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A thread of threads 🧵🧵
First one is about Mridul Wadhwa, Rape Crisis Scotland, Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, Trans activism, the SNP and the women’s sector.
A thread about Mridul Wadhwa, Rape Crisis Scotland, Trans activism, the SNP and the women’s sector.
It’s a tiny glimpse of how these separate movements came together in Scotland. And how they ended up losing badly.
A thread 🧵
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A thread 🧵
It began with a tweet, to “watch and learn” with a link to 5 year old BBC documentary that was no longer available to watch.
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A thread about Mridul Wadhwa, Rape Crisis Scotland, Trans activism, the SNP and the women’s sector.
It’s a tiny glimpse of how these separate movements came together in Scotland. And how they ended up losing badly.
A thread 🧵
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The next morning LGB Alliance comments for the first time about the remarks made by the MP.
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Referring to those who replied as “angry ranters”, which was insulting to those who had tried to engage with his initial tweet. Then, bizarrely, *he* claimed to have been on the “receiving end of a Twitter pile on by the sinister transphobic
@AllianceLGB
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Many replied, most were ignored, it became clear he wasn’t seeking a reasoned debate but was instead looking to host a sensationalised discussion on his TalkRadio show.
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Case study from NHS policy. If a woman is agitated cos there is a man on her ward then staff should 're-iterate that the ward is female only & that there are no men present.' If she continues to be vocal then 'Ultimately it may be the complainant who is required to be removed.'!!
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When
@S_A_Somerville
said this yesterday
"the approach risks potentially excluding other girls from female-only spaces. That cannot be right.
We have therefore decided to replace the LGBT Youth work with guidance from the Scottish Government"
You'll not believe how happy I was.
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It's incredibly insulting to be called 'an active anti-trans campaigner' when all I've ever done is campaign to protect the rights of women and girls. There is a big difference between those two positions, and name-calling women in that way doesn't help us move forward.
Not exclusive. Not new. Simply the result of an active anti-trans campaigner seeking out the most scaremongering situation possible and pitching it to a newspaper desperate for clicks. We need to talk about these issues and resolve them; this sort of coverage doesn't help.
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Quote tweeting his earlier tweet about the documentary, and addressing the embarrassing fact pointed out to him by many that it wasn’t actually available on the BBC link he had given, and now saying it was on a different channel, yet didn’t link to that one either.
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The concerted campaign against LGB Alliance began months earlier.
Stonewall Scotland
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It is inappropriate for a Rape Crisis Centre to like a tweet calling professional & academic women - who are meeting to discuss Women's Sex-Based Rights & CEDAW - 'misogynistic transphobes' 'hateful' & 'bigots'.
Does
@rapecrisisscot
support women's right to meet without abuse?
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395 sexual assaults in UK prisons in 2017. I found that only 5% (21) occurred in women's prisons. We know from recent headlines that 4 of those was by TW Karen White.
ONE trans prisoner is responsible for 20% of ALL the sex assaults that occurred in women's prisons in 2017!!
The press might wish to note that there were 395 sexual assaults in UK prisons in 2017. The vast majority were carried out by cisgender prisoners. Many of those prisoners will have been cisgender women.
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It’s devastating that the UK’s policy of issuing Passports and Driving Licences to those who don’t want/qualify for a GRC, with the Sex marker of their Self ID gender, has now been used in Court to delegitimise the meaning of sex. We can’t continue with this two tier system.
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@BBCPhilipSim
Except that’s not true. We don’t let men into separate spaces that are just for women. We stop ALL men from doing that. People are concerned about “male violence”, not about if a person is trans or not. But, FM knows all this and is prepared to accept those risks anyway.
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It's incredible they use comparisons to 'black, disabled, elderly or lesbian, gay or bi-sexual patients' to support this policy. It's not like wards are segregated by race or sexuality, can they honestly not see how bad this take is?
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The officer from
@WeAreFairCop
case is quoted here saying he "learned it on a training course ran by a transgender person last summer”.
Isn't the silence from all the LGBT orgs who deliver Equality & Diversity training deafening this week?
#FairCopJR
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Interestingly, what I also found out through my FOI request was not only did the Equality Network actively lobby the Scottish Govt
@scotgov
to intentionally conflate the terms sex and gender within the GRA consultation document. 1/
Also we had it confirmed by the civil servants who designed the consultation that they intentionally used the words 'sex' and 'gender' interchangeably. Which is why 'non-stakeholders' (ordinary people who understand the English language) made this face when trying to answer. 😕⁉️
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“you don't speak for "women". And especially not young women. Polls show you do speak for right wing men aged 55+”
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Not just one but *two* deeply dodgy’s, serious enough to @ police and inform them.
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Read my opinion piece in today's Herald : Female rights must be respected
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@libby_brooks
So, according to the Guardian a cis woman has a deep internal sense of herself, one where she identifies with the gender norms, society roles, stereotypes and expressions that are enforced on those of the female sex?
So what about the other women who don't think like that?
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Changing room policy in Glasgow's Culture & Sport venues, trans people can
"use changing rooms of their chosen gender
– no matter if they look as if they are of the opposite sex"
Wrong interpretation of the law leads to cries of 'rolling back trans rights' when women speak out
@weehalfpintt
@MhairiHunter
@homelesshorse
The problems have arisen because local authorities and others like the Glasgow Life example below, then created policies which wrongly interpret the law, whereby they opened the doors to single sex spaces to anyone on the basis of self ID, & ignoring the specific needs of women.
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Scottish Government have done a U-turn and no longer endorse this controversial transgender school guidance. This guidance has been distributed across all Local Authorities, many of which presumably adopted it on the understanding it had full Government backing.
Government funded school guidance has been issued across Scotland, endorsed by Children's Commissioner, charities, LA's etc which discards the need for single sex spaces/sports
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I see Fiona Robertson’s tweet is included in the Jo Phoenix Judgment, along with comments from other Scottish Twitter accounts who have no problem using abusive / derogatory terms for women who’s views they don’t agree with.
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In response to women's concerns that simplified GRA reforms makes the process open to abuse by predatory males
@scotgov
say they can't find evidence of this. Instead they cite a report that calls for the EqAct single sex exemptions to be amended so as not to exclude trans people.
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But the thanks deservedly go to John Nicolson MP and his staff
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On the issue of women feeling 'unsafe, vulnerable, and threatened' by the sight/proximity of male genitals on a person who ID's as female, it compares these 'non-normative bodies' to women who have had a mastectomy, and argues the current EqAct exclusion is not justified.
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@KennyFarq
@thetimes
And yet this afternoon Kate Forbes voted for the Buffer Zone Bill and Humza Yousaf did not.
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Stonewall Scotland and LGBT Youth Scotland staff don’t appreciate the BS and spin. “What a hateful bunch of bigots”
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@bloodygood__
@jk_rowling
Your letter states
"there used to be a word for people who menstruate, and that word was “women”."
Yet your own website repeatedly refers to "women". Why then are you criticising
@jk_rowling
for wanting "women" to be used in the headline for an article about menstruation?
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According to the LinkedIn profile Mridul Wadhwa began working in the women’s sector at Shakti Women’s Aid. Details of that work are easily found online.
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@HadleyFreeman
@DeccaJourno
"It doesn't matter whether it was a penis or some implementation."
I can’t believe she said that! He wouldn’t have been convicted of *rape* if it wasn’t his penis. Assault by penetration is awful, but the consequences of rape, ie pregnancy, disease, are unique only to *rape*.
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MUST READ!!! This is most welcome news.
Fifteen senior SNP politicians have signed a public letter to the Scot Govt raising concerns about the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act.
I hope this encourages MSP's from other parties to come together & support them.
RT Tomorrow's
@TheScotsman
front page and top stories, including an exclusive from
@wornoutmumhack
Gina Davidson: Concern over proposals for the Gender Recognition Act
#ScotPapers
#BuyAPaper
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They exist to oppress one group …. Much love and thanks to Pink News and John Nicolson
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An absolute ban of ALL men was always the basic rule for every women's refuge. This even included the male police officers investigating the crimes that had driven them there. Strong evidence existed to support why this was their policy.
Has this now all been forgotten?
#EndVAW
@fairplaywomen
@sarahwollaston
@maitlis
@BBCNewsnight
@LibDems
@DevonRapeCrisis
This isn't about whether or not any particular male is a threat to vulnerable women and children: this is about their fear, their dignity, their feeling of a safe refuge from males and male violence - they must be protected from all men. 4/9
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Do you stand up for women?
If you've ever read anything of mine you would know that is exactly what I do. I centre women & girls in everything I've ever written. But some people hate when women do that & choose to put their energy into smearing us instead.
We see you.
There are far worse accounts out there, but
@Scottish_Women
is probably the one that makes me angriest, because FUCK OFF, you are MAKING US LOOK BAD. Give the account name to somebody who'll actually stand up for women rather than just attacking trans people.
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Conversations around GRA reform need to be factual & accurate. A woman raised concerns about sharing intimate spaces to which
@MhairiBlack
replies with some nonsense. Single sex spaces are lawful & politicians shouldn’t be sending mixed messages on this point.
@S_A_Somerville
Transphobia and bigotry cannot play a part in the conversation around GRA reform. Let's keep it respectful. 😊✌️And for those with autoplay turned off - sorry for the scary face in the thumbnail. 😂And a big thanks to
@PoliticsJOE_UK
for having me.
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Here is a joint submission from Rape Crisis Scotland and the other women’s organisations, saying that it is NOT a breach of GDPR or Equality Act to ask about sex.
How can a board member not know, or be able to answer this?
NC: does a NB person have a sex? Male or female
MR: I would ask advice. I'm not qualified to answer
NC: if you say ERCC doesn't employ men but MW is male, service users won't want to receive help from you. She is going to self-exclude. We share a conception of what that means
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In contrast, there is very little known about the work at Rape Crisis Scotland that began in 2014.
What was the training? LGBT inclusion?
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What a difference a year makes! Last year
@MhairiBlack
spoke about the online abuse & misogyny women suffer every day. Tonight, she posts a video online calling women uneducated bigots & 'Jeremy Hunt's' in answer to their concerns about losing their sex based rights.
@thesnp
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Are you fucking kidding me?
Are you seriously fucking kidding me?
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So, there we have it. A consultation seeking people's views on amending a law that permits a person to have a historical document (birth certificate) reissued in the opposite sex because they want legal recognition of their acquired gender, & it doesn't even define these terms.
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‘About 150 parents and pupils have staged a protest outside a secondary school over "gender neutral" uniforms.’ Girls wearing skirts are being refused entry to the school. Police are in attendance!!
Video from Priory School in Lewes as the gate is shut on protesting students
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New Post: 'Do Women Have Anything Left That We Can Call Our Own'
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Wow! Now I see
@theSNP
twitter account has RT’d
@MhairiBlack
video. I’m all for supporting a conversation on GRA reform with no abuse, bigotry etc but this video is not it. The SNP leadership need to make a stand here.
@NicolaSturgeon
@S_A_Somerville
@JoanMcAlpine
@joannaccherry
@gumptionology
@MhairiBlack
@S_A_Somerville
I just can’t believe an MP actually thought this video would add to the conversation. She is in such a privileged position & could have used it to make a positive difference in this debate (regardless of views), yet she chose to go for the condescending approach instead.
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2018 Trans Britain is published giving some insight into how single-sex services were dismantled to include gender identity on a self-declaration basis. Shakti Women’s Aid and Edinburgh Rape Crisis were the first to become trans inclusive.
MW gets credit by being openly trans.
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High Court ruling states
"Whilst that person's gender is 'male', their parental status, which derives from their biological role in giving birth, is that of 'mother'."
The Family Division of the High Court has ruled that a transgender man being registered as his child's mother on their birth certificate is not an infringement of his human rights
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“My favourite thing about LGB Alliance is how they don't understand the Equality Act 2010” “sex is actually irrelevant” - Retweeted by John Nicolson MP
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@HJoyceGender
See how the reporting of this case changed in less than two months, from guilty plea to sentencing. I wonder if the newspapers deliberately include a photograph of the offender to highlight this.
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This thread was more popular than I could’ve imagined, with 892K impressions in the first 24hrs! Seems we’re more than a tiny fringe mob after all.
It was very, very long, so thank you for making it all the way to the end and for all the lovely comments.
#IStandWithLGBAlliance
A thread 🧵
It began with a tweet, to “watch and learn” with a link to 5 year old BBC documentary that was no longer available to watch.
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In August 2015 MW submitted written evidence to the Women and Equalities Select Committee Transgender Equality Inquiry.
Copied here in full.
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Fast forward to 2017, MW’s final year at Shakti Women’s Aid, and although being “out” their trans status is never mentioned.
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And was the SNP candidate in the local Council elections, but wasn’t successful.
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Naomi Cunningham’s cross examination was brilliant today.
Can you imagine what she’d be like if it was MW? That really would be something!
It’s not right that MW won’t give evidence to the tribunal, there is no excuse not to.
people's space.
NC - the truth about this belief system is that it is destructive of freedom of speech and expression, and destructive of women's rights in particular and is not WORIADS
KM - I don't agree with that.
NC - and the literal conclusion of this belief system
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Surely a ‘gender neutral’ policy should mean that both girls and boys could choose to wear either skirts or trousers.
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So, can you guess what happened next?
The LGBT Youth Scotland guidance was amended with this section taken out. It no longer contains definitions for 'sex' and 'gender'.
Imagine that, a school guidance about trans pupils and it doesn't even define these most basic of terms.
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Government funded school guidance has been issued across Scotland, endorsed by Children's Commissioner, charities, LA's etc which discards the need for single sex spaces/sports
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One month later, September 2015, MW won the Scottish LGBTI “Outstanding Campaigner Award”.
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August 2017 and no longer working at Shakti Women’s Aid.
Appointed to the Equality Network Board, and then a few months later to the YWCA Scotland Board.
Described as “a trans and immigrant woman”
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I tweeted about this 2 yrs ago. I had concerns about the increase of Self ID and how these policies could be abused. Depressingly, this
@marksandspencer
incident goes further than I first imagined, as their own unquestioning policy now actively supports this abusive practice.
@glosswitch
@SVPhillimore
What they're saying is "as men we felt entitled to take advantage of trans self-ID. We aren't trans but that's not the point."
This is a perfect example of why it doesn't work- men can't be trusted not to disrespect it.
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Guidelines for all schools in Scotland are due to be rolled out next year include informing 5 year olds they can choose their gender. This is a thread with some extracts from the draft.
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Councillor calls lesbians defending their right to same-sex attraction 'utter c*nts'
#GetTheLOut
Children’s convener issues climbdown over expletive-laden Twitter outbursts
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LGBT groups lobbied the government to scrap single-sex exemptions and then received government funding to train staff and rewrite public sector policies about who can access single-sex spaces.
Apparently no one thought this would negatively impact women.
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The law permits men and women to have different services. It permits single sex services/spaces and the lawful exclusion of the opposite sex when privacy, decency or intimacy are factors. The law KNOWS that it's entirely appropriate for women & girls to NEED single sex spaces.
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The Scottish Govts newly passed gender bill, the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scot) Bill, has redefined the language used in the GRA. A person is no longer reassigned a gender. This legislation now defines it as 'becoming female'.
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When parents are voicing concerns about the safety and dignity of schoolgirls, and the increased risk of sexual harassment from boys and young men because schools have taken away 'girls only' toilets - this should NOT be dismissed as anti-transgender campaigning or dog whistling!
@JennyMarra
@Glinner
@NHSScotland
I know you're a hard-working and enormously well-intentioned Labour politician in a (very) former Labour city. But much as I believe over-aggressive lobbying harms the transgender cause, I am also certain that anti-transgender campaigning is often dog whistling.
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On one hand the media is reporting about the sharp increase of sexual harassments and assaults of girls within schools and on the other we are telling our girls they no longer have the right to set their own boundaries of who can be within their private spaces when vulnerable.
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@S_A_Somerville
@Transgendertrd
@LGBTYS
I sent off Freedom of Information Requests to Local Authorities who had endorsed it and also Education Scotland, Scottish Government. Children's Commissioner etc asking that very question. Turns out not one checked if it was fair to girls. See this thread
Government funded school guidance has been issued across Scotland, endorsed by Children's Commissioner, charities, LA's etc which discards the need for single sex spaces/sports
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“The Gender Recognition Act, transphobia and Scotland” - Holyrood magazine.
Interviewees included MW and Sandy Brindley.
Legitimate concerns about the proposals were categorised as confusion, misinformation and transphobia.
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What with all the recent awareness of misogynistic abuse of women on twitter will
@NicolaSturgeon
@joannaccherry
@JoanMcAlpine
comment on this
@rapecrisisscot
centre & its apparent approval of abusing women, with it's aim to stop women meeting to discuss their sex-based rights?
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"trans people can use changing and showering facilities appropriate to their chosen gender, even when they may not have completed their gender reassignment or have opted for a social transition."
Who gave you legal advice on Equality Act 2010 & single sex spaces
@glasgowlife
?
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