policy capture that misrepresents EA2010 single sex exceptions. We stand in solidarity with @JennyMarra. Enough of these bullying and harassment tactics against women in the Labour Party @UKLabour.
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We don't know why @stellacreasy claims to have met with us and other orgs when she hasn't. We're happy to meet, Stella - you can DM us here, or contact us via our website. But please don't pretend you've talked to us when you haven't - it's not good for our reputation (or yours).
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Hugely misleading article @BBCNews A more fitting headline would be "Bid to Infringe Women's Rights Breaches Law". This judicial review is not about trans rights but about women's rights to equal representation on public boards. 1/3
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"Following publication of her report figures including Labour MP Dawn Butler repeated claims that Cass had not included 100 transgender studies. Cass said it was “unforgivable” for people to undermine her report by spreading “straight disinformation”.#Cass.
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"The dreadful irony is that research suggests that the average member of the public is in broad agreement with leftwing gender-critical women. We deserve more from our politicians".Thanks @soniasodha for this analysis of LWD's challenges. #LWDLiverpool22.
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Thank you @wesstreeting for this clear explanatory thread about your thinking in relation to #PubertyBlockers.
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Two front pages on Mon 20th May. @timesscotland showing transgender ideology's unfairness yet again defeated in court. @thetimes in England showing @UKLabour hasn't quite caught up. Our party urgently needs to review its outdated proposals for making obtaining GRCs even easier
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So far @ShonaRobison has been selective in her use of evidence, dismissing that which contradicts her narrative. Today she called for respectful, evidence-based discussion. We'd like her to go back and review evidence already submitted by women but dismissed. #WomenWontWheesht.
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Vote to include 'sex' in #HateCrimeBill lost, despite efforts of Johann Joan Elaine. Awful day for women. A dangerous mess of a Bill, yet @HumzaYousaf pressing on in spite of all advice.Shame on any MSPs who vote for it.@patrickharvie @ProfTomkins @NeilFindlay_MSP.#IAmTheStorm.
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"Given that sex is a protected characteristic & that there are women delegates in this conference & among the visitors who find the term “cis” deeply offensive, I ask you to ensure that it is not used again. #LabourWomenWontWheesht.4/4.
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@RosieDuffield1 There is a relentless & evidence-free witch hunt against you by misogynist bullies within our party, fuelled by their enablers at P***k News & the continuing silence of the leadership. They target you to intimidate us all. But you won’t walk alone for as long as #WomenWontWheesht.
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Thread:."LWD has won a significant policy shift & also has 2 fringe meetings listed in party's conference guide. but has now learned it will not have a stall there this year. The politicians who applied [on their behalf] are baffled. #LWDLiverpool23.1/6.
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“Gender-critical women believe it doesn’t matter if you want to climb trees or ‘dress as a boy’. Because you can still be a woman. What society needs to do is to expand its conception of what a man or woman is rather than redefining what men & women are.".
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This is a women's rights issue - at stake is who should access women's rights, spaces, provisions and on what basis. Responding to questions about women with a lecture on trans oppression is the problem, not the solution. Thank you @AndrewMarr9 for pursuing this. #WomenMatter.
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