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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

20 days

Superb from @soniadodha today, and characterised by her usual careful attention to legal accuracy.

Sonia Sodha

@soniasodha

20 days

Why spend political capital to solve a real issue when you’ve got pundits who will happily denounce it as the evil invention of Kemi Badenoch? Today’s column on Labour’s legally illiterate response to Tory proposals to clarify the law on single-sex spaces

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Legal Feminist

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6 months

Rachel Meade has won her claim of harassment related to "gender-critical" belief against both her employer @CityWestminster and her regulator @SocialWorkEng . Congratulations to Rachel and her legal team @_ShaziaKhan and Naomi Cunningham of @outertemple .

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@legalfeminist

2 years

This is bad advice. A workplace in which pronouns are routinely included in email signatures is likely to make gender-critical staff feel excluded and fearful. Employees shouldn't be encouraged to signal their ideological positions with every communication.

Acas

@acasorguk

2 years

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Simple adjustments, such as including your pronouns in your email signature, can go a long way toward creating a more open and inclusive workplace. Find out more: #Inclusion

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This is the clearest possible bulk harassment of all Oxfam's gender-critical staff: deliberately demonising them with this hate-filled imagery. Our DMs are open. .

Don’t be that employer -

Legal Feminist tweeted a short thread starting like this the other day: It seems worth elaborating briefly in a blog, so here goes. The first point to make is that the allegation made by @MotherCec...

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Maya Forstater

@MForstater

1 year

Wow @dhnnjyn @oxfamgb This still of the Evil TERF (with shinigama eyes) in @Oxfam 's #ProtectThePride video Can you imagine having gender critical views and working at Oxfam (did you learn nothing from CGD?)

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

4 years

Announcement: this account is now going to be run by a collective of practising lawyers - barristers and solicitors - to provide feminist commentary on UK law. Blog is linked in profile. Suggestions for topics welcome!

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@legalfeminist

3 years

Hearts for each woman killed by male violence in the UK. #FiLiA2021

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@legalfeminist

2 years

No it isn’t. Single-sex toilets are lawful (mandatory in workplaces and schools). It’s lawful to exclude men from women’s toilets. The right not to suffer discrimination on grounds of GR does not operate as permission to invade facilities provided for the opposite sex at will.

Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS,

@stephenwhittle

2 years

@Paula_Griffin65 @McDonalds This is discrimination contrary to the Equality Act, write to the manager, say it is a letter before legal action. You want an apology & compensation (eg. £2k) for the distress and humiliation it caused you, give 10 days for reply. Want support dm me

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@legalfeminist

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Social worker Rachel Meade has been awarded £40,000 for injury to feelings against @SocialWorkEng and @CityWestminster , aggravated damages against both, and exemplary damages against SWE.

Social worker suspended over gender critical views awarded £58,000

Rachel Meade was subjected to harassment by Westminster city council and Social Work England, a judge ruled

www.thetimes.com

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

4 years

Sixty lawyers sign a statement that the biological sex of humans is real, immutable, and sometimes matters. Many more daren't sign for fear of harm to their careers.

Lawyers speak up for the biological reality of sex -

This statement was published at Unherd on Friday 25 September 2020. If you are a UK solicitor or barrister or an academic with substantial connections to the UK and would like to add your name,...

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@legalfeminist

10 months

This man has convictions for kidnap, torture, attempted murder. He told a cheering crowd, "If you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face." He was found not guilty of inciting violence.

Trans activist cleared of encouraging violence with ‘punch a Terf’ speech

www.standard.co.uk

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@legalfeminist

1 year

This is a legally illiterate document. Let us count the ways.

🐲Patrice🦖Terfysgu y merched

@Mariel63473494

1 year

. @NHSEngland says A patient can't refuse care from a trans @nhs @nhsuk employee unless 'documented as having a clinical benefit'. @EHRC @SteveBarclay @DHSCgovuk Please confirm where in @UKParliament law informed consent/single sex exemptions were removed

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

2 years

This is what you get for holding a conference "Single-sex provision in policy and law." Legal Twitter - do you see a problem yet? Or are you still too busy looking away and pretending you haven't seen this happening to your colleagues?

Adam Maidment

@AdamMaidment

2 years

Protestors are now outside the Mechanics Institute where the Woman’s Place UK group are holding a conference on ‘single-sex provision in policy and law’. @MENnewsdesk

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

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Exactly this. The red flag is right there: a male person wanting to provide intimate care to a woman who wants a female care provider. If he wants to override her wishes — refuses to accept her "no" — he's not a brilliant carer, he's an abuser.

Ophelia Benson

@OpheliaBenson

3 months

@mrjamesob @hen10freeman @Gibson_U_Witch @FindingDore Good grief. Why would this trans woman, who is such a brilliant carer for other disabled women, WANT an explanation? Why would this brilliant trans woman carer not put the patient's wishes first? Why would he put his own wishes before the patient's?

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@legalfeminist

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@janeclarejones @slightlyatsea @ScotlandSisters @TJVRD @ladyduckpojok @serialsockthief @claricedarrow @theSNP The mis-selling of feminism back to women as a general be-nice-to-everyone movement in which women coincidentally do all the social, emotional and physical labour, is one of the most breathtakingly outrageous bait and switch moves of the 20th century.

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

4 months

It's important and significant that @HadleyFreeman uses masculine pronouns for Scarlett Blake and Barbie Kardashian in this piece. Well done @thetimes .

Indulging killers’ trans delusions is dangerous

The cat-torturing murderer Scarlet Blake isn’t a woman, he’s mentally ill

www.thetimes.com

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

1 year

Public service announcement. If your staff threaten to stay home unless you agree to discriminate unlawfully against someone, you should tell them that they don't get to instruct you to discriminate, and they are required to work as usual.

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@legalfeminist

1 year

Schools have a legal obligation of political impartiality. This kind of teaching is unlawful.

Louise 🚜💙

@Urqhuart6

1 year

I wasn't made aware that my 10 year old would be learning about this at school. I would have liked the opportunity to be able to discuss it with him, to answer questions. What are we doing to our children? @miriam_cates @AllisonPearson

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@legalfeminist

5 years

This should make every woman in the UK incandescent with rage. THIRTEEN women reported this man for stalking them. When Shana Grice also reported him, the police fined her for wasting their time, and he murdered her.

Police officers who fined stalking victim before she was murdered face disciplinary action

Nineteen-year-old was fined for wasting police time after she reported Michael Lane five times in six months

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

3 months

An extraordinary case in which it is alleged that a government department is harassing a trans-rights activist by allowing a SEEN network to exist. The burgeoning SEEN networks are key to resisting capture of our institutions. Please support if you can.

Chair of SEEN sued for saying 'only women menstruate'

I am a lawyer working for an arms-length body to a government department (part of the Civil Service) and love my job. I am also gender critical and co-chair of the SEEN network.

www.crowdjustice.com

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

4 months

Exactly right. Accurately referring to men as men is neither a human rights violation nor unlawful discrimination, nor in any other way unlawful. Some people may think it's rude, but the law does not require us to be polite.

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

4 months

Accurately sexing trans-identified men who send misogynistic abuse to women is not discrimination. 'Man' is not a slur. I know a lot of you think the UN should intervene whenever women bruise your egos, but there is no human right to universal validation.

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

1 year

Fantastic news. Aggravated damages is especially significant. Perhaps this will help employers, service providers, public authorities and others to understand that gender critical belief is a protected characteristic like any other, and discrimination is unlawful.

Maya Forstater

@MForstater

1 year

I have received the "remedy" judgement in my case. @cgdev has been ordered to pay over £100k in compensation for loss of earnings, injury to feelings and aggravated damages for their high-handed conduct. Thank-you to everyone who supported my case

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@legalfeminist

1 year

It's hard to imagine a sense of grievance more obviously unjustified than that felt by a man who says he's a woman and wants - but is not permitted by his employer - to provide intimate care to a woman who does not consent to receive that care from a man.

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@legalfeminist

2 years

A striking moment from the bundle for @MForstater 's hearing:

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@legalfeminist

2 years

@MForstater This is the explanation for #NoDebate in a nutshell: don't talk to them, because they have all the arguments.

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@legalfeminist

2 years

Leicestershire Police should delete this tweet, and apologise for spreading misinformation about the law and wasting police time (their own).

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@legalfeminist

4 months

The "Equalities Act" Willoughby mentions does not exist. The effect of a GRC is quite limited, but neither it nor the EqA confers on the holder a general right to have others pretend that he is a woman, or that she is a man. Fuller explanation here:

What does a GRC do? - Sex Matters

By Naomi Cunningham, Sex Matters’ Chair

sex-matters.org

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

10 months

If a schoolgirl is disciplined for expressing her discomfort about changing in front of a boy, why is that not harassment related to her sex within the meaning of s.26 EqA? Discrimination lawyers please comment.

🦖Leonora Christina 🦕

@JammersMinde

10 months

From FB Girls, 12, tell teacher they don’t want to get changed in front of a boy. They’re disciplined. A few of the comments. Some supportive, but far too many like this and mainly from women. Women saying that young girls should be made to think about the boys feelings. FFS!

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@legalfeminist

2 years

Case against social worker Rachel Meade discontinued. If regulators treated attempts to silence the expression of protected gender-critical beliefs more robustly from the outset, they could avoid these climb-downs.

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@legalfeminist

2 years

Good news. Well done everyone who has contributed to bringing matters to this point, but @Transgendertrd and @ALLIANCELGB both deserve particular credit.

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@legalfeminist

1 year

Trans-identifying HCPs who are not capable of putting patient privacy and dignity above their own wish for validation are in the wrong job.

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@legalfeminist

1 year

The "Stonewall law" myth that the Equality Act gives men who say they are women the right to enter lawful women-only spaces is widespread, but false.

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@legalfeminist

9 months

The judge hearing @JoPhoenix1 's case asked counsel and parties to declare their pronouns. Can anyone following recall another case in which this has been done? Is it EJ Young's habit, or did she do it specially for this case? #ukemplaw

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@legalfeminist

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An extraordinarily emotional outburst from Nolan on being reminded of well-known facts about male violence against women. Not all men are a danger to women. But the overwhelming majority of people who are a danger to women are men. This should not be difficult to understand.

Stephen Nolan

@StephenNolan

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Explosive TV as Nolan challenges "male people represent a very significant threat to female people" - Fiona McAnena Director of Campaigns at Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg | #NolanLIVE | @BBCiPlayer

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@legalfeminist

11 months

In fact, any MP who reads the book is likely to finish it with an improved understanding of how the Equality Act works in this area. @HJoyceGender did her research carefully and thoroughly. It's a must-read. If you haven't already read it, catch up this summer.

Kate Osborne

@KateOsborneMP

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The Home Sec suggesting MPs read this book is a disgrace, it shows a lack of respect for equality laws in this country & is yet more evidence of this Govt desire to attack the trans community in a divisive culture war.

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And for the avoidance of doubt, it is perfectly lawful to make these spaces female-only as a matter of blanket policy, and excluding men with GRCs declaring them to be women as well as men without GRCs. No individual "case by case" assessment is required.

Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis

@RCCGlasgow

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We want to reassure women and girls needing our help, that we are here and we continue to deliver safe spaces for this. Our Director, Claudia, provides more information on our services, purpose and vision on behalf of everyone at GCRC:

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@legalfeminist

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This is a disgraceful spectacle, and a clear and. unjustifiable infringement of the article 10 rights of those wishing to attend. @EdinburghUni must deal firmly with any students or staff who have been complicit. Protest is legitimate; intimidation is not.

Laura Alderman

@LauraAlderman_

1 year

Demonstrators have blocked the entrance to Edinburgh University's Gordon Aikman lecture theatre where the film, "Adult Human Female" was due to be screened tonight. It's now been cancelled for the second time @STVNews

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2 years

We're baffled by the idea that raising safeguarding concerns with @Girlguiding about this individual might be treated as a hate crime. There's no plausible basis on which it could be.

Misguided or misgendered? | Kim Thomas | The Critic Magazine

A teacher and mother-of-three has been questioned under caution by Merseyside Police for sending a letter to Girlguiding UK raising safeguarding concerns. Her story begins in November 2021 when it…

thecritic.co.uk

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@legalfeminist

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PC Lynsay Watson, a trans identifying man, was disciplined for persistent online abuse of GC campaigners. The contrast between what he had to do to get sacked with the relentless punishment of countless GC women for polite, civilised dissent is stark.

WeAreFairCop

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BREAKING: @leicspolice dismiss PC Watson without notice.

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@legalfeminist

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Shocking story of contempt for women’s rights. The idea that not letting a male police officer who identifies as female strip-search female suspects could be a detriment under the EqA is preposterous. An “unjustified sense of grievance” is not a detriment.

Sex Matters

@SexMattersOrg

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Fury as @PoliceChiefs fails to stop male officers who identify as transgender from strip-searching female detainees. Review needs to restart with a commitment that male officers do not search women. @SexMattersOrg @WomensRightsNet @AllianceLGB

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@legalfeminist

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Ed Davey's performance here deserves wide circulation.

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

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What is wrong with the phrase, “woman adult human female”? Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey says the phrase "doesn't really encapsulate the debate... a trans woman is a woman, a trans man is a man" #Marr

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Legal Feminist

@legalfeminist

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This seems to be an apology for failing to discriminate against @SexMattersOrg on grounds of their protected belief - and an implied announcement of an intention to do so in future. It would be a good idea to get legal advice before getting in any deeper, @PHMMcr .

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@legalfeminist

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Women should not have to disclose their histories of sexual abuse - or even their religious or cultural constraints - in order to receive medical care.

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@legalfeminist

2 years

There is no "existing right" of access for trans people to single-sex services and spaces provided for the opposite sex.

Stonewall

@stonewalluk

2 years

The proposals wouldn't impact the rights that trans people already have e.g. changing their name and sex on identity documents, or accessing a range of single-sex services and spaces without a gender recognition certificate.

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This is horrifyingly wrong. It will never be unlawful discrimination to refuse to let a trans person provide intimate care or conduct an intimate search of someone of the opposite sex. An "unjustified sense of grievance" is not a detriment for EqA purposes.

FairPlayForWomen

@fairplaywomen

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@EHRC @EHRCChair @legalfeminist @michaelpforan

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Excellent news. Congratulations to @DeniseFahmy and her brilliant legal team, @didlawUK and @anyabike .

Denise Fahmy v Arts Council England (Case no. 6000042/2022) | Didlaw

In a unanimous judgment of the Leeds ET, Ms Fahmy succeeds in her case that she was subjected to harassment for her gender critical beliefs.

didlaw.com

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@legalfeminist

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“There will always be places where it is reasonable for biological women only to have access”. Correct. All those places - every single one of them - where the law permits men to be excluded. .

Labour will lead on reform of transgender rights – and we won’t take lectures from the Tories |...

We will modernise, simplify and reform gender recognition law. Our policies won’t please everyone but we will do what’s right

www.theguardian.com

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@legalfeminist

2 years

Employers need to take note: discriminating against people who refuse to sign up to sex denialism is likely to be expensive and embarrassing.

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@legalfeminist

3 years

The treatment of @Docstockk at @SussexUni is fast becoming a national scandal. The first step to restoring trust will be to direct all staff and students to cease the harassment at once, and suspend any who have taken part pending disciplinary investigations. #ShameOnSussexUni

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@legalfeminist

7 months

Unacceptable, and a breach of the article 3 rights of any woman strip-searched by one of these men. Neither a certificate nor any amount of surgery or other medical treatment changes that.

WRN Norfolk

@WRNNorfolk

7 months

This is unacceptable. Women must only be searched by police women. No woman or girl should be searched by a police man who claims to be woman, with or without a gender recognition certificate or "new birth certificate". #RestoreSafeguarding @SexMattersOrg @legalfeminist

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@legalfeminist

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This is major. And a cautionary tale for all the Stonewall Champions #DontSubmitToStonewall

Prof Jo Phoenix

@JoPhoenix1

3 years

1. BREAKING NEWS. After 18 months, University of Essex has concluded its review into the cancellation and disinvitation of me to speak. They have offered me an open apology including for infringing my freedom of speech.

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A patient can of course request what she damn well pleases. She can also withhold consent to be treated by a male HCP.

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Exemplary damages are awarded to punish conduct that is "oppressive, arbitrary or unconstitutional". They are rare.

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If there's an LGBTQ+ staff network in your workplace that is granted facilities, access to senior management, etc, then your gender-critical staff network is entitled to expect all the same privileges.

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@legalfeminist

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Legal Feminist has heard that when "" email addresses are issued to new @HMCTSgovuk staff, there is a mandatory "pronouns" field which must be completed. They are told that if they don't give their pronouns, or an email address can't be created.

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A patient who does not consent to be treated by a HCP of the opposite sex must not be deceived about the sex of an HCP; to do so will be assault.

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An excellent and much-needed initiative - a gender-critical staff network for civil servants: .

About SEEN

We are happy to announce the launch of our new UK cross-government staff network, the _Sex Equality and Equity Network_. SEEN is a staff network committed to promoting and supporting sex equality and...

seen-network.uk

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@legalfeminist

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It's also implausible - how many women would even risk "the gents' is down the corridor", let alone physically blocking the path of a much larger man whose contempt for women's boundaries is already evident? Where are the unions? This is harassment.

Don’t be that employer -

Legal Feminist tweeted a short thread starting like this the other day: It seems worth elaborating briefly in a blog, so here goes. The first point to make is that the allegation made by @MotherCec...

www.legalfeminist.org.uk

Helen Joyce

@HJoyceGender

9 months

This video is amazing. A woman tells a man it's the ladies', assuming he's made a mistake. He keeps trying to push in, leading her to conclude he has bad intentions. And yet _she's_ the bigot?! The civil service, like all other UK employers, has to provide single-sex toilets

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No, they should be given a lawful order to do (subject to properly informed patient consent) the job they are paid for. If they refuse, they can be disciplined. Patients are there to be treated, not to validate HCPs' "lived experience of gender".

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Excellent news - not before time. The open scandal of Mridul Wadhwa's appointment as CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre dates back nearly 3 years now. Well done @fairplaywomen .

EHRC urgently reviews employer guidance on single-sex jobs

Equalities watchdog alerted that women’s refuges are ‘routinely’ and ‘unlawfully’ advertising positions to male-born applicants

www.telegraph.co.uk

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The full implications of the judgment will take some time to emerge, but it is likely to be be seismic for the social work profession. Its timing hot on the heels of the Cass Review could hardly be better.

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It is lawful under s.195 EqA to exclude men from women's rugby, including men who say they are women irrespective of whether or not they hold a GRC. It should not be difficult to understand why "trans inclusive" rugby is not only unfair, but also unsafe.

Nancy Kelley

@Nancy_M_K

1 year

If you can, support @tigergirl_70 in her fight for an inclusive rugby game #MakeSportEveronesGame

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This. The problem is not "all trans-identifying males are predators". The problem is that if services for the vulnerable behave as if they have to take any man's word for it that he is a woman, they will become a magnet for predators.

Dr P

@Psychgirl211

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@lolmitford It should be criminal. I'm vocal and will go straight to my MP and other routes if this happens. But what about others, like the elderly, or learning disabled? Predators will undoubtedly advantage of this. Every safeguarding standard is being sacrificed to accommodate Trans

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We'd like to say this would lead to a conviction for indecent exposure and voyeurism in the UK. But our criminal expert doubts that the CPS would charge a trans-identifying man who flashed in a women's changing room.

Helen Joyce

@HJoyceGender

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This is indecent exposure, permitted and facilitated by sporting authorities and Penn State. These female swimmers are being subjected to repeated non-contact sexual crimes in what are supposed to be their safe spaces, with no possibility of remedy.

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This is an expensive and embarrassing employment tribunal waiting to happen. The @ONS needs to catch up.

ONS female employees could face disciplinary action if they object to trans colleagues using their...

Leaked documents reveal the institution has been ‘captured’ by transgender activists, gender campaigners allege

www.telegraph.co.uk

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No, one more gem from the glossary. This seems to translate: It's ok for people with trans identities to tell lies, but it's not ok for anyone else to mention those lies.

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@legalfeminist

2 years

Edward Lord recused from EAT case about dismissal of a gender-critical teacher.

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@legalfeminist

9 months

There's something positively Pythonesque about the attempt to paint @ProfAliceS and @selina_todd as dangerous bigots. "Sarge! Suppose they come at us with reasonable middle-aged women?"

Monty Python - Self-Defense Against Fruit

from Monty Python's Flying Circus Season 1 - Episode 04 - Owl Stretching TimeRecorded 21-09-69, Aired 26-10-69I'm slowly uploading the entire Flying Circus s...

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Ross Patterson

@Ross_Patterson_

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As the panel were leaving, they took time to speak with us. We asked, "What is the book about, and why did you write it"? Prof. Selina Todd ( @selina_todd ) responded:

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Prediction: this bland apology will appear in an employment tribunal bundle as evidence for the prevalence in universities (which of all employers should know better) of the belief that "gender critical" and "transphobic" are all but synonymous.

Russell Group

@RussellGroup

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We apologise for an error in our original submission to the OfS free speech consultation, which incorrectly listed "gender critical" speech as an example of unlawful speech, in place of "transphobic". This was a genuine mistake and we have now republished our corrected summary.

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There may have to be a gender critical women’s choir now, though. Who’d like to join the Shrill Sirens?

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@legalfeminist

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If you're made furious (yet again) by the latest groundless slurs against @jk_rowling , donating here would be one way to turn that fury into something good.

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

2 years

A reminder: I will personally match all donations to our emergency appeal, up to £1m. If you're able to, you can donate here. Again, thank you so very much to all who've already donated.💙💛 @lumos

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@legalfeminist

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This was surprising conduct from the judge.

Tribunal Tweets

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9 months

The sound is difficult - missed the OU Counsel's name. Judge Young has asked both counsel for their pronouns. She asked the solicitors to tell the Tribunal how they will manage the documents for the press and witnesses. There is a discussion on managing the 11 bundles.

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@legalfeminist

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The school - which has not been named to protect the complainants - needs to do some serious thinking. Are mixed-sex toilets for teenagers *ever* a good idea? Do the risks to privacy, dignity, and safety simply not occur to secondary schools? 1/2

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

1 year

The teenage boy's alleged attacks occurred just as the Department of Education readies its transgender guidance

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@legalfeminist

1 year

We are back!

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2 years

This is concerning. Including pronouns on your signature is a profession of faith in gender identity theory. It should not be forced on any staff - least of all court staff.

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@legalfeminist

1 year

Exactly this. Compelling children to use another child's preferred pronouns is ignoring their rights to freedom of belief and expression, and co-opting them as therapeutic aids for the benefit of a classmate.

Victoria Smith

@glosswitch

1 year

I keep seeing "what about children who come from abusive homes?" Many children who come from abusive homes feel coerced into pretending not to see what's in front of them. They shouldn't be made to do this by their teachers, too.

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Legal Feminist's Naomi Cunningham is @thetimes Lawyer of the Week for Meade v WCC and SWE. The regulator @SocialWorkEng has been ordered to pay exemplary damages for abusing its statutory powers to punish and silence a gender-critical social worker.

Naomi Cunningham on her career and winning a gender critical case

Naomi Cunningham, a barrister at Outer Temple chambers, successfully acted for the social worker Rachel Meade in her claim against her regulator, Social Work England, and her employer, Westminster

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@legalfeminist

3 years

The law is completely clear on this: where there is a real need (as in the case of services for victims and survivors of VAWG) for female-only services, they are lawful. And for these purposes "female-only" refers to biological sex.

Sarah Hill

@sarahhillfor100

3 years

Female victims and survivors absolutely have the right (legally and morally) to ask for a female support worker or counsellor where they feel they need one. This is widely accepted as good practice in the VAWG sector isn't it?

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If the patient requests same-sex care, that should be honoured if possible, but at minimum the patient must not be shamed or tricked into accepting opposite-sex care. It's not clear how the needs and "safety" of a "trans man" or "trans woman" arise.

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@legalfeminist

4 years

Statement that biological sex is real, and matters, from over 50 lawyers.

Gender self-ID: An open letter to Government

Proposals to amend the Gender Recognition Act to bring in self-ID have now been formally dropped (Times, 23 September: “Plans to let transgender people self-identify are shelved”). But self-ID is...

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@legalfeminist

3 years

This is bizarre and offensive.

The Lancet

@TheLancet

3 years

Our new issue is here! On the cover—'Periods on display' and the cultural movement against menstrual shame and #PeriodPoverty . Plus, @WHO air quality guidelines, low #BackPain management, community-acquired bacterial #meningitis , and more. Read:

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@legalfeminist

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This is untrue. Trans-identifying athletes can compete in their own sex class, subject to the same rules as anyone else. This is both fair and lawful.

Stonewall

@stonewalluk

1 year

We stand with trans people who now have the door closed on their chance to compete in athletic sports at an international level.

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@legalfeminist

2 years

Astonishing* that the GRA ensures that trans-identifying males retain the advantage of sexist rules about the descent of peerages even after grant of a gender recognition certificate.

First trans peer a step closer as hereditary candidate claims seat

Matilda Simon will contest the next by-election for one of the upper chamber’s 92 hereditary seats

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@legalfeminist

3 months

The Cass Review is going to be game-changing, with ripples well beyond its own medical remit. In particular, for those working in health, social care and education: Forstater established that it was your right to speak up. Cass makes it your duty.

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

3 months

An entire field of medicine aimed at enabling children to change gender has been “built on shaky foundations”, the chairwoman of an NHS review has concluded ⬇️

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@legalfeminist

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J.K. Rowling is also employing the experimental method to test the limits of the new law. We may see quite a lot of this. It may be eye-opening for some.

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

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Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11

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In a sense this is true: there's no reason why patients should know or care about HCPs' inner sense of their ineffable gender. But if this means it's ok to trick patients into accepting opposite-sex care to which they do not consent, it is horrifyingly wrong.

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This seems to suggest that patients who understand the material reality of sex are not entitled to refuse opposite-sex care. It is wrong. Every patient has the right to refuse to be touched (especially, but not only, intimately touched) by an HCP of the opposite sex.

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@legalfeminist

1 year

This is a dismaying document: legally illiterate, and dripping with contempt for women and their article 3 and 8 rights. End (for now).

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2 years

The Legal Feminists are catching up with tweets re today's events at the Forstater tribunal. We don't know how many tweets there are yet, but can say we've read 25% so far.

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@legalfeminist

3 years

We're delighted to hear that Harry Miller ( @HarryTheOwl101 ) has won his appeal against @CollegeofPolice - congratulations to all concerned! The full judgment is eagerly awaited.

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@legalfeminist

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Roz Adams won her case against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. Roz was represented by LF’s Naomi Cunningham, and Katy Wedderburn of @gunnercooke .

TimesEditorScotland

@magnusllewellin

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Here’s the front page of Monday’s ⁦ @timesscotland ⁩ …

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@legalfeminist

1 year

Astonishingly, this is still up. @Oxfam , speak to your lawyers.

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10 months

The Legal Feminists have been reading CIPD's "Transgender and non-binary inclusion" guide.

CIPD

@CIPD

10 months

Our Transgender and non-binary inclusion at work guide can help employers and people professionals consider inclusive practices at every stage of the employee lifecycle. Read our news article in full here:

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The spectacle of a male cyclist with a trans identity smashing women's hard-earned records and depriving them of medals and team places is bound to foster much public ill-feeling between people with different protected characteristics. @ehrc

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The Legal Feminists are not aware of any other case in which exemplary damages have been awarded against a regulator.

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1 year

@lfeatherstone @Twitter Would you explain which bits of it are wrong and why, please?

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Thread. School admits to letting a girl who “identifies as male” share a room with a boy or boys. This is a horrifying safeguarding failure. Had they taken leave of their senses?

WomenAreSayingNO

@mjeslfc

9 months

LONG THREAD BUT WORTH IT! My daughter and I have just come back from a meeting with the headteacher and the safeguarding officer regarding the mixed sexed toilets. It went well and they were quite open to it! Things the headteacher raised (paraphrased): 1/

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3 years

Women are repeatedly threatened with violence and rape for having opinions. This week it happened to Legal Feminist's Amanda Jones.

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These are two completely different kinds of things. Agreed that "refusing to employ" a trans or non-binary person" will rarely be lawful. But patient choice is not governed by the EqA at all - patients have no EqA obligation not to discriminate against HCPs.

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The model policy encourages employers to break the law by withdrawing single-sex toilet, washing and changing facilities. This discriminates against women, especially those traumatised by male violence, or from certain ethnic and/or religious groups.

UNISON LGBT+

@UNISONLGBTplus

2 years

It's #TransAwarenessWeek ! We @unisontheunion celebrate all our trans members. Have you done our trans ally training? Get in touch with your regional education team for more info! 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans workers rights: Trans Model policy:

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Extraordinarily bad advice from @Mermaids_Gender . Legal Feminists Amanda Jones and Naomi Cunningham quoted.

Transgender women advised to call 999 if asked to leave female-only lavatories

Advice comes amid lingering confusion over new guidance for providers of single-sex spaces

www.telegraph.co.uk

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11 months

Here is the reason for the #NoDebate strategy, and the strenuous attempts to silence anyone who spoke up. Once people understand what has been happening, most will be horrified. Here too is an illustration of the centrality of free speech to democratic decision-making.

Andrew Neil

@afneil

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I understand that. But we allowed it to happen. In my case because I had no idea such things could be done to young, vulnerable people. I feel ashamed and angry. It must be stopped.

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