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Transgender female athletes are at a physical disadvantage compared to cisgender women in several key metrics, research funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has found...
These lovely trans men should not be in women’s spaces nor would they wish to be nor would women want them to be.
Can you think what would happen was this to became the norm? Every Tom, Dick and Harry would be in women’s spaces claiming to be a trans man and we would have chaos.
.
@mcashmanCBE
is one of our most important human rights campaigners of my generation. As he would say in difficult times, together, always together. We are all human. We all make mistakes from time to time. Nothing takes away from towering achievements. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇬🇧
So it is ok for a Christian to wear a cross, a Muslim woman a hijab, a Jewish man a Kippah but an LGBT+ person can’t express their identity with a rainbow lanyard because it’s ‘political’. Utter hogwash and pure discrimination against a class of people because of their background
Hasn’t taken long for the Labour government to show its true colours & to show its contempt for civil service impartiality.
This is a dark day for the civil service - this overt politicisation will end in tears for them & to an inevitable change to a US style system.
I profoundly disagree that trans children should not be able to ‘socially transition’ (change name, change pronouns and dress differently) under 18. The age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales is 10-years-old. Gillick competency is the legal framework for such matters
There should be no official recognition of social transitioning for under-18s and single sex spaces should be protected in schools. The Government should issue guidance to schools urgently to make this clear.
"We shouldn't get bullied" into believing that "people can be any sex they want to be"
"A man is a man, and a woman is a woman, that's just common sense," PM Rishi Sunak says
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Despite Trans health conditions no longer being classified as mental and behavioural disorders under the WHO’s classification scheme.
@NHSEngland
takes gender services back to the dark ages treating children as being mentally ill.
@wallaceme
Other world authoritative bodies do not support the conclusions of the Cass review. Here is the Aussie/NZ response, World trans healthcare professionals response and the Endocrine Society response
Trans people should not have to live in a hostile environment. We are not an ideology we are human beings who deserve to live free and equal, to be treated with respect and dignity and live in harmony with others as valued members of society. Dehumanising us is unconservative.
Under Labour, parents will be kept in the dark as their children are taught contested gender ideology in the classroom.
Don’t give Keir Starmer a blank cheque when it comes to our children.
Trans people are not an ideology. We are human beings deserving of respect and dignity. I have no doubt with you as Home Secretary our Party will be unable to win the next election because of your disrespect of other people’s humanity.
@Conservatives
@RishiSunak
@AndrewBoff
Perhaps
@Keir_Starmer
and
@wesstreeting
would do well to read the UN SOGI independent expert’s report recommendations from his recent visit to the UK shown below.
The idea that puberty makes gender dysphoria go away is an utter fantasy. Trans people do not need ‘curing’. “There is a durable biological underpinning to gender identity that should be considered in policy determinations.” Stick to writing fantasy books
I agree we should follow the science and politics should stay out of medicine. Individual care decided upon by the young person, their parents and healthcare team is best. Put young people and their families first not politics.
@VictoriaAtkins
@StuartAndrew
@wesstreeting
It was claimed on tonight’s
#BBCDebate
that “you cannot protect women’s single-sex services without changing the EqA”. This is false
@nickeardleybbc
Our EqA already allows trans folk to be excluded from SSSs—with/without a GRC—under sch 3, para 28. Here is the EHRC guidance
@Quibilah1
What’s biological sex? Hormonal sex, DNA sex, Gonadal sex, sex characteristics? Hormones change bodies and blood DNA. 21% of women have some portion of xy DNA. Intersex people have both sex gonads and mixed sex characteristics. National gender testing?
The New Year starts with the
@DailyMailUK
claiming that a change in gender on a passport can be obtained by self-id. It can’t. It needs either a GRC, a birth certificate or a letter from a doctor confirming gender change is likely to be permanent.
@StuartAndrew
@carolinenokes
It is very sad but this guidance is unlikely to be lawful in many areas. Trans children are not an ideology they are children suffering a recognised medical condition of sexual health called gender incongruence. There is a ‘durable biological basis for gender identity’.
@LGBTCons
Today the Government has published guidance for schools for gender questioning children.
We have done this because many schools have told us that they didn’t know how to deal with this issue.
Here are the principles that underpin this guidance (1/6)
@MichaelDugher
Education is not charged VAT anywhere in the EU because it is a disincentive to learning also taxing a not for profit charitable eduction establishment is against article 14 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) signed by the UK
@DamianHinds
For those in doubt that trans people were brutally persecuted by the Nazis a court in Germany has acknowledged this. The Bundestag, Germany’s parliament has also released a statement recognising trans people as victims of fascism.
As a
@Conservatives
personal freedom, self-determination, bodily autonomy and medical evidence should underpin how people are treated. The Endocrine Society says “Considerable scientific evidence has emerged demonstrating a durable biological element underlying gender identity.”
Self-ID and social transition add up to a very dangerous ideology that can have terrible effects on young LGB children, who are being put on a medical pathway to irreversible physical changes.
We are not going to run away from this issue. We will sort it.
'If you were referred today, you'd actually be waiting for over 20 years.'
The family of a young trans woman who took her own life while waiting for her first appointment with a specialist have called for changes to the trans healthcare system, which they described as 'not fit
Thank you to
@LabourOutlook
publishing my statement on puberty blockers
We need careful, considered clinical provision and to move away from all of this politicisation of healthcare for our trans community
One suicide is too many. I’m so sorry for your loss. Wait times for trans healthcare are unacceptably long. Please
@wesstreeting
can we have a proper comprehensive review of trans suicides not just a highly selective sample picked to prove a political point?
@AnnelieseDodds
Forgive me for not trusting Professor Appleby’s review of trans youth suicide.
I emailed the GIC to tell them Alice had taken her own life.
I never got a reply. No acknowledgement. No sorry to hear this. Nothing.
No reason to believe GIDS is any better at record keeping or caring
It is very disappointing that this extract from the latest RSE consultation guidance is so inaccurate. See below. A young person can change their gender on their passport at age16 and below that age with parental consent.
@GillianKeegan
@LGBTCons
@carolinenokes
@StuartAndrew
You are now endorsing ‘conversion therapy’ directly opposite of the memorandum of understanding you’ve signed. Holding a belief and not being discriminated against for holding a belief is different from exercising a belief that harms others
@VictoriaAtkins
Worst local election results for the
@Conservatives
for 40 years. Response. Cost of living update, NHS waiting list reduction, more houses being built? No, hold my bear gender neutral toilets to become universal toilets! I absolutely despair. Can someone
@No10Official
get a grip?